Comedian Doug Stanhope isn’t laughing about the abuse allegations against his pal, Johnny Depp.
The 49-year-old funnyman penned a column about how the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor told him that his soon-to-be ex-wife, Amber Heard, was about to leave him — and soon would lie in “every possible duplicitous way” to blackmail him.
“Bingo and I were at Johnny’s house for most of that Saturday until just before the alleged assault,” Stanhope, whose girlfriend’s name is Bingo, wrote in a column published Sunday on TheWrap website.
“We assumed initially that his dour mood was because of his mother’s death the day before,” Stanhope said of Depp.
“But he opened up in the most vulnerable of ways that it was not only his mother, but that Amber was now going to leave him, threatening to lie about him publicly in any and every possible duplicitous way if he didn’t agree to her terms. Blackmail is what I would imagine other people might put it, including the manner in which he is now being vilified.”
Stanhope claimed that Depp’s inner circle of friends had considered Heard a “manipulative a–hole” since they first got together back in 2012.
“We have watched Amber Heard f–k with him at his weakest — or watched him at his weakest from being f–ked with — for the entire time we’ve known him,” he said. “And we didn’t say s–t. Because he’s Johnny Depp. And we didn’t want to be thrown out of the circle for saying that The Emperor was being Stripped of His Clothes.”
“We all feared that telling him outright might alienate us all,” he added. “Love makes you do funny things.”
Modal TriggerAmber Heard and Johnny DeppPhoto: Reuters
But sitting there in Depp’s downtown Los Angeles penthouse last Saturday, Stanhope said, he finally mustered the courage to tell his longtime friend what they really thought of the “abusive” relationship.
“I told him the truth and half-expected to be asked to leave,” he wrote. “But I wasn’t seeing Johnny Depp, I saw a naked Emperor. And we told him to get dressed.”
Depp was “dumbstruck” that nobody had ever told him what they really thought of his 15-month marriage with Heard, Stanhope said.
“He still pronounced his love for Amber but was presciently aware that she was going to pull off some kind of ruse to f–k him over,” Stanhope wrote, two days after Heard appeared in Los Angeles court to seek a restraining order against Depp.
She claimed in court papers that Depp abused drugs and was violent during their marriage, including when he allegedly threw a cellphone at her face later the same Saturday that Stanhope was over.
“He hadn’t slept in days with anxiety,” Stanhope said of Depp. “You’d call him a paranoid if you didn’t know better. But he knew better and he was right.”
Over the last week, Stanhope said, he’s watched his buddy’s name get dragged through the mud, and that the public has found him “guilty without due process.”
Modal TriggerA photo of Amber Heard shows her with what appears to be a bruised eye.
He ended the 965-word defense by slamming spousal abuse, while claiming that there’s no chance Depp hurt Heard.
“Abusing women is b——t. Johnny doesn’t abuse anyone. And he told me that day ahead of time that she’d pull some kind of s–t like this,” he said. “Johnny Depp got used, manipulated, set up and made to look like an a—–e. And he saw it coming and didn’t or couldn’t do anything to stop it.”
“He may never talk to me again for saying it but I’d forgive myself for not coming to his defense out of fear or ego,” Stanhope continued. “I stand up for my friends and I tell the f–king truth.”
Stanhope is the latest of Depp’s crew to defend the him — followed by his former longtime partner, French actress Vanessa Paradis, and their 17-year-old daughter, Lily-Rose.
“My dad is the sweetest most loving person I know, he’s been nothing but a wonderful father to my little brother and I, and everyone who knows him would say the same,” his teen daughter wrote on Instagram Sunday along with a throwback pic of her dad helping her walk.
Paradis, who had two children with Depp including Lily-Rose and was with him for 13 years, also praised her ex-beau in a letter obtained by TMZ.
“He is a sensitive, loving and loved person, and I believe with all my heart that these recent allegations being made are outrageous,” the 43-year-old Paradis wrote.
The 49-year-old funnyman penned a column about how the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor told him that his soon-to-be ex-wife, Amber Heard, was about to leave him — and soon would lie in “every possible duplicitous way” to blackmail him.
“Bingo and I were at Johnny’s house for most of that Saturday until just before the alleged assault,” Stanhope, whose girlfriend’s name is Bingo, wrote in a column published Sunday on TheWrap website.
“We assumed initially that his dour mood was because of his mother’s death the day before,” Stanhope said of Depp.
“But he opened up in the most vulnerable of ways that it was not only his mother, but that Amber was now going to leave him, threatening to lie about him publicly in any and every possible duplicitous way if he didn’t agree to her terms. Blackmail is what I would imagine other people might put it, including the manner in which he is now being vilified.”
Stanhope claimed that Depp’s inner circle of friends had considered Heard a “manipulative a–hole” since they first got together back in 2012.
“We have watched Amber Heard f–k with him at his weakest — or watched him at his weakest from being f–ked with — for the entire time we’ve known him,” he said. “And we didn’t say s–t. Because he’s Johnny Depp. And we didn’t want to be thrown out of the circle for saying that The Emperor was being Stripped of His Clothes.”
“We all feared that telling him outright might alienate us all,” he added. “Love makes you do funny things.”
Modal TriggerAmber Heard and Johnny DeppPhoto: Reuters
But sitting there in Depp’s downtown Los Angeles penthouse last Saturday, Stanhope said, he finally mustered the courage to tell his longtime friend what they really thought of the “abusive” relationship.
“I told him the truth and half-expected to be asked to leave,” he wrote. “But I wasn’t seeing Johnny Depp, I saw a naked Emperor. And we told him to get dressed.”
Depp was “dumbstruck” that nobody had ever told him what they really thought of his 15-month marriage with Heard, Stanhope said.
“He still pronounced his love for Amber but was presciently aware that she was going to pull off some kind of ruse to f–k him over,” Stanhope wrote, two days after Heard appeared in Los Angeles court to seek a restraining order against Depp.
She claimed in court papers that Depp abused drugs and was violent during their marriage, including when he allegedly threw a cellphone at her face later the same Saturday that Stanhope was over.
“He hadn’t slept in days with anxiety,” Stanhope said of Depp. “You’d call him a paranoid if you didn’t know better. But he knew better and he was right.”
Over the last week, Stanhope said, he’s watched his buddy’s name get dragged through the mud, and that the public has found him “guilty without due process.”
Modal TriggerA photo of Amber Heard shows her with what appears to be a bruised eye.
He ended the 965-word defense by slamming spousal abuse, while claiming that there’s no chance Depp hurt Heard.
“Abusing women is b——t. Johnny doesn’t abuse anyone. And he told me that day ahead of time that she’d pull some kind of s–t like this,” he said. “Johnny Depp got used, manipulated, set up and made to look like an a—–e. And he saw it coming and didn’t or couldn’t do anything to stop it.”
“He may never talk to me again for saying it but I’d forgive myself for not coming to his defense out of fear or ego,” Stanhope continued. “I stand up for my friends and I tell the f–king truth.”
Stanhope is the latest of Depp’s crew to defend the him — followed by his former longtime partner, French actress Vanessa Paradis, and their 17-year-old daughter, Lily-Rose.
“My dad is the sweetest most loving person I know, he’s been nothing but a wonderful father to my little brother and I, and everyone who knows him would say the same,” his teen daughter wrote on Instagram Sunday along with a throwback pic of her dad helping her walk.
Paradis, who had two children with Depp including Lily-Rose and was with him for 13 years, also praised her ex-beau in a letter obtained by TMZ.
“He is a sensitive, loving and loved person, and I believe with all my heart that these recent allegations being made are outrageous,” the 43-year-old Paradis wrote.
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