Justin Baldoni's Lawyer Slams Blake Lively's Allegations of Sexual Harassment Amid Legal Battle
Justin Baldoni‘s lawyer is defending his client from Blake Lively‘s allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior amid their extended legal battle.
If you haven’t been keeping track, the 37-year-old actress accused her costar/director of bad behavior on set and of organizing a smear campaign against her in a lawsuit that was filed in late December.
The actor, 40, has denied all of her allegations and responded this week with a $400 million lawsuit targeting Blake and others, including her husband Ryan Reynolds.
Blake‘s legal team responded to the lawsuit, by reiterating the allegations of abuse.
In a new statement, Justin‘s lawyer Bryan Freedman slammed the allegations.
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“After my clients filed a comprehensive lawsuit packed with almost 200 pages of undeniable facts and documentary evidence which crushed their false allegations of a smear campaign by providing doctored communications to the New York Times, Blake and her legal team have just one heinous pivot left, and that is to double down on the revoltingly false sexual allegations against Mr. Baldoni,” he told Deadline.
Bryan continued, saying, “The mere fact that Ms. Lively feels that she can publicly destroy Mr. Baldoni’s reputation in an attempt to devastate his future career and then deny him or his team their own ability to defend theirselves against her is preposterous.”
“Mr Baldoni never once publicly attempted to call Ms. Lively out for her own many wrongdoings during filming, he kindly addressed all her concerns during filming in the correct manner despite the fact that he wholly disagreed, he himself was committed to do things differently and to keep the peace as she specifically admitted to in her own lawsuit. We will not only continue to defend our clients against Blake’s power, privilege and all out lies, but we will now fight even harder for the voiceless in the DV community who are unfairly suffering while she continues to push on her own self-serving and selfish vendetta in the media,” he concluded.
Check out all of the biggest claims from Justin‘s lawsuit.
Justin recently made his first public statement amid the accusations.