What texts and messages Blake Lively's legal complaint against It Ends With Us co-star show
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Documents from actress Blake Lively's legal complaint about her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni claim to show how his PR team deliberately "planted pieces of how horrible Blake is to work with" in the press and on social media. The legal complaint, filed to the California Civil Rights Department on Friday, contains pages of text messages allegedly sent between Baldoni and his PR team.
Lively, 37, claims that Baldoni, 40, who is also the director of the film, hired crisis PR management to engage in a "multi-tiered" plan to damage her reputation after she and her husband Ryan Reynolds, 48, complained of "repeated sexual harassment and other disturbing behaviour" on set of the movie.
A lawyer representing Baldoni and his production company Wayfarer Studios says the allegations are "completely false, outrage and intentionally salacious". He adds that the studio and its PR team "did nothing proactive nor retaliated" against Lively - and that it hired crisis PR managers "due to the multiple demands and threats made by Ms Lively during production".
Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player. . The text messages, which Lively says she acquired through a subpoena, involve exchanges between Jennifer Abel, of PR firm RWA Communications, Melissa Nathan, of The Agency Group PR, and Baldoni.
They include:. The text messages appear to date between 15 May and 18 August this year. It Ends With Us was released on 9 August. In one other exchange, Baldoni expresses concerns his PR team may have been deploying fake "bots" to "take her [Lively] down" on social media, to which Ms Nathan replies: "I can fully confirm we do not have bots.".
