Justin Baldoni Claims Blake Lively Made The Role Of ‘Shun’ Him

Justin Baldoni he believes Blake Lively had an effect on how his It ends with us costars treated him.

According to Baldoni’s new $400 million lawsuit acquired My Weekly on Thursday, January 16, Lively reportedly “made the other cast members avoid Baldoni in an initial attempt to give fans the impression that Baldoni had committed a grave sin.”

Court papers stated that Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynoldsand It ends with us author Colleen Hoover everyone unfollowed Baldoni on social media.

“Other cast members also stopped following Baldoni, creating the false impression that Baldoni had done something wrong,” the documents claimed.

“The unfollowing of Baldoni by cast members and even the author of the book, with whom he had a long-term relationship, was done without warning or any communication from them,” the suit claims, “in stark contrast to the warm praise and recognition. the members had always fallen for him up until that point.”

Baldoni’s team went on to cite text messages purportedly from a cast member Isabela Ferrer who wrote: “Thank you for being a great director and so great to work with.”

In December 2024, Lively first accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and organizing a smear campaign against her.

In the complaint he received Our, Alive alleged that Baldoni created a “hostile work environment” and caused her “serious emotional distress.”

Baldoni’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, he denied the charges in the statement of Our and claimed that Lively filed the lawsuit to “correct her negative reputation” and “correct the story” of what happened before the film opened in theaters in August 2024.

After New York Times published an article that outlined Lively’s allegations, the actress received support on social media from cast members including Brandon Glazier and Jenny Slate as did Hoover, who also served as executive producer.

“Blake Lively, you have been honest, kind, supportive and patient since the day we met,” Hoover wrote via her Instagram story in December 2024. “Thank you for being exactly the person you are. Never change. It never withers.”

In a second statement, Hoover stated that “Blake’s ability to refuse to sit back and ‘be buried’ was nothing short of inspiring.”

Following Baldoni’s lawsuit against Lively, his attorney released a statement Our statement of claim “is a legal action based on an overwhelming amount of unaltered evidence detailing a duplicitous attempt by Blake Lively and her team to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and their respective companies by spreading grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and falsified information to the media. “

The statement continued: “Based on our own total willingness to provide all of the complete text messages, emails, video footage and other documentary evidence that was shared between the parties in real time, it is clear that this is a battle he will not win and will certainly regret.” Blake Lively has either been seriously misled by her team or has deliberately and knowingly misrepresented the truth.”

“Ms. Lively will never again be allowed to continue to exploit real victims of real harassment just to gain her personal reputation at the expense of those without power,” the statement read. “Let’s not forget that Ms. Lively and her team tried to destroy reputation and livelihood of their own dangerous manipulation of the media before they took any real legal action.We know the truth and now the public knows it too his team have nothing to hide, the documents don’t lie.”

Our has reached out to Lively’s rep for comment on the lawsuit.