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Johnny Depp helps girl in coma

Johnny Depp is doing what he can to help a comatose British teenager. Sophie Wilkinson, 17, has been in a coma since a near fatal car crash last year. Her parents wrote to Depp, who is Sophie’s favorite actor. He agreed to record a voice message for Sophie to play to her. The actor, who lives in France, has also agreed to try and visit her at Southampton General Hospital once he finishes filming Dillinger in the States. Sophie’s father Andrew told mtv.co.uk: “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.” After playing the tape for his daughter, Andrew said: “Sophie moved her right leg, which she has never done before. When we got home my wife and I were jumping for joy!”