{"id":520782,"date":"2026-03-07T16:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520782\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T16:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:54:08","slug":"christina-applegate-was-in-love-with-johnny-depp-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520782\/","title":{"rendered":"Christina Applegate was ‘in love’ with Johnny Depp for ‘years’"},"content":{"rendered":"

For her new memoir, You With the Sad Eyes, Christina Applegate<\/a> dug into the journals from her teen years, and it turns out that she was quite fond of Johnny Depp<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

Beginning at age 15, Applegate writes that she was “madly in love” with Depp, and the Married… With Children<\/a> actress soon became a member of his friend group after guest starring on Depp’s cop series, 21 Jump Street, often visiting him on set in Vancouver.\n<\/p>\n

“One thing is very clear from the journals: I was in love with Johnny Depp for years,” Applegate said in her book. “He was eight years older than me. He always behaved impeccably toward me, even though I was clearly mad about him. It seems that back then I was just one of the guys to him, yet my journals are filled with complicated and ever-changing feelings. I swing from swoon to a cold bucket of water on the face in the span of less than two months.”\n<\/p>\n

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The Emmy-winning actress even cited a specific journal entry that read, “I’ve been having really strange dreams about Johnny of all people. I can’t really analyze them because I don’t remember what they are once I wake up. I can only remember who’s in them … Johnny.”\n<\/p>\n

The young Applegate continued, “I can’t sit here and wish he was something that he’s not. I can’t change him. But yet I wish I could get through to him.”\n<\/p>\n

Christina Applegate at the 2020 SAG Awards in L.A.; Johnny Depp at the 2024 Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

Leon Bennett\/Getty;Tim P. Whitby\/Getty\u00a0<\/p>\n

Depp’s dating timeline suggests that he was in a relationship with his Edward Scissorhands costar Winona Ryder<\/a> during Applegate’s infatuation period.\n<\/p>\n

Applegate eventually wed actor Johnathon Schaech<\/a>, only to divorce in 2007. Since 2013, she’s been married to musician Martyn LeNoble, with whom she shares a daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For her new memoir, You With the Sad Eyes, Christina Applegate dug into the journals from her teen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-520782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}