NEW YORK -- Earlier this year, the British press was screaming "Scandal of scandals."

Johnny Depp, 36, was supposedly getting hot and heavy with Christina Ricci, 19, in a London pub while Depp's girlfriend, Vanessa Paradis, 27, was back in Paris pregnant with their child.

"Johnny and I have a brother-sister kind of relationship. It's only in films that we have any kind of sexual relationship," says Ricci, who co-stars with Depp in Tim Burton's gothic romance, Sleepy Hollow -- opening Nov. 19.

"The rumours got started after Johnny and I went out one night to a pub with four other people.

"My publicist was there, for heaven's sake," she says.

"Whoever the journalists were, they make up quotes supposedly from people in the bar saying

Johnny and I were getting so passionate with each other we barely came up for air."

Ricci says she wasn't all that mortified by the false reports.

"It's the first time I've been involved in this kind of gossip nonsense. At least they didn't have me involved with one of The Backstreet Boys.

"Now, that would have been embarrassing."


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