1 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: From the newsroom I used to come to me. Gooday, there, 2 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: I'm Andrew buckalo Well. 3 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 2: Ten years ago, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard had a 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 2: pretty chaotic trip to Australia. One of them lost a fingertip, 5 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 2: there was a political brawl with a minister. There are 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 2: allegations of meat smuggling. Heck, even a guy who used 7 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 2: to work for the queen. Yes, the queen got caught 8 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 2: up in the chaos. And new book speels all the 9 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 2: details from this trip. And in this episode, we're going 10 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 2: to bring you the juiciest, messiest story. So buckle up 11 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 2: because this is one hell of a ride. Joining me 12 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 2: now is News Corp columnist Angela Mollard, who has written 13 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 2: a few articles about this new book called Hollywood Vampires. 14 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 2: It is out today and I tell you what, it 15 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:46,919 Speaker 2: includes some pretty wild claims about what really happened when 16 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,279 Speaker 2: Johnny Depp and Amberhard visited Queensland in twenty fifteen. 17 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 1: Good ay, Angela. 18 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 3: Goday, how are you. 19 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: I'm very very well. Thanks. 20 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 2: You have read this book, You've written some articles, so 21 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 2: I want to get all the info from you. Remind 22 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 2: me why did Johnny Deppanamber Heard come to Australia ten 23 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 2: years ago. 24 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 3: Okay, so they came to film the Pirates of the 25 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 3: Caribbean franchise, and the reason they came here is that 26 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 3: the Australian government induced them with twenty million payouts, so 27 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:14,680 Speaker 3: Disney was making the movie. In fact, it was the 28 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 3: most expensive film back then that had ever been made 29 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 3: in Australia. So they were coming here. They had in 30 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 3: fact just got married this sort of shock really quick 31 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 3: wedding that half their family and their entourage didn't even 32 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 3: really know what was going to happen. They had back 33 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 3: to back weddings and then Aber was shooting the Danish girl. 34 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 3: Johnny was here and then she joined him about three 35 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 3: weeks later, and that's when everything kicked off. 36 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 1: Right. 37 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 2: So they'd recently been married and they were renting a 38 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 2: mansion owned by Ossie motorcycling champion Mick Dowan. I believe 39 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:46,040 Speaker 2: tell me about this property because I've seen some photos 40 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 2: that looked bloody massive. 41 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 3: It is bloody massive and it's pretty cool. So he 42 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 3: no longer owns it. He sold it for forty million 43 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 3: and twenty twenty two, which at that point was the 44 00:01:55,560 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 3: highest say price for a sale in Queensland. But amazing proper. 45 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 3: It had been previously hired by Brad Pitt Angelina jo 46 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 3: Lee Pink when that've been staying in Australia. It had 47 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 3: heated marble floors, a two thousand bottle wine cellar, Jim cinema, 48 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 3: there was space to land a helicopter. There was a 49 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 3: six car garage. It was an incredible property, so perfect 50 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 3: for these Hollywood A listers. 51 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: Now. 52 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 2: The first person to arrive at the Mansoon, according to 53 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 2: the book, was Ben King. He was one of Johnny 54 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 2: Depp's assistants at the time. Tell Us Morey about this feller, 55 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 2: because he's got quite the resume. 56 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 3: That's right. Look, So I when I was reading this book, 57 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 3: I couldn't believe it. You know, as a bit of 58 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 3: a royal reporter myself and I do a lot of 59 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 3: commentary on royals, I could not believe that this guy 60 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,639 Speaker 3: had started his career working for the queen. So when 61 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 3: he was twenty, that was his first job. He was 62 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 3: a butler for the late Queen Elizabeth. He went on 63 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 3: to work for people like Nelson Mandela and Andrew Lloyd Webber, 64 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 3: so people of real stature, and then he gets hired 65 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 3: by Johnny Depp. Like I said, can you imagine like 66 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 3: one minute you're working for the Queen and the next 67 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 3: minute you're working for Johnny Depp. You know, he talks 68 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 3: about being a man of discretion and we'll get to this, 69 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 3: but I thought it was just really interesting that Johnny 70 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 3: Depp would hire someone like this because, of course, one 71 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 3: of the things that Johnny wanted as soon as he 72 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 3: got to Australia was for people to procure drugs for him. 73 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 3: At that point, we had a doctor traveling with him 74 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 3: who was an addiction specialist, that sort of thing. He 75 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 3: was wanting people to get some ecstasy for him. So 76 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 3: to go from you know, pouring tea for the Queen 77 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 3: to drawn and grab some drugs for Johnny Depp. I 78 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 3: just I think this man would make a really interesting interview. 79 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 2: I wonder if the Queen ever, you know, hit him 80 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 2: up to get some ecstasy to live it at any stage. 81 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: Probably not, probably not. 82 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 2: And now according to the book, so this Ben king 83 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 2: Feller and another of Johnny's assistants, Nathan Holmes, had to 84 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 2: get the mansion ready for Johnny and Amber before they arrived. 85 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: What did that entail? 86 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 3: Oh, this is so interesting because you always you know, 87 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 3: you think about celebrities and their riders, right, you know 88 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 3: when they go for constants and that you think, oh, 89 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 3: you know they want to play the sushi or they 90 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 3: need their fruit cut up a certain way. Well, Amber 91 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 3: and Johnny Depp they arrived with it. Well they didn't 92 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 3: arrive obviously, they're staffed. Nathan Holmes and Ben King arrived. 93 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 3: Nathan helped get the mansion ready with Ben and what 94 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 3: they had. They had a box of candles, There was 95 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 3: suitcases with art supplies because Amber apparently wanted to take 96 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 3: art classes and they wanted to find her a teacher. 97 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 3: They had to hang up all Johnny's clothes, which the 98 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 3: book recounts as basically this assortment of tattered and patched 99 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:32,239 Speaker 3: and staying with the hemium guart. But they also rented 100 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 3: go karts because there's a racetrack at a property. So 101 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 3: you know, a lot of work involved beforehand, but even 102 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 3: things like I thought it was really interesting. One of 103 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 3: the team had to go and buy towels because it's 104 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,799 Speaker 3: specific towels, and then one of these guys was actually 105 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 3: doing little flower arrangements before next to the bed and 106 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 3: things like that. So the detail that these staff go 107 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 3: into It's hard to imagine someone like Johnny Depp was 108 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 3: actually paying much attention to the floral arrangement next to 109 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 3: the bedside. But this is the trouble they go to. 110 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 2: Now. Johnny and Amber allegedly weren't getting on very well 111 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 2: when they arrived. 112 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: Would that be a fair statement, Angela. 113 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, these lovely newlyweds who should have been in the 114 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 3: throes of love and you know, honeymoon stage, they were 115 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,919 Speaker 3: fighting virtually the second day, right, And what was really 116 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 3: interesting is that the team that had hired this house 117 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 3: also had a hotel room on standby, so they had 118 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 3: formed for this. They had formed that they knew that 119 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:26,279 Speaker 3: if they had to get one of them out and 120 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 3: into a hotel room, they had it ready to go. 121 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:32,160 Speaker 3: So interesting proposition, right, Yeah, So they started to fight 122 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 3: virtually the second they got there, the reason being, according 123 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 3: to the book, and this is a brilliantly researched book, 124 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 3: I would add, in terms of the quality of its sources, 125 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 3: is a phenomenal. What they were talking about in the 126 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 3: book is that virtually as soon as they got there, 127 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 3: Amber was getting really irate and possessed. Those were the 128 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 3: words that the authors use over the discussions of a 129 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 3: post nuptial agreement because they'd failed to execute a prenup 130 00:05:57,839 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 3: before the weddings. 131 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,799 Speaker 4: They got married so quickly, and Johnny felt that Amber 132 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 4: was trying to trick her into receiving nothing from the 133 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 4: post nup and complaining that she wasn't even misted it 134 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 4: in his will. But under California law anyway, Amber would 135 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 4: have automatically been entitled to fifty percent of everything Johnny made. 136 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 4: But they were just a volatile couple. 137 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 3: From reading this book anyway, they would have thought about anything. 138 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 2: Well, this all came to a head one night in 139 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 2: March twenty fifteen. Johnny and Amber had a big fight 140 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 2: inside the mansion. They've spoken about this in a couple 141 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 2: of high profile court cases over the years. 142 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 1: What does the book claim happened that night? 143 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 3: Okay, this is brilliant because it's all in really great 144 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 3: detail and it's almost minute by minute. So the first 145 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 3: thing that happens is Malcolm Connley, Johnny's bodyguard, gets a 146 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 3: call from the security guy at a property and he 147 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:48,159 Speaker 3: just says, mate, we've got to get We've got to 148 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 3: extract him. We've got to get Johnny out of there. 149 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 3: So they raced to Diamond Head. They walk in. Amber's 150 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 3: standing there wearing a cardigan and a little slip and 151 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 3: she's screaming at Johnny and Johnny he's got his hand 152 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 3: wrapped up, clutching one of his fingers, and he's saying 153 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 3: to her. She's saying to them, she's cut my finger 154 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 3: clean off, and that she slapped him with a vodka bottle. 155 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 3: So Malcolm's trying to get him out of there. He 156 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 3: sees the injury to the finger. You can actually see 157 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 3: the bone, and this has come out in court cases subsequently, 158 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 3: and so Malcolm's trying to pull Johnny away. He keeps 159 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 3: running out of the car to go back inside. Finally 160 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 3: he pulls them out and then they shoot off. Johnny's 161 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 3: in the backseat of the car wailing. They drive to 162 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 3: the apartment where Malcolm was staying, because of course you 163 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 3: don't go straight to a public hospital ring near Johnny Depp, right, 164 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 3: So then they remember I mentioned that they had their 165 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 3: own doctor and nurse there on course, so they get 166 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 3: the doctor and the nurse in, they have a look 167 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 3: at it and just go straight away. This guy needs 168 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 3: to go to hospital. So they get to the hospital. 169 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 3: In the meantime, Ben King is back at the Diamond Mansion. 170 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 3: Now he's trying to find the end of Johnny's finger, 171 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 3: and this is almost becoming fast. So they're going all 172 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 3: around this mansion. You know, we're talking about an absolutely 173 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 3: beautiful home there, and there is blood everywhere. There is 174 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 3: blood in the bedrooms. It's blood just all over the place. 175 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 3: The bed linens, a covenant blood, there's a bloody epad, 176 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 3: blood smeared guitar. Anyway, so that looking for this end 177 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 3: of this finger, that the doctor and the nurse are there. 178 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 3: They are trying to and a lot of this is interestingly, Andrew, 179 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 3: this is recorded because Abba had put a phone on 180 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 3: record and she'd left it there and she was still 181 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 3: in the house that was still recording a lot of 182 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 3: the conversations from some of these principal people involved in this, 183 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 3: and so there's a really good verbatim account of some 184 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 3: of the conversations taking place at this time. Anyway, Ben King, 185 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 3: this is the butler we talked about earlier. He finally 186 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:44,559 Speaker 3: finds the end of the finger. It's down in a 187 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 3: pool room. It's wrapped up in a paper towel. He 188 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 3: takes it upstairs, puts it in a zip block bag 189 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 3: within a bowl of ice rushes it to the hospital, 190 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 3: but it's too late because the fingersip, you just can't 191 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 3: get it on. So, if you remember a Johnny flew 192 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 3: back to la It stopped the production on the film 193 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 3: for several weeks and they got him out of there 194 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 3: and he had to have skin from another part of 195 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 3: his hand grafted onto his finger. That's the nature of 196 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 3: the fight that they had had, so brutal. God. 197 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, well that wasn't the only fight that Amber and 198 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:18,839 Speaker 2: Johnny allegedly had in Australia. They also clashed with a 199 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 2: high ranking politician. We've got more on that in just 200 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 2: a moment. Welcome back. I'm chatting to Angela Mollard about 201 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 2: Hollywood Vampires. It's a new tell all book about Johnny 202 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 2: Depp and Amber heard Angela just before the break. We 203 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 2: were chatting about that infamous fight the couple had at 204 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 2: mcdowin's mansion in Queensland. He caused an estimated three hundred 205 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 2: thousand dollars worth of damage and of course Johnny lost 206 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 2: the tip of his finger. That injury caused chaos with 207 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 2: the Pirates movie he was filming down under. 208 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: Tell me more about that. 209 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, you know, the fact is you've got all 210 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 3: these players, and people were all really angry with Johnny 211 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 3: because the first few days of filming he'd been six 212 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 3: hours late day, eight hours late the second day. And 213 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 3: you know, the film producers, you've got all these extras, 214 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 3: you've got all these other cast working, so they were frustrated. 215 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 3: So now, of course this film has to be placed 216 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 3: on hold. And they lost US three hundred and fifty 217 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 3: thousand for every day that that production was shut down. 218 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 3: So imagine the cost of this. So yeah, Johnny's back 219 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,199 Speaker 3: in la He's getting this skin grafting another hand. And look, 220 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 3: you know you eventually got back to Australia to film 221 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 3: the thing. But I mean the cost, and just there's 222 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 3: a real insight into the entitlement among these celebrities. I 223 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 3: just I found it really astonishing when I was reading 224 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 3: it that you know, you have this privileged role. And 225 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 3: I'm not here to editorialize, but I'm going to like, 226 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 3: how the hell can you have a job like this 227 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 3: where you paid millions of dollars and you can be 228 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 3: so hopeless at the basics, like you know, turning up 229 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 3: and making sure your body's in tached. So you can film. 230 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gobsmacking, isn't it. 231 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 2: So they both got back to Australia, I believe at 232 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 2: one stage, and then they had another dramaungs themselves this time, 233 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 2: but they got involved in a spat with Barnaby Joyce, 234 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 2: who was the Minister of Agriculture at the time. This 235 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,319 Speaker 2: had to do with the couple's two dogs, Pistol and Boo, 236 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 2: great names tell us more. 237 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 3: I remember this story at the time, and I've never 238 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:19,559 Speaker 3: loved Barnaby Joyce more. He was just you know when 239 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 3: you just someone has just direct It was funny as 240 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 3: So what happened is Amber had brought these two Yorki 241 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 3: dogs into the country. She'd falsified her customs declaration saying 242 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 3: she had no animals. Of course they flew in on 243 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 3: a private jet. But what had happened is that this 244 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,319 Speaker 3: is you know the ben King, the butler who I 245 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 3: was telling you that, who talked about being super discreet 246 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 3: and everything. Well, what he had done he had taken 247 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 3: these two Ylkies to a dog parlor to get you know, 248 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 3: shampooed and have their eyebrows chopped all you like, nice 249 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 3: little trimming and grooming. Anyway, he'd made the fatal mistake 250 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 3: of saying to the dog parlor owners that these were 251 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:59,959 Speaker 3: Johnny Depp's dogs, so of course they took photos up 252 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 3: loaded it on Instagram. It soon became apparent to everyone 253 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 3: that amber Hood hadn't got the documentation to have these 254 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 3: dogs in Australia. Basically barnebul Jaws turn around and said, 255 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 3: they start not out of the country in a matter 256 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 3: of hours. Are they're going to be euphanized. 257 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 5: There is a process. If you want to bring animals in, 258 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 5: you get the permits, they go into quarantine and then 259 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 5: you can have them. But if you if we start 260 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 5: letting movie stars, even though they've been the sexiest man 261 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 5: alive twice to come into our nation, then why don't 262 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 5: we just break the laws for everybody. It's time that 263 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 5: Pistol and Boo bug it off back to the United States. 264 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:38,319 Speaker 3: And I just remember the headlines at the time, as 265 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 3: you'd appreciate, this was the perfect newspaper headline. You've got, 266 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 3: you know, aless superstars, errant dogs and anyway they had 267 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 3: to be smuggled back to the US on the actors' 268 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 3: private jets. Lovely headlines at the time. 269 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, Finally, I want to ask you a question 270 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 2: about another thing that I've heard is in the book. 271 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 2: It has to do with Amber Herd's dad. Apparently he 272 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 2: came to Australia to visit his daughter and Johnny what 273 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 2: happened here because I heard he got into a bit 274 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:06,839 Speaker 2: of strife. 275 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 3: Yeah. I was really shocked when I saw this because 276 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 3: this had never come out at the time. And this 277 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 3: is the value of a good book, right, is that 278 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 3: they get into the granular detail of what's happened. So 279 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 3: what's happened is David and Page Heard, who were the parents, 280 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 3: as you said, of Amber, they'd come to visit. They 281 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 3: were staying with the couple. But they're rocked up again 282 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 3: on their private check with this ton of meat. I mean. 283 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 3: David Heard is a Texan guy, so he clearly loves 284 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 3: his tea, bone stacks and his barbecue. So he gets 285 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 3: to customs and you know, quite rightly our biosecurity laws. 286 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 3: The customs officials turn around and say, no, you can 287 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 3: have the stuff here. So this man you know, who 288 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 3: basically wears a cowboy hat, you know, twenty four to seventy, 289 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 3: he asked if they could keep it frozen for him 290 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 3: before Wally, I mean Honestly, you turn up, you don't 291 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 3: check what the laws are. I mean, just people who 292 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 3: right in a laura unto themselves, aren't they Anyway? He 293 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:05,959 Speaker 3: asked them to keep the frozen before his departure two 294 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 3: weeks later. So yeah, the dogs were not the only 295 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:11,320 Speaker 3: debarcle that happened during the time. There was also the 296 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 3: meat mayhem as well. 297 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 2: I hope they told him to get stuffed, because that's the. 298 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 3: One thing in the book it doesn't say. It doesn't 299 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 3: say whether or not they frozen the meat or not. 300 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 3: But God, I hope those customs officials dined out on it. 301 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 3: I really do. 302 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 5: I hope that. 303 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 3: They sat down and had a good old barbecue between themselves. 304 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: This is such a fascinating book. 305 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 2: From the sound of it, it's called Hollywood Vampires, Johnny Depp, 306 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 2: amber Heard and the Celebrity Exploitation Machine. 307 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: It is out today. 308 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 2: If you want more of a sneakpee godanews dot com 309 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 2: dot you and read all of Angela Mollard's pieces on it. 310 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming on the podcast. 311 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 3: It's a pleasure. 312 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 2: I'll be honest. I feel like they could have come 313 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 2: up with a better title for that book. 314 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: I mean, personally, I would have gone with just the tip. 315 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: Good huh No, Okay, I'll see myself out. Thank you 316 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: so much for listening. II we chat to you again tomorrow. 317 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: Follow us, subscribe to from the Newsroom, wherever you get 318 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: your podcasts.