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W hat’s eating Leo and Johnny?
Sources tell The National ENQUIRER superstars Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp have turned their backs on the morbidly obese actress who played their mother in the 1993 film “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.”
Darlene Cates now weighs 500 pounds, and while she became a surrogate mom to Leo and Johnny during filming, both ignored her requests for a 20th anniversary reunion, said an insider.
“Darlene was heartbroken,” said the source. “The movie has always meant so much to her. To not have Leo and Johnny answer her calls was devastating. Privately, she took it hard. She felt like they’d snubbed her.”
In “Gilbert Grape,” Darlene played a grossly overweight shut-in who never bounced back from her husband’s suicide.