After Blake Lively’s lawsuit against co-star: Amber Heard shows understanding

Blake Lively (37) filed a lawsuit in California last Friday (December 20). In it, she accuses her “Just One More Time” co-star Justin Baldoni (40), his production company Wayfarer Studios and others involved in the filming of “It Ends with Us” (original title). The allegations: Alleged sexual harassment and a “coordinated effort to destroy her reputation” after Lively made demands for them to work together on the film.

In the alleged attempt to damage Lively’s reputation through a targeted social media campaign, Justin Baldoni (40) is said to have brought the PR crisis manager to his side, who also supported Johnny Depp (61) during his highly publicized libel trial against Amber Heard (38 ) was used in 2022. Heard has now released a statement that is available to NBC News.

In it she explains: “Social media is the absolute embodiment of the classic saying ‘a lie travels around the world while the truth puts on its shoes’. I’ve seen this first hand and up close. It’s as frightening as it is destructive.” After Heard and Depp’s divorce, a bitter mudslinging ensued, which was also publicly fought out in court. Amid serious allegations, the actor had sued his ex-wife for defamation. The defamation trial ended in 2022 with a legal settlement between both parties.

Baldoni’s lawyer, who had previously called Lively’s allegations “completely false” and “outrageous,” said after Heard’s statement that the PR firm in question would have to be “the most powerful group of publicists the world has ever seen if it were to be in the news.” able to “completely change the perception of both Amber Heard and Blake Lively”.

The only connection between the two women is that for decades, every move they made was visible to everyone, extensively filmed and documented so that the public could form its own opinion – which they did, namely organic.” You just have to look at the interviews “that are left if they haven’t already been deleted by their crisis PR teams – which is apparently the next step of their crisis teams, because that’s what crisis teams do, they protect their customers .”