Johnny Depp took his friendship with controversial rock star Marilyn Manson to a new level when he asked Manson to be Lily-Rose Depp’s godfather.
The two A-listers have been close friends since Manson was an extra on Depp’s show “21 Jump Street,” according to Jezebel. The two have been through many experiences together, from Manson accompanying Depp to movie premieres to Depp appearing on stage with Manson, per ABC. They traded memorabilia — Depp’s wig from “Blow” for Manson’s prosthetic breasts from his “Mechanical Animals” album cover per, Yahoo! News — and even tried to urinate on Depp’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star together along with pal Hunter S. Thompson, per NME. They even partied together on the turn of the millennium.
“Johnny Depp and I, on Y2K, … I went to the South of France and we bought every case of absinthe they had in Prague” Manson told Vice’s Noisey. “It was just the burgeoning of our bromance, our brotherly love for each other.”
They also found themselves in the tabloids together in February 2014 when Daily Mail reported that Depp and Manson had dropped Lily-Rose off at school, photographing Depp with what looked like a marijuana pipe. The incident was mentioned in Depp’s 2020 defamation case against The Sun, as Amber Heard’s lawyer told the court that Heard allegedly texted Depp’s sister saying, per Page Six, “JD is on a bender with Manson.”
