Blake Lively’s lawsuit against It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni has taken an intense turn, with Baldoni’s lawyer claiming the leaked text used against her was taken “out of context.” In her sexual harassment complaint, Lively has alleged a deliberate smear campaign against her. Meanwhile, the publicist involved has also broken his silence defending the email. The director’s attorney Brian Friedman criticized the Gossip Girl star for adopting “questionable PR tactics”.
Justin Baldoni’s lawyer breaks silence on ‘leaked text’
In a nearly 80-page complaint filed on Wednesday, Hollywood A-lister Blake Lively, who is married to Ryan Reynolds, accused her film director and co-star Justin Baldoni of forcing her into unwanted kissing scenes on set and Allegations of serious assault including rape have been made. Naked. They also provided exhibits, including alleged text exchanges over emails between Baldoni’s publicists, which Lively claims were part of a campaign to tarnish her reputation.
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“TAG PR operates like any other crisis management firm, when a client faces threats from two extremely powerful people with unlimited resources,” Brian Friedman said in a statement to US Weekly. (For those in the know, the PR firm mentioned is the same one that Baldoni hired for crisis management.) “The standard scenario plan prepared by TAG PR proved unnecessary as audiences responded to Lively during the promotional tour. found its actions, interviews and marketing distasteful, and responded systematically. Which was picked up by the media themselves,” Friedman continued, defending the exhibits included in the lawsuit.
Friedman argued that the leaked texts involving Baldoni and his PR team were misrepresented, ironically accusing The New York Times of supporting Lively’s alleged “questionable PR tactics” by publishing the exchanges without proper context. Planted.
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Baldoni’s publicist defends alleged text exchange
Jennifer Abel, the publicist embroiled in Blake Lively’s lawsuit against Justin Baldoni, has defended their leaked text exchanges, claiming they were misinterpreted. Her now-deleted Facebook post said the messages, shared with crisis expert Melissa Nathan, were light-hearted comments about fan reactions and did not indicate any deliberate smear campaign against Lively.
Abel wrote, “What is not included in the cherry-picked messages, although not shocking because it does not fit the narrative, is that no ‘slander’ was applied.” He emphasized that Baldoni’s team never implemented negative strategies, but instead focused on monitoring social narratives and ensuring positive coverage. “We didn’t have to implement anything because the Internet was doing the work for us.”
She claimed that Lively’s team had fabricated negative stories about Baldoni as a backup plan if her demands were not met during a marketing campaign. Abell explained that her job was to conduct interviews and screenings for Baldoni, and she chose to support him based on evidence that showed he had a history of treating people fairly, especially women. She stuck to her decision and felt confident in her efforts.
“After reviewing the evidence, the facts, the solid evidence that refuted every single thing that was being claimed and demanded at the beginning of the production, I chose to stand by my client for almost 5 years, Who had dedicated his life to equal treatment. of others, especially women.”
