Johnny Depp denies smuggling dogs into Australia

“We were under the impression that we had all the paperwork done with the dogs, we were there with the dogs in front of everybody,” the 52-year-old actor explained, before cracking a joke, “There might have been other things smuggled.”

Jimmy Kimmel of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” then played a clip from Australian Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce’s television address about Depp’s dogs earlier this year.

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Barnaby threatened to kill the pets if they weren’t flown back to the US.

“What kind of a maniac is this,” Jimmy said of Barnaby, to which Depp replied, “Maybe he’s just doing his job.”

The actor added, “This sort of like, weird, sweaty … gut man, who decided that you know, two, 5 or 6-inch teacup Yorkshire terriers would harm the country in some way, he’s got a point, especially when you consider that Australia has the most poisonous creatures on Earth.”