Amber Heard expresses support for Blake Lively after Justin Baldoni hired Johnny Depp’s crisis PR team

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It Ends With Us co-star and director – claiming he caused her “severe emotional distress”. Reports of a rift between the two actors emerged in August, with suggestions that creative differences lay behind the fallout, but now the Gossip Girl star has filed a suit against Baldoni, claiming he sexually harassed her on the set of the film.The undated complaint filed with the California Civil Rights Department also accuses Baldoni of creating a hostile working environment on set, and claims he has been trying to tarnish Lively’s reputation with a targeted social media campaign.Lively’s complaint stated that Baldoni retained prominent PR crisis manager Melissa Nathan, the same person Depp hired during his defamation trial against Heard.Heard has commented on the situation in an interview with NBC News. “Social media is the absolute personification of the classic saying ‘A lie travels halfway around the world before truth can get its boots on,'” she said.“I saw this firsthand and up close.

It’s as horrifying as it is destructive.”In Heard’s case, the jury found that Depp was defamed and he was awarded $10million (£8million) in compensatory damages and $5million in punitive damages.

Heard was awarded $2million after the jury found that Depp had defamed her through his attorney. However, the jury found that Heard’s statements about her marriage were “false” and that she acted with “actual malice”.According to Lively’s complaint, Baldoni hired a crisis communications team to launch a “retaliatory social manipulation campaign” against her during the promotion of It Ends With Us. “Mr.

Baldoni and his Wayfarer associates embarked on a sophisticated press and digital plan in retaliation for Ms. Lively exercising her legally-protected.