The ugliness around the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp divorce continues to deepen, with the actress suing notably unfiltered stand-up comic—and Depp friend—Doug Stanhope for accusing her of blackmailing her soon-to-be-ex-spouse. Stanhope made his claims in a guest column posted earlier this week on The Wrap, titled “Johnny Depp Is Being Blackmailed by Amber Heard–Here’s How I Know.” In the column, Stanhope says that Depp had told him and several friends that Heard had threatened to fabricate evidence of abuse against her, and calls himself out for not criticizing the relationship sooner, because “he didn’t want to be thrown out of the circle for saying that The Emperor was being Stripped of His Clothes.”