Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis officially announce split after months of rumours

Very sad news this evening – Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis have officially parted ways after 14 years together. A representative for the couple told US magazine tonight: “Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis have amicably separated. 

 “Please respect their privacy and, more importantly, the privacy of their children.” The Hollywood couple never married, but have two children together Lily-Rose, 13, and son Jack, 10. Johnny, 49, and French singer Vanessa, 39, have kept their relationship extremely private, refusing to acknowledge a split despite rumours that they've been living separate lives for months. 

 Speaking about why they never got married in the past, Johnny said in 2010: "I never found myself needing that piece of paper. "Marriage is really from soul to soul, heart to heart. You don't need somebody to say, okay you're married." Earlier this year, Vanessa spoke about the concept of love and soul-mates in an interview with Stylist magazine.

 She said: "I believe in love and I want to believe that it lasts forever. "But I'm like everyone else, you have to take things a day at a time and you can never know what comes next. All you can do is hope and love and live." And in a rare interview specifically about their relationship, Vanessa said about Johnny hree years ago: "There is a lot of friendship between us, respect and admiration. "I admire him as an actor, as a father, as a man. Above all, I admire the person he is. He's fantastic."