Johnny Depp Mocks His Australian Dog Smuggling Apology

Johnny Depp had better prepare for the full body search next time he heads to Australia.

The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ star mocked the much-derided public apology he made after his wife Amber Heard was cleared of smuggling the couple’s dogs Pistol and Boo into the country last year.

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While sitting on a throne during a press conference for new movie 'Alice Through The Looking Glass’ in London, he said: “I’m going to do this everywhere I go.

“I would really like to apologise for not smuggling my dogs into England.

Because it would have been a bad thing to do.”

“The Australians, though chipper…”, he began, but then trailed off as others on the panel got in on the joke.

Director Tim Burton added: “I forget to tell you, they’re dead, I just sat on them by accident.”

“I tried to kill them after Australia,” Depp chipped in.

How agriculture minister and deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce will react to the mockery is unclear, but the pair butted heads over the incident, dubbed 'the war on terrier’.

Joyce famously threatened to have Depp’s Yorkshire Terriers put to sleep on discovering they’d been brought into the country on a private jet without the correct documentation.

“It’s time Pistol and Boo buggered off to the US,” he said.

“Mr Depp has to take his dogs back or we’re going to have to euthanise them.”

Two biosecurity charges were dropped after Heard pleaded guilty to them, and made the recorded apology with Depp. She was fined and given a one-month good behaviour bond.

But the video was widely mocked, some comparing it to a hostage video.

Even Joyce mocked Depp’s performance.

“I think he’s auditioning for 'The Godfather’,” he said.

“He’s very good a playing every other person except Johnny Depp. As far as me directing that atrocious movie, no, I could have done a little bit better than that.

Offering directorial notes, he added: “Do it again, Johnny, do it with gusto, mate!’ Rise to the camera, old trout, rise to the camera.”

Depp has shot back in the past, however, telling the press at the Venice Film Festival last year: “I killed my dogs and ate them, under orders of some sweaty, big-gutted man from Australia.”

Image credits: AP