12h 10min, dec 1, 2020 y - DAILY MAIL Paul Bettany admitted taking cocaine and became Johnny Depp's party pal

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Paul Bettany admitted taking cocaine and became Johnny Depp's party pal. Now, writes ALISON BOSHOFF, the British star has made a jaw-dropping revelation

By ALISON BOSHOFF

Paul has claimed that he quit drugs around the time he turned 30. But his drug use hit the headlines again in the summer when one of the barristers involved in Johnny Depp’s libel action against The Sun newspaper referred to him as Depp’s ‘drug buddy’.

The court also heard that Paul Bettany had received a text confession about ‘powders… a thousand red bull and vodkas’ from a rattled-sounding Depp in 2014 after a fight with his then wife Amber Heard on a plane.

And it was Bettany, too, the trial was told, who joked about drowning Heard to check whether she was a ‘witch’ after Depp had suggested burning her.

The two men’s friendship — which seems to involve a dash of hero-worship by Paul — had blossomed over the course of making three films together: The Tourist (2010), Transcendence (2014) and Mortdecai (2015).

In an interview, Bettany said: ‘We got on well from the get-go. I think he just likes British people. We made each other laugh a lot so it was very easy and fun.’

Bettany met Connelly on the set of A Beautiful Mind in 2001 and their son, Stellan, was born two years later — the same year they married. They also have a daughter, Agnes Lark, who is now nine.

The family is based in New York, where home is a £13 million townhouse not far from the residence of fellow Brits abroad Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz.

In interviews, Bettany says that he counts himself lucky to have come out of his troubled early years relatively intact: ‘I did a lot of work on myself in therapy and all of that stuff and I still can’t quite escape the sensation that at some point a monster opened its jaws and let me swim out.’

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