Strict Rules Blake Lively Forced Her Coworkers To Follow On Set
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00:00Blake Lively is finally exposing Justin Baldoni. This could be bad. Blake Lively
00:06accuses Justin Baldoni of weight shaming her on the set of It Ends With Us.
00:11The allegation is made in a legal complaint filed by Blake against her former
00:16co-star and director on the film. Blake Lively is back in the news and this time it's something super serious guys.
00:22She's sending out a lawsuit to Justin Baldoni, and it feels like it's straight out of a movie. She's broken in my building.
00:28You have a really nice view.
00:31I do. Blake Lively is accusing Justin Baldoni of launching a PR scheme against her and is roping Hailey Bieber into this mess too,
00:39citing her as an inspiration in her lawsuit against Justin Baldoni. Blake's suing Justin over some wild
00:45allegations and for allegedly fostering a weird work environment on the set of their movie It Ends With Us. Blake says Justin
00:52routinely body shamed her,
00:54including a particular instance. If any of you know the story of that movie too, this is way too ironic.
01:00Justin co-starred and directed in the movie with Blake and has of course denied the allegations vehemently.
01:06Blake's team say that some text messages included as part of the legal filing of the whole thing
01:12reveal a multi-tiered plan that Mr.
01:15Baldoni and his team described as some sort of social molding designed to destroy Miss Lively's reputation,
01:21which they say began after she raised concerns about conditions on set. Rumors were already
01:27swirling overhead about a rift forming between Blake and Justin during their press run in the summer of
01:322024 after the attentive fans noticed how cold they were to each other on the red carpet. Now, Blake is showing us that sometime before
01:40August 2nd, Justin hired Melissa Nathan. Basically, she's a management expert whose previous clients included Johnny Depp.
01:48He hired her as part of a PR team that also contains the publicist Jennifer Abel. In Blake's lawsuit, Blake included an alleged text
01:56that Justin sent to Jennifer Abel, which was a screenshot of a thread on X or Twitter about the rumors that were spreading about
02:02Hailey Bieber early in 2024, along with the message,
02:05this is what we would need. It's worth noting up front,
02:08Hailey Bieber had nothing to do with the alleged smear campaign against Blake. Her name just happens to pop up in Justin's messages as a
02:15point of inspiration.
02:17That's where things take a darker turn.
02:20According to Blake's lawsuit, her suspicions about Justin started long before the cameras started rolling.
02:25She claims she was wary of him from day one, and the two clashed over Justin trying to add
02:30gratuitous scenes to It Ends With Us.
02:32I'm sure you can guess what the nature of these scenes were. The tension only escalated on set, culminating in an HR showdown
02:40where Blake laid down her boundaries.
02:42Conditions had to be met, including the addition of an intimacy coordinator before she'd even consider returning to work after the writers strike.
02:50But apparently, Justin had other plans brewing. Sometime before August 2nd,
02:55he brought in the management heavyweight Melissa, famous for handling Johnny Depp's PR storms, to help manage things along with the
03:02publicist we talked about earlier too, Jennifer. If Blake's legal team is to be believed,
03:07this wasn't them trying to control the fallout. It was an outright takedown strategy.
03:12The messages allegedly exchanged between Melissa and Jennifer read more like dialogue from a soap opera than professional correspondence.
03:20In one alleged text, Melissa bragged about her ability to bury
03:23anyone, replying to Jennifer's comment that Justin wanted Blake to feel like she could be buried. Melissa wrote,
03:29But you know, when we send over documents,
03:31we can't send over the work we will or could do, because that could get us in a lot of trouble. And
03:37look where they are now. And if you thought that was chilling, it gets worse.
03:41Melissa allegedly joked about sending Jennifer a present with the follow-up,
03:45Don't worry, I didn't remove her and send her in a box to your house.
03:49Jennifer's response, a casual, Dang it, in all caps.
03:53Seriously, who jokes about that? It wasn't all talk either. In another exchange,
03:58Jennifer reportedly admitted to having thoughts about planting negative stories about Blake being not that great to work with. At first, fans assumed the feud
04:06between Blake and Justin was about creative differences.
04:09Justin wanted the film to focus on the heavy themes of the main subject of the original book, while Blake thought it should strike a
04:15more hopeful tone.
04:16But Blake's lawsuit suggests that the issues ran far deeper. The backlash against Blake during the press tour where she was called out for her
04:24tone-deaf interviews that glossed over the film's themes might not have been entirely organic.
04:30Justin's messages show he was more than ready to use the criticism to his advantage.
04:35What is the TikTok strategy? He allegedly asked his team.
04:38I'd like you guys to start posting me only talking about the theme and why this movie is so important.
04:44Meanwhile, more wild accusations about Justin's on-set behavior began trickling into the press and let's just say they're not pretty.
04:52Blake didn't hold back in her lawsuit and the claims about Justin's behavior are jaw-dropping.
04:57She alleged that he barked into her trailer uninvited on more than one occasion while she was either getting changed or feeding her baby.
05:04He's also accused of making certain comments about her size and lingering a little too long during scenes where they were smooching.
05:11Oh, and there's the claim that he showed her a wild video of his wife.
05:14Yes, you heard that correctly. A January meeting between Blake, Justin and studio reps were supposed to fix things with changes like hiring an
05:23intimacy coordinator being put into place.
05:25But according to Blake, she was already done. Behind the scenes, Justin's PR team was reportedly in overdrive,
05:31working to protect his reputation while smearing Blake's. A media strategy document included in the lawsuit
05:38allegedly outlines plans to discredit Blake by pointing out her less than favorable reputation in the industry.
05:44It even accused her of creating an imbalance of power by involving her husband Ryan Reynolds.
05:50Speaking of Ryan, Justin's team allegedly saw him as another way to turn the narrative against Blake. In one alleged message,
05:57Justin floated the idea of flipping the script after a leak about Ryan calling the film's original script a disaster.
06:04My partner asked about flipping the narrative from this leak this a.m.
06:07Which I can only assume a.m. means this morning in studio speak.
06:11I don't know. Justin reportedly wrote that suggesting they could use Ryan's comments to target Blake.
06:17If you thought things couldn't get any messier than they already are, think again.
06:21According to the document, some crew members reportedly lost their jobs because of Blake's insistence on taking creative control of It Ends With Us.
06:29And Justin wasn't having any of it. Through his lawyer, Brian Friedman,
06:33Justin came out swinging with a fiery statement refuting the claims in Blake's lawsuit.
06:38It is shameful that Miss Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false
06:44accusations, Friedman said. Calling the lawsuit a desperate attempt to fix her negative reputation,
06:49he also pointed out that Blake's interviews and press appearances during the film's campaign were all public and unedited.
06:56Essentially saying the backlash she received was her own doing. Okay, that does kind of make sense, but wait,
07:02there's more. Friedman also revealed that Wayfarer Studios had brought on a management expert well before the movie's marketing began.
07:10Why? Because Blake allegedly made multiple demands and pointed comments during production,
07:16including refusing to show up on set or promote the film unless her conditions were met.
07:20According to Friedman, this ultimately led to the film's demise during release. It gets even juicier.
07:27Friedman claimed that Blake hired her own PR powerhouse, Leslie Sloan, from Vision PR, who also represents her husband,
07:33Ryan Reynolds, to plant negative and completely fabricated stories about Justin and Wayfarer Studios.
07:39This, he said, was another reason the studio decided to hire a team of their own,
07:44preparing for the storm Blake might unleash.
07:46However, Friedman was quick to emphasize that Wayfarer Studios never went on the offensive.
07:51The representatives of Wayfarer Studios still did nothing proactive nor retaliated,
07:57he said, claiming the studio only responded to media inquiries to ensure balanced and factual reporting.
08:03He also took aim at the evidence included in Blake's lawsuit, calling it cherry-picked and lacking proof of any proactive moves by Justin's team.
08:11Instead, Friedman brushed it off as nothing more than internal scenario planning, which he said is standard in the PR world.
08:18Blake, of course, isn't staying quiet. In response to Friedman's fiery statement,
08:22she denied planting any negative stories about Justin or his studio.
08:26I hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these retaliatory tactics.
08:31She said, making it clear that her lawsuit is about more than just personal vindication. This isn't just about me.
08:37It's about protecting others who may be targeted. Blake's not just defending her own reputation here.
08:42She's positioning herself as a whistleblower, calling out what she describes as a weird system of retaliation against anyone who dares to speak up.
08:50What do you guys think about Blake Lively now? Is she revealing what's really going down in Hollywood?
08:55Let me know in the comments, and I hope you guys have a great day.
09:00Peace out.