Betty Sue Palmer passed away in Los Angeles on Friday, May 20, 2016 following a protracted illness.
She was 81 years old at the time.
Depp took his mother to the Academy Awards in 2004, when he received his first Oscar nomination for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, for which he won his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
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Palmer was reportedly admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s ICU in Los Angeles in 2012.
Depp was last seen taking his mother and his wife, Amber Heard, out to dinner in 2014.
Depp and his mother had a close bond.
On his left upper arm, the 52-year-old actor has a tattoo of her name, “Betty Sue,” inside a heart that he supposedly received in the late 1980s, and in 1995, he spent nearly $1 million on a 43-acre Kentucky property for his mother.
Depp discussed his mother’s terrible upbringing in a 2013 interview with Rolling Stone.
