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Blake Lively's Co-Star Brandon Sklenar Breaks Silence connected 'It Ends With Us' Controversy
Brandon Skelnar is showing his enactment for his castmate.
In a lengthy papers filed past week with the California Civil Rights Department and obtained by E! News, Blake Lively accused her It Ends With Us costar and manager Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment and spearheading a smear run arsenic a retaliation for raising concerns astir his behaviour connected acceptable of the film.
Now, Brandon—who starred arsenic Atlas Corrigan successful the Colleen Hoover movie adaptation alongside Blake (who played protagonist Lily Bloom) and Justin (Ryle Kincaid)—is breaking his soundlessness connected the accusations.
In a connection posted to his Instagram Story Dec. 23, the 1923 histrion shared a nexus to a New York Times nonfiction that includes the entirety of Blake's ineligible ailment alongside a message, saying, "For the emotion of deity work this."
And to decorativeness disconnected his supportive note, Brandon tagged Blake's societal media grip and added a bosom emoji adjacent to it.
Brandon isn't the lone subordinate of the It Ends With Us formed and unit to talk retired connected Blake's complaint, which accuses Justin of sexually harassing her connected the acceptable of their movie and besides alleges that, aft she raised her concerns astir him to their accumulation team, helium retaliated against her by working with a situation PR squad to effort to destruct her reputation.
On the time the ailment was made public, Colleen—who, successful summation to penning the It Ends With Us publication series, served arsenic an enforcement shaper for the movie—shared her ain heartwarming connection for Blake.
"You person been thing but honest, kind, supportive and diligent since the time we met," the writer wrote connected her Instagram Stories Dec. 21, alongside a photograph of herself and the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants histrion hugging successful a theater. "Thank you for being precisely the quality that you are. Never change. Never wilt."
Additionally, Gwyneth Paltrow, Blake's A Simple Favor manager Paul Feig and her Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants costars Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrera and Alexis Bleidel person each publicly showed enactment for her.
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As for Justin, helium has denied each the accusations against him successful a Dec. 21 connection made to The New York Times done his lawyer Bryan Freedman, who described the ailment arsenic "categorically false" and "yet different hopeless effort to 'fix' her antagonistic reputation which was garnered from her ain remarks and actions during the run for the film."
Read connected for much stars who person reacted to Blake's ineligible complaint...
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Colleen Hoover
After Blake Lively filed a ineligible complaint against It Ends With Us costar and manager Justin Baldoni, accusing him of intersexual harassment connected the film's acceptable and for aboriginal taking portion successful a smear run against her—claims that helium has since denied via his lawyer—Colleen Hoover, who wrote the publication that the movie is based on, shared a connection to the actress.
"@blakelively, you person been thing but honest, kind, supportive and diligent since the time we met," Colleen wrote connected her Instagram Stories Dec. 21. "Thank you for being precisely the quality that you are. Never change. Never wilt."
Robyn Lively
Blake's sister, chap histrion Robyn Lively, besides weighed in.
"I impulse everyone to work The NY Times nonfiction successful its entirety," Robyn wrote connected Instagram Dec. 23, referencing the NYT portion that details Blake's ailment filed with the California Civil Rights Department. "It calls retired those down the ruthless and nefarious smear run that aimed to instrumentality down my sister."
The Teen Witch prima went connected to enactment that it besides "highlights" what Blake allegedly experienced connected the acceptable of It Ends With Us.
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Paul Feig
Blake's A Simple Favor manager besides came to her defense, writing connected X Dec. 22, "I’ve present made 2 movies with Blake and each I tin accidental is she’s 1 of the astir professional, creative, collaborative, talented and benignant radical I’ve ever worked with. She genuinely did not merit immoderate of this smear run against her. I deliberation it’s atrocious she was enactment done this."
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Amy Schumer
The comedian showed her enactment for the Gossip Girl alum, penning connected her Instagram Story Dec. 22, "I judge Blake."
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Gwyneth Paltrow
Shortly aft Blake's ailment was made public, the Goop laminitis shared a photograph of The Town star's hairsbreadth company, Blake Brown, connected her Instagram Story, writing, "Just added to my Christmas privation list."
Instagram / America Ferrera
Alexis Bledel, Amber Tamblyn & America Ferrera
Blake's BFFs and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants costars penned a associated message, posted to Instagram Dec. 22, stating they "stand with her successful solidarity arsenic she fights backmost against the reported run waged to destruct her reputation."
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Bart Johnson
Bart Johnson shared an impassioned defence of his sister-in-law successful the comments conception of a New York Times Instagram post detailing the filing and its ain probe into the behind-the-scenes turmoil.
“Her complained were filed during the filming,” the High School Musical alum, who is joined to Blake's sister Robyn, wrote. “On record. Long earlier the nationalist conflict. The formed unfollowed him for a reason. Read this nonfiction earlier spitting ignorance. His PR squad was stellar. Gross and disgusting but highly effective. Read the article, their substance connection exchanges and his PR run strategy to hide her by immoderate means necessary. No 1 is with retired faults. But the nationalist got played."
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Amber heard
Days aft Lively's filing was made public, Amber Heard reflected connected her ain acquisition facing relentless vitriol online amid ex Johnny Depp's defamation proceedings against her.
“Social media is the implicit personification of the classical saying ‘A prevarication travels halfway astir the satellite earlier information tin get its boots on,’” the Aquaman star expressed successful a connection to NBC News Dec. 23. “I saw this firsthand and up close. It’s arsenic horrifying arsenic it is destructive.”
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