Amber Heard ditches PR team amid ongoing Johnny Depp defamation trial

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Amber Heard ditched her original PR team and hired a new one just days before the actress is set to take the stand in Johnny Depp's ongoing defamation trial, Fox News Digital can confirm.

Heard has hired Shane Communications after ending her contract with Precision Strategies. The actress is expected to take the stand Wednesday and CEO David Shane along with Shane Communications is now handling all of Heard's communications and media strategy, Fox News Digital has learned.

Depp sued Heard for $50 million over a 2018 op-ed the "Aquaman" actress wrote in the Washington Post. In the op-ed, Heard claimed she was a victim of domestic violence.

Johnny Depp sued Amber Heard for defamation in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as a "public figure representing domestic abuse." (Michael Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP) Although she never mentioned Depp by name, the "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor has claimed the inclusion of the dates relating to the alleged abuse led readers to believe that he was the accused.