Blake Lively and Justin Bladoni's feud in full from 'PR smears to lip biting and fat-shaming'
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Romantic drama It Ends With Us was a box office smash hit which generated £240 million dollars worldwide, but off-screen the movie was plagued by rumours of on set tensions. Eyebrows were first raised when fans noticed a curious lack of interaction between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, who did not pose together on red carpets despite playing a married couple in the film.
Lively played florist Lily Bloom who suffers domestic abuse at the hands of her neurosurgeon husband Ryle Kincaid, portrayed by Baldoni - who also directed the film. After its release, Lively was branded 'tone deaf' when she urged female viewers to 'grab your friends, wear your florals, and head out to see it', in a nod to the film's style aesthetic, seemingly ignoring the dark subject matter.
Worse was yet to come - a throwback clip of the actress being interviewed by Norwegian journalist Kjersti Flaa in 2016, which saw her react 'snarkily' to being congratulated on her 'little bump', went viral. Rumours began to swirl about every 'problematic' aspect of the actress's life, including the fact her 2012 wedding to film star Ryan Reynolds had taken place on a former slave plantation in South Carolina.
But now Lively has hit back with a bombshell legal complaint revealed this week, levying a series of explosive claims at her co-star. According to a sexual harassment lawsuit filed to the California Civil Rights Department on Friday, the backlash against Blake wasn't an organic reaction to the star's conduct but a heavily orchestrated campaign against her. Negative stories, it is alleged, had been deliberately planted in an attempt to 'bury her'.
