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‘It Ends With Us’ Star Breaks Silence connected Blake Lively's Justin Baldoni Allegations
Jenny Slate is lasting by her person and It Ends With Us costar Blake Lively.
After Lively filed a ineligible complaint against Justin Baldoni—fellow prima and manager of It Ends With Us—for intersexual harassment and participating successful a smear run against her, Slate called the allegations "disturbing."
“As Blake Lively’s castmate and friend, I dependable my enactment arsenic she takes enactment against those reported to person planned and carried retired an onslaught connected her reputation,” Slate—who portrayed the sister of Baldoni's quality successful It Ends With Us— shared successful a connection to Today Dec. 23. “Blake is simply a leader, loyal person and a trusted root of affectional enactment for maine and truthful galore who cognize and emotion her.”
“What has been revealed astir the onslaught connected Blake is terribly dark, disturbing, and wholly threatening," she continued. "I commend my friend, I respect her bravery, and I basal by her side.”
Lively's complaint—filed with the California Civil Rights Department arsenic a precursor to a lawsuit, per The New York Times—details alleged misconduct involving Baldoni and chap Wayfarer exec and shaper Jamey Heath that took spot connected the acceptable of It Ends With Us.
However, a lawyer for Baldoni and his accumulation institution Wayfarer Studios—also named successful Lively's complaint—denied the allegations.
“These claims are wholly false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publically wounded and rehash a communicative successful the media," lawyer Bryan Freedman said successful a Dec. 21 connection to the NYT, calling Lively's ineligible enactment “another hopeless effort to ‘fix’ her antagonistic reputation.”
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Per the complaint, obtained by E! News, a gathering took spot successful January wherever the alleged misconduct was addressed and parties agreed that the behavior—including nary much "mention of Mr. Baldoni's oregon Mr. Heath's erstwhile 'pornography addiction''—would cease, allowing accumulation connected the movie to beryllium completed the pursuing month.
However, amid the August merchandise of It Ends With Us, Lively recovered herself to beryllium a people of an alleged smear run aimed to tarnish her reputation.
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“I anticipation that my ineligible action," Lively said successful a connection published by the NYT, "helps propulsion backmost the curtain connected these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm radical who talk up astir misconduct and helps support others who whitethorn beryllium targeted.”
Since the complaint's release, Lively has been publically supported by chap celebs, including It Ends With Us costar Brandon Sklenar, arsenic good arsenic Colleen Hoover, who wrote the publication which the movie is based on.
"@blakelively, you person been thing but honest, kind, supportive and diligent since the time we met," Hoover wrote connected her Instagram Stories Dec. 21. "Thank you for being precisely the quality that you are. Never change. Never wilt."
Keep speechmaking for much reactions to Lively'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."
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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.”
