Justin Baldoni’s lawyer just responded to Blake Lively’s legal team’s statement regarding the countersuit he filed against her and her husband, Ryan Reynolds.
For context, the It ends with us the star and director sued his co-star and the dead Pool actor for defamation, specifically accusing Lively of hatching a plan to ruin his career by making false allegations of sexual harassment.
According to Daily MailLegal documents say the A-list Hollywood couple used their combined influence in the industry to hijack production of the Colleen Hoover adaptation, in which Baldoni starred and directed.
Now, as reported Deadline, after Lively’s team responded quite violently to the counteraction, the Jane the Virgin The star’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, responded.
“After my clients filed a comprehensive complaint containing nearly 200 pages of undeniable facts and documentary evidence that crushed their false claims of a smear campaign by providing falsified communications to the New York Times“Blake and his legal team have only one heinous pivot left, and that is to double down on the sickening and false sexual allegations against Mr. Baldoni,” he said.
Freedman continued: “The simple fact that Ms. Lively believes she can publicly destroy Mr. Baldoni’s reputation in an effort to devastate his future career and then deny him or his team their own ability to defend themselves against her is absurd. »
“Mr. Baldoni never publicly attempted to denounce Ms. Lively for her numerous wrongdoings during filming, he kindly addressed all of her concerns during filming in the correct manner despite the fact that he was not at all Okay, he himself was determined to do things differently and continue peace as she specifically admitted in her own trial,” he further clarified.
“We will not only continue to defend our clients against Blake’s power, privilege and lies, but we will now fight even harder for the voiceless in the DV community who suffer unjustly as she continues to defend her own interests and its own interests. selfish vendetta in the media,” Freedman concluded.
The new remarks from Justin Baldoni’s lawyer come after Blake Lively’s team called his lawsuit victim blaming, telling the Daily Mail: “This latest lawsuit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and his associates is another chapter in the abusers playbook. »
