Blake Lively's lawyers claim that Justin Baldoni and his production company used legal threats and media statements to silence her sexual harassment allegations against him on the set of their film, 'It Ends With Us'. Lively accuses Baldoni of creating a hostile work environment and claims his lawsuit is a retaliatory tactic.
In a statement, lawyers for Lively claimed Baldoni and his production company, Wayfarer Studios, which produced the film, used resources to “issue media statements, launch meritless lawsuits, and threaten litigation to overwhelm the public’s ability to understand that what they are doing is retaliation against sexual harassment allegations.”Blake Lively called Justin Baldoni's $400M lawsuit"another chapter in the abuser playbook.
“In short, while the victim focuses on the abuse, the abuser focuses on the victim. The strategy of attacking the woman is desperate; it does not refute the evidence in Ms. Lively’s complaint, and it will fail.”Baldoni’s legal team accused the couple of using their power to “destroy” his reputation. Bryan Freeman, Baldoni’s attorney, said that the latest lawsuit is “based on an overwhelming amount of untampered evidence detailing Blake Lively and her team’s duplicitous attempt to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team, and their respective companies by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored information to the media.”
“We know the truth, and now the public does too. Justin and his team have nothing to hide; documents do not lie.”tried to get him to publicly apologize for unspecified “mistakes” made during production and to take the blame for the rift at a time when rumors were circulating of a tense relationship between the artists.
The filing details how Baldoni’s publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel endured death threats and anti-Semitic comments following Lively’s accusations, as perNathan and Abel say Lively orchestrated a smear campaign against Baldoni to “gain undeserved public sympathy for her own missteps.
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