Jenna Ortega responds to dating rumors with Johnny Depp: ‘I don’t know that person’
Jenna Ortega is putting an end to "crazy rumors" once again as she speaks on her supposed "serious relationship" with Johnny Depp.
The Wednesday star, 21, recently opened up about a past rumor saying she was dating Depp, 61, during her guesting at Buzzfeed Celeb’s “The Puppy Interview.” The actress was asked about the craziest rumor that she had heard about herself.
"Probably that I was in a serious relationship with Johnny Depp, and I wanted everybody to leave us alone,” she said, quoting “made-up articles” about the issue.
"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," she said, adding that even her co-star asked her about the rumors.
"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 added.
The dating rumors between the two began in 2023 after DeuxMoi—a well-known entertainment Instagram page—reported that the international stars were spotted together on a date. They have since denied the rumors.
Depp’s representative denied the rumors in a statement provided to NME, saying he “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,” they said.
For her part, Ortega called the speculations “ridiculous” in a now-deleted Instagram story.
“This is so ridiculous I can’t even laugh,” she wrote, according to a report by entertainment site Just Jared. “I have never met or worked with Johnny Depp in my life. Please stop spreading lies and leave us alone.”
This is not the first time that Ortega expressed her dismay about disinformation about her. In her interview with The New York Times, she revealed she deleted her X account after she saw deep fake sexually explicit photos of her when she was around 14 years old.
“I hate AI,” Ortega said, adding that AI should be used only for “incredible things,” recalling that article she saw about AI being able to detect breast cancer four years before it progressed.
“Let’s keep it to that. Did I like being 14 and making a Twitter account because I was supposed to and seeing dirty edited content of me as a child? No. It’s terrifying. It’s corrupt. It’s wrong,” she lamented.