Johnny Depp was born on June 9, 1963 in the small American town of Owensboro, Kentucky, the son of an engineer and a waitress. When Johnny was 7 years old, his family moved to Florida, where his father offered a promotion in one of the coastal cities.

Externally, the family seemed happy, but in fact the situation was the father always drank, beat her mother, abused children. Older brother Danny refuge in books, he loved Kerouac, Beat poetry and music of Van Morrisson. Johnny found another solution: try to be home as little as possible. Warm night in Florida - you can spend the night on the street. Johnny dug himself in the yard of the cave and hid in it, thinking that it is his kingdom, terribly afraid here that his cover everything. A few years ago, he arranged himself another kind of test, such as walking on the roof of the eighth floor. He will become a great warrior, not a great poet, a musician or a writer.

Johnny was 10 years old when he first came to the sermon read his uncle, a preacher. "I was shocked - he recalls. - My uncle said, "Repent, save your souls" - and grown men crying like children. " Since then, Johnny often imagined as go on stage in front of a crowd, and bring her along. Where to? He did not know.

Constantly moving, changing homes, which began at this time, and the death of his grandfather, with whom Depp spent his childhood, postponed a negative impact on the child's psyche, and the boy went to school with absolutely no slightest interest and did not differ ever cheerful disposition. With 12 years started smoking and indulging in alcohol, and lost my virginity at 13. The situation is complicated parental divorce: Depp, who was then 15 years old, he began to use drugs and quickly took off from school. He hated school, considering it an attack on freedom of the individual. By this time, John has already pulled the plug on their ancestors and began to live their own lives. "It's perfectly normal, - he says. - If your school is boring, but at home there is nothing to do, you begin to experiment. " Johnny quickly found another passion - he is seriously ill music. When Johnny was 12, his mother bought him an electric guitar for $ 25, and Depp, self-mastering tool, never to part with it.