Johnny Depp makes an unexpected appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards

At the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, the actor Johnny Depp, whose career has been in shambles since a violent defamation case with his ex-wife Amber Heard, appeared as a floating astronaut hovering above the crowd. He is currently working to rehabilitate his career (Aug 28).

During the course of the live ceremony, Johnny Depp cracked a few jokes as his face was digitally superimposed within the helmet of a spaceman, which served as the inspiration for the VMAs Moon Person statue.

At the beginning of the performance, the star of “Pirates of the Caribbean” cracked a joke by saying, “I needed the work.”

Later on during the event, Johnny Depp announced that he was available for “any old thing you need,” including birthdays, bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs, weddings, and wakes.

In June, Depp’s court struggle with Heard, in which she had accused him of physically abusing her, nearly came to a successful conclusion for him. Depp insisted that he had never hit her or any other woman.

Two years prior, in 2005, Depp was unsuccessful in a libel claim brought against the Sun tabloid in Britain. The newspaper had referred to him as a “wife beater.” A judge at the London High Court decided that Depp had abused Heard on multiple occasions. As soon as it was discovered, he was removed from the Harry Potter spinoff franchise Fantastic Beasts, and Hollywood in general avoided him.

Since winning his case in a United States court, Johnny Depp has been performing music on tour with Jeff Beck and is due to direct the biographical drama Modigliani, which is about the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani.

In addition, the actor will portray King Louis XV in the upcoming French film Jeanne du Barry.