.......in an interview from 25 years ago. These are just excerpts, but I've linked the whole interview. Overall, Vanessa comes across as smug and shameless. ========================================
"Oh, you can't ask me for such a thing!" She protests, stiff, her huge green eyes of wisdom, her smile suddenly frozen. – "There is nothing and no one that can cause us a problem right now. No one can take it away from me." This is Vanessa Paradis' first interview since the "scandal" of Depp's breakup with supermodel Kate Moss, her union with Paradis and the birth of their daughter in May last year. Until we ventured into touching on the delicate subject "Moss", everything was going wonderfully.
When it was reported that Vanessa had "stolen" Johnny from his girlfriend of four years, causing the supermodel to be admitted to an exclusive London clinic, suffering from "stress and anxiety", Paradis managed to alienate legions of adoring Depp fans. She also angered Moss supporters, who branded her as a scarlet woman and seen as a brazen traitor to her sex.
Three months after meeting Johnny, Vanessa was pregnant. Then she gave birth to the angelic Lily-Rose Melody Depp last year, the father declared himself enchanted with the mother and daughter. But what the tabloid reports claimed was that while Vanessa was carrying Lily-Rose, he had been seen in London having dinner with Moss? Isn't Paradis nervous about the rumors, because of her history, because of her form? She shrugs her tiny shoulders and says boldly, "I'm glad he had a lot of girlfriends. You know, it's hard for me to answer that, except to say that there's the person that everybody sees, and then there's the Johnny that I see, that nobody else sees, and that's the person that matters to me. Whenever some paparazzi take a picture of him with a girl, when he's just saying "Hi" to her, then he's supposedly with her. Well, that doesn't matter to me. I know who he is, and I know what we have, and I'm safe with that. I know him and I know us. And nothing anyone can say can change what I know of the truth."
Just a month before Lily-Rose's birth, there were suggestions in the press that Depp was saying 'Hi' to his The Legend of the Headless Horseman co-star Christina Ricci, then 18, celebrating in a London bar ('They were all over each other like a rash,'" one viewer said; 'It was disgusting, he was being terribly indiscreet,' said another). Vanessa, however, takes the attitude that you can't believe everything you read in the newspapers. Then Is Johnny still friends with Kate? "Oh, my God, I can't answer that! You have to ask him. I don't even know her. I never met her."
Since the breakup, Moss has had a few public relationships, including a romance with Jesse Wood. Recently, though, she apparently confessed to a friend that she thinks she'll never get over Depp, the man she described as her "soulmate." Asked if she feels guilty for Moss, Paradis looks down quickly and says, "Next question please."
With ironic knowledge or unfamiliarity, she chose for our date, the Chateau Marmont, the Sunset Strip hotel, where Depp spent much of his time during his romance with Moss. It's a stone's throw from actor's nightclub The Viper Room, which, in 1993, was the scene of the death of Depp's friend, River Phoenix, from a mixture of cocaine and heroin. The club was also the scene of many of the wildest parties thrown by Depp and Kate Moss. "I highly doubt Vanessa would have chosen this hotel if she had known that Johnny once said that he and Kate had probably made love in every room there," a friend commented mischievously. "It was their place. But, hey, people change, don't they?"