More than 130 national womens organizations and prominent feminist experts released an open letter on Wednesday morning in support of actor Amber Heard , who lost a defamation suit earlier this year to ex-husband Johnny Depp after she publicly identified herself as a survivor of intimate partner violence.

The vilification of Ms. Heard and ongoing online harassment of her and those who have voiced support for her have been unprecedented in both vitriol and scale, reads the letter, signed by several national gender justice organizations including the National Womens Law Center, the Feminist Majority Foundation and the Womens March Foundation. Gloria Steinem, as well as other prominent feminists and experts in the domestic violence field, signed the letter in support of Heard.

Heard and Depp went to trial in May over a defamation lawsuit Depp filed against Heard for $50 million. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor claimed that Heard damaged his career and income when she publicly but elliptically discussed allegations of domestic violence against Depp in a 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post. In the op-ed, Heard discussed her experience of domestic and sexual violence throughout her life, later identifying herself as a public figure representing domestic abuse.