Johnny Depp put on spot about Amber Heard at Shane MacGowan’s funeral-Emily Bashforth-Entertainment – Metro

Victoria Mary Clarke made a very pointed reference to Johnny Depp’s court case during her eulogy for husband Shane MacGowan (Picture: Sky News)

Shane MacGowan’s wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, well and truly put Johnny Depp on the spot with a surprising anecdote during her eulogy to her late husband.

The Pogues star’s funeral was held in Ireland today following his death from pneumonia at the age of 65.

Hundreds of mourners lined the streets to pay their respects, with Hollywood actor Depp, 60, being one of several A-listers in attendance.

Depp, who attended MacGowan’s wedding in 2018, read out a prayer during the service.

Delivering her eulogy, Clarke referenced the time MacGowan urged Depp to ‘forgive’ his ex-wife Amber Heard amid their extremely high-profile libel court case.

‘I hope you don’t mind me saying this, Johnny,’ she began with a smile.

Depp gave a reading during his friend’s funeral (Picture: PA)

‘When Johnny had a court case involving his ex-wife Amber, Shane had a long conversation with you, didn’t he? And urged you to forgive Amber.

‘Yeah, he just thought it was the best thing to do because he believed genuinely in forgiveness.’

Speaking directly to the actor, she asked: ‘I’m sure you have by now, haven’t you?’

‘Of course you have, of course you have,’ she said, with the camera on Clarke the whole time as the service was live-streamed.

The Irish journalist proceeded to laugh as her story was met with chuckles from attendees.

She added that MacGowan ‘just wouldn’t hold a grudge against anyone’ or ‘see the bad’ in people.

‘When I first met him, he was very much a humanitarian and a socialist and he loved people, but he didn’t necessarily demonstrate that to his friends always, he could be quite cantankerous and rude, and sometimes hostile, and I’m sure the Pogues will attest to that.

‘But towards the end, he just told everybody how much he loved them.

‘Nurses in the hospital were almost shocked because he would say, “I love you” and he’d never even met them before.’

She added: ‘And I just think for so many people, he was just so full of love, and I’m feeling so much love now from him, that I don’t think he can go away.

‘I don’t think love can go away, can it? I really just don’t.’

Also in her eulogy, Clarke told mourners how she felt ‘there was nothing more that my life needed in order to be complete than to be with him’.

‘I loved his presence and I loved his smile and I loved his voice,’ she said.

‘And I love the fact that 50 times a day we would laugh at each other and smile with each other and say I love you to each other. And we used to say, “I’m so glad to see you”, and like we said that even though we’d been in the room together all day, we’d still say, “I’m so glad to see you.”

‘And I have yet to meet a couple who have that gift. I still have not yet met a couple, no matter how successful or glamorous or whatever they are, good looking. I just haven’t met anyone else who has that connection. So it would be greedy really to want more than we got. We got so much.

‘And I know of course I’m going to miss him and I’m going to be devastated and I’m going to be crying and crying and crying, but at the same time as crying and feeling devastated I think it’s possible to also feel that my heart has got bigger.’

‘And it’s got so much bigger as a result of a relationship that it can never really go back. I can never go back to being the kind of person I was before I met him.’

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