Justin Baldoni has fired again at Blake Full of life.
In scathing trend, we should 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 setting on the set of the aforementioned film.
She additionally claims that Baldoni and his public relations staff took half in a marketing campaign to smear her status.
Particularly, the paperwork in query state that Baldoni brought about “extreme emotional misery” to Full of life because of his habits… included “exhibiting nude movies or photos of girls to Blake,” together with dialogue of Baldoni’s previous “pornography habit” or “sexual conquests.”
Fairly critical stuff, proper?
In keeping with Baldoni’s lawyer, nevertheless, additionally fairly false stuff.
In a press release launched on January 7, lawyer Bryan Freedman stated the next:
“It’s painfully ironic that Blake Full of life is accusing Justin Baldoni of weaponizing the media when,” he asserts, “her personal staff orchestrated this vicious assault by sending The New York Occasions grossly edited paperwork previous to even submitting the grievance.”
Certainly, Full of life despatched alleged textual content messages from Baldoni to this publication as a part of its story final month that documented the supposed harassment.
“We’re releasing the entire proof which can present a sample of bullying and threats to take over the film,” Freedman added on Tuesday, alleging:
“None of this may come as a shock as a result of constant along with her previous habits Blake Full of life used different individuals to speak these threats and bully her strategy to get no matter she wished. We’ve got all of the receipts and extra.”
Full of life and Baldoni starred reverse one another in It Ends With Us.
A giant display screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s wildly in style e book, the film has earned $242 million throughout the globe and was thought of successful on the field workplace final yr.
However all success has now been overshadowed by the allegations backwards and forwards between its pair of leads, as rigidity grew to become evident virtually from the star of the movie’s PR marketing campaign.
It didn’t take lengthy for followers to note, for instance, that Baldoni and Full of life didn’t sit for any joint interviews or pose for any pink carpet pictures collectively.
Only a day in the past, Full of life’s authorized staff informed Individuals Journal that her “critical claims of sexual harassment and retaliation,” first lodged in a California grievance on December 20, 2024, are “backed by concrete info.”
“This isn’t a ‘feud’ arising from ‘inventive variations’ or a ‘he stated/she stated’ scenario,” her attorneys’ assertion learn.
“As alleged in Ms. Full of life’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. Full of life for merely attempting 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. Full of life 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 “instantly” pressured her to “simulate full nudity” in a beginning scene and “improvised bodily intimacy that had not been rehearsed, choreographed or mentioned with Ms. Full of life, with no intimacy coordinator concerned.”
On December 31, Baldoni filed a $250 million lawsuit in opposition to The New York Occasions over the newspaper’s December 21 article about Full of life’s grievance, alleging it was the actress “who engaged in a calculated smear marketing campaign.”
We actually don’t know the place that is going, besides to say:
We doubt there will likely be an It Ends With Us sequel.
