Justin Baldoni‘s lawyer is promising more to come in the ongoing legal battle with Blake Lively.
Attorney Bryan Freedman spoke out on Tuesday (January 7) amid the director’s impending lawsuit against his It Ends With Us co-star.
“It is painfully ironic that Blake Lively is accusing Justin Baldoni of weaponizing the media when her own team orchestrated this vicious attack by sending The New York Times grossly edited documents prior to even filing the complaint,” the lawyer said, via People.
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“We are releasing all of the evidence which will show a pattern of bullying and threats to take over the movie,” he continued, adding “None of this will come as a surprise because consistent with her past behavior Blake Lively used other people to communicate those threats and bully her way to get whatever she wanted. We have all the receipts and more.”
Blake filed a complaint against Justin, his producing partners and publicists, alleging sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear campaign to tarnish her reputation.
Her legal team also said one day prior that her “serious claims of sexual harassment and retaliation,” first logged in a California complaint in December, are “backed by concrete facts.”
“This is not a ‘feud’ arising from ‘creative differences’ or a ‘he said/she said’ situation,” her lawyers’ statement reads. “As alleged in Ms. Lively’s complaint, and as we will prove in litigation, Wayfarer [Studios] and its associates engaged in unlawful, retaliatory astroturfing against Ms. Lively for simply trying to protect herself and others on a film set. And their response to the lawsuit has been to launch more attacks against Ms. Lively since her filing.”
“Sexual harassment and retaliation are illegal in every workplace and in every industry,” the statement went on.
“A classic tactic to distract from allegations of this type of misconduct is to ‘blame the victim’ by suggesting that they invited the conduct, brought it on themselves, misunderstood the intentions, or even lied. Another classic tactic is to reverse the victim and offender, and suggest that the offender is actually the victim. These concepts normalize and trivialize allegations of serious misconduct.”
“Most importantly, media statements are not a defense to Ms. Lively’s legal claims. We will continue to prosecute her claims in federal court, where the rule of law determines who prevails, not hyperbole and threats.”
We also now know that Justin Baldoni could be filing a second lawsuit very soon.
