18h 40min, jun 20, 2016 y - DOUG STANHOPE Howard Stern Show 'Johnny Depp thanked me for being honest'

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Doug Stanhope has accused Amber Heard of trying to silence him with a 'spiteful' defamation lawsuit.

The actress is suing the comedian after he wrote an article claiming Heard had threatened to blackmail Johnny Depp before publicly accusing him of abuse.

Heard filed for divorce from Depp on May 23 alleging she 'lived in fear' of her husband of 15 months and that he had been abusive throughout their marriage.

A week later Stanhope, a longtime friend of the actor, wrote an article for The Wrap claiming he and all Depp's friends knew Heard was a 'manipulative a**hole' for years, and that Depp himself was aware she was about to 'lie about him publicly in any and every possible duplicitous way if he didn’t agree to her terms'.

'It's such a bulls*** suit,' Stanhope told Howard Stern on his Sirius XM radio show on Monday.

'I think what she's trying to do is make me shut the f*** up.'

He claimed she was suing him out of spite, particularly because of the 'inflammatory' headline, which he denied writing.

'I put it on my website. The title was "At a Loss for Words..." whatever it was. TheWrap got it as an exclusive - however that worked - and said, ‘Amber Heard Is Blackmailing Johnny Depp — This Is How I Know.’

'I didn’t write that f***ing title. I didn’t put that stupid tabloid title in there,' he claimed. 'I’m a better writer than that, so I don’t know if it’s hinged on that, I don’t know how much of it is spite.'

Although he stops short of using the word blackmail himself in his Wrap piece - his exact words were 'Blackmail is what I would imagine other people might put it' - he did say Heard's story was 'bulls***,' insisting Depp 'got used, manipulated, set up and made to look like an a**hole'.

During his interview with Stern, he also denied Depp had asked him to write the piece defending him.

Johnny, I had no contact with him until he texted me after that went out and said, "Hey, thanks for being honest".

'He didn’t know that was going out,' he said. 'I was a little petrified because it kind of made him look like a bitch. ‘Cause he was kind of a bitch.'

Throughout the interview, Stanhope was audibly careful about what he said, knowing the lawsuit was looming.

'You know anything I say they can twist my words,' he claimed.

'She filed for divorce two days after the mother died, and all of a sudden she's getting trashed on Twitter. Everyone's "How dare she do this? His mother just died!" And then all of a sudden.....' but he stopped himself before he finished the line of thought.

'It has nothing to do with me,' he continued. 'It's spite.'

Heard's attorney previously said she will donate all the proceeds from the suit to a domestic violence shelter in Arizona.

But on Monday Stanhope and Stern both joked that she wouldn't get much out of him even if the lawsuit was successful, seeing as how he lived in a dirty pothole ridden neighbourhood on the Mexican border.

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