I was never going to be Cinderella: Johnny Depp
With a barrage of accusations levied against him the actor says he has been portrayed as Quasimodo reports mirror.co.uk.
Heard accused him of domestic violence during a bitter divorce battle and he became embroiled in a lawsuit against his former management which was settled in July.
Meanwhile a legal battle with a location manager who accuses him of violence on the set of shelved film "City of Lies" (which he denies) rattles on.
"It hurts " Depp said in an interview to a magazine.
"To harm someone you love? As a kind of bully? No it didn t it couldn t even sound like me. Initially I just kept my mouth shut you know? I knew it was going to stick on me and it would get weirder.
"I ain t going to get into a p***ing contest with someone about it... I never went out and spoke about the s***."
He described Hollywood as a "vile f***ing circus".
"I was never going to be Cinderella " he said.
"I know this and accept it. But it felt like within a very very short period of time that suddenly this version - for lack of a better word - of Cinderella had been immediately turned into the beast. He s Quasimodo.
"I could feel people look at me differently because of the accusations towards you. And then people start putting things in magazines: ‘He s insane. He needs to take a sanity test... You know ludicrous stuff.
"Ultimately the truth will come out in all of this and I will be standing on the right side of the roaring rapids."
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