In the wake of Blake Lively's lawsuit against “It Ends With Us” director and co-star Justin Baldoni, Amber Heard has expressed her support for Blake Lively.

The actress released the following statement to NBC News:

Heard knows exactly what she is talking about. According to Lively's complaint, Baldoni retained the services of Melissa Nathan, a public relations crisis manager, during the film's promotional tour. Nathan turned out to be the same woman actor Johnny Depp hired during his highly publicized defamation trial against his ex-wife Heard.

At trial, the jury found that Heard defamed Depp, and Depp was awarded $5 million in punitive damages and $10 million in compensatory damages. Heard was also ordered to pay $2 million in damages in his counterclaim against Depp.

People will undoubtedly remember the incessant press coverage and social media discourse surrounding Depp and Heard's trial. At its conclusion, Heard issued a statement via his Instagram, saying, “The slander I faced on social media is an amplified version of how women are re-victimized when they come forward.”

This time around, social media and the world at large seem to better understand how easy it is to manipulate the discourse surrounding these types of events. Society is notoriously unkind to women who speak their minds. Especially when they are not seen as the “perfect victim.”

As former “Bachelor” star Nick Viall said on his podcast in August, “This PR team slandered Amber Heard online. It was an all-out attack on her character.” He said that rather than asking themselves things like why “all the performers unfollowed Justin Baldoni,” social media has focused on whether the girls “deserved the blowback” given their alleged reputation, and that people are not asking the right questions. He added.

According to attorney Brian Friedman, who represents Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and all their representatives, the allegations in Lively's complaint are “categorically false” and that Wayfarer and Baldoni hired a crisis communications team, only because Lively allegedly threatened not to show up on set during filming or promote the film after its release, he added.

Friedman told NBC News in response to Heard's statement that “TAG PR must be the most powerful publicist group the world has ever seen, so powerful that it could completely change the perception of both Amber Heard and Blake Lively.” He said the only correlation between the two cases is that “every move they made was widely filmed for everyone to see and recorded for the public to make up their own minds.