What Really Happened to Johnny Depp's Daughter Lily-Rose Will Break Your Heart

Lily-Rose Depp was seven years old when she nearly died at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, in a coma from E. coli and kidney failure her doctors were not sure she would wake up from. Her father Johnny Depp read Harry Potter at her bedside for days. She woke up. What she has survived since is a stranger story than the trial that made her surname famous again. Born 27 May 1999 in Neuilly-sur-Seine to Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, she grew up in the south of France under a strict privacy rule her parents kept for the first seven years of her life. After the London hospital stay in 2007, Depp donated one million pounds to Great Ormond Street and returned to the children's ward in a Captain Jack Sparrow costume more than once, unannounced. J.K. Rowling sent the family an unpublished chapter of the seventh Harry Potter book while Lily-Rose was still in the coma. By fourteen she had been chosen by Karl Lagerfeld to front Chanel. By sixteen she was Cesar-nominated in France for The Dancer. She stayed silent through the 2022 Depp v. Heard trial in Virginia, spoke once about it to Elle in November 2022, then went on to survive The Idol on HBO in 2023 and lead Robert Eggers' Nosferatu in 2024, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Drama. Covered in this video: The 2007 E. coli coma at Great Ormond Street and the unpublished Harry Potter chapter Johnny Depp's one million pound donation and unannounced returns in costume Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel, and the Cesar nomination at sixteen The 2022 Virginia trial and the six weeks of public silence The Idol, Sam Levinson, and the Cannes press conference Nosferatu, Robert Eggers, and the Golden Globe nomination Her relationship with rapper 070 Shake Sources include contemporaneous press reporting, published interviews with Elle, Vogue, and Rolling Stone, the 2020 UK libel judgment, and the 2022 Fairfax County Circuit Court proceedings. This documentary is presented for historical and educational purposes. It documents events and does not endorse or glorify the actions described. New history and pop culture documentaries every week. Subscribe if this is your kind of story. #LilyRoseDepp #JohnnyDepp #Nosferatu