Jenna Ortega is setting the record straight about those wild Johnny Depp dating rumors — again.
Asked what the craziest rumor about her is, the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star told Buzzfeed, ”Probably that I was in a serious relationship with Johnny Depp, and I wanted everybody to leave us alone.”
It’s so insane to me. Like, I never spoke on that. I never said anything like that. Articles really do just make up their own quotes, but I thought that that was pretty hilarious Ortega said in the latest of BuzzFeed puppy-centered interviews,
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Jenna Ortega; Johnny Depp.
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Apparently, the baseless rumors reach was wide, because a costar even asked her about it. ”I was on set with Richard E. Grant, and he came up to me and he just said, ‘Oh, so you and Johnny?’ And I laughed because I… I don’t know that person,” she said of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise star.
Rumors first cropped up on celebrity gossip account Deux Moi last summer that the two were spotted on a date. At the time, Ortega reportedly vehemently denied the rumors in a since-expired Instagram story. According to reports, Depp was also quick to quash the rumor, saying in a statement via his reps, ”Mr. Depp has no personal or professional relationship with Ms. Ortega whatsoever. He has never met her or spoken to her. He is not involved in any project with her, nor does he intend to be. He is appalled by these baseless and malicious rumors that are intended to harm his reputation and career.”
Ortega also shared her surprising first celebrity crush growing up. At first, she admitted it must have been a character in a cartoon such as The Fox and the Hound, but realizing she was surrounded by puppies, the Wednesday star promptly changed her answer: ”Now that I say that, maybe this is a weird environment to say that,” she said, laughing. ”I always say my first crush was Barack Obama — it was — it was during his first election, and I was smitten.”
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Next up for Ortega is Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, in which she stars as Lydia Deetz daughter, Astrid. The sequel film hails once more from original director Tim Burton, and follows three generations of the Deetz family as they return home to Winter River following an unexpected family tragedy. Lydia (once more played by Winona Ryder) is still haunted by the titular character and grappling with her familys loss when Astrid accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife. Michael Keaton and Catherine OHara reprise their roles in the film, and Willem Dafoe, Justin Theroux, and Monica Bellucci round out the starry sequels cast.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice hits theaters Sept. 6.
