Actress Amber Heard has been upset with the protection she’s getting amid her courtroom battle with ex-husband Johnny Depp — a lot in order that she switched to a brand new public relations crew forward of her highly-anticipated testimony subsequent week, The Publish has realized.
The “Aquaman” star ditched disaster PR agency Precision Methods Thursday, after getting annoyed with the press she’s obtained for the reason that bombshell defamation trial kicked off final month.
“She doesn’t like dangerous headlines,” one supply mentioned.
One other supply mentioned Heard, 36, was “annoyed together with her story not being instructed successfully.”
The actress — who is predicted to take the stand in Fairfax, Virginia, as quickly as Tuesday — now has consulting agency Shane Communications on retainer, sources mentioned.
The switch-up got here after a number of brutal days of testimony from Depp’s witnesses and a fiery social media mob turning towards Heard.
Her new PR crew has expertise working towards Depp in his failed 2017 lawsuit towards his former enterprise managers, The Administration Group, and helped spotlight its cross-complaint alleging the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star wanted to rent a shrink for his “compulsive spending” behavior of $2 million per 30 days.
Nonetheless, communications specialists instructed The Publish Heard’s new flacks have an uphill battle forward of them.
“After years of narrative constructing you'll be able to’t change the general public’s opinion within the three weeks when somebody is suing you in a case,” a disaster administration PR insider mentioned.
Ex-Pete Buttigieg marketing campaign maven Lis Smith added: “It’s loopy to alter groups in the course of a trial like this since you don’t just like the headlines.”
She mentioned that Heard’s ex-firm Precision Methods, which was co-founded by former Obama adviser and deputy marketing campaign supervisor Stephanie Cutter, is “probably the greatest disaster corporations” — “however they'll’t rewrite the historical past of what’s occurred.”
Depp, 58, is suing Heard for $50 million, claiming his ex-wife defamed him in a 2018 op-ed within the Washington Publish the place she mentioned being a sufferer of home violence. He had filed the same lawsuit within the UK, towards “The Solar,” and misplaced.
The actor — who denies Heard’s claims of abuse, together with that he sexually assaulted her — was not named within the essay on the middle of the continuing trial, however he claims it clearly referenced him and ruined his profession, broken his popularity and value him tens of thousands and thousands of dollars.
Heard has by no means needed cameras within the courtroom within the first place, however Depp’s crew received the battle to have everything of the trial testimony live-streamed, that means neither crew might cherry-pick what data made its method out of the courtroom.
Precision Methods, Shane Communications and reps for Depp declined to remark.
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