Johnny Depp finally breaks his silence on Australian dog debacle

Before Johnny Depp can get around to promoting his work playing infamous Whitey Bulger in “Black Mass,” he first has to clear things up about his own criminal activity — namely violating Australian quarantine laws by smuggling his and wife Amber Heard’s two tiny Yorkshire terriers into the country, earning the ire of one overzealous politician.

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So how did all of that turn out? “I killed my dogs and ate them under direct orders from some kind of, I don’t know, sweaty, big-gutted man from Australia,” he joked during a press conference at the Venice Film Festival. At least I hope he’s joking. Yorkies don’t really make much of a meal.

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