Amber Heard slams social media as she responds to Blake Lively’s complaint about Justin Baldoni | Ents & Arts News

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Actress Amber Heard has said social media is where lies become truth after Blake Lively accused co-star Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment.

In one legal complaintLively, 37, also claims that 40-year-old Baldoni, the film’s director, and the studio behind the film It Ends With Us embarked on a subsequent “multi-tiered plan” to damage her reputation.

The complaint stated that Baldoni retained public relations crisis manager Melissa Nathan, the same woman Johnny Depp hired during his high-profile defamation case against ex-wife Heard.

In a statement given to Sky News American partner NBC Newssaid Heard: “Social media is the absolute personification of the classic saying ‘a lie travels halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.’

“I saw this first hand and up close. It’s as horrific as it is devastating.”

heard, who was found to have defamed Depp by a jurysaid at the time that the decision “sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated”.

Lively claims the attempt to damage her reputation came after she and her husband Ryan Reynolds, 48, addressed “repeated sexual harassment and other disruptive behavior” from Baldoni and a producer.

According to the complaint, the plan included a proposal to plant theories on online message boards, create a social media campaign and place news stories critical of Lively.

It also claims that Baldoni “abruptly veered away from” the film’s marketing plan and “used domestic violence ‘survivor content’ to protect his public image”.

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Bryan Freedman, an attorney representing Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its representatives, said the studio “proactively” hired a crisis manager “due to the numerous demands and threats made by Ms Lively during production”.

“These allegations are completely false, outrageous and deliberately malicious with the intent to publicly hurt and repeat a narrative in the media,” he added.

Representatives for Baldoni did not immediately respond Monday to Heard’s comments, according to NBC News.