Johnny Depp shares 'ink' with Damien Echols

Johnny Depp shares 'ink' with Damien Echols
Article by: SlingerVille Staff
September 10, 2012

Johnny Depp and the man whom he helped release from Arkansas’ death row are tight pals, The Associated Press reports that they are like brothers and even get matching tattoos.

"We have some," Depp said Saturday as he touched a tattoo on the right side of his chest.

"This one Damien designed. It's one of my all-time favorites, and it means quite a lot to me," Depp told The Associated Press before the premiere of the documentary, "West of Memphis," about Damien Echols and his two co-defendants.

Echols said he and Depp usually get together and end up in a tattoo parlor. Depp states that it’s about "celebrating the moment."

For 18 years, Echols and two other men were locked up in prison for the 1993 murders of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis. The three men were released after agreeing to an Alford plea that allowed them to keep their innocence while pleading guilty.

Depp was intrigued when he saw the three men in the “Paradise Lost” documentaries.

"You saw those initial documentaries, you make a choice: Am I going to watch the thing and go 'Wow, that's really horrible,' and go out and get a milkshake," Depp said.

The Associated Press reported that, “Depp, along with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks, musician Henry Rollins, and filmmaker Peter Jackson, who produced ‘West of Memphis,’ helped pay the legal fees to free the three men.”

Echols said that Depp’s support was not only during his time in prison, but far beyond that.

"He's been with us every single step of the way. Since we've gotten out, he's become like a brother to me. And that's one of the things we always do just as part of that bond is whenever you get tattoos like that, it's something you carry with you through the rest of your life and it's really meaningful."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/johnny-depp-shares-ink-damien-echols-070009291.html

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