Johnny Depp 'explained homosexuality to me when I was nine years old’ says Christina Ricci

express.co.uk:

 Award-winning actress Christina Ricci, 42, has revealed Johnny Depp, 59, once “explained what homosexuality was” to her when she was just nine years old.The Addams Family actress spoke to the A-lister while on the set of her first movie, Mermaids.

Christina recalled how she was on the Massachusetts set of Mermaids in 1989, where she met co-star Winona Ryder, 50. The two-time Emmy nominee remembered how someone had been accused of being “homophobic” at the time, which confused her. “I was like, ‘Well, I don't understand what that is.’ And I was in Winona's trailer and she was like, ‘I don't know how…’” she explained on Andy Cohen's SiriusXM show yesterday.“And so she put me on the phone with [her boyfriend] Johnny.

And Johnny explained it to me,” Christina continued.“In like the simplest terms, yeah. He was like, ‘It's when a man wants to have sex with a man.

And when a woman wants to have sex with a woman.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, okay.’”At this point, chat show host Andy wondered why the actress didn't ask her onscreen mother - gay icon Cher - about homosexuality.She responded: “I know, we should've run right over [to her trailer]!”After her debut in Mermaids, Christina went on to immortalise the role of Wednesday Addams in 1991’s The Addams Family and its 1993 sequel Addams Family Values.Christina has held other iconic roles, including in 1995’s Casper and 1998’s Buffalo '66.She also won awards for her performances in the films The Opposite of Sex (1998), Sleepy Hollow (1999) and Bless the Child (2001).Christina went on to star opposite Johnny in Sally Potter's 2000 indie drama The Man Who Cried, where she filmed her first sex scene with him.