Blake Lively’s legal team has criticized Justin Baldoni for sharing a 10-minute video featuring the “It Ends With Us” co-stars getting flirty on the set of their 2024 domestic violence film.“
Justin Baldoni and his lawyer may think this latest stunt will help them get ahead of the damaging evidence against him, but the video itself is incriminating,” Lively’s lawyers stated to Page Six on Tuesday.
They argued that “the released footage supports” their client’s sexual harassment claims outlined in her December 31 lawsuit.
Lively’s attorneys accused Baldoni, 40, of trying to “manipulate the public” by releasing the video to the media instead of presenting it as evidence in court.
The tension between Lively and Baldoni, who were rumored to be at odds when the film premiered in August, became public on December 21 when Lively filed a complaint against Baldoni’s alleged misconduct on set, which was reported by the New York Times.
On December 31, Baldoni responded by suing the Times for $250 million, claiming the outlet “cherry-picked and altered communications” and “relied almost entirely on Lively’s unverified and self-serving narrative.”
He also filed his own complaint last week against Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds, seeking at least $400 million in damages for waging their own smear campaign, amid other actions.)
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