Amber Heard reacts to Justin Baldoni’s alleged smear campaign against Blake Lively: ‘Horrifying’

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claimed he orchestrated a smear campaign against her when “It Ends With Us” came out over the summer. The complaint states that Baldoni hired PR crisis manager Melissa Nathan — who worked with Johnny Depp during his defamation trial against Heard, 38 — in his efforts to allegedly “destroy” Lively’s reputation.

Heard, who lost the defamation case against Depp, 61, in 2022, reacted to Lively’s accusations against Baldoni in a statement to NBC News on Monday.“Social media is the absolute personification of the classic saying ‘A lie travels halfway around the world before truth can get its boots on,'” said Heard, who now lives in Spain and is expecting her second child.“I saw this firsthand and up close.

It’s as horrifying as it is destructive,” the “Aquaman” actress added.In the Heard-Depp case, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor was awarded $10.35 million in damages after a jury declared Heard defamed Depp with allegations of domestic violence and sexual assault.Heard won $2 million in her countersuit. “The Rum Diary” actress filed to appeal the verdict in the case, but she later withdrew and then settled.

She agreed to pay her ex-husband $1 million.After the trial, Heard’s lawyer blamed the outcome in part on the wild social media frenzy that surrounded the case.“How can you not?