Blake Lively‘s lawsuit against Justin Baldoni includes countless text messages that were privately sent between his PR team and now we know how Blake‘s team obtained them.
Text messages that Justin was sending with his publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis publicist Melissa Nathan, as well as messages between Jennifer and Melissa, were all included in the lawsuit.
We have a full recap of every text message that was included in the lawsuit.
So, how did Blake‘s team get their hands on these private messages?
Keep reading to find out more…
“Ms. Lively obtained the communications set forth in this Complaint through legal process, including a civil subpoena,” her lawyers wrote in the lawsuit.
Blake‘s lawyers confirmed to Variety on Monday (December 23) that the text messages were received through a subpoena issued to Jonesworks LLC., the PR firm where Jennifer Abel used to work.
The Variety report reveals that Abel was fired by Jonesworks on August 21, just days after It Ends With Us was released. She was reportedly fired after the company’s founder learned that she was “poised to leave and start her own firm.” Abel was ordered to turn over company phone and sign documents.
Justin‘s lawyer Bryan Freedman, who also represents his PR team, plans to sue Jonesworks LLC. founder Stephanie Jones.
Freedman told Variety, “If all of the text messages were produced in that ‘subpoena,’ then Lively’s team knows the true facts of what actually happened and did not happen. The truth is completely different than what has been portrayed in the complaint and they know that. The complete set of text messages unequivocally show that there was no smear campaign initiated at all which is why certain texts are incomplete and other texts, which tell the truth, are purposefully excluded.”
Jennifer Abel has released a lengthy statement that explains her text messages.
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