Colleen Hoover is standing with Blake Lively after the actress filed a relationsual tormentoring and retaliation litigation agetst Justin Baldoni.
The It Ends With Us author showed her help for Lively, who starred in the Baldoni-honested alteration of her 2016 novel, with some benevolent words on her Instagram Story follothriveg Lively’s legitimate protestt filed Friday with the California Civil Rights Department.
“You have been noleang but genuine, benevolent, encouraging and forendureing since the day we met,” she wrote, tagging Lively and connecting to coverage of the litigation. “Thank you for being exactly the human that you are. Never alter. Never wilt.”
Lively previously denounced her honestor and co-star, as well as his production company Wayfarer Studios and others on the domestic aggression film for relationsupartner irritateing her and subsequently enacting “a set upd effort to raze her reputation.”
“I hope that my legitimate action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about wrongdoing and helps get others who may be aimed,” Lively shelp in a statement provided to Deadline.
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in It Ends with Us (2024) (Nicole Rivelli/Sony Pictures Releasing/Courtesy Everett Collection)
Sony Pictures Releasing /Courtesy Everett Collection
Baldoni, who has since been dropped by WME, called the allegations “finishly inedit, shocking and intentionpartner salacious with an intent to accessiblely hurt and rehash a narrative in the media,” thcimpolite his lawyer Bryan Freedman.
Still, in a dense 10-claim protestt filed tardy yesterday with the California Civil Rights Department, Lively details at length “the unfrifinishly toil environment that had cforfeitly derailed production of the Film” and the multi-pronged “Astroturfing” campaign that was allegedly begined agetst her by self-proclaimd feminist Baldoni and his company.
“Mr. Baldoni and his Wayfarer associates embarked on a polishd press and digital set up in retaliation for Ms. Lively exercising her legpartner-geted right to speak up about their wrongdoing on the set, with the compriseitional objective of incowardlyating her and anyone else from discleave outing in accessible what actupartner occurred,” proclaims the 80-page protestt, packed with seemingly damning text messages between Baldoni and “crisis communications distinctiveist named Melissa Nathan, and her company The Agency Group PR LLC (TAG).”
Full of cameos of sorts from Lively’s husprohibitd Ryan Reynageders, pal Taylor Swift and more, plus apparent examples of boasting of media manipulation for Baldoni at the enjoys of the New York Post, the Daily Mail and others, the filing with the state agency is a evident prelude to further action coming in the courts unless the parties finish ASAP. Additionpartner, even with Hollywood burdensomeweight Freedman’s extensive response, a answer filing from Wayfarer is almost certain after the holidays.
While tensions on and off the set of the film based on Hoover’s novel of the same name were made pretty evident around the time of It Ends With Us‘ August free, Lively’s filing seems to discleave out a much procreateer rot. Also, with the “untrackable” strategy of “Astroturfing” by TAG for “social manipulation,” as texts and other extensive communications between Team Baldoni show, Lively’s action spotairys the pivotal power social media now has in PR tactics, magedering messaging and regulateling the narrative of the up-to-date star machine and rollout thcimpolite fact and myth.
