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Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp in Cannes, France, in 2010.

Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis were a notoriously private couple during their 14 years together, rarely speaking about their relationship. The couple split in June after months of speculation that there was trouble between them, and now Paradis is breaking her silence, speaking out about her thoughts on love, fame and dating.

"Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life," Paradis tells Harper's Bazaar in the September issue. "Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it."

Paradis also make comments that allude to still being in love despite her relationship to Depp no longer being successful. "When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier," she told the magazine. But, "you keep learning all the time. Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out."

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Depp and Paradis lived mostly in France during the time they were together, and had only recently relocated to Los Angeles when they split. Fame, Paradis said, is something she wasn't ready for. "I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened, but nobody pushed me to do it. I wanted to sing, to dance, to work," she said. 

Paradis makes no mention of starting to date again, but she did tell Harper's that she's got a type. "Well, my type is obviously creative," she said. "Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth."

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Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp in 2010.

After months of speculation that Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis' relationship was over, a publicist for Depp confirms the couple has split.

"Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis have amicably separated. Please respect their privacy and, more importantly, the privacy of their children," Depp's publicist said in a statement given first to Entertainment Tonight.

The couple have two children together, Lily-Rose, 13, and Jack, 10.

As recently as May, Depp was denying that he and his partner of 14 years had split. "The rumors are not true. They are absolutely not true," Depp told the U.K.'s Sun on the red carpet for the London premiere of "Dark Shadows."

While he was denying the split, it was noted that Paradis was conspicuously absent from the premiere, and she hadn't walked a red carpet with Depp for at least a year and a half.

People has reported that the couple drifted apart and were living "separate lives" after moving from France to Los Angeles.

The two first got together in 1998, when the two met serendipitously at the Costes Hotel in Paris.

The couple, who never officially wed, lived in France for much of their relationship; Depp recently told French magazine VSD (via People) that living there "has given me everything. A marvelous family and also an equilibrium which I missed enormously."

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