Amber Heard speaks out about Blake Lively’s accusations against Justin Baldoni

Amber Heard said social media is where a lie becomes the truth in response to the complaint Blake Lively filed against her “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni, while telling NBC News Monday that she “saw this on your own.”

Lively accused Baldoni, the film’s director, of sexual harassment, creating a hostile work environment and trying to tarnish her reputation with a targeted social media campaign in an undated complaint filed with the California Civil Rights Department.

The complaint said Baldoni retained prominent PR crisis manager Melissa Nathan — the woman Johnny Depp hired during his high-profile defamation lawsuit against Heard, his ex-wife.

In an exclusive statement shared with NBC News, Heard, who lives in Spain, said: “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 firsthand team. It’s as terrifying as it is destructive.”

A jury unanimously found that Heard had defamed Depp, and he was awarded $5 million in damages and $10 million in compensatory damages. Heard was also awarded $2 million in damages in her counterclaim, but nothing in compensatory damages.

At the time, Depp said “the jury gave me my life back,” but Heard said the decision “sets the clock back to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated.”

According to Lively’s complaint, Baldoni hired a crisis communications team to launch a “retaliatory social manipulation campaign” against Lively during the film’s promotion, with the goal of destroying her reputation.

Nathan provided Baldoni with a plan consisting of “social media reduction,” including “proactive fan posts” and “social manipulations,” to “help change the narrative” during the film’s promotion, the complaint said.

The film’s promotion made headlines at the time because the two stars seemed to be avoiding each other as rumors swirled on social media that they didn’t get along on set.

Fans also noticed that Baldoni made media separate from his co-stars and that some of the film’s stars, including Lively and Jenny Slate, unfollowed him on Instagram.

Bryan Freedman, who represents Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and all of its representatives, called the allegations in Lively’s complaint “categorically false.”

He alleged that Wayfarer hired a crisis communications team because Lively threatened not to show up on set during filming and threatened not to promote the film.

Freedman said Monday in response to Heard’s comments, “TAG PR has to be the most powerful group of publicists the world has ever seen for it to completely change the perception of both Amber Heard and Blake Lively.”

He said the only link between the two cases is that “every move they’ve made has been out there for all to see, widely filmed and documented for the public to make up their own mind — which they did organically.”