The actor Amber Heard has returned to Australia to visit her husband Johnny Depp, who is currently working on the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, despite previously suggesting she would boycott the country following a row over the couple’s dogs.
Daily Mail Australia published photographs of Heard arriving at an unnamed Australian airport this week. She is said to have travelled from France, where the actor had been attending Paris haute couture week.
Heard told Channel 7’s Sunrise programme last month that the row over the couple’s dogs, Pistol and Boo, meant it was unlikely she would be back. “I have a feeling we’re going to avoid the land down under from now on, just as much as we can, thanks to certain politicians there,” she said.
The actor was referring to comments from Australia’s minister for agriculture, Barnaby Joyce, who in May threatened to have the animals put down for breaching the country’s strict quarantine laws. Depp and Heard were alleged to have brought the two Yorkshire terriers into the country on a private jet while the former was filming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
“It’s time that Pistol and Boo buggered off back to the United States,” Joyce said at the time. “He [Depp] can put them on the same chartered jet he flew out on to fly them back out of our nation.” The dogs were widely described as being on “death row” but eventually left Australia shortly before the expiry of the deadline Joyce had set for them.
Heard accused Joyce of essentially being an attention seeker during the Sunrise interview. “I guess everyone tries to go for their 15 minutes, including some government officials,” she said.
The actor, who married Depp in February, appears to have travelled without her animal companions in the new photographs. Her husband’s new film has been shooting on the Gold Coast and in Port Douglas, Queensland, and is expected to be released in 2017.
