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'Comedy in the face of tragedy': Video of Johnny Depp explaining finger injury to children goes viral

Unearthed footage from 2015 shows Johnny Depp being asked about his bandaged finger when he visited children battling cancer at a hospital in Australia

As the defamation trial and legal battle between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard advances, old videos of the actors are resurfacing and going viral. One such video shows the 58-year-old actor joking that he had eaten the tip of his injured finger. The clip from 2015 shows the actor dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow from 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' as he visits children diagnosed with cancer at an Australian hospital.

When one child saw Depp's finger wrapped in a bandage and asked. "What happened to your finger?" He replied, "My finger? I bruised it very badly. I ate it. I bit it off. I was starving!" After hearing this, the children chuckled, and Depp quipped, "I was, I was starving. I bit my finger, I ate it! The tip of it, just a little. The nail wasn't good."

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One comment read, "My heart just broke watching this. The kind of pain he must be in and not just the physical pain, but emotional pain as well and to still be able to visit these kids really says a lot of what kind of a person he really is. He really deserves justice." Another said, "Dude just lost his fingertip, and yet he visits children. Does that look like a wife-beater?? No!! #JusticeForJohnnyDepp." A third wrote, "He doesn't explain how he got his bruise and instead he prefers lying he ate the tip of his finger. He was in severe pain emotionally and physically. #justiceforjohnnydepp."

One user joked, "Wish he had said 'A horrible slimy creature from the bottom of the sea attacked me, I've named it Scamber'" Another felt, "oh johnny! i can't imagine what you had been through! may you always find your happiness and never have to deal with the heart break and misery again." A third replied, "wow so crazy that you never know what’s someone’s going through I remember him coming up here in Cleveland and he would always stop and take pictures with people and talk to them after he was done filming. Such a lovely person."

While one user wrote, "You won't hear Amber Heard's attorneys mention this in court. Johnny Depp visited with cancer-stricken children at Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Brisbane, Australia... 3 months after Heard severed part of his finger. Depp stayed over 6 hours visiting with 70 children," another commented, "Saw a video of Johnny Depp, as Jack Sparrow, explaining to a kid why his finger was all bandaged up. He said he got hungry and ate the tip of it. So at one of the lowest times of his life he still went to a children’s hospital to make them happy. Use that as a character witness."

Another resurfaced old video shows Depp giving a red carpet interview and looking very anxious and uneasy with Heard standing beside him. Depp sued Heard after she claimed that she was a victim of domestic violence in a Washington Post op-ed. Though the article did not name Depp, the actor states that it ruined his reputation and career. Heard then counter-sued him for $100 million and submitted photos of her bruised face, alleging Depp was responsible for it.