Blake Lively was ‘alarmed’ that Justin Baldoni cast ‘best friend’ for intimate scene in It Ends With Us, says lawsuit

More details are emerging after Blake Lively filed a legal complaint against former It Ends With Us co-star, Justin Baldoni.

On Friday Lively filed a s3xual harassment complaint against the 40-year-old actor/director.

In the lawsuit, 37-year-old Lively claimed Baldoni’s alleged behavior on set of movie It Ends With Us caused her “severe emotional distress”.

Baldoni, who has reportedly been dropped from talent agency WME, has vehemently denied the allegations.

The star’s lawyer Bryan Freedman called the lawsuit “shameful” and called the claims “categorically false” and a a “desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation which was garnered from her own remarks and actions during the campaign for the film; interviews and press activities that were observed publicly, in real time and unedited, which allowed for the internet to generate their own views and opinions.”

Justin Baldoni

Justin Baldoni has slammed the allegations ( Image: Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)

In the lawsuit, Lively claimed she was “alarmed” when Baldoni, who served as both the director and antagonist in the movie based on Colleen Hoover’s novel of the same name, allegedly hired his “best friend” to star in an intimate scene in the production.

Baldoni’s alleged best friend played the role of Lily Bloom’s (Lively) OBGYN in the movie.

The lawsuit states: “Ms. Lively was not provided with anything to cover herself with between takes until after she had made multiple requests. Ms. Lively became even more alarmed when Mr. Baldoni introduced his ‘best friend’ to play the role of the OBGYN, when ordinarily, a small role of this nature would be filled by a local actor.

“Ms. Lively felt that the selection of Mr. Baldoni’s friend for this intimate role, in which the actor’s face and hands were in close proximity to her nearly nude genitalia for a birth scene, was invasive and humiliating.”

Baldoni’s lawyer’s full statement read: “It is shameful that Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations against Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its representatives, as yet another desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation which was garnered from her own remarks and actions during the campaign for the film; interviews and press activities that were observed publicly, in real time and unedited, which allowed for the internet to generate their own views and opinions.

“These claims are completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publicly hurt and rehash a narrative in the media. Wayfarer Studios made the decision to proactively hire a crisis manager prior to the marketing campaign of the film, to work alongside their own representative with Jonesworks employed by Stephanie Jones, due to the multiple demands and threats made by Ms. Lively during production which included her threatening to not showing up to set, threatening to not promote the film, ultimately leading to its demise during release, if her demands were not met.

“It was also discovered that Ms. Lively enlisted her own representative, Leslie Sloan with Vision PR, who also represents Mr. Reynolds, to plant negative and completely fabricated and false stories with media, even prior to any marketing had commenced for the film, which was another reason why Wayfarer Studios made the decision to hire a crisis professional to commence internal scenario planning in the case they needed to address.

“The representatives of Wayfarer Studios still did nothing proactive nor retaliated, and only responded to incoming media inquiries to ensure balanced and factual reporting and monitored social activity. What is pointedly missing from the cherry-picked correspondence is the evidence that there were no proactive measures taken with media or otherwise; just internal scenario planning and private correspondence to strategize which is standard operating procedure with public relations professionals.”

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