Justin Baldoni’s lawyer just responded to Blake Lively’s legal team’s statement over the countersuit he has filed against her and her husband, Ryan Reynolds.
For context, the It Ends With Us star and director sued his co-star and the Deadpool actor for defamation, accusing particularly Lively of crafting a scheme to ruin his career by making false claims of s**ual harassment.
As per Daily Mail, legal documents state that the A-list Hollywood couple used their combined influence in the industry to hijack the production of the Colleen Hoover adaptation, in which Baldoni co-starred as well as directed.
Now, as reported by Deadline, after Lively’s team responded rather fiercely to the countersuit, the Jane The Virgin star’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman has clapped back.
“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,” he said.
Freedman continued, “The mere fact that Ms. Lively feels that she can publicly destroy Mr. Baldoni’s reputation in an attempt to devastate his future career and then deny him or his team their own ability to defend theirselves against her is preposterous.”
“Mr. Baldoni never once publicly attempted to call Ms. Lively out for her own many wrongdoings during filming, he kindly addressed all her concerns during filming in the correct manner despite the fact that he wholly disagreed, he himself was committed to do things differently and to keep the peace as she specifically admitted to in her own lawsuit,” he further clarified.
“We will not only continue to defend our clients against Blake’s power, privilege and all out lies, but we will now fight even harder for the voiceless in the DV community who are unfairly suffering while she continues to push on her own self-serving and selfish vendetta in the media,” Freedman concluded.
Justin Baldoni’s lawyer’s new remarks come after Blake Lively’s team labelled his lawsuit under the umbrella of victim blaming, telling Daily Mail, “This latest lawsuit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and its associates is another chapter in the abuser playbook.”
