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/

I didn't say any of that - I was asking where it says that she was shown porn on their phones?

Also, obviously down at the 9-5 office job clearly no-one should be talking about porn, but this was a film about domestic violence and sexual assault so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that it might be briefly discussed as a reason for why there has been an increase in sexual assault (as it often is on places such as Mumsnet)

How are people defending him for showing nudes, including ones of his own wife, to strangers? I assume you'll all be ok with your husband's doing the same then?

She absolutely did not deserve BL's rude response/behaviour which carried on throughout the interview. It was a lighthearted comment to a clearly very pregnant woman as an intro to the interview.

It would be understandable if the fact she was pregnant was the focus of the interview but it wasn't, it was just a congratulatory start to it. I'm sure another interviewer came forward to say BL was a nightmare when they interviewed her too.

I think both is possible - BL was completely tone deaf throughout the promotion of the film and has mean girl entitled vibes and Justin Baldoni may well have been an arsehole. It will all come out soon enough.

What makes you think that this creepy letch was showing naked pictures of women on his phone to his female co-star without her consent for purely genuine business reasons?

Taking individual items on that list and trying to justify them without taking the list as a whole to inform that approach is just naive.

That is such an eye-opener.

what a cunt baldoni is.

im guilty of falling for the recent “Blake lively is difficult to work with” narrative.

now i see ive been completely had.

thank god for the New York Times and real investigative journalists that go digging deeper.

@Valhalla17

I thought the same as you until I read that NY Times article.

No one should be shown pictures of naked people without their consent. Nor have a discussion about genitalia. No matter the situation.
Also whether someone is a nice person or not should not be brought into a discussion about sexual harrasment.

Then sometime before August 2, Justin hired crisis management expert Melissa Nathan, whose previous clients have included Jonny Depp, as part of his PR team which also included publicist Jennifer Abel.
Many of the messages in the lawsuit, obtained by a subpoena, are between the women, including one exchange in which Nathan states that she can 'bury anyone'.
The message was sent in reply to Jennifer's text which says that Justin, 'wants to feel like she [Blake] can be buried'.
'Of course - but you know when we send over documents we can't send over the work we will or could do because that could get us in a lot of trouble,' Nathan responds, adding, 'We can't write we will destroy her'.
She followed up the message with another which reads, 'Imagine if a document saying all the things that he wants ends up in the wrong hands.
'You know we can bury anyone but I can't write that to him. I will be very tough.'
Another back and forth on August 2 appears to show Nathan joking about murdering Blake.
'I also sent you a present. Don't worry, I didn't kill her and send her in a box to your house. It's a congratulations present,' the message from Nathan reads, to which Jennifer responds: 'DAMNIT'.

They're both producers on this film so why go ahead if it was this bad ?

Not saying it didn't happen or anything but really they both had alit of power here & I don't know what triggered her reputation downfall but surely this film was a waste of time for everybody

Yep. If you'd listened to the Who Trolled Amber podcast, it was so clearly a similar playbook. And of course now it's clear that the same crisis management PR woman was working with JB.

Ah so because she isn't very nice, sexual harassment is ok. Got it.
Might as well say the rape victim in a short skirt deserved it too, because that is exactly what some of you are saying.

No one has said that 🙄.

For anyone still banging on about that “video”….

sounds like the Norwegian entertainment reporter was in on Blake’s smear campaign, too.

from the NYT article:

”On Aug. 10, Kjersti Flaa, a Norwegian entertainment reporter, uploaded to YouTube a 2016 interview in which Ms. Lively snapped back when Ms. Flaa commented on her baby “bump” and remained testy for the rest of the conversation. Ms. Flaa titled it “The Blake Lively interview that made me want to quit my job,” and told The Daily Mail that “it’s time that people behaving badly in Hollywood, or anywhere else for that matter, gets called out for it.”
It wasn’t the first time she had posted a video aligned with a client of Ms. Nathan. In 2022, in the midst of Mr. Depp’s legal battle with Ms. Heard, Ms. Flaa posted clips of her interviews with the actor, tagged #JusticeForJohnnyDepp”

I was all for BL but just watched the Kjersti Flaa interview and my heart sank. What a shit way to treat someone. The other 'actress ' Posey or something is awful too. Now I couldn't care less what happens to BL. I hope the truth about Baldoni is proven though for women everywhere. If this is what he's really like it'll continue if it isn't addressed.

It was Jamey Heath who showed BL pictures of his naked wife. She was naked because she was giving birth. Obviously this is still unacceptable and a violation of privacy.

Justin Baldoni did not show BL any naked pics or show her porn on his phone.

I'm not trying to excuse JB - I'm just trying to make sure people have their facts correct before commenting, because things like this can grow arms and legs and at the end of the day NONE of us were there so will never know the truth.

I am all for believing women - 99% of the time I do, but I'm looking at this through the lens of having followed both BL and JB for many, many years.

JB for years had been an advocate for calling out toxic masculinity, being in touch with the sensitive side of being a man, wrote a book for young boys to try to steer them away from the Andrew Tates of this world, has a podcast called Man Enough - discussing a lot of sensitive topics. I guess that just makes me very skeptical that he would put this amount of work into being a good person and an ally for women, to then throw it all away with this alleged behaviour.

And before anyone comes for me, I'll say again, I am NOT saying he is innocent. Just sharing what I know about his character.

I am very suspicious of male feminists and allies, TBH.

JB who said he wasn't sure he had obtained consent for sexual encounters being a feminist ally is a stretch, for sure

"I am very suspicious of male feminists and allies, TBH."

Ok, why do you think that is? It does seem that men are fucked whatever they do in that case. If they don't stand up for women they're hated (rightfully so) and if they do then people find it suspicious?

He described the "It end with us" novel as sexy, romantic and mysterious.

Yes, exactly, and I fell for it for a while. But I had been listening to a really interesting podcast by Alex Mostrous called Who Trolled Amber and it was fascinating. And I was thinking back to all BLs supposed infractions - being a little spiky in an interview (plenty of other actors have done that and been applauded for it). Urging people to wear florals and being told she was insensitive - or perhaps she was celebrating a story about a women who was able to step out of the cycle and ensure it ended? If there was nothing going on in the background, she may have been celebrated for these things, or at least they would be seen as neutral. I dont trust most of these types of trends - too many ways they can be influenced.

JB for years had been an advocate for calling out toxic masculinity, being in touch with the sensitive side of being a man, wrote a book for young boys to try to steer them away from the Andrew Tates of this world, has a podcast called Man Enough - discussing a lot of sensitive topics. I guess that just makes me very skeptical that he would put this amount of work into being a good person and an ally for women, to then throw it all away with this alleged behaviour.

And he may be what he seems. But plenty of abusers present as sensitive feminist men. They are much harder to spot. But it does happen.

I think it's great if men stand up for women all of them should.
Doesn't mean they can' be creeps too, might even make it easier because they seem more trustworthy. Not saying that's the case here.
Also he made a Collen Hoover movie the queen of romanticising abusive relationships so there's that.

No, men are not fucked whatever they do. It's women mostly who are fucked.

Calling yourself an ally on social media and starting podcasts on being sensitive is not necessarily standing up for women.

Maybe she was just holding out till they wäre Finisher gilming?
Doesn't mean she wasn't being harassed before the guidelines were Signet.

It would be most interesting if the journalists reviewed Amber Heard character assassination too.
These pr companies are way too powerful and go way too far.
I'd love if Blake and Amber sued them.