Christina Ricci learned what being gay meant over a phone call with none other than Johnny Depp when she was nine years old.

“Johnny [Depp] is actually the person who explained to me what homosexuality was when I was nine,” she explained.

After Ryder was unable to explain what homosexuality was in layman’s terms to then-nine-year-old Ricci, she called her then-boyfriend Depp for help

And Johnny explained it to me,” Ricci told Cohen. 

According to Ricci, Depp explained it in “the simplest terms” and “very matter-of-factly.”

“He was like, ‘it’s when a man wants to have sex with a man, and when a woman wants to have sex with a woman.’ And I was like, ‘ah okay,'” she added