The Blake Lively v. Justin Baldoni Lawsuit Is Making People Rethink the Hailey Bieber and Selena Gomez ‘Feud’

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lawsuit against , the internet is revisiting last year's so-called “” between and .What could Hailey Bieber possibly have to do with all the saga?

Well, she was used as an example in Baldoni's alleged press strategy to “bury” Lively if their issues arose while promoting the film. (For more a more timeline of the evolving It Ends With Us discourse, click .)According to a report, Baldoni became nervous after Lively's husband blocked him on Instagram in May—three months before the discourse began in August. “We should have a plan for IF she does the same when movie comes out,” Baldoni reportedly wrote to a publicist named Jennifer Abel. “Plans make me feel more at ease.”Blake Lively is suing Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment.In another alleged text exchange with Melissa Nathan (who previously represented Johnny Depp) in early August, Abel suggested Baldoni “wants to feel like [Lively] can be buried.” Three days later, The New York Times reports he sent a negative X.com thread about another celebrity to his publicist.

Per screenshots shared by , that post was titled, “Hailey Bieber's history of bullying many women.”Along with the image, he allegedly wrote, "This is what we would need," to which Abel replied, "Yes I literally just spoke to Melissa about this on the break about what we discussed last night for social and digital.

Focus on Reddit, TikTok, [Instagram]."This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Per the NYT, Nathan eventually “floated” plans to hire contractors to “change narrative” online through “full social account take downs,” starting “threads of theories” that would be "untraceable."In a to the NYT, Baldoni's lawyer Bryan Freedman claims Lively planted “negative and completely fabricated and.