Johnny Depp Tells Story Of Near Death Experience On Letterman Show
Johnny Depp is a natural storyteller. The actor recently made an appearance on the David Letterman show, and revealed the story of his near death experience!
“We were shooting at a different place in the desert where there’s these little bumps and things,” Depp told Letterman.
“And so the horse that I was on decided to jump a couple of these little obstacles. The horse was unaware that the saddle I was wearing to sit on top of it was jury-rigged, kind of faked … to give the effect that I’m riding bareback. So basically it’s not very tight on the horse.
So when we came down, the saddle slipped and I went to the left and had the reins here and somehow had the wherewithal to grab the mane of the horse. All very calm for some reason, I figured that fear would kick in but it didn’t. I was waiting,” Depp continued, able to laugh about it.
“All I saw in front of my eyes were these very muscular horse legs and striations of muscles moving, this kind of death machine. One word popped into my head: Hooves. Mind the hooves,” Depp explained, to which Letterman asked how he got out of the dangerous situation.
“I dropped,” Depp answered. “It landed on my back, hit the deck pretty hard and the one thing that saved me was the horse’s instinct to lift his front legs and go over me, step over me. Had he not, it was coming straight down into the head.”
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