Actress accuses director of sexual harassment and defamation through a social media campaign.
Baldoni retained the same PR crisis manager that Johnny Depp used during his high-profile defamation trial against Heard in 2022. In an exclusive statement to NBC News, Heard called social media misinformation'as horrifying as it is destructive.' Lively accused Baldoni, the film's director, of sexual harassment , 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.
Amber Heard during her exclusive interview with Savannah Guthrie for Today. (NBC News)In an exclusive statement shared with NBC News, Heard, who now lives in Spain, said: “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.” In that case, a jury unanimously found that Heard had defamed Depp, and he was awarded $5 million in punitive damages and $10 million in compensatory damages. Heard was also awarded $2 million in compensatory damages in her counterclaim, but nothing in punitive damages. At the time, Depp said “the jury gave me my life back,” but Heard said the decision “sets back the clock 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 aimed at destroying her reputation. Nathan delivered Baldoni a plan consisting of “social media mitigation,' including “proactive fan posting' and “social manipulations” to “help change narrative” during the film's promotion, the complaint said. The film's promotion made headlines at the time because the two stars appeared to avoid each other as rumors swirled on social media that they did not get along on se
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