In a recent interview, Stranger things star Winona Ryder made a rare disclosure regarding her past relationship with Johnny Depp. She discussed how it was tough for her to move on from Depp after their brief engagement in the early 1990s.

“That was my Girl, Interrupted real life,” she said, referring to her 1999 film about a girl in a mental asylum. She added, “I remember, I was playing this character, who ends up getting tortured in a Chilean prison (in the 1994 film The House of the Spirits). I would look at these fake bruises and cuts on my face (during the shoot), and I would struggle to see myself as this little girl. ‘Would you be treating this girl like you’re treating yourself?’ I remember looking at myself and saying, ‘This is what I’m doing to myself inside.’ Because I just wasn’t taking care of myself.” she said

Winona and Johnny Depp met at the premiere of Great Balls of Fire! in 1989 when she was 17 and he was 26. They were engaged for three years before their break up in 1993. Johnny famously got his ‘Winona Forever’ tattoo changed to ‘Wino Forever'.

Though being the most successful actress in the late 80s and 90s her career declined in the 2000s and she took a break from films, returning with Star Trek in 2009. Since 2016, she has starred in Netflix’s huge hit Stranger Things.