Stranger Things: Winona Ryder, Will’s good mom, 20 years after being convicted of stealing clothes

In the midst of the scandals due to the libel trial of the former couple formed Johnny Depp Y Amber feltI wasn’t surprised that Depp called to testify with an ex, like Kate Moss, but not to Winona Ryder. It’s that Winona, another ex of the actor Pirates of the Caribbeanwent through another media process 20 years ago.

Winona had a very, very difficult time to get over. And that she was 30 and a name in Hollywood, which included two Oscar nominations, for The age of innocence Y Little Womenlove stories and projects that Tim Burton could bring her and afford to discard them, and even her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. What will happen to Depp?

Today Winona Ryder is an exemplary mother in fiction. An example of life. She went out of her way to get her son back to Will, who was “on the other side” in the first season of strange things. And in this fifth that Netflix premiered two weeks ago, Joyce also fears that Jim Hopper may return alive from Russia (we still don’t know if he will). But 20 years ago, in 2002, Winona Laura Horowitz was convicted of theft of clothes, vandalism and possession of illegal drugs.

Fans of Eleven and the Netflix series will certainly not be aware of this information about the actress who plays Joyce – one of the “old” characters, for them -.

It was December 2001 when she was arrested on charges of robbery and vandalism at Saks Fifth Avenue stores in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, and she was also charged with illicit possession of drugs without a prescription (the prescription, bah) required.

The thing was like that

When he went to the cashier to pay, he did. But once she reached the gate, the security guards, who may not have recognized her, kindly asked her about more designer clothes and accessories that she was carrying in another bag. Winona then stammered saying that they were hers and that she had bought them at another Saks store. She not so kindly asked him for the invoice for those purchases. and the actress of Generation X search and obviously can’t find it.

The problem for Winona was that the store’s security cameras were recording everything. She like her grabbed clothes, other accessories and, with a small scissor that she had in her pocket, she cut the labels of socks, T-shirts and a bag, among others. They totaled $ 5,500.

After the accusation, Winona agreed to pay what was stolen. But a year later, in December 2002, she was tried and sentenced to three years of probation, 480 hours of community service, a $ 3,700 fine, $ 6,355 of the stolen money, and sent for psychological treatment.

Did you get it cheap?

There is no way.

The media exposure was impressive, and the public was divided between those who forgave her, because she was a drug addict, and those who raised their pinkies denouncing her as if she were the star of the dracula by Francis Ford Coppola could not have paid that small fortune he intended to take from the Beverly Hills store. Wino decided to carry out his community work in a center for blind children and in one that helped people with HIV.

Six years after the robbery, Ryder, who had kept a low profile, said he didn’t feel guilty about stealing, because he hadn’t hurt anyone.

Nobody but herself.

It was August 2007 when he agreed to discuss the matter with the magazine fashion. “If I had physically hurt someone it would have been something completely different. The media attention I received embarrassed me enormously. I preferred not to say a word about it. I have not posted a statement, I have done absolutely nothing. I just waited for people to forget it, “Wino defended himself.

The truth is, Winona has had a complicated life and health. I was going to act The Godfather 3, so he flew to Italy. He had a nervous breakdown that prevented him from getting out of bed, leaving his hotel room. For this, and for no other reason, Sofia Coppola, the last daughter of the director of Francis Ford Coppola, plays the daughter of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino).

With Johnny Depp

They met at the first avant of Big fireballs, the biopic about Jerry Lee Lewis. She played the 13-year-old singer’s cousin and wife. She was seeing each other and falling in love. Between twists and turns, they spent three years together.

Johnny loved Winona so much that he had the phrase tattooed on his left arm Winona forever. After the breakup, a treatment was performed to erase the syllable “na”, and he was tattooed Wine forever (Drunk forever).

But Depp is one of those who don’t learn, and he tattooed the silhouette of Amber Heard. We already know how it ended (over?), But he once again she had to mask her tattoo.

Who knows if, now, Depp crosses Wino (na) again, perhaps to ask her for advice. She was able to resume her artistic career. For now, he will release an album in July with guitarist Jeff Beck.