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Blake Livelybrother in law Bart Johnsoncame across a “scam” Justin Baldoni.
The High School Musical the actor who is married to Lively’s sister, Robyn Livelyjoined X on Monday, December 23 to share his candid thoughts on Baldoni in the middle Blake’s sexual harassment lawsuit against her It ends with us director and costar.
“He’s a fraud. He put on a hero ‘costume,’ man bun and all,” Johnson, 54, shared.
“He used all the buzzwords and buzz words for his podcasts,” he continued, referring to Baldoni’s podcast, “Man enough,” in which the actor and director tackles topics such as toxic masculinity, mental health and gender inequality.
Months after the reported rift between It Ends With Us brothers Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, she sued him for sexual harassment. In the lawsuit, which was filed on Friday, Dec. 20, and obtained by Us Weekly after being reported by TMZ and The New York Times, Lively accused Baldoni of launching (…)
According to Johnson, “None of it is genuine. It’s all theater. And everyone fell for it. For years. Play his videos with a more critical eye and watch him brag and praise himself with false humility and self-deprecation. What a performance.”
Blake, 37, filed a complaint against Baldoni, 40, with the California Department of Civil Complaint on Friday, Dec. 20, accused Baldoni of sexual harassment on set their recent Colleen Hoover adaptation. She also claimed that Baldoni was behind a digital smear campaign to smear her reputation.
In the statement to My Weekly on Saturday, December 21, Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedmanhe said Blake’s allegations were “totally false, outrageous and deliberately obscene”. Freedman claimed that Blake sued to “correct her negative reputation” and “exaggerate the story” regarding the film’s production. Freedman further claimed that Blake made “multiple demands and threats” during filming. It ends with usincluding “threatening not to show up for the shoot, threatening not to promote the film, ultimately leading to its demise during release if her demands were not met.”
Johnson — best known as the coach of Bolton v High School Musical movies – previously supported his sister-in-law on Saturday after news of the lawsuit became public.
“Her complaints were filed during the shoot. For the record. Long before the public conflict. The cast unfollowed him for some reason,” Johnson claimed in the comments section The New York Times” Instagram post about Blake’s lawsuit “Read this article before you spew (sic) ignorance.
“His PR team was stellar. Gross and disgusting, but highly effective,” Johnson continued. “Read the article, their text message exchange and his PR campaign strategy to bury her by any means necessary. No one is without (sic) faults. But the public played.”
Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Sony Pictures Blake Lively has received public support from her famous friends and other Hollywood stars following news of her lawsuit against Justin Baldoni. Lively sued the It Ends With Us director and co-star Baldoni for sexual harassment in a lawsuit filed on Friday, Dec. 20. According to court documents that (…)
Johnson claimed that “obviously there were mistakes” and pointed to Blake’s many responsibilities, including being a mom to her four children and husband Ryan Reynolds‘children.
“But IMAGINE being a stay at home mom with 4 kids, married to the busiest man in Hollywood, and being a girl boss who runs multiple companies while writing, producing, running a non-profit, and working 16+ hour days from home, so you can be with your kids,” he wrote. “Launching 2 new businesses you’ve worked/developed for years (distributors planned the launch, not you, btw) all while getting hit with a VERY expensive PR campaign because you filed a sexual harassment lawsuit for the very movie you have to go get out there and promote in the right tone, or will you get cooked!?’
Johnson commented that Blake “seems to be doing a hell of a job for me, trying to do good things for the right reasons.”
Blake Lively followed in her family’s footsteps and joined the entertainment industry. Blake was born in Los Angeles in 1987 and is the youngest of five children of Ernie and Elaine Lively. Elaine previously welcomed her eldest three children – Lori, Jason and Robyn – with her ex-husband Ronnie Lively before marrying Ernie in 1979. A few later (…)
“But yeah, let’s write from our couch how much we hate her for making mistakes,” he continued. “That makes sense. I mean, she was rude in these conversations that magically repeated themselves. I saw it. None of us have ever been wrong or mistaken. Never. We should discount decades of good for those few bad moments. I’m glad the microscope isn’t on me every day of my life.’
Johnson’s wife Robyn took to social media to support her sister on Saturday. “FINALLY justice for my sister @blakelively,” Robyn, 52, wrote via her Instagram Story, sharing screenshots New York Times article about the lawsuit.
