Amber Heard, Blake Lively
Ernesto Rocio/Getty Images; Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty ImagesAmber Heard You see some similarities between her story and Blake Lively's.
Lively, 37, filed a lawsuit against her ex-husband Ends up with us as a costar Justin Baldoni On Friday, December 20th He was accused of sexual harassment And organizing a smear campaign to damage its reputation. One of Baldoni's publicists Melissa Nathan -Who represents? Johnny Depp During his and Heard's 2022 defamation trial – she was also named in the suit.
Heard, 38, responded to the legal filing in a statement shared with NBC News Monday 23 December.
“Social media is the absolute embodiment of the old saying, ‘A lie travels half way around the world before the truth can put on its shoes,'” Heard said. “I've seen this firsthand and up close. “It is as terrifying as it is devastating.”
Months after a reported feud between costars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, a lawsuit has been filed against him for sexual harassment. In the lawsuit, which was filed on Friday, December 20, and obtained by Us Weekly after it was reported by TMZ and the New York Times, Lively accuses Baldoni of shooting[…]
Depp, 61, took legal action against Heard after she identified herself as a victim of domestic violence in 2018. The Washington Post Editorial. Although Heard did not mention Depp by name in the article, he claimed that her allegations of violence had damaged his reputation and career. The former couple was married from 2015 to 2017.
A jury sided with Depp in June 2022, awarding him $15 million in damages. Heard has previously spoken about the impact of social media coverage of the highly publicized trial Public opinion of her.
Johnny Depp attends the defamation trial against Amber Heard
Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool/AFP via Getty Images“Even someone who's sure I deserve all this hate and vitriol, even if you think I'm lying, you still can't tell me — look me in the eye and tell me — what you think on social media,” she said during a June 2022 interview. “There was fair representation.” today'Savannah Guthrie. “You can't tell me you thought this was fair.”
Lively alleged in her legal filing that Baldoni, 40, hired a crisis communications team that included Nathan to orchestrate a “social manipulation” campaign to damage her reputation amid reports of drama between the couple while filming the movie. And it ends with usWhich arrived in theaters in August.
Blake Lively claims It Ends With Us star and director Justin Baldoni launched a “social manipulation” campaign to damage her reputation. News broke on Saturday, December 21, that Lively, 37, has filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, 40, for sexual harassment. According to the New York Times, the lawsuit – which was filed on Friday, December 20 – (…)
per New York TimesThe lawsuit included “thousands of pages of text messages and emails” that Lively obtained through a subpoena. In one letter allegedly sent on August 2, a publicist working with Baldoni wrote to a crisis management expert: “He wants to feel like he can be buried.”
The text messages allegedly show that the crisis public relations team worked to suppress stories about Baldoni's behavior and promote negative stories about Lively. per now, Good WallaceThe 'digital' strategy amplified social media posts that supported their narrative.
“We are crushing it on Reddit,” Wallace allegedly texted.
Lively also claimed in the legal filing that a meeting was held to address her claims of a “hostile work environment” on set. And it ends with us. Some of her demands for the meeting included “no more nude videos or photos of women being shown of Blake, no more mention of Baldoni's 'past addiction to pornography,' no more discussion of his sexual conquests in front of Blake and others, and no more mention of the cast and crew's genitals.” , No more inquiries about Blake's weight, and no more mention of Blake's deceased father.
Justin Baldoni attends the New York premiere of It Ends With Us
Cindy Ord/Getty ImagesIn a statement by L now “I hope my legal action will help draw the curtain on these evil retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and help protect others who may be targeted,” Lively said of the lawsuit.
Baldoni's lawyer Brian Friedman She slammed Lively's “completely false, obscene and intentionally indecent” accusations in a statement shared with Us WeeklyAlleging that the actress filed the lawsuit to “repair her negative reputation” and “reframe the narrative” around the film's production.
(Photo by Emma McIntyre/TAS24/Getty Images TAS Rights Management) Justin Baldoni's crisis management team mentioned Taylor Swift in their alleged plan to bring down Blake Lively. Lively (37 years old) filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni (40 years old) on Friday, December 20, and her allegations against him included creating a “hostile work environment” and causing the actress (…)
Friedman also claimed that Lively made “multiple demands and threats” during filming And it ends with usIncluding “threatening not to come to filming, and threatening not to promote the film, which will ultimately lead to its demise during its screening, if her demands are not met.”
In the wake of the controversial lawsuit, many of Lively's collaborators have expressed their support for her. Simple service exit Paul Feig A statement was shared Via X on Sunday, December 22.
“I have now made two films with Blake and all I can say is that she is one of the most professional, creative, collaborative, talented and kind people I have ever worked with,” he wrote. “She really doesn't deserve any of this smear campaign against her. I think it's terrible that she went through this.
Colleen HooverWho wrote the novel of the same name that inspired it And it ends with usAnd it might as well I stood next to Hayya.
“Blake Lively, you have been nothing but honest, kind, supportive and patient since the day we met,” Hoover, 45, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, December 21. “Thank you for being exactly the person you are. Never changing. Never fading.”
