Amber Heard is publicly voicing support for Blake Lively and her sexual harassment case against her “It Ends with Us” costar Justin Baldoni ... saying she’s been in Blake’s shoes.
Heard says, “Social media is the absolute personification of the classic saying ‘A lie travels halfway around the world before truth can get its boots on.’ I saw this firsthand and up close. It’s as horrifying as it is destructive.”
She released that statement Monday to NBC News, because Amber’s ex-husband, Johnny Depp, used the same crisis PR team as Baldoni during his 2022 defamation battle with Amber.
TMZ broke the story … Blake’s now filed a complaint against Baldoni for hiring the PR team to allegedly orchestrate a PR smear campaign against her.
Amber doesn’t say it explicitly, but certainly insinuates, the PR team did the same to her while she battled Depp … who ended up winning in the court of law, and, at the time, many also said he won in the court of public opinion. Amber’s unspoken point here seems to be she got the shaft, publicly, due to the efforts of Depp’s publicists.
Baldoni’s attorney Bryan Freedman tells TMZ … “TAG PR operated as any other crisis management firm would when hired by a client experiencing threats by two extremely powerful people with unlimited resources. The standard scenario planning TAG PR drafted proved unnecessary as audiences found Lively’s own actions, interviews and marketing during the promotional tour distasteful, and responded organically to that which the media themselves picked up on.”
He continued … “It’s ironic that the New York Times, through their effort to “uncover” an insidious PR effort, played directly into the hands of Lively’s own dubious PR tactics by publishing leaked personal text exchanges that lack critical context – the very same tactics she’s accusing the firm of implementing.”