Johnny Depp donates £1million to Great Ormond Street
Story by Jack Foley
JOHNNY Depp has donated £1 million to Great Ormond Street, the London hospital that saved his daughter’s life last year, by way of a very special thank you.
The actor’s daughter was admitted to the world-famous hospital last year with a mystery illness, prompting shooting to be temporarily halted on his latest movie, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, while he stayed at her bedside.
The star has since revealed that the experience was one of the most frightening things he had ever been through and has paid tribute to hospital staff for helping his daughter to recover.
“Great Ormond Street was terrific,” he told Hello magazine. “[It]‘s a great hospital.”
Depp’s generosity didn’t merely extend to the monetary donation. He also invited five doctors and nurses to join him at a party thrown in conjunction with the London premiere of Sweeney Todd last week.
And he had his Captain Jack Sparrow costume flown over from LA specially last November so that he could treat young patients to bedtime stories while dressed as his popular Pirates Of The Caribbean character.
Disney, the distributors of the Pirates movies, has also since pledged to donate a further £10 million to the hospital.