00:00Justin Baldoni has hired Johnny Depp's crisis manager amid the reported It Ends With Us cast
00:05drama. Baldoni has hired veteran PR crisis manager Melissa Nathan, who represented Johnny
00:12Depp during the Amber Heard trial. The news comes amid the reported rift and fallout between the
00:17cast, specifically star Blake Lively and director and star Baldoni, during the release of It Ends
00:23With Us, the adaptation of Colleen Hoover's 2016 hit book. Chatter spiked when fans noticed
00:29Baldoni's absence from joint press events and the lack of photos of Lively and Baldoni together
00:34anywhere since the film was made. Some also pointed out that neither Lively,
00:38Hoover, nor the rest of the cast follow Baldoni on Instagram, though they all follow each other
00:43and he follows them. Sources have told THR that there was a fracture between Baldoni and Lively
00:48in the post-production stage, wherein two different cuts of the movie emerged. Lively
00:53commissioned a cut of the movie from editor Shane Reed, who was an editor on Deadpool and Wolverine,
00:58according to multiple sources. The hiring of a crisis PR manager comes as Baldoni has
01:04been the subject of negative headlines over allegations that he made Lively uncomfortable
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