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Four years after Amber Heard met Johnny Depp on the set of 2011’s The Rum Diary, the pair wed … but controversy ensued just a few months later. According to BBC News, the newlyweds flew to Australia in May 2015, but neglected to declare their two Yorkshire terriers, Pistol and Boo, to customs officials. Australia maintains strict quarantines over the importation of animals, and the country’s agriculture minister, Barbaby Joyce, was simply not having it.
Joyce set an ultimatum, The Guardian reported: the dogs were to be sent back to the U.S. within 72 hours or they would be euthanized, declaring, “It’s time that Pistol and Boo buggered off back to the United States.” Just before the deadline expired, the pets were shipped stateside, and lived to wag another day.
But while Depp did not face repercussions from the incident, Heard did. According to CNN, she was hit with two charges of illegal import of animals and one charge of knowingly producing a false or misleading document. The following year, Heard pled guilty to the charges related to the false document, per USA Today, while the other charges were dropped.
Written by: Nicki
