Counterattack! Blake Lively Quickly Rebukes “Unethical” Justin Baldoni For Releasing ‘It Ends With Us’ Footage To Denigrate Her Sexual Harassment Claims

deadline.com:

Once again, Blake Lively and her team have made it very clear they understand that timing is a big part of everything in Hollywood, on and off camera, and especially when lawyers are involved.

Very quickly after Justin Baldoni dropped footage today from the filming of It Ends With Us to counter his co-star’s claims of sexual harassment on the movie, Lively came back to both chastise and mock the director of the flick based on Colleen Hoover’s 2016 domestic abuse novel “Justin Baldoni and his lawyer may hope that this latest stunt will get ahead of the damaging evidence against him, but the video itself is damning,” said Lively’s Manatt, Phelps & Phillips attorneys and Willkie Farr & Gallagher legal team to Deadline Tuesday.

The release of the obviously edited footage (which you can see here) comes as Baldoni has taken Lively, Ryan Reynolds and others to court in a January 16 $400 million defamation and extortion action and the New York Times for $250 million action filed on New Year’s Day.

Following her December 20 sexual harassment and retaliation compliant to California’s Civil Rights department, Lively hit Baldoni, his Wayfarer Studios and his PR team of Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel with an official lawsuit of her own.