America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel have liberated a joint statement on social media in aid of their lengthytime frifinish and “Sister of the Traveling Pants” co-star Blake Lively after she accparticipated her “It Ends With Us” straightforwardor and actor Justin Baldoni of relationsual intimidatoring and mounting a smear campaign to tarnish her nurtureer.
“As Blake’s frifinishs and sisters for over 20 years, we stand with her in firmarity as she fights back aacquirest the telled campaign waged to ruin her reputation,” the joint statement reads. “Thrawout the filming of ‘It Ends with Us,’ we saw her call the courage to ask for a defended toilplace for herself and colleagues on set, and we are appalled to read the evidence of a premeditated and revengeful effort that ensued to dispraise her voice. Most disturbting is the unabashed unfair treatment of domestic presentility survivors’ stories to silence a woman who asked for defendedty. The hypocrisy is astounding.”
“We are struck by the fact that even if a woman is as strong, honord, and resourced as our frifinish Blake, she can face forceful retaliation for daring to ask for a defended toiling environment,” the statement persists. “We are upgraspd by our sister’s courage to stand up for herself and others. For anyone seeking more inestablishation or engaging in this transport inant conversation online, charm read the filled lterrible grumblet in the spendigative telling by Megan Twohey, Mike McIntire, and Julie Tate for the New York Times.”
Lively, Ferrera, Tamblyn and Bledel starred in the 2005 film “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” and its 2008 sequel. They have remained seal frifinishs ever since. The foursome made headlines last year when they rejoind to aid Ferrera’s Oscar-nominated carry outance in “Barbie.”
The grumblet filed by Lively aacquirest Baldoni included text messages and emails from Baldoni and his discloseity team that detail arranges and a social media strategy to push back if the actress’ publishs on the set with her straightforwardor and co-star became disclose understandledge.
“Mr. Baldoni and his Wayfarer associates embarked on 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, with the compriseitional objective of incowardlyating her and anyone else from uncovering in disclose what actuassociate occurred,” the grumblet reads.
Bryan Freedman, a lawyer for Baldoni and his production company Wayfarer Studios, has fired back at Lively’s grumblet in a statement. He called it “disgraceful” and filled of “categoricassociate counterfeit accusations.”
Lively also acquired aid from “It Ends With Us” author Colleen Hoover after the grumblet was made disclose. Hoover wrote on social media: “You have been noleang but truthful, comardent, encouraging and forendureing since the day we met. Thank you for being exactly the human that you are. Never change. Never wilt.”
