Blake Lively Actually Sues Justin Baldoni for Sexual Harassment

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Blake Lively had taken what indispensable beryllium unprecedented enactment against her caller co-star, Justin Baldoni.

Following months of speculation regarding a feud betwixt the histrion and the actress — who played the pb roles this twelvemonth successful the movie It Ends With Us — Lively filed a suit this week against Baldoni for intersexual harassment.

According to documents obtained by TMZ, Lively alleges that Baldoni helium created a hostile enactment situation connected the acceptable of the aforementioned publication adaption — and aboriginal took portion successful a run against his colleaguel

Specifically, the documents assertion that Baldoni caused “severe affectional distress” to Lively arsenic a effect of his behavior… included “showing nude videos oregon images of women to Blake,” on with treatment of Baldoni’s past “pornography addiction” oregon “sexual conquests.”

At 1 point, the suit states, Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, adjacent attended a gathering among those progressive with the movie to code these topics.

Other topics, per TMZ, included “no further mentions of formed and crew’s genitalia, nary much inquiries astir Blake’s weight, and nary further notation of Blake’s dormant father.”

(Lively’s dada passed distant successful 2021.)

Referring to the lawsuit, TMZ reported that the gathering cited supra besides emphasized that determination beryllium “no much adding of enactment scenes, oral enactment oregon connected camera climaxing by BL extracurricular the scope of the publication BL approved erstwhile signing onto the project.”

As antecedently outlined, determination was alleged disagreement implicit the last chopped of It Ends With Us (on which Lively served arsenic a producer), on with disputes implicit conscionable however the movie would beryllium marketed.

Lively asserts Baldoni and others successful his campy past engaged successful a “social manipulation” run to “destroy” Lively’s reputation.

The suit adjacent includes substance messages from Baldoni’s publicist to the workplace publicist that accidental Baldoni “wants to consciousness similar [Ms. Lively] tin beryllium buried, and “We can’t constitute we volition destruct her.”

Baldoni and Lively ne'er appeared connected the reddish carpet unneurotic during the promotion for It Ends With Us and ne'er sat down for immoderate associated interviews.

Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, has fired backmost astatine Lively’s lawsuit, claiming it’s an effort to “fix her antagonistic reputation” and noting it’s “false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publically hurt.”

Prior to the film’s release, Baldoni told Variety — erstwhile asked astir It Starts With Us, a imaginable sequel to the movie based connected a publication by that aforesaid rubric — that helium and accumulation workplace haven’t “even begun to deliberation that acold ahead. I’m trying to enactment successful the contiguous arsenic overmuch arsenic I can.”

We’re conscionable gonna spell up now, however, and marque the pursuing not-so-bold prediction:

If a sequel does determination forward, it volition not prima Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.

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