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Justin Baldoni has fired again at Blake Lively.
In scathing trend, we must always emphasize.
As you’ve very seemingly examine by now, Lively has threatened to sue her It Ends With Us co-star for sexual harassment… alleging in an explosive authorized submission that Baldoni created a hostile work surroundings on the set of the aforementioned film.
She additionally claims that Baldoni and his public relations crew took half in a marketing campaign to smear her repute.
Specifically, the paperwork in query state that Baldoni brought about “extreme emotional misery” to Lively because of his conduct… included “exhibiting nude movies or pictures of ladies to Blake,” together with dialogue of Baldoni’s previous “pornography habit” or “sexual conquests.”
Pretty critical stuff, proper?
According to Baldoni’s lawyer, nevertheless, additionally fairly false stuff.
In an announcement launched on January 7, lawyer Bryan Freedman stated the next:
“It is painfully ironic that Blake Lively is accusing Justin Baldoni of weaponizing the media when,” he asserts, “her personal crew orchestrated this vicious assault by sending The New York Times grossly edited paperwork previous to even submitting the grievance.”
Indeed, Lively despatched alleged textual content messages from Baldoni to this publication as a part of its story final month that documented the supposed harassment.
“We are releasing all the proof which is able to present a sample of bullying and threats to take over the film,” Freedman added on Tuesday, alleging:
“None of it will come as a shock as a result of constant together with her previous conduct Blake Lively used different individuals to speak these threats and bully her method to get no matter she needed. We have all of the receipts and extra.”
Lively and Baldoni starred reverse one another in It Ends With Us.
An enormous display adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s wildly standard guide, the film has earned $242 million throughout the globe and was thought of successful on the field workplace final 12 months.
But all success has now been overshadowed by the allegations backwards and forwards between its pair of leads, as rigidity turned evident nearly from the star of the movie’s PR marketing campaign.
It didn’t take lengthy for followers to note, for instance, that Baldoni and Lively didn’t sit for any joint interviews or pose for any pink carpet images collectively.
Just a day in the past, Lively’s authorized crew instructed People Magazine that her “critical claims of sexual harassment and retaliation,” first lodged in a California grievance on December 20, 2024, are “backed by concrete information.”
“This shouldn’t be a ‘feud’ arising from ‘inventive variations’ or a ‘he stated/she stated’ scenario,” her legal professionals’ assertion learn.
“As alleged in Ms. Lively’s grievance, and as we are going to show in litigation, Wayfarer [Studios] and its associates engaged in illegal, retaliatory astroturfing in opposition to Ms. Lively for merely making an attempt to guard herself and others on a movie set.
“And their response to the lawsuit has been to launch extra assaults in opposition to Ms. Lively since her submitting.”
The actress’s preliminary grievance included accusations that Baldoni and one other producer entered her trailer “uninvited” whereas she was undressed or “weak.”
It additionally claimed Baldoni “immediately” pressured her to “simulate full nudity” in a delivery scene and “improvised bodily intimacy that had not been rehearsed, choreographed or mentioned with Ms. Lively, with no intimacy coordinator concerned.”
On December 31, Baldoni filed a $250 million lawsuit in opposition to The New York Times over the newspaper’s December 21 article about Lively’s grievance, alleging it was the actress “who engaged in a calculated smear marketing campaign.”
We actually do not know the place that is going, besides to say:
We doubt there will probably be an It Ends With Us sequel.
