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As we beforehand reported, Blake Lively has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit in opposition to her It Ends With Us costar and director, Justin Baldoni.
Rumors of hostility on the set of the Colleen Hoover adaptation circulated nonstop forward of the movie’s launch.
And now, Blake is alleging that the state of affairs was even worse than beforehand reported.
An Alleged Smear Campaign
Among the allegations from Lively is a declare that Baldoni employed a PR agency to orchestrate a “smear marketing campaign” with the aim of destroying her profession and status.
The agency that Baldoni allegedly employed to smear Blake is similar one which Johnny Depp labored with throughout his defamation trial in opposition to ex-wife Amber Heard.
And now, Heard is talking out in regards to the parallels between her expertise and the state of affairs that Lively is enduring now.
Amber’s Experience
“Social media is absolutely the personification of the basic saying ‘A lie travels midway world wide earlier than reality can get its boots on,’” Heard wrote in a press release issued to NBC News on Monday.
“I noticed this firsthand and up shut. It’s as horrifying as it’s harmful.”
Depp gained his go well with in opposition to Heard, and the 2022 trial developed into the 12 months’s largest media circus.
These days, Amber lives a quiet life in Spain, having stepped away from the highlight in the meanwhile. She introduced earlier this month that she’s at present anticipating her second little one.
As for Blake and Justin, the subsequent chapter of this feud guarantees to be the messiest one but.
Lively claims that Baldoni labored with a disaster administration staff in the course of the film’s promotional marketing campaign as a way to “assist change the narrative” about their on-set feud by means of “social manipulation.”
Over the weekend, Baldoni issued a press release by which he referred to as the actress’ submitting “shameful” and “categorically false” (through Page Six).
Needless to say, it feels like each side are getting ready for a nasty court docket battle, and a quiet, out-of-court settlement appears unlikely.
We’ll have additional updates on this creating story as new data turns into obtainable.
