Justin Baldoni Drops ‘It Ends With Us’ BTS Footage To “Refute” Blake Lively’s Sexual Harassment Claims – Watch The Video

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The already very public confrontation between It Ends With Us stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni is now taking things behind the scenes as the latter attempts to counter the former’s claims of sexual harassment during the making of the big screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s 2016 domestic violence novel.

As lawyers spar in. and out of court, the IEWU director’s team Tuesday dropped footage of a particular scene from the flick in the hopes of shutting some of Lively’s claims and her credibility down.

Baldoni has sued Lively, Ryan Reynolds and others in a $400 million defamation and extortion action and goes after the New York Times for $250 million in recent weeks as his career burns following the actress’ allegation of inappropriate behavior during production and a subsequent Crisis PR fueled “astroturfing” smear campaign.

Even with rumors that all was not well on IEWU, this all went public officially when Lively filed an complaint with the California Civil Rights Department, and followed it up on New Year’s Eve with an official federal suit against Baldoni, his company, his backers and his publicists.