Washington, Oct 29 : Johnny Depp has revealed that he fell in love the instance he laid eyes on his partner Vanessa Paradis.

According to the BBC, Depp met the French singer/model in 1998 at Hotel Costes, France, where he was filming Roman Polanski's `The Ninth Gate'.

"She was wearing a dress with an exposed back and I saw that back and that neck, and then she turned around and I saw those eyes, and boom! my life as a single man was done," Radar Online quoted the actor as saying.

"You have this feeling."

"I can't really explain what it was, but I had it when I met her. I saw her across a room and thought, `What's happening to me?'" he added. (ANI)