Cover Blake Lively Slams ‘Sexist’

Blake Lively speaks against a recent envelope Hollywood reporter in the middle of her ongoing legal battle with her It ends with us Costume and director Justin Baldoni.

“Hollywood reporter should be ashamed of himself,” the actress’s spokesman said Us every week In a statement shared on Saturday 22 February.

“Framing in this picture is incredibly offensive because it plays into every sexist trop of women who dares to file a complaint in the workplace, turn them into an aggressor, and suggest that they deserve retaliation that they will come,” the statement continued. “In addition, the story is very insulting because it seems incredibly explained by documented examples of sexual harassment and retaliation by calling them” cultural misunderstandings. “

The The latest edition of the publication He now included a controversial cover depicting Lively, 37, a mobile phone’s confirmation in the Baldoni, 41, when he escaped from it, clutched a copy of the book Colleen Hoover’s Book It ends with us from which their film 2024 was modified. The Baldoni also seems to hold a slingshot.

The packaging aims to depict the biblical story of David and Goliath, in which the young boy overcomes all the chances of a simple slingshot and rock to beat the giant.

In the background, Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynoldsis shown as his Deadpool The character “Nicepool”, which is said to be a display of Baldoni, who was supposed to mock the director. Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan FredmanIt is also shown on the cover, standing behind the Baldons and opposite Reynolds Nicepool with the hands of the sides.

Like Lively, many online readers have been depicted with a highly promoted legal battle The Costars.

“Better to turn this whole case into a joke is a fucking alarming.” I stand with Blak Lively because I believe her … I don’t care if people say that there is no perfect victim or anything crap – it really doesn’t matter, “one person wrote over X.” Predators should be punished. ”

“Incredibly inappropriate,” he said. “You have a responsibility as a publication, but again and again your trivialized sexual harassment and assault, among other things, terrible things.”

Live named Baldoni, 41, in December 2024, claimed that he had sexually harass her and allegedly supported the “enemy working environment” on the file file It ends with us. At the beginning of this month, she changed her complaint and also described in detail the “emotional impact” of the legal sleep.

“The emotional impact on Mrs. Lively was extreme, not only influenced it, but her family, including her husband and four children,” they received court documents Our read. “There are days when she tried to get out of bed and often decide not to let go outdoors in public.”

“Our clients were transparent in providing revenue, documents and video videos that show a completely different story than what was manipulated and selected for the media,” Baldoni’s lawyer Freedman said in his statement Our On Wednesday, February 19, “Our clients accepted this matter and these problems very seriously regardless of the jokes that the applicant and her husband have publicly created.”

The statement continued: “Her stunning amended complaint is fulfilled by the irrelevant hearing of unnamed persons who are no longer willing to register or publicly support her claims. Given that the documents do not lie and people do not fit it, the upcoming deposition of those who initially supported the false claims of Mrs. Livela, and those who witness her own behavior will be instructive. What is really unpleasant here is the lack of real evidence of Mrs. Livela. ”

Baldoni denied Lively’s accusation and filed an action in January for a defamation of $ 400 million he claimed Gossip Girl Kamenec was “determined to make Baldoni’s villain in her story” to mask her reported “tone deaf” promotion of the film. She denied the alive charges.

The couple is scheduled to start court on March 9, 2026.