Blake Lively suing Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment

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According to TMZ Blake Lively is suing Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment on the set of ‘It Ends With Us’.

According to the lawsuit, a meeting was held in regards to the hostile work environment. Blake demanded that Baldoni stop showing nude videos or images of women to her, no more mention of Baldoni's alleged previous "pornography addiction," no more discussions about sexual conquests in front of Blake and others, no further mentions of cast and crew's genitalia, no more inquiries about Blake's weight, and no further mention of Blake's dead father and no more adding of sex scenes, oral sex or on camera climaxing by Blake outside of the script Blake approved when signing onto the project.

Baldoni’s representative have denied the allegations and state this is an effort for Blake to rehabilitate her recent poor image.

www.tmz.com/2024/12/21/blake-lively-sues-justin-baldoni-sexual-harassment-retaliation-on-it-ends-with-us-set/

You realise if she walked away hundreds of people involved with filming would have been out of a job? In fact he’s really shot himself in the foot because she agreed not to take this legal if her conditions were met. And her conditions included protections for the rest of the cast and crew, not just herself.

He just couldn’t help himself but retaliate and honestly by subpoenaing those text messages she’s played a blinder because she now has proof he tried to destroy her. Her case is about lost income but also about retaliation against an HR complaint. Think of all the other, far less powerful people he could have done this to, who don’t have the resources to fight it.

BL showed herself to be a nasty person over the years, whether the interview was resurrected to show how nasty she really is, is neither here nor there, it's not the only interview where she was disrespectful to others doing their job.

She was also horrible about Princess Catherine, making jokes about her, despite knowing Catherine had issued a statement saying she would be recovering from major abdominal surgery. She was not nice.

Her general behaviour should not be excused because she was harassed by her co-star, they are two completely different things, even if his PR people did attempt to use how unlikeable she is, against her. Ultimately, she has a strong case against a typical misogynistic dick head and it is good she is in a position to be able to deal with it head on. The careers of JB and the person he hired as a PR person, who had just set up her own business, are now over.

Still doesn't excuse her horrible behaviour towards other people though. .

The stretch here is mental. Honestly, the people downplaying this are weird psychos who fell hard for PR manipulation and are too cowardly to admit it.

It's pretty clear this guy's PR team is all over the thread.

I hate this whole perfect victim thing. So what if BL is tone deaf or a little bitchy? Even a serial killer shouldn't have to put up with the kind of harassment this guy seems to have engaged in.

Scandal sells & this has been nothing but scandal since day 1

I took my kids to see it (partly my fault for taking it at face value) as she billed it as a romcom. It's not in any way. It's a film with a very serious topic at its heart.

This is entirely on you. The book is very well known and the film and the topic were widely discussed at the time. Who takes their kids to a film without checking it beforehand?

At the end of the day this is about sexual harassment in the work place, and the lengths men will go to silence and punish women who speak out.

Whether you "like" BL is neither here nor there. She is wealthy, privileged and well connected and still got sexually harassed at work and vilified for calling the creep out.

Her general behaviour should not be excused because she was harassed by her co-star, they are two completely different things

It's funny, because I'm seeing far more of 'the sexual harassment should be overlooked while we discuss again what a horrible person she is'.

It's pretty scary really, I've barely heard of Blake Lively, only really in relation to Ryan Reynolds and yet my social media this summer was full of crap about her. That interview several times, the accusation of being difficult to work with etc. I didn't engage with any of it but it was quite constant for a while and was enough to make me think 'oh shame Blake Lively isn't very nice, I like Ryan Reynolds'. Manipulation of the opinion of someone a million miles away from anything to do with them.

And the PR company is now claiming that they didn't even do the take-down campaign, it happened totally organically without them () but even if they did, they said that a lot of it wasn't down to them. You can destroy a woman's reputation by social media with very little effort. It reminds me of that pretty young woman recently who celebrated getting her PhD on twitter and was immediately responded to with days of abuse. There are people out there just waiting for a woman they can hate on.

Exactly, quite shocking how so many are focusing on her as a person rather than the behaviour she was subjected to. I don’t have an opinion of her either way, I like RR though. But even if she was a horror (which I don’t think she is) there’s no way she should be subjected to what she has. Poor woman. Shame on those excusing it.

FYI I've "followed" BL for many years and know a couple of people in the industry and waaaay before this film was made (years) she (and later her husband) were well known to be absolutely awful to work with. Demanding, manipulative and rude, with many people refusing to work with her ever again.

I think this is at the root of some people's disbelief tbh.

And before anyone says it - YES I KNOW SHE COULD BE ALL OF THESE THINGS AND STILL BE A VICTIM.

What do you disbelieve?

Her being a nice person or not isn't relevant.

I think people are more saying they arnt interested in it

Ie. Buying the story, waiting on updates, picking a side (hers at the moment cause that's where this is being reported via)

Interesting that all the negative about BL is based on that one interview clip when she was heavily pregnant and not at her best and a whole bunch of “I know someone who once worked with her in industry”… compared to an actual contract detailing the outrageous behaviour she’s been subjected to together with actual texts detailing how the PR company could “bury” her, celebrating the idea of killing her (in jest hmmmm).

But yes let’s believe guy.

@Waterweight I’m not interested in celebrity gossip but what I am interested in is the implications for social media, orchestrated PR campaigns, the way we are manipulated together with the blatant misogyny. There’s wider issues here.

Absolutely. This is a powerful salutary lesson for everyone in media/social media manipulation.

That poster was struggling to understand how any of the complaints amounted to sexual harassment…

eta - that was in response to noble’s question

Yes but being Not Nice is the very worst thing a woman can be.

No one cares if Ryan Reynolds is nice.
Some men (like Hugh Grant) are famously horrible yet it's almost a cute character quirk.
Bill Murray, Mike Myers, Bruce Willis, Christian Bale - all not nice people and it hasn't hurt their careers at all. But Blake Lively was mildly rude in an interview 8 years ago...

The poster who took their kids to see it ends with us - it was a 15. Are they over 15?

Blake Lively promoted the film exactly as she was asked to by the studio. If you're such a negligent parent that you can't even google the extremely famous book it's based on, or indeed the legal rating, you are 100% to blame. But then it didn't actually happen did it?

It reminds me of the lyrics of Taylor’s The Man.

And I'm so sick of them coming at me again
'Cause if I was a man
Then I'd be the man
I'd be the man
I'd be the man

They'd say I hustled
Put in the work
They wouldn't shake their heads and question how much of this I deserve
What I was wearing
If I was rude
Could all be separated from my good ideas and power moves
….
What's it like to brag about
Raking in dollars
And getting bitches and models
And it's all good if you're bad
And it's okay if you're mad
If I was out flashing my dollars
I'd be a bitch, not a baller
They paint me out to be bad
So it's okay that I'm mad

Talking of Taylor Swift it reminds me of when that man grabbed her arse in full view of a load of people and then he sued her for defamation when she complained.

“our team can also explore planting stories about the weaponization of feminism and how people like Taylor Swift, have been accused of utilizing these tactics to ‘bully’ into getting what they want.”

Fuck.

That.

Shit.

If it takes women who are complete and utter arseholes to challenge this, women should be complete and utter arseholes. I don't think Blake or Taylor are, so maybe they should step up their game.

I tell DD to take up space, challenge the #BeKind narrative, don't choose polite over right. Be good not nice. I spent too much time fawning and conceding as a young woman. These strong, rich, powerful women (add JKR, Dione Warwick and many others to that) actually have the chance to fight some of this.

If we don't fall for the internalised misogyny propaganda.

@camerasupply Of course you have. Absolutely of course you can confirm stories that they are arseholes on a thread about how she was sexually harassed. Like that is the point right now. She could be a combination of Satan and Hitler and that still doesn’t make JB not a piece of shit for his behaviour.

I literally don’t care if she is difficult to work with (often code for hardworking and focused in a woman). She was left almost naked, without her consent in full view of strangers for JB’s own personal power trip. He’s a scumbag.

It is the same MO Weinstein used on the women who first accused him.

Through a media campaign, made them look mad, bad and bitchy.

It is telling how quick and easy it is when it is a woman.

Taylor Swift's sexual assault case against the dj was a good moment. Anyone who has to go to court should study that transcript.

I really admire B. Lively for fighting back like this.

there is something extremely unsettling about this man - he uses all the right language but in an incredibly manipulative way

Is it ends with us any good.

I haven't seen it yet.

I find it interesting that you say you’re a rape crisis volunteer whilst at the same time insisting that we have to see ALL THE EVIDENCE and that JB is innocent until or unless a court declares otherwise, and until that point you don’t feel that BL is to be believed.

After all- sometimes woman do lie, and fabricate evidence to support their claims (couldn’t she have falsified the text messages? Look at Jim Carrey!) and sometimes men do get proven guilty (what about Conor McGregor! He was proven guilty!).

So going by your own logic, if a woman accesses your services then you start from a point of not believing her, and if she doesn’t manage to get her case to court (which the vast majority don’t) and her attacker/abuser is therefore never declared guilty (which the vast majority aren’t) then you, again by your own logic, must assume that woman was lying?