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Johnny Depp 'fired shotgun blanks at assistant' in wild prank with Hunter S. Thompson, claims Don Johnson

Johnny Depp 'fired shotgun blanks' at a terrified assistant in a wild prank, Don Johnson has claimed.

Johnson, 74, recalled the dangerous incident as he appeared on Thursday's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, detailing how he had been journalist Hunter S. Thompson's neighbor in Woody Creek, Colorado. Johnny Depp 'fired shotgun blanks' at a terrified assistant in a wild prank with Hunter S. Thompson, Don Johnson has claimed - pictured on Thursday's Jimmy Kimmel Live! A young Depp sparked up a friendship with the writer in 1994 and would play him in the 1998 film adaptation of his 1972 novel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - pictured 1998 with Benicio Del Toro

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