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Blake Vigorous’s sexual harassment and alleged smear marketing campaign lawsuit towards It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni, hit near house for Amber Heard!
The Aquaman actress launched a press release to NBC Information talking up on Vigorous’s allegations which reminded her of the “horrifying” expertise she underwent throughout her defamation trial with ex-husband Johnny Depp.
“Social media is absolutely the personification of the traditional saying ‘A lie travels midway world wide earlier than reality can get its boots on,’” the assertion mentioned. “I noticed this firsthand and up shut. It’s as horrifying as it’s damaging,” she added.
Heard’s assertion was in response to the Jane the Virgin actor hiring the identical PR disaster supervisor as Depp did throughout his defamation trial in 2022 which he ended up successful. The lawsuit filed by Vigorous accused her co-star and the movie’s director Baldoni of sexual harassment and beginning a retaliatory marketing campaign to “destroy” her popularity.
The lawsuit alleged that different members of the manufacturing have been additionally concerned in planning and implementing the alleged smear marketing campaign. Nonetheless, Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman denied the allegations in a press release launched to Individuals journal on December 21.
Along with denying the allegations, he additionally claimed that the complainant is utilizing the lawsuit in an try to repair her “unfavourable popularity,” and accused her of inflicting points on the units of It Ends With Us.
Earlier, a supply confirmed to Individuals journal that Baldoni employed Depp’s former PR supervisor Melissa Nathan of The Company Group again in August when the tensions between the previous co-stars began brewing. Furthermore, a number of experiences have claimed that amid the lawsuit fiasco, the actor has been dropped by his expertise company WME.
As for Heard, she famously accused the Pirates of the Caribbean actor of sexual assault in retaliation for his $50 million defamation lawsuit towards her. The was carried out publicly, holding it open for netizens to weigh in. Within the aftermath, the case turned sensational on the web, generated a number of memes, and garnered huge hate and negativity towards Heard.
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