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    Johnny Depp refuses to "hold" onto "hate" following his bitter court battle with his ex-wife Amber Heard

    The Pirates of the Caribbean actor split from Heard in 2016 and his career went into freefall when she later wrote an op-ed about being a victim of domestic abuse, which led to a lengthy court battle after he sued her for defamation, but he insisted he's not holding a grudge


    Depp told The Telegraph newspaper: "This sounds like horses*** but one can simply hold hate [until it] inspires some species of malice in your skull.

    "Makes you think of revenge. But hating someone is a great big responsibility to hang on to.

    "The real truth of it, that I won't allow, is that in order for me to hate, I have to care first. And I don't care. What should I care about? That I got done wrong to [by others]? Plenty of people get done wrong."

    When asked why he took his grievances to court, Depp insisted he didn't want "a lie" to do be the "deciding factor of whether or not I have the capability of making movies in Hollywood."

    Depp went on to insist he's learned a lot from the last few years and is determined to move on with his life.

    He added: "Going through all that in real time amounted to seven or eight years," he says. "It was a harsh, painful internal journey. Would I rather not have gone through something like that? Absolutely. But I learnt far more than I ever dreamed I could."

    Depp previously described the years he was sidelined from Hollywood because of his legal troubles as being left in the "wilderness" but he doesn't hold any "ill feelings" towards anyone.

    He told the Hollywood Reporter: "It was a vast wilderness and ultimately that vast wilderness taught me a whole lot."

    Asked what he'd learned, he said: "Honestly, I can sit here this very second and think about all the hit pieces, and how everybody was against me, and yeah yeah yeah he is off the map ... endless stuff. "I can remember it all. Went through it all. Some of it was not the most beautiful time, some of it was hilarious. Some of it was mad.

    "The thing is, it simply just was, and it simply just is. So, for me, it happened. I learned, man.

    "Everything that we experience, whether you're given a snow cone or walking your dog, you learn something somewhere along the way.

    "So I don't have any ill feelings toward anyone. I don't have this great reserve of hatred, because hatred requires caring. Why carry that baggage?"

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