Blake Lively’s Lawyers Say Justin Baldoni Legal Battle Is ‘Not a Feud’ Over ‘It Ends With Us’ Creative Differences, Criticize ‘More Attacks’ From Baldoni’s Team

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Blake Lively‘s lawyers issued a new statement to Variety (first published by People magazine) rejecting claims that Lively’s legal battle against her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star Justin Baldoni is due to a “feud” over “creative differences” on the movie.

Lively’s legal team said their clients “serious claims of sexual harassment and retaliation” against Baldoni are “backed by concrete facts.” “This is not a ‘feud’ arising from ‘creative differences’ or a ‘he said/she said’ situation,” Lively lawyers’ statement reads. “As alleged in Ms.

Lively’s complaint, and as we will prove in litigation, Wayfarer [Studios] and its associates engaged in unlawful, retaliatory astroturfing against Ms.

Lively for simply trying to protect herself and others on a film set. And their response to the lawsuit has been to launch more attacks against Ms.