He made another cameo at the VMAs following a commercial break, saying, "Hey VMAs, let's get back to the f—king music, shall we?" However, his f-bomb was bleeped out for the broadcast. "I just want you guys to know that I'm available for birthdays, bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs, marriages, wakes, any old thing you need," Depp stated in a pre-recorded footage that he uploaded on his Instagram.
Despite not being nominated this time, Depp has previously won prizes for outstanding male performance, greatest villain, global superstar, and the generation award, according to Variety. A few months have passed since Depp's contentious and well reported defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard, in which the jury determined that Heard had defamed Depp in her 2018 Washington Post opinion piece in which she made references to being a victim of domestic abuse.