Amber Heard is suing the comedian who accused her of blackmailing Johnny Depp.
Days after Depp’s pal Doug Stanhope published a strongly worded column on TheWrap.com titled “Johnny Depp Is Being Blackmailed by Amber Heard – Here’s How I Know,” Heard filed a lawsuit against the comic in an Arizona court.
In the lawsuit, the actress, who is divorcing Depp after just 15 months of marriage, calls Stanhope’s claims “completely false and defamatory” before offering further details about the abuse she claims Depp inflicted upon her.
In the article in question, published last Sunday, Stanhope claims Depp told him Heard said she planned “to leave [Depp], 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.”In the suit, Heard calls Depp “an alcoholic and a drug addict,” and claims that he “hit and kicked [her] on numerous occasions, has thrown objects at her, at one point suffocated her to the point where she feared for her life.”
The actress also accuses her ex and his team of doing all they can to discredit her domestic violence claims.
“Depp and his representatives further ‘went on the offensive’ during the publicity tour repeatedly making false public allegations about Heard to the press, accusing her of being manipulative, a blackmailer and blaming her for the breakup of the marriage – as if Depp’s alcoholism, drug addiction and campaign of violence against his wife played no part,” the lawsuit states.
If Heard wins, the actress plans donate the money to a battered women’s shelter in Arizona.
