Justin Baldoni's lawyer issues furious response to Blake Lively's team saying actor used 'abuser playbook'
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Justin Baldoni's lawyer has issued a furious response to Blake Lively's statement about his $400 million lawsuit against her. Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds were sued for defamation Thursday by Baldoni and his publicists, who say the actress cooked up a scheme to kill their careers and discredit them by making false accusations of sexual harassment.
![[Baldoni's lawyer Bryan Freedman, who lost his home in the Palisades fire, is pictured]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/19/02/94109655-14301203-Baldoni_s_lawyer_Bryan_Freedman_lost_his_home_in_the_Palisades_f-a-35_1737254120407.jpg)
Court papers obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com accuse Lively and Reynolds of using their combined star power to hijack the domestic abuse movie It Ends With Us, which Baldoni co-starred in and directed. The new defamation action is the latest broadside in an increasingly labyrinthine legal battle that began just before Christmas when Lively sued Baldoni, claiming he sexually harassed her and created a toxic work environment on the set of the film. He has staunchly denied the allegations.
![[Lively is pictured with Reynolds at the 2014 Met Gala]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/16/17/93527911-14293249-Lively_found_fame_on_TV_soap_opera_Gossip_Girl_and_is_married_to-a-30_1737048508067.jpg)
In response to Baldoni's new lawsuit, Lively's attorneys issued a fiery statement to DailyMail.com, declaring: 'This latest lawsuit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and its associates is another chapter in the abuser playbook.'. Now Baldoni's counsel Bryan Freedman has fired back, denouncing Lively's 'revoltingly false sexual allegations' against his client, via Deadline.
![[The hijacking of the movie It Ends With Us allegedly went as far as relegating Baldoni and his family to the basement when they arrived at the premiere on August 6, 2024, because 'Lively demanded he not attend']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/17/01/93527881-14294711-The_hijacking_of_the_movie_It_Ends_With_Us_allegedly_went_as_far-m-52_1737078216197.jpg)
Justin Baldoni's (left) lawyer has issued a furious response to Blake Lively's (right) statement about his $400 million lawsuit against her. 'After my clients filed a comprehensive lawsuit packed with almost 200 pages of undeniable facts and documentary evidence which crushed their false allegations of a smear campaign by providing doctored communications to the New York Times, Blake and her legal team have just one heinous pivot left, and that is to double down on the revoltingly false sexual allegations against Mr. Baldoni,' Freedman said.
![[The lawsuit against Lively and Reynolds was filed in New York on Thursday]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/17/04/94179933-14294711-The_lawsuit_against_Lively_and_Reynolds_was_filed_in_New_York_on-a-3_1737089203647.jpg)
