Justin Baldoni is clapping back at Blake Lively's attempt to get his lawsuit against her tossed out of court, while once again accusing her of trying to destroy his career, according to new court documents.
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00:00Justin Valdoni and Blake Lively. Can we say good night and good luck to this story?
00:05We we can't because remember they they do have a trial date set for next March or next February
00:12Wait an entire year
00:14If it ends up going that far, but there were new filings in this case
00:19And basically this was all about this was Justin's
00:23Response to Blake's motion to dismiss remember she and Ryan Reynolds have both filed
00:28Motions to be dismissed from
00:30Justin's lawsuit and
00:33Justin is as you would expect opposing it on the grounds that it is
00:38His First Amendment right to drag her into court and defend himself
00:43He said his attorney Brian Friedman told us miss lively and her circle of Hollywood elites cannot prevent my clients from exercising
00:51their
00:52Constitutional right to petition the court to clear their names from her false and harmful claims
00:58So you have him invoking the Constitution saying that this is his First Amendment right to do this
01:04And therefore you cannot throw this case out. Well, I
01:10Think Blake Lively's attorneys were licking their chops when they saw Brian Friedman referenced the Constitution
01:16They said that's right
01:18Justin Baldoni believes that the First Amendment rights of victims of sexual assault and harassment to speak out
01:26Should give way to the rights of perpetrators to sue their victims quote into oblivion. Okay, which was something that
01:34That had been said by Justin's producing partner
01:39Yeah, it's remarkable there's a lot of ink spilled in these court documents between the lawyers
01:44But really it's just a vessel for the the two lawyers to get out and spar in public in this way
01:49And one touting the First Amendment the other saying how dare you silence victims?
01:53I'm a victim raised a sexual harassment claim and you're trying to silence me how ironic it's really just a war of words
02:00The the lawsuit is such a sideshow at this point. It's just an opportunity for Brian Friedman to tell his side again
02:06Can either one of them really work effectively while this is all going on?
02:11Because if they were she have a project I mean would they be able to promote it would they be able to talk I mean
02:17I don't know things that Blake is
02:19working and it has been the sequel to
02:23Simple Favor and
02:25She has you know promoting it has been a challenge. Obviously. She doesn't want to get a bunch of questions about this, right?
02:32So you're right. It does make it difficult to promote something else
02:35Justin is not working and says that he's essentially been pushed out of Hollywood because remember he got dropped by his agency, right?
02:44Which was the same agency as Ryan Reynolds, so he feels like this is the campaign to shut him down
02:49Which is why he is pushing
02:52non-stop to get this kid thing in the court and he might have a little bit more success in coming back because he has his
02:57Own production company because he's his own director because he's written a lot of stuff himself
03:03He may have some power in creating stuff for himself that other actors
03:07Then he's got to get people to finance him right and to find and bring on the team
03:15The harder Blake Lively tries to revive her career the worse it backfires on her
03:21She needs to stop playing a victim. She's not a victim
03:25You can't just clear your name after trying to destroy an innocent man
03:30We all want just justice for Justin Baldoni
03:35And we want the director's cut
03:37We want to see his cut from the movie and in my opinion
03:40Amber Heard could come back to the States because she beat her out of this. So so were you a Justin Baldoni fan before this?
03:48No, I didn't even
03:50I never even read the book until like later. I when I saw the movie and this all came out
03:57And then I researched it was all on tik-tok and I couldn't believe it like
04:03He was like he was he's such a good man. You could tell and
04:07The way they they treat he the way she treat not only her but her husband Ryan
04:13That was ridiculous and he's innocent and I think both of their careers are over and they're just trying to
04:20Well, I think that is definitely hyperbole to say that Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds careers are over
04:27Far from that, but you're right. It does seem on tik-tok. Justin Baldoni's winning problem is tik-tok is not a court of law
04:34Yeah
04:34but she brings up
04:35Amber Heard and Johnny Depp and so much of that played out on tik-tok too which drove a lot of the interest in the whole
04:41thing