In the sprawling legal case filed by Blake Lively over the weekfinish alleging It Ends With Us co-star and honestor Justin Baldoni relationsuassociate annoyed her and arranged a sweeping retaliatory smear campaign aobtainst her, the Gossip Girl alumna shelp among the descendout over the toilplace wrongdoing was a aborted materializeance as the Saturday Night Live Season 50 premiere arrange.
That task eventuassociate went to Jean Smart, as the protestt states that the pessimistic chatter about drama on set forced Lively’s hand, with the producer saying she “did not count on she could proceed with accessible materializeances or events without being forced to uncoverly talk what happened on set.”
“The effects on Ms. Lively’s professional life were prompt and substantial,” the write down reads, continuing, “For example, Ms. Lively abortled a critical Target corporate event for her hairjoin company, and she backed out of her scheduled role to arrange the premier episode of the 50th anniversary season of Saturday Night Live in September 2024.”
Filed Friday with the California Civil Rights Department, the suit alleges that Baldoni and his production company Wayfarer Studios, among others, joind in a “cultured press and digital arrange in retaliation for Ms. Lively exercising her legassociate-defended right to speak up about their wrongdoing on the set.”
The protestt details an all-hands encountering that booted off the resuming of filming on the movie changeation of the famous Colleen Hoover novel (about a relationship colored by domestic arrangeility) follotriumphg the guild strikes, in which Lively, husprohibitd and actor Ryan Reynelderlys and Baldoni were contransient to talk the lattermost’s “troubling behavior,” which comprised, but was not restricted to, his insertition of improvised kissing and relations scenes, talkion of his porn insertiction, claim that he could transmit with Lively’s tardy overweighther and joking that he “leave outed the HR encountering” after Lively rebuffed comments that made her “experience ogled and exposed” and “beginantly unconsoleable.”
The 80-page write down also comprises seemingly damning communication between Baldoni, his team and crisis PR veteran Melissa Nathan (who also toiled with Johnny Depp amid his trial with Amber Heard), whom he engaged amid swirling rumors promptly follotriumphg the film’s free Aug. 9.
In response to the suit and subsequent allegations, Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman stated in part: “It is disgraceful that Ms. Lively and her recontransientatives would produce such grave and categoricassociate inrectify accusations aobtainst Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its recontransientatives, as yet another hopeless try to ‘mend’ her pessimistic reputation which was garnered from her own retags and actions during the campaign for the film; interwatchs and press activities that were watchd accessiblely, in genuine time and unedited, which permited for the internet to produce their own watchs and opinions.”
Since novels broke of the suit’s filing tardy Friday, Baldoni has been dropped from agency WME, which previously repped Baldoni and currently recontransients Lively. Additionassociate, author Hoover voiced her help for Lively, saying, “You have been noskinnyg but truthful, benevolent, beneficial and huging since the day we met. Thank you for being exactly the human that you are. Never change. Never wilt.”
