Jenna Ortega is speaking out about the rumor she was dating Johnny Depp . The Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star addressed the speculation that first set social media alight last summer in a video interview with BuzzFeed published on Monday, August 26. Asked about the “craziest rumor” she’s heard about herself, Ortega said: “Probably that I was in a serious relationship with Johnny Depp and I wanted everybody to leave us alone.
It’s so insane to me. I never said anything like that.” “I thought that that was pretty hilarious.
I was on set with Richard E. Grant and he came up to me and he said, ‘Oh, so you and Johnny..
.’ and I laughed because I don’t know that person,” Ortega, 21, added. Celebrity Instagram account DeuxMoi first linked the Wednesday star to Depp, 61, last summer.
However, the Pirates of the Caribbean star’s representative denied the rumor. “Mr. Depp has no personal or professional relationship with Miss Ortega whatsoever.
He has never met her or spoken to her,” Depp’s rep told NME in August 2023. “He is not involved in any project with her, nor does he intend to be. He is appalled by these baseless and malicious rumous that are intended to harm his reputation and career.
” Depp and Ortega are, however, both collaborators of Tim Burton , who directs Ortega in the upcoming Beetlejuice sequel. Ortega plays Astrid Deetz, the daughter of Winona Ryder ’s Lydia Deetz. Michael Keaton and Catherine O’Hara also reprise their roles from the .