The parents of 17-year-old Sophie Wilkinson from Southampton, England, who was critically injured in a car crash last year, wrote to the Pirates of the Caribbean star, who is their daughter's favorite actor--and Depp was so moved by their plight that he resolved to help.
Depp has agreed to record a voice message for the teenager that will be played to her in the hopes it will help bring her out of the life-threatening coma.
He also agreed to try to visit the stricken teen at Southampton General Hospital.
And Sophie's father, Andrew, was delighted the star offered to give up his time to help.
He says, "We are looking for the key to wake her up, so we wrote to Johnny and he said he would do the recording in the voice of (his Pirates of the Caribbean character) Jack Sparrow.
"Only this week Sophie moved her right leg, which she has never done before. When we got home my wife and I were jumping for joy!"
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