Johnny Depp turned a photo opportunity into a playful stunt, biting leaves from a foliage display while posing at the DRINK Las Vegas food and beverage festival.
Video obtained by Our News Outlet captures the 63-year-old actor raising a glass at Park MGM during the weekend-long event, which spans multiple Las Vegas hotels.
As photographers gathered, Depp stood before an artificial hedge, pulled off one of its leaves with his teeth and held it between his lips for the cameras.
He soon spit it out, then turned back toward the display and bit through a leafy stem to make the impromptu performance even more theatrical.
With a mischievous grin and greenery hanging from his mouth, the Pirates of the Caribbean star lifted his drink in a festive toast to the photographers.
Depp embraced his signature boho style for the appearance, wearing a shimmering black vest, orange-tinted sunglasses and a cowboy hat with a sloping brim.
Our News Outlet has reached out to Depp’s representative for comment.
Johnny Depp made a playful spectacle by biting leaves from a foliage backdrop while posing at the DRINK Las Vegas festival.
Footage obtained by Our News Outlet shows the 63-year-old actor raising a toast at Park MGM during the multi-hotel Las Vegas celebration.
While posing in front of an artificial hedge, Depp pulled off one of its leaves with his teeth and held it in his mouth for the cameras.
Depp was not the only well-known guest at DRINK Las Vegas. Shaquille O’Neal and Sammy Hagar also attended the festival’s opening ceremony on Thursday.
The actor’s hard-partying image has long been tied to his public persona, dating back to the early years of his Hollywood career in the 1980s and 1990s.
In 1994, he reportedly paid nearly $10,000 in damages to New York’s Mark Hotel after police found him in what they characterized as a “state of possible intoxication” inside a damaged room where his then-girlfriend Kate Moss was also staying.
During a 2017 legal dispute with former managers, Depp acknowledged spending $30,000 a month on wine. His opponents referenced the expense in court filings, writing that wine “is not an investment if you drink it as soon as you buy it.”
The Ed Wood star also endured years of intense scrutiny in Hollywood amid highly publicized legal battles with his former wife, Amber Heard, who is 23 years younger than Depp.
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The pair pursued a bitter series of lawsuits after their 15-month marriage ended in 2016, with both accusing the other of abuse.
Heard was ordered to pay Depp $1 million after losing the defamation case he filed over her allegation that he had physically abused her.
Their widely covered 2022 trial included a series of sensational claims, including Depp’s allegation that Heard had left feces in his bed as a prank on her 30th birthday.
Depp then spit out the first leaf before biting through a stem carrying several more leaves for an added touch of showmanship.
Smiling as the greenery hung from his lips, the Pirates of the Caribbean star raised his glass toward the photographers.
Johnny Depp is pictured this past September attending the closing night of the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
His alcohol intake became a meme when one of Heard’s attorneys described a supposed instance of Depp pouring himself a ‘mega pint of red wine.’
Heard’s attorneys also argued that Depp’s memory of the events of their relationship was unreliable because he was often under the influence.
Following the conclusion of the trial, Heard sold her home in Yucca Valley, California, for a reported $1.1 million and moved to Madrid with her daughter Oonagh, five.
Meanwhile, the year after his court victory, Depp was met with a rapturous reception at Cannes, where he premiered his French romantic drama Jeanne du Barry.
At the start of 2025, rocker Alice Cooper remarked that Depp went without alcohol while they toured together in their band the Hollywood Vampires.
Cooper, who quit drinking in 1983 after being diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver, explained that all of his bandmates were on the wagon with him.
‘Johnny Depp is my guitar player in the Hollywood Vampires. We’re all sober and he’s sitting there and he has an alcohol-free Heineken. And he’s vaping,’ said Cooper.
‘So he’s got phony cigarettes and phony alcohol, and I told him he was gonna have a phony heart attack,’ Cooper joked to People.
However, a few months later, Depp drank Aperol, wine and rum with his interviewer during a wide-ranging profile in June 2025 in the Times of London.
