Comedian Doug Stanhope has come to the defense of Johnny Depp claiming that Amber Heard “threatened to lie about him publicly” following her claims that the actor was physically abusive her.

He said that Heard told Johnny she would lie about him if he did not agree her terms for a split.

Heard filed for divorce earlier this week claiming that Depp had been abusive throughout their marriage.

As he writes in a guest column for The Wrap, the comedian said that when he heard the actress’ allegations against Deep he ‘knew it was bulls***t’.

Stanhope said that Johnny “hadn’t slept in days” prior to the incident as he was concerned Amber “would pull off some kind of ruse to f*** him over”, The Sun reports.

“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.

“He still pronounced his love for Amber but was presciently aware that she was going to pull off some kind of ruse to f*** him over.

“He hadn’t slept in days with anxiety. You’d call him a paranoid if you didn’t know better. But he knew better and he was right.

“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.

“Johnny Depp got used, manipulated, set up and made to look like an a**hole. And he saw it coming and didn’t or couldn’t do anything to stop it.”

Stanhope also described Heard as a “manipulative a**hole” adding: “We’d watched it build like this since before they were married. We’d watched her manipulate and f*** with him for years.

“We have watched Amber Heard f*** with him at his weakest – or watched him at his weakest from being f***ed with – for the entire time we’ve known him.”