Blake Lively accuses Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment on It Ends With Us set
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Blake Lively has filed a lawsuit against her It Ends with Us co-star and director, Justin Baldoni, alleging sexual harassment and claiming his behavior caused her severe emotional distress. Baldoni and Lively played on-screen lovers in the film adaptation of the Coleen Hoover novel, though their working relationship quickly turned sour.
Baldoni’s legal representatives have firmly denied the allegations from Lively, saying they are "false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publicly hurt.”. A rift between Lively and Baldoni became obvious this August, around the promotional period of It Ends With Us. Fans noticed Lively and Baldoni kept distinctly separate during press engagements for the film, and information later arose that they had produced different “cuts” (i.e edits) of the final film.
The lawsuit from Lively details several demands that she made during production. These included: “No more showing nude videos or images of women to Blake, no more mention of Baldoni's alleged previous 'pornography addiction,' no more discussions about sexual conquests in front of Blake and others, no further mentions of cast and crew's genitalia, no more inquiries about Blake's weight, and no further mention of Blake's dead father.”.
It continued: "No more adding of sex scenes, oral sex or on camera climaxing by BL outside the scope of the script BL approved when signing onto the project.” The lawsuit says that Sony Pictures approved these requests. Lively then claims that Baldoni engaged in a smear campaign involving "social manipulation" to "destroy" her reputation thereafter.
