Lily-Rose Depp Illness: How Did Johnny Depp’s Daughter Get E Coli?

Lily-Rose Depp, now 22, was just seven years old when she contracted E. coli poisoning while her father was shooting a movie in London, and she was taken to the city’s Great Ormond Street Hospital when her kidneys began to shut down.

She has also struggled with anorexia in the past and has recovered.

At the time when she was down with E. coli, her father, Johnny Depp, 43, refused to return to set until she was out of danger, forcing filming to be stopped.

E.coli food poisoning is commonly caused by improperly cooked meat, unpasteurised milk or water contamination. It is a bacteria which normally lives inside the intestines where it helps break down and digest food.

But certain strains can get into the blood causing a rare but very serious infection.

Staff on the Warner Bros set at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, were told the illness caused Lily-Rose’s kidneys to shut down and she was lucky to survive.

Occurrences of E.coli have increased in recent years, with up to 1,000 people contracting the disease in the UK each year.

It is particularly serious in vulnerable people such as the elderly or children under the age of five, with long-term effects which can include kidney damage, paralysis or blindness. The mortality rate among the elderly is 50 per cent.

Doctors do not prescribe antibiotics and commonly allow the illness to run its cause, which usually lasts about a week.

Johnny Depp has starred in Hollywood blockbusters, including the Pirates Of The Caribbean trilogy, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Sleepy Hollow and Edward Scissorhands, while his partner Ms Paradis is an actress and singer.

The couple also have a four-year-old son John Jack.