Blake Lively has made serious new allegations against Justin Baldoni, claiming she felt pushed into an uncomfortable and humiliating situation while filming a birth scene for It ends with us.
Newly revealed details of Lively’s testimony in her ongoing legal dispute with Baldoni describe what she says was unnecessary pressure on near-nudity during a hospital birthing scene, despite her objections.
According to Lively, the problem arose on the day the birth scene was filmed, when Baldoni and producer Jamey Heath allegedly pushed for her character to appear naked during childbirth.
According to TMZshe said, Baldoni referenced his own wife’s childbirth experience, saying she ripped off her clothes during labor.
Lively said she pushed back, explaining that she had given birth four times herself and had never been like that, and that she expected her character to wear a hospital gown since the scene took place in a medical setting.
Despite these objections, Lively says she felt “forced to compromise and ultimately agreed to fake [the situation] from the bottom of the chest down, which we had not discussed or agreed to before.
She described spending hours filming the scene while positioned on her back in a hospital bed, legs spread in stirrups, while crew members walked around the set.
The only covering, she said, was a hospital gown and “a small piece of black cloth, thin and flat, to cover the hospital.” [little to nothing].”
Lively also alleged that multiple camera angles were filmed, including frontal shots, and that she sometimes had to ask for coverage between takes to maintain her privacy.
She said she was troubled to learn that the actor playing the OB/GYN was close friends with Baldoni and that he was “repeatedly placed between my legs in close proximity.”
“I was extremely uncomfortable with the degree to which I had been exposed during the birth scene, which seemed violent and humiliating,” Lively said, adding that the presence of Baldoni’s friends on set that day only made the experience worse.
She also said it was inappropriate for the film’s financier to come during the filming of such a sensitive scene.
Lively further alleged that the next day, Heath showed her a video of a woman giving birth, which she initially thought was inappropriate, before telling her it was his wife.
There has been no comment from Baldoni’s representatives on these allegations.
