Johnny Depp has stated that he needs prescription glasses since he is nearly blind in one eye and near-sighted in the other.

The actor revealed to Rolling Stone magazine that he had been “blind as a bat” in his left eye since birth owing to an irreversible condition.

Depp said: “Everything is just very, very blurry. I’ve never had proper vision.” The actor also revealed that unless he’s wearing glasses while acting he can’t see beyond a few inches.

Johnny is obliged to go without his spectacles while filming in his most renowned guises, such as Jack Sparrow, Edward Scissorhands, and the most recent Tonto in The Lone Ranger, meaning he can only see a few inches in front of him at any given moment.

“I should play ALF,” he joked. “F—ing fantastic. ALF. Yeah, it should be called ‘ALF: The Stuff You Never Saw.'”

The actor expressed his satisfaction with the way his career has developed, but he also expressed a desire for a more normal existence. ‘Going somewhere where you don’t have to be on the run or sneak in through the kitchen or the underground labyrinth of the hotel,’ he said. ‘At a certain point, when you get old enough or get a few brain cells back, you realize that, on some level, you lived a life of a fugitive.’

Johnny also discussed his breakup from Vanessa Paradis, his 14-year partner with whom he has two children, acknowledging that the break-up last June ‘wasn’t easy’ for anybody.

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In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, he said that the couple is “making the best of it” for the sake of their children.

He said: ‘The last couple years have been a bit bumpy. At times, certainly unpleasant, but that’s the nature of breakups, I guess, especially when there are kiddies involved.

‘Relationships are very difficult. Especially in the racket that I’m in because you’re constantly away or they’re away and so it’s hard. It wasn’t easy on her. It wasn’t easy on me. It wasn’t easy on the kids. So, yeah. The trajectory of that relationship – you play it out until it goes, one thing leads to another.

‘So for whatever reason that ­ceases, it doesn’t stop the fact that you care for that person, and they’re the mother of your kids, and you’ll always know each other, and you’re always gonna be in each other’s lives because of those kids. You might as well make the best of it.’

“You can’t shield them, because then you’d be lying,” the father of two remarked of his daughters, Lily Rose, 14, and Jack, 11.

“So you can at least be honest with your kids, and you say the absolute truth to your child — that was very important to not pussyfoot around.”

However, Depp, who rose to popularity in the late 1980s blockbuster TV series “21 Jump Street,” will retire at some point.

“I’m kicking 50 right up the a–,” he said,”[but] I can’t say that I’d want to be doing this for another 10 years.”