Johnny Depp is reportedly fed lines through an earpiece so he doesn’t have to memorise the script, according to his ex-managers.
The bombshell comes from a new court filing in an increasingly bitter battle between the actor and his ex-managers Joel and Robert Mandel.
He’s suing them for mismanaging his money and they are countersuing him.
Among their claims about his spending, they say he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to employ a sound engineer to read him his lines on film sets.
Sound Engineer: Johnny reportedly hired a person to feed him his lines through an earpiece | DISNEY
The actor has used the method “for years to feed him lines during film production”, according to a court document that was filed on Monday.
“Depp insisted that this sound engineer be kept on yearly retainer so that he no longer had to memorise his lines,” according to the papers, written by attorney Michael Kump on behalf the ex-managers.
Details of the court document have been reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
In the new document, The Management Group said the Pirates of the Caribbean star may have “compulsive spending disorder” and needs “a mental examination”.
