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Fans are worried Johnny Depp is ill, based on a few Instagram photos

Fans can't agree if he looks gaunt or healthy.

 

Tess Cagle

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Posted on Jun 2, 2018   Updated on May 21, 2021, 2:28 pm CDT

Actor Johnny Depp is looking rather thin in recent photos posted on Instagram, making fans wonder if he’s prepping for a new movie role or is simply sick.

Depp posed with fans at a Four Seasons hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia, last week, while on tour with his band Hollywood Vampires. The 54-year-old guitarist looked visibly thinner than in previous appearances.

“I think my hero looks ill,” one user commented on Facebook of the shared fan photo.

Other comments included, “He looks thin” and “F-k me is that Johnny Depp?”

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bjgt-k4FqEy/?utm_source=ig_embed

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjSiGZ8haf_/?taken-by=johnnydeppofficial

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Folks on Twitter were split on whether Depp looks ill or actually looks happy and healthy. Some fans speculated that he might be preparing for a new role—although his IMDB page only indicates that he’s in post-production for City of Lies and Richard Says Goodbye.

https://twitter.com/_samcolligan/status/1003002424754307072

https://twitter.com/MiniatureFilms/status/1003001607305551872

https://twitter.com/urbansiangiki/status/1002999871564058626

https://twitter.com/Wilma_Ballsdrop/status/1002998393755533312

Depp hasn’t been in the news for the happiest of reasons in the past year. Most notably, he’s been criticized by former fans for allegations made by his ex-wife Amber Heard, who says he abused her physically.

He’s also been in the middle of a legal dispute with his former management company, which he alleges loaned millions to third parties without permission, failed to keep proper books, and invested his money in business ventures in which it had ownership interests. 

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*First Published: Jun 2, 2018, 4:54 pm CDT