Everyone's favourite heart throb, Johnny Depp has donated $2.2 million to a London children's hospital for saving his daughter's life.

Following 8 year old Lily Rose's treatment for kidney failure, the Hollywood actor secretly returned to Great Ormond Street Hospital, to personally hand over the sum as a thank you.

Johnny, who kept a bedside vigil with long-term partner Vanessa Paradis when their daughter was treated for E.Coli poisoning, has revealed Lily-Rose's health scare put the family through "hell".

"It was the most frightening thing we have ever been through. It was hell. But the magic is that she pulled through beautifully. Great Ormond Street was terrific, a great hospital."

While Johnny concentrated on nursing Lily-Rose back to healthb filming of his movie Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street was halted

Johnny Depp said that he wasn't sure if he would be able to return to the set of the movie "But Tim Burton, the director, and the production were unbelievably supportive and said, 'Look we're hitting pause.'"

Johnny Depp's generosity is not limited to money. Last November, the star spent four hours at the hospital dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow, his character from the Pirates of the Caribbean.

He also invited five Great Ormond Street doctors and nurses to the London premiere of Sweeney Todd last week.

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