- Jennifer Grey said her ex Johnny Depp was "crazy jealous and paranoid" during their brief romance.
- They were set up in the late '80s by Grey's agent and were engaged after two weeks of dating.
- Representatives for Depp didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.
In excerpts of her new memoir "Out of the Corner" recently published by The Independent, Jennifer Grey revealed a dark side to her whirlwind relationship with Johnny Depp.
According to her memoir, the former flames were set up by Grey's agent in the late '80s, and an engagement followed within two weeks. But their romance was far from a fairytale.
"Johnny was commuting every week back and forth from Vancouver, but had begun more and more regularly to be getting into trouble: fights in bars, skirmishes with cops," she wrote, according to The Independent. "He'd started missing his flights home to LA having overslept or, when he did come home, he'd be crazy jealous and paranoid about what I'd been up to while he was gone."
Grey had an explanation for his behavior. "I attributed his ill-temper and unhappiness to him feeling miserable and powerless to get off '21 Jump Street,'" she wrote, according to the site.
In a portion of "Out of the Corner" viewed by Insider, Grey wrote that she broke up with Depp via a note that she left in his hotel room after he left for a meeting one day and didn't come back or contact her. Their engagement only lasted nine months.
Representatives for Depp didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.
Grey told People in a recent interview that there was genuine chemistry between her and Depp in the beginning of their relationship.
"There was some heat. It was a fucking bonfire," she told the magazine. "It was literally like, 'Are you fucking kidding me? Are you fucking kidding me? I've never seen a guy like this.'"
The "Dirty Dancing" star gives readers an intimate look into their first date in her memoir, per The Independent. "We ate, talked, drank Jack Daniel's, laughed our asses off, took cigarette breaks midcourse. He was so ridiculously beautiful. And surprisingly open, funny, quirky and sweet," she wrote, according to the publication.
Depp and Grey's relationship began soon after she broke off a previous engagement with Matthew Broderick. In 1987, Broderick and Grey had been involved in a car accident in Ireland that resulted in the deaths of two people, and the two split the next year.
In an excerpt of her book viewed by Insider, Grey shared a portion of her journal in which she described Depp as if he were a new beginning for her.
"On August 12, I wrote in my journal, 'I'm in love, pretty sure for the first time in my life ... He's kind, funny, smart, moral, thoughtful, respectful,'" she wrote.
The Independent reported that Depp and Grey even shared a dog named Lulu. "She was our practice baby and someone to keep me company when Johnny was out of town," Grey wrote according to The Independent.
Depp would go on to have many high-profile relationships, including with Winona Ryder and Kate Moss. He's appeared in court in recent weeks for a defamation lawsuit he's brought against his ex-wife Amber Heard.
Grey married actor Clark Gregg, but they divorced in 2021 after 19 years of marriage.
"Out of the Corner" will be released May 3.