"[The dogs are] minuscule, tiny teacup things, clearly dangerous in Australia, because there's so many poisonous creatures in Australia, you can die at any minute, so the dogs are obviously a problem in Australia," Depp said.

"I think the choice [the Australian government] made to utilise the taxpayers' dollars to globally chase down a couple of teacup yorkies and give them 50 hours to live … I realised the badness of my ways so I was kind of repenting."



When asked who wrote the script for the apology video, Depp replied, "a genius", and when asked who directed, he said, "the iPhone". Depp also called him "Barnaby Jones".

But at a press conference on Wednesday morning, Joyce laughed off the insult, saying he'd gotten inside Depp's head.