Jenna Ortega speaks out on Johnny Depp dating rumour

Jenna Ortega found it "pretty hilarious" when she was rumoured to be dating Johnny Depp.

Talk the ‘Edward Scissorhands’ actor, 61, was seeing the 21-year-old 'Wednesday' actress started after gossip blog Deuxmoi said last year they had had been spotted together and were possibly working together on Tim Burton’s ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’, set to be released next month.

However, this turned out not to be untrue, and Jenna has admitted it was "so insane" that people believed it, with even her co-star Richard E. Grant quizzing her on the speculation.

She said in a BuzzFeed Puppy interview: “Probably that I was in a serious relationship with Johnny Depp, and I wanted everybody to leave us alone.

“It’s so insane to me. Like, I never spoke on that. I never said anything like that. Articles really do just make up their own quotes, but I thought that that was pretty hilarious.”

Jenna added: “I was on set with Richard E. Grant, and he came up to me and he just said, ‘Oh, so you and Johnny?’ And I laughed because I… I don’t know that person."

Jenna initially tackled the rumours in a since-deleted Instagram post, branding them “ridiculous”.

She said on her Instagram Stories: “I can’t even laugh. I have never met or worked with Johnny Depp in my life. Please stop spreading lies and leave us alone.”

Jenna has previously been romantically linked to singer Jacob Sartorius, 21, and ‘Andi Mack’ actor Asher Angel, also 21.

This summer, Johnny was reported to be "casually dating" 29-year-old model Yulia Vlasova.