Actor Justin Baldoni is firing back after co-star Blake Lively accused him of sexual harassment in a lawsuit. Baldoni’s lawyer spoke exclusively to NBC News about Baldoni’s own allegations against Lively and his $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times. NBC News’ Liz Kreutz reports.
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#JustinBaldoni #BlakeLively #Lawsuit
Black Lively ènd her own career bay herself. Teribly wrong move, only backfire on her
Blake seems sus imo
Not all women are victim
Definition of victim
vic·tim
noun
a person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action.
“victims of domestic violence”
Please stop misusing that word. Being a victim doesn’t mean you’re weak. It just means something happened to you that was out of your control.
Blake’s acting is actressy AF. Dont understand her success.
It’s cuz she’s with Ryan Reynolds lol she sucks
From what I have read in every other post it appears everyone is on Justin’s side so Blake better watch out.
The movie felt really off… like you could tell they had no chemistry. It was missing vital romance that the movie needed.
Blake sucks
She is not likeable and he’s a creep. People on here acting like they really know him personally
Rolling Stone interviewed “It Ends With Us” crew members. Here are a few excerpts:
“According to crew members, Baldoni tried to foster a warm environment, making an effort to get to know everyone on a personal level and bridge the gap that typically exists between above-the-line — producers, directors, actors, and writers — and below-the-line members of production. He would bound into the production office or onto set high-fiving everyone, they say, describing him as a “super nice” guy who went out of his way to make small talk.
When Baldoni was getting ready to cut his hair to play Ryle, he told crew members he was donating it to charity because someone who worked on the production also cuts their hair every summer and donates it in honor of their mom who had breast cancer. Baldoni also invited crew members to attend a screening of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves at the Newport Center Mall in Jersey City in March 2023 because he wanted to celebrate their film’s director of photography, Barry Peterson, who also worked on D&D. Baldoni attended and paid for the intimate gathering.
“Justin Baldoni is very much about ‘Namaste, peace, love,’ and is a happy guy,” one crew member says. “He was much more personable and available than pretty much any other director and certainly any other lead actor that I’ve worked with.”
“There’s two types of directors: There’s the ones that want control over every little thing — they choose every color, choose every costume, all that — and then there are directors that hire people they trust and they spend all their time in rehearsal and in front of the camera dealing with actors. Justin was very much the latter,” one crew member explains, saying Baldoni “didn’t have notes on anything.
“He just hired people that he trusted, but Blake really wanted to have her fingers in every little thing, which is fine, she’s executive producer. No one was upset by that. But I think she was kind of taken aback by how sort of laissez-faire Justin was.”
Two crew members who worked on the set of Five Feet Apart tell Rolling Stone they enjoyed working with Baldoni and would happily do so again.
“I understood that he had a lot of weight on his shoulders that he was carrying,” one crew member says. “He was always reminding us that aside from the fact that we were trying to make the best possible product, we had an obligation to do the victims of domestic violence justice by telling their story in a way that was respectful and accurate, by shining a light on it. He was always reminding us that this movie has the potential to change lives.”
Crew members also said that Lively and Baldoni had very different styles and didn’t seem to click or like each other but were always amicable and cordial with one another. They never saw any drama between the two. None.
She reminds me of Amber
I am sure this is all because she sucks as an actress. Like really bad.
She is a horrible person
I’m not saying I’m for one way or the other yet, because I believe in getting all the information. I do know that before I heard of lawsuits every other TikTok on my daughters phone was bashing Blake. Saying how rude she was and what a bit@# she was. I’ve never heard anything like that before the summer.
See Blake’s interview from a few years ago where she does the mean girl “freeze out” of Norwegian interviewer Kjersti Faas who simply congratulated Blake on her pregnancy. Lively was about 8 months pregnant at the time and had already made the pregnancy news public.
@ yeah my daughter showed me that too. All these interviews from years ago. I watched they are snarky I’ll give them that lol. My question is why all of a sudden did they pop up right before lawsuit. Keep in mind I really don’t care for her now lol so mission accomplished. I do however like her husband, and he acts a lot like her too in some interviews. Mayhaps it comes off worse when women are sarcastic? Just food for thought my friend.
@@coffeeaddictexpress5038 I saw what I thought was an excellent breakdown of the NYT lawsuit by a young youtuber: see “Ready to Glare Justin Baldoni vs the New York Times”. By the end, I was heartbroken for Baldoni. I understand he doesn’t want to be viewed as a victim, but geez, one wonders what is in Lively’s head to do this to someone else. Someone used the word “limerence” (which I had to look up), and others think it’s because Baldoni (who was the director and is a partner in the independent production company that creates socially-conscious documentaries and films) had bought the book rights to both books in 2019. Now that the revenue numbers are in and “It Ends With Us” is considered a financial success, Lively is suing Baldoni and it may have to do with her wanting the rights to the sequel.
She probably was put up to it
Justin’s PR team didn’t need to do anything. Blake smeared herself all by herself by her own super rude, mean, toxic and sarcastic behavior.
Sounds like they had an affair and got caught. Sling lawsuits to cover it up.
Convinced Ryan is trying to ruin Blake and divorce her for someone else.
Where’s his wife in all this.
She’s already called Blake out
Baldoni has been nothing but publicly gracious and very generous in speaking of Lively. There’s no need for his beautiful wife to weigh in.
You know how like, no one likes Blake? ☠️ Yeah well this ain’t helping 🤣😭
Ryan! Come get your girl bro.
She is a narcissistic manipulative MEAN girl and destroyed her reputation by herself along with her husband. The ones that bully the vulnerable and please the rich and powerful for their own gains. That’s actually so bad, she is using her power and trying to destroy Justin’s life. Feel so bad for him.
She wanted to take away his movie, look at how greedy and money obsessed she and her husband are. Coming out with her bad alcohol hair brands and promoting that everywhere. Once she recognised she hurt her own image, she is trying to drag Justin down with her
Blake couldn’t handle the shame from the destruction of her reputation. I support baldoni, i believe he is innocent. Anyway, let there be a just outcome.
If you read his filing his side provided texts that basically show she lied, distorted and exaggerated things. So cruel that she demanded Sony not allow him at his own premiere, only letting him later with list of conditions, like he and his family were confined to the basement until she left and they also had to view the film in another theater. He wasn’t allowed to be on the movie poster and no credit in “A film by…”. I will never support anything she or her egotistical husband is in
He didn’t do anything of the sort. She did this to herself
I am wondering those ladies who always believes ladies do they ever wonder whatif someone will falsely accuse their sons/nephews/friends?
Hollyweird was pro Amber Heard and against Johnny Depp till he went public with the trial… let’s see how things will unfold .
But Blake gives Amber Heard vibes
Lively seems to think she’ll get a sympathetic grand jury in NY because the Reynolds live in NYC. She’s in for a rude awakening — the BS detectors of New Yorkers are well-developed.
she doesn’t need help from others to ruin her reputation… it was all herself..
instead of her apologising of her mean and rude behaviour to other women and her awful attitude on the movie campaign… she chose to create a new drama series! nope.. 👎 she cancelled herself.. she doesn’t need a group of people to help on that!
Blake has social media on her side. So we know who is going to win.
Nah everyone hates her because of her bully mean girl behaviour
How could Blake do things like this? What was she thinking? And why didn’t she complain about harassment while making the movie? She should’ve thought about her children.
Who cares
Sorry Blake but Ryan will soon leave you.
He said ,she said .
Team Baldoni 🙌🙌
Why would Baldoni want to bring down Lively
You haven’t been paying attention.
*I was a crew in the movie IT ENDS WITH US, the thing that i’m about to reveal is gonna shock many of u. Blake Lively & Justin were having an affair while shooting this film, they always used to be with each other, they used to spend nights together in the same van, blake could be seen with hickeys often as well, they were like 2 serious lovers. Our entire crew was aware of this. Ryan somehow came to know about this & he confronted Blake on sets itself after which all the issues started & the main cause of all this drama comes from the serious love affair between Blake & Justin, believe me or not this is the truth, everybody in the crew including me knew this during the shootdays itself. Both Blake & Justin looked quite serious about their relationship, they were like 2 lovebirds who couldn’t stay a minute without each other*
Stop your nonsense. Rolling Stone interviewed crew members and there was none of that. Lively and Baldoni had different styles and didn’t click but they were always amicable and cordial and there was no drama on the set according to crew members.
She ruined her own reputation.
Blake Lively is on a smear campaign. Money = power
Blake destroyed her own reputation, and she is extremely unlikeable.
Lively destroyed her own reputation the moment we all saw her being a bully! B**** PLS!!!
Boycott all Ryan and Blake movies!
Companies like Baldoni’s shouldn’t exist.
You have a problem with his company’s documentaries and movies on such subjects as cystic fibrosis, domestic violence, living with terminal illnesses, homelessness? If it repulses you, don’t watch.
@mrsmagoo5710 It doesn’t change what he did. He broke the law. They should all be blacklisted from the industry.
Maybe Justin baldoni was struggling to get out of character once he heard CUT
She does the cast of gossip girl lay a complaint for when Blake lively called them monkeys
Blake is nasty definitely. But that doesn’t mean Justin baldoni was not inappropriate. I think Justin made the mistake of thinking Blake lively was his friend and equal.
Baldoni stated “she set the tone”. We can see from a couple of her texts that she was casual and open-minded with pumping in her trailer with Baldoni present and declining to meet with the intimacy coordinator until filming started. Then she apparently pulled the rug out from underneath Baldoni and Heath and was waving around a list of silly and immature s.h. allegations. They did everything to prevent her from leaving and to protect the jobs of cast and crew who had been unemployed at length through the 2 strikes (actors’ and writers’).
Okay girlies grab your floral we’re going to court!💀
didn’t she get married on a former slave plantation?
“All ends with us” is to fight in court
Read his lawsuit and read the receipts, he brought em. She and Ryan are elitist psychopath billionaires, wielding their power to bully and blackmail smaller people into submission. Sick of aggressive women stealing the victim narrative so they can achieve more money and power. Its so gross!
Baldoni is living the FAFO life in 2025. Keep digging, fool, and good luck funding your next project.
Who is this dude? How many years as an actor, and how many movies has he done?
Try Wikipedia.
@mrsmagoo5710 Great suggestion!
She’s still an entitled narcissist. We’ve seen all her interviews for movies stemming back decades. She’s the same self involved mean spirited spoiled rich girl who belittles her costars and journalist. What are we stupid we understand when we see her behavior.
The context matter. She’s probably twisting things.
She wants the right of the book.
… and Baldoni owns them — prequel and sequel.
So she starred in a movie about DV against women, tried by all means to not make it about that in her promo for the movie – bring your girlies, wear your florals – and now she’s (in my perspective) falsely accusing the director of the film of SA. You gotta love the turnout of this movie. It sure is a lesson for Baldoni.
What I don’t understand is: why is Baldoni’s PR agency getting credit for something Blake did to herself?. You can start a campaign and whatever, but none of it did more damage than Lively’s old and present interviews. She showed us who she is and besides, someone that gets married at what used to be a plantation does not have the best compass.
Why didn’t you amd your husband suit him at the moment he did that to you? Why now
Because they legally blocked Baldoni’s actions by making him sign a waiver to stop his actions. Just by signing it, was an admission of some wrong doing.
@@AlbertMark-nb9zo Not really (see texts where she invited Baldoni to read lines in her trailer while she pumped, and another where she writes that it’s not necessary for her to meet with the intimacy coordinator until filming started). Heath signed off on her demands list because she was threatening to walk out. Extortion, perhaps? They considered the massive amounts of money already spent and the fact that the cast and crew had been out of work for months due to the strikes (writers’ and actors’) and therefore really needed their jobs/paychecks. Lively also extorted a p.a. accreditation from the production company, and on that one they wrote “Under Duress”.
You people trashing Blake like you know her personally. You know that’s pathetic right? And you just look jealous and envious. Same goes for Baldoni.
The smear campaign is clear and ongoing. We need to make bot farms illegal! It has gotten beyond ridiculous. Public opinion is being manipulated.
I believe Blake. Justin Baldoni is a creep who tried to destroy a woman. That’s not okay!
A smear campaign can only happen when the truth is manipulated. Plenty of people formed their own opinions of Blake due to the things she herself did. That is not smearing someone.
@@skb4055 She didn’t do anything to anyone. You have been manipulated. Probably a paid bot.
Or you just hate women. Far too many people do.
@@TamaraKane Don’t opine if you haven’t seen the texts and read Baldoni’s NYT lawsuit. Baldoni makes a clear stand against using bots and astroturfing. His PR staff was paid to observe, and there’s no indication they had to anything but watch Lively create her own bad press.
Amber 2.0
She ruined her own reputation.
Loved the book it ends with us. The movie ruined it for me ngl. Always read the book first lol
Rich people problems.
Это так глупо, вся ситуация, абсурд. Из за мелочей устроили скандал.
😂
She needs money so this is what woman do now to man
Definitely siding with Justin on this one. Blake is just a mean girl gone wild. Her and her husband think that just because they’re influential they can control how people think. We all know it. She’s just a bully.
I’ve never liked Blake since gossip girl more than a decade ago, something about her just feels off. Turns out, I was right the whole time. Trust your gut
She doin that so Justin loses his spotlight.
Blake got exposed big time. Justin’s receipts are solid.
A very desperate move by Fake Lively. She knows she ain’t fooling anybody but herself.
I am so glad after Johnny Depp people are not following people blindly anymore. She has no more validity than him, well maybe less since her poor treatment being called out seemed to have started all this. let the courts expose it all so we’ll know what’s true.
this supposed smear campaign was fired up by her own comments in interviews
She did that all by herself
I’m not sure how Blakes team says there was an online smear campaign. Seems to me after watching those videos the only one to blame for Blakes bad behaviour is…………….. Blake.
She destroyed her own reputation
Read both complaints, it doesn’t look good for her at all!!
Baldoni clearly is a public figure, so to prevail in this lawsuit, he will have to show what’s called “actual malice.” I.e., he must demonstrate that the Times either knowingly lied or recklessly disregarded the truth. The applicable Supreme Court decision is New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964), which makes it extremely difficult for a public figure to win a libel action. We can expect the Times to defend itself vigorously.
Thing is I read both of their court filings. JB seemed to have posted actual screenshot from phone while BL’s are photoshopped edited 1 liner or everything she wants to show. If JB’s sceeenshots are real that negates everything she said and you will just wonder is she is sick or something.
The guy definitely looks like a terrorist who would go after the “All American” “Blond” Woman. Definitely has that woman hater, beater, middle eastern vibe. I’m not surprised, I mean I lived out there 12 years. White is so out of style. White is the new 1960’s black in LA.
? Irish Catholic father, Jewish mother.
blake’s reputation and career and future in hollywood is over. she knows and we all know it. this lawsuit is just a last minute ditch effort to pull the victim card
Bryan Freedman is his lawyer??? Yeah, Blake is done
i bet u anything Justin Baldoni is doing this because he didnt get his way
I’m trying to understand the issue but seems like everyone is pro Justin 😂 even on Facebook and Instagram, people are rooting for Justin 😅 But why? I’m so lost here…😅
See youtuber “Ready to Glare Justin Baldoni vs the New York Times”. I thought she did an excellent breakdown of Baldoni’s suit which is shows text history and the cherrypicking done by the NYT’s authors.
The NYT had a copy of Lively’s complaint filed in CA and on the same day it was filed (Friday, 12/20/24) notified Baldoni at 9:45pm that they would publish at 12pm the next day. Basically, he worked overnight to gather a defense to send to the NYT for their article.
This whole “smear campaign” thing she alleges is just her twisted way of seeing and reacting to the public’s own reaction to her after her bad behaviour and attitude came to light. The public can judge for themselves and each choice she continues to make, she’s making it worse.
I don’t know what these two are like behind closed doors, but I have seen Blake Lively being a major bully in interviews, alienating the reporter, name-calling her costars, constantly cutting off people while they speak, and appears to enjoy it and not care about anyone else but her own agenda. She’s showing the world that she has no boundaries or sense of compassion, that she is a bully.
That’s what I have seen.
Blake Lively has this off vibe about her and doesn’t feel genuine at all, considering her track record with other people. I believe in Justin Baldoni. 🙏
Blake’s previous interviews with other movies highlighted her true personality which had nothing to do with Baldoni.
I thought he was going to make history and say yes 0:16
White women everywhere upset they followed another Amber onto the bridge to nowhere
Comment section shows how psyope people are immediately believed what media says without doing due diligence and research. Already judging they are guilty vs the mysterious woman. Andrew Tate is right all along.
Last night I was watching about Blake lively videos about her rude moments. What a coincidence 😂
SHe’s nasty… SUE her… you might as well since she’s ruined your reputation…drag her down with you
People in the comments section definitely did not read either complaint. Americans can’t read. Baldoni is not a victim here
#BlakeTurd
Team Justin.
It’s so fake.
Blake is a huge trouble maker!!! Sue her and win!!!!!!!
She sounds like Amber Hurd !
She’s a B actress at best who rides her husband and Taylor Swift’s coat tails.
I am getting deja Vu amber heard vibes from her
There was rumor Blake was trying to seduce or take advantage of him and he went no means no to her.
Ryan bullied and cut off the Deadpool director who worked on the project for many years on his project. The world needs to know how shady Ryan and Lively are behind the scenes.