Responding to the complaint Blake Lively filed against her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni, Amber Heard said social media is turning a lie into the truth. She told NBC News on Monday that she “saw this firsthand.”

Lively accused Baldoni, the film’s director, of sexual harassment, creating a hostile work environment and attempting to damage her reputation through a targeted social media campaign in an open-ended complaint with the California Department of Civil Rights.

The complaint said Baldoni hired prominent public relations crisis manager Melissa Nathan — the woman who hired Johnny Depp during his high-profile libel trial against Heard, his former wife.

In an exclusive statement to NBC News, Heard, who lives in Spain, said: “Social media is the absolute embodiment of the classic saying: ‘A lie travels halfway around the world before the truth can take hold.’ I have seen this first hand and up close. It is as terrible as it is destructive.”

A jury unanimously concluded 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 not punitive damages.

At the time, Depp said, “The jury gave me my life back,” but Heard said the decision “turns back the clock to a time when a woman who speaks out and expresses her opinion can be publicly shamed and humiliated.” .”

According to Lively’s complaint, Baldoni hired a crisis communications team to launch a “social retaliation campaign” against Lively during the film’s promotion, aimed at destroying her reputation.

Nathan presented Baldoni with a plan that consisted of “social media mitigations,” including “proactive fan postings” and “social manipulation” to “help change the narrative” during the promotion of the film, the statement said Complaint.

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

Fans also noticed that Baldoni did media separately from his co-stars and that some of the film’s stars, including Lively and Jenny Slate, didn’t follow him on Instagram.

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

He claimed 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 responded to Heard’s comments on Monday: “TAG PR must be the most powerful group of publicists the world has ever seen so that they can completely change the perception of Amber Heard and Blake Lively.”

He said the only connection between the two cases was that “every move they made was visible to everyone, extensively filmed and documented so that the public could form its own opinion – which of course they did.”