The supervisor of the UK pub the place Johnny Depp was noticed spending the tense closing hours earlier than the decision in his sensational Amber Heard defamation trial stated he “was the loveliest man I've ever seen in my life.”
Janine Latchford, normal supervisor of The Bridge Tavern in Newcastle, gushed to Chronicle Dwell about her brush with the Hollywood celeb.
“My assistant is closely pregnant, and he was telling her how stunning being a mother or father was. He was actually all the way down to earth, he was pretty,” Latchford stated.
The 58-year-old actor was within the northern British college metropolis Wednesday evening, when a Virginia jury discovered that his ex-wife defamed him by labeling him as an abuser in an op-ed, and awarded him greater than $10 million in damages.
Staff and patrons on the Newcastle pub have been agog when the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star arrived to have dinner with buddies round 5 p.m. native time — lower than 5 hours earlier than the decision was introduced at Fairfax County Circuit Court docket.
“Johnny got here in first, he was with some buddies however he was fairly cool,” Latchford, the 33-year-old pub supervisor, informed the native paper. “He didn’t need anybody to see who he was.”
The staffer revealed that Depp — sporting a checkered jacket, a ballcap and a pair of darkish sun shades — was initially given a nook desk, the place he loved a conventional meal of fish and chips, and stated “the meals was wonderful.”
Latchford later put aside a personal room upstairs for the A-lister, the place he was joined half-hour later by Sam Fender, the lead singer of the native band Seventeen Going Underneath.
“He was unbelievable,” the overwhelmed supervisor stated of the “Edward Scissorhands” lead. “He gave me a hug and I informed him that I beloved him just about as quickly as I noticed him!”
Latchford recalled that Depp beloved the paintings on the tavern, requested questions concerning the historic Tyne Bridge, and confided in her that he had by no means been to Newcastle earlier than.
“It has been essentially the most surreal day of my life no doubt! It’s insane,” raved the supervisor.
Depp jetted off to the UK after closing arguments wrapped in his bombshell $50 million defamation trial final week.
As jurors deliberated, the actor and musician joined his rock guitarist good friend Jeff Beck on stage at three of his performances within the UK earlier this week, drawing cheers from overjoyed viewers members.
Depp’s ex-girlfriend Kate Moss, who testified in his protection throughout the trial, attended Tuesday’s efficiency at Royal Albert Corridor in London and frolicked backstage.
Depp is ready to play one other present with Beck, 77, at a venue in Newcastle Thursday evening.
Depp gained all three counts of his defamation lawsuit in opposition to Heard and was awarded a complete of $10.35 million in compensatory and punitive damages. His ex-wife gained one among her three countersuit claims, and was awarded $2 million in damages.
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