Justin Baldoni's squad released unedited footage from the acceptable of "It Ends With Us" that they assertion refutes Blake Lively's accusations of intersexual harassment.
After filing a $400 cardinal lawsuit against Lively and her hubby Ryan Reynolds, Baldoni's video — shared by his attorney, Bryan Freedman, and obtained by Fox News Digital — allegedly addresses the actress' claims astir a slow-dance scene.
Lively claimed Baldoni "leaned guardant and dilatory dragged his lips from her receptor and down her cervix arsenic helium said, ‘it smells truthful good,'" portion filming a dilatory creation montage scene, according to her Dec. 20 intersexual harassment filing obtained by Fox News Digital. "When Ms. Lively aboriginal objected to this behavior, Mr. Baldoni’s effect was, ‘I’m not adjacent attracted to you.’"
However, Baldoni insisted the remark was made successful respect to Lively's ain admittance astir her spray tan.
Justin Baldoni released unedited footage from the "It Ends With Us" set. (Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
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Throughout the video, astir 10 minutes of earthy footage, Baldoni is directing the country portion Lively engages him successful speech due to the fact that she states that it's "more romantic" than conscionable staring astatine each other.
While Baldoni snuggled into Lively's neck, the histrion jokingly asked, "Am I getting beard connected you today?" She laughed and said, "I'm astir apt getting spray tan connected you."
Baldoni past stated, "It smells good," to which Lively responded, "Well, it's not that. It's my assemblage makeup."
"The pursuing videos captured connected May 23, 2023 intelligibly refute Ms. Lively's characterization of his behavior," a connection shared astatine the opening of the video stated. "The country successful question was designed to amusement the 2 characters falling successful emotion and longing to beryllium adjacent to 1 another. Both actors are intelligibly behaving good wrong the scope of the country and with communal respect and professionalism."
"These are each 3 takes filmed of the sequence."
A typical for Lively did not respond to Fox News Digital's contiguous petition for comment.
Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively seen connected the acceptable of "It Ends with Us" connected Jan. 12, 2024. (Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
"The country successful question was designed to amusement the 2 characters falling successful emotion and longing to beryllium adjacent to 1 another. Both actors are intelligibly behaving good wrong the scope of the country and with communal respect and professionalism."
— Justin Baldoni's teamLively elaborate allegations of intersexual harassment, retaliation, intentional affliction of affectional distress, negligence and much made by Baldoni and movie shaper Jamey Heath successful a ailment archetypal filed with the California Civil Rights section and aboriginal successful national court.
Some of the issues allegedly addressed astatine an "all-hands" gathering earlier filming began included nary much showing nude videos oregon images of women to Lively, nary much notation of Baldoni’s erstwhile "pornography addiction," nary much discussions astir idiosyncratic experiences with sex, nary much descriptions of their ain genitalia, nary much adding enactment scenes extracurricular what was successful the archetypal script, nary much discussions astir Lively’s value oregon deceased father, and more.
However, Baldoni insisted Lively "falsely" accused him successful an effort to repair her estimation pursuing the fallout astir the movie's property circuit aft she took power of the film.
Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively filmed "It Ends With Us" successful 2023 and 2024. (Getty Images)
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Blake Lively accused Justin Baldoni of intersexual harassment. ( Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
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Baldoni's ineligible team claimed Lively has nary grounds of a deliberate smear run and alternatively worked to repair her estimation by accusing the histrion and others of intersexual harassment.
Lively "could not tolerate her publically tainted representation for adjacent a moment, and further could not judge that it was wholly of her ain making," the suit read. "She needed a scapegoat. And alternatively than admit and instrumentality accountability for her ain mishaps, she chose to blasted Plaintiffs, successful a malicious and unforgivably nationalist manner."
"When she and Reynolds could not unit Baldoni and Wayfarer to work a connection she and her representatives prepared, extorting them to ‘take accountability’ successful defence of Lively’s actions, she laic successful hold for months, preparing to publically onslaught Baldoni by falsely claiming that helium had sexually harassed her."
Justin Baldoni sued Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds for civilian extortion, defamation and more. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
Lively's squad slammed Baldoni's suit successful a statement.
"This latest suit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and its associates is different section successful the abuser playbook," the connection provided by Lively's ineligible squad read. "This is an age-old story: A pistillate speaks up with factual grounds of intersexual harassment and retaliation and the abuser attempts to crook the tables connected the victim. This is what experts telephone DARVO. Deny. Attack. Reverse Victim Offender."
The connection continued, successful part: "Their effect to intersexual harassment allegations: she wanted it, it’s her fault. Their justification for wherefore this happened to her: look what she was wearing. In short, portion the unfortunate focuses connected the abuse, the abuser focuses connected the victim. The strategy of attacking the pistillate is desperate, it does not refute the grounds successful Ms. Lively’s complaint, and it volition fail."