Vanessa Paradis talks about ‘painful’ Johnny Depp split

KARACHI: Vanessa Paradis has opened up about her recent split from longtime love Johnny Depp.

Paradis would prefer not to converse her breakup with partner Depp. Even so, she managed to say a few words about their shocking split in a recent interview with a leading media tabloid.

“I don't want to talk about him. Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?” the singer-actress said at first.

“I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire. It's not feeling obliged or forced or repeating yourself,” said Paradis. “I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, ‘You have to work at being a couple.’ No, you have to want to be there.”

“And for me, I want to be right where I am right now,” she added.

In another interview for the September issue of Harper's Bazaar she opens a bit more and said, “Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.”

“Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.”

She added, “When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier. You keep learning all the time. Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.”

Pirates of the Caribbean star Depp, 49, and Paradis, 38, revealed they had decided to split “amicably” after 14 years together back in June.