Lily-Rose Depp has revealed she enjoyed stripping off for her new TV series The Idol. 

The actress, 24, who is the daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, and her new show has been met with a stream of criticism for its explicit scenes. 

Lily plays pop diva Jocelyn who is struggling to make a comeback following a mental breakdown, and has admitted in a new interview that she didn’t even consider a body double for the role.

She told The Sun: 'It’s all me. I love doing that kind of work. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with enjoying that kind of work.

'Every outfit and every interaction and every piece of nudity and all those things are very intentional and were really important to me.

'Maybe this makes me, like, a little twisted. But I feel really good after doing scenes like that because there’s something that feels very therapeutic about it to me — and maybe that’s why I like doing this job.'

The Sky Atlantic series shows Lily-Rose's character having a torrid romance with twisted cult leader Tedros, who is played by The Weeknd. 

Highly explicit scenes featuring revenge porn, self-harm, drug abuse, masturbation, choking and a sexual encounter involving a knife have led the show to be branded 'torture porn' by some horrified critics.

It has left viewers divided with some labelling it as a 'toxic man's fantasy' while others noted that Lily-Rose spends 'most of her time semi-naked or performing sex acts'. 

It comes after The Weeknd was said to have felt The Idol had an excessively 'female perspective' and wanted the plot to give his character more attention than Lily-Rose's.

Sam Levinson stepped in as director and reshot the show, which reportedly was heavily rewritten with so much raunchy material that one source was left thinking: 'What is this? What am I reading here? It was like sexual torture porn.'

Other sources, however, said that the insiders Rolling Stone quoted had made their remarks without seeing the finished product.

The Weeknd responded publicly by denouncing the report as 'ridiculous,' arguing to Vanity Fair: 'Shows get reshot every day.'

Lily-Rose also defended Sam, issuing a statement to E! News in which she called him 'for so many reasons, the best director I have ever worked with.'

She added: 'Never have I felt more supported or respected in a creative space, my input and opinions more valued.'

The showbiz legacy continued: 'Working with Sam is a true collaboration in every way — it matters to him, more than anything, not only what his actors think about the work, but how we feel performing it.'

At a press conference at Cannes, Lily-Rose defended the extensive nudity on the show, arguing that 'the occasional bareness of the character physically mirrors the bareness that we get to see emotionally in her,' according to People.