Amber Heard ‘fires’ PR firm following ‘bad press’ during Johnny Depp trial – as petition to axe her from Aquaman 2 nears 3,000,000 signatures

Amber Heard has ‘employed a brand new PR agency’ days earlier than her testimony (Image: AP)

Amber Heard has parted methods along with her disaster PR agency simply days forward of her taking to the stand to share her testimony in the Johnny Depp libel trial, based on studies.

Pirates Of The Caribbean actor Depp, 58, is suing ex-wife Heard, 36, over a 2018 article she wrote in The Washington Submit, which Depp’s attorneys say falsely implies he bodily and sexually abused her. The article doesn't point out him by title. Heard is countersuing for $100million (£76m) claiming Depp libeled her by calling her a liar.

Following a number of days of testimony from Depp, and varied witnesses testifying on behalf of the plaintiff, Heard is predicted to talk on Wednesday when court docket returns this week.

Nonetheless, it’s been reported by a number of shops that Heard has ‘fired’ her PR agency Precision Methods, after expressing ‘frustration’ with the protection she’d obtained within the press, which she allegedly argued ‘favoured Depp’.

Based on sources, she reduce ties with the agency on Thursday and has already employed a substitute.

Precision is co-founded by Stephanie Cutter, who's a former deputy marketing campaign supervisor for President Barack Obama’s profitable re-election marketing campaign, and which Heard introduced on board as she ready to defend herself within the case earlier this spring.

Depp is suing his ex-wife (Image: AP)

Based on New York Submit, a supply claimed Heard ‘doesn’t like unhealthy headlines,’ whereas one other informed the outlet the Aquaman actress is ‘pissed off along with her story not being informed successfully’.

It’s been reported Heard has now acquired the providers of consulting agency Shane Communications – led by CEO David Shane – shifting ahead, ‘to assist her get throughout her aspect higher within the court docket of public opinion’.

All of it comes as signatures on a petition to have the star eliminated from the upcoming Aquaman sequel neared 3million.

Followers started a petition to name for Heard to even be faraway from Aquaman 2, wherein she stars because the titular hero’s love curiosity Mera, in mild of the continued court docket case.

The DC sequel, directed by James Wan, wrapped filming in January and is about for launch in March 2023.

On the time of going to press, a petition arrange by followers to have Heard faraway from the film is simply shy of its 3million objective, with the organisers claiming that Heard ‘has systematically crusaded to wreck Depp in Hollywood’ for the reason that couple divorced in 2017.

The petition had began to achieve traction in November 2020, reaching 1.5million signatures after Depp left the Improbable Beasts and was changed with Mads Mikkelsen.

The trial, which started with jury choice on April 11, is predicted to final round seven weeks.

Metro.co.uk contacted Precision Methods for remark.