Comedian Doug Stanhope Visits The Howard Stern Show

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Comedian Doug Standhope visited the Howard Stern SiriusXM radio show to chat about his new book titled, "Digging Up Mother: A Love Story," also went over his heavy relationship, and spoke briefly about the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp scandal with Depp being a friend of his.

Stanhope and his book "Digging Up Mother: A Love Story" were introduced to the Stern Show fans, who also jumped into talk about his wild lifestyle.

Stern commented on the fact that for the lifestyle that Stanhope lives, he actually looks pretty good.

"Howard said Doug wrote this book and it's called 'Digging Up Mother: A Love Story.' Howard said last time he was in he was talking about his mother dying. Howard said he didn't love his mother," according to MarksFriggin.

The two spoke about the choice of editors for the book before jumping back into the story behind the book. There were plenty of instances where Stanhope couldn't really get into much of the details but Stern did reveal that Stanhope's mother wanted to commit suicide by using pills.

Listeners were also clued into the fact that his mother happened to be a student of his father from high school.

The marriage didn't work out and his mother re-married, however, Stanhope told Stern that the guy she married would spank him when he was 12 or 13.

After those little revelations, Stern wanted to know more about the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard thing.

"Howard said for those who don't know what they're talking about Doug is friends with Johnny Depp and he wrote something about what Amber Heard is saying about Johnny beating her up," according to MF.

"Howard said Doug felt that she was setting him up. Doug said he can't talk about this.

He said he hates when he hears people say they can't talk about something like that. He said that everything he said in that open letter he wants to talk about but he had to clear things with a lawyer."

He spoke about when he met Depp and how good he has been to him. Stanhope wouldn't dive into much of it but he does have to lawyer up after being sued.

Heard is claiming that Stanhope wasn't around when she was allegedly being abused by Depp. He and Depp had no contact until Stanhope released a statement online in Depp's defense and Depp reached out to thank him for that.

The rest of the interview was pretty hilarious as you could imagine and Standhope was also able to be joined by Bingo Bingaman during the visit.

You can listen to some of the big highlights from the Stern Show interview in the audio below.

Listen/Stream Doug Stanhope's Interview on Howard Stern Including Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Conversation