Amber Heard has filed another lawsuit in relation to Johnny Depp's legal battle – but now, she's filing one against his friend.

E! News has confirmed that Amber has filed a defamation lawsuit against one of Johnny's closest friends, comic Doug Stanhope,after he wrote an article for website The Wrap, where Doug claimed that his BFF is being "blackmailed" by the actress.

"Amber Heard filed a lawsuit today in the Arizona Superior Court for the County of Cochise. The defendant is Doug Stanhope, a resident of that county," Amber's counsel told the site.

"The Complaint alleges that Stanhope is a close friend of Johnny Depp and, as part of a coordinated effort, wrote a highly defamatory article about Ms. Heard, filled with completely false, highly defamatory and very hurtful statements.

"Ms. Heard seeks the maximum possible jury award, and will donate 100 percent of the proceeds from the lawsuit to Chrysalis, a domestic violence shelter in Arizona, in an effort to counter the setback made to women by the defendants' defamatory article and related wrongful acts."

We can see this getting very messy.