Justin Baldoni's lawyer says Blake Lively is 'petrified' of the 'truth' being exposed amid gag order request

Justin Baldoni has deed backmost astatine Blake Lively's petition for a gag order, with his lawyers branding her latest ineligible determination arsenic an effort to 'bully' him into staying quiescent due to the fact that she's 'petrified' of the satellite learning the 'truth.'

The It Ends With Us costars person been embroiled successful a ineligible conflict ever since Blake, 37, filed an explosive suit against Justin, 40, successful December successful which she alleged he sexually harassed her on set.

Justin past responded by filing his ain bombshell suit against the Gossip Girl alum, which was filled with his ain stock of shocking claims.

In the latest crook of events, Blake and her husband, Ryan Reynolds' ineligible squad requested a gag bid to curb what they called 'improper conduct' by Justin's attorneys earlier this week, citing an alleged 'harassing and retaliatory media campaign' against the couple.

Now, Justin's lawyer Bryan Freedman has responded to their request, telling DailyMail.com that their lone extremity is to 'defend their clients with pure, unedited facts' pursuing her 'disturbingly mendacious and good calculated deed piece' against Justin.

'The irony is not mislaid connected anyone that Ms. Lively is truthful petrified of the information that she has moved to gag it,' helium said successful a blistering connection fixed to DailyMail.com. 

'The immense powerfulness that she wielded successful Hollywood built connected axenic fearfulness of her hubby and their almighty friends came to an extremity the infinitesimal Ms. Lively planned a wide organisation of a disturbingly mendacious and good calculated deed portion successful The New York Times.'

Following her 80-page lawsuit, which was filed with the California Civil Rights Department past month, the New York Times released an nonfiction astir the ordeal and called it a 'Hollywood Smear Machine;' successful summation to his suit against Blake, Justin is present suing the work for defamation.

'Ms. Lively did this with the sole intent to ruin the lives of guiltless individuals, and past went the other mile to spot blasted connected a fictitious smear campaign, each due to the fact that she rather simply could not judge that the nationalist had organically seen done her facade,' Bryan continued.

'When you impeach guiltless individuals of thing truthful disturbing arsenic intersexual harassment without reasoning of the demolition it would origin to not lone them, but the full domestic violence community, this is wherever accountability for specified mean spirited actions indispensable beryllium taken.

'We volition ever respect the court; however, we volition ne'er beryllium bullied by those suggesting we cannot support our clients with pure, unedited facts.

'All we privation is for radical to spot the existent substance messages that straight contradict her allegations, video footage that intelligibly shows determination was nary intersexual harassment, and each the different almighty grounds that straight contradicts immoderate mendacious allegations of intersexual harassment and consequent smear campaign.

'It seems that successful a clip of cosmopolitan deceit, telling the information is simply a revolutionary act.'

Blake and Ryan's gag bid petition came aft Justin's lawyer released shocking behind-the-scenes footage from the acceptable of It Ends With Us. 

The explosive video, exclusively released by DailyMail.com, showed each 3 takes of a creation country betwixt the costars - revealing the brace were connected evident large presumption earlier the histrion accused him of intersexual harassment. 

Blake past deed backmost astatine the clip's release, with her lawyers saying it really proved that she was uncomfortable during the scene.

'Justin Baldoni and his lawyer whitethorn anticipation that this latest stunt volition get up of the damaging grounds against him, but the video itself is damning,' her ineligible squad shared successful a connection with DailyMail.com. 

Her squad claimed the video 'showed Mr. Baldoni repeatedly leaning successful toward Ms. Lively, attempting to buss her, kissing her forehead, rubbing his look and rima against her neck, flicking her articulator with his thumb, caressing her, telling her however bully she smells, and talking with her retired of character.' 

'Every framework of the released footage corroborates, to the letter, what Ms. Lively described successful Paragraph 48 of her Complaint,' they added.

Blake's lawyer besides insisted that nary of the intimacy shown successful the video from the movie - which Justin directed and starred successful alongside Blake - was choreographed. 

'Every infinitesimal of this was improvised by Mr. Baldoni with nary treatment oregon consent successful advance, and nary intimacy coordinator present,' they said.

'Mr. Baldoni was not lone Ms. Lively's co-star, but the director, the caput of workplace and Ms. Lively's boss.'

Blake's ineligible squad claimed that her 'leaning away' from Justin during the country was not acting, and that the clips shows her 'repeatedly asking for the characters to conscionable talk.'

'Any pistillate who has been inappropriately touched successful the workplace volition admit Ms. Lively's discomfort,' they continued.

'They volition admit her attempts astatine levity to effort to deflect the unwanted touching. No pistillate should person to instrumentality antiaircraft measures to debar being touched by their leader without their consent.'

Her squad said that releasing the video to the media 'was different illustration of an unethical effort to manipulate the public' and 'a continuation of their harassment and retaliatory campaign.' 

'We are continuing our efforts to necessitate Mr. Baldoni and his associates to reply successful court, nether oath, alternatively than done manufactured media stunts,' her lawyer stated.

In a missive dated January 23 and obtained by People, different subordinate of Justin's ineligible team, Kevin Fritz, asked for the justice to contradict the order, penning Blake's 'desire to unit the Wayfarer Parties to support themselves privately against allegations made publically is not a due ground for a gag order. It is tactical gamesmanship, and it is outrageous.'

Blake and Ryan past doubled down, with their lawyer sending a missive to Judge Lewis J. Liman connected Friday reiterating the request for the protective order, according to Deadline.

'Requiring counsel to heed the ethical rules that hindrance them is not a gag order; it is simply a mechanics that would guarantee the proceedings successful this Court are not prejudiced by counsel's behaviour extracurricular of the courtroom,' lawyer Esra Hudson wrote connected behalf of the couple, per the outlet. 

'The Wayfarer Parties are attempting to gully a unsafe mendacious equivalence that whitethorn person profound consequences not conscionable for this case, but for different women who are sexually harassed successful the workplace fixed the precocious illustration of this matter,' the four-page missive continued. 

Ersa besides suggested that Justin's alleged smear run against Blake whitethorn inactive beryllium ongoing.

'Even much troubling, however, is that the retaliation run that Ms. Lively alleged successful her Complaint, with important supporting documentation, includes highly destructive behind-the-scenes elements, including the regular engagement of [Baldoni's situation PR chief] Melissa Nathan with her immense tabloid media sources to power a dependable watercourse of antagonistic media regarding Ms. Lively, arsenic good arsenic a blase and 'untraceable' integer societal media manipulation run designed to interaction societal media algorithms against Ms. Lively,' the actress' lawyer stated.

'The Lively-Reynolds Parties are informed and judge that these efforts person continued unabated since the CRD Complaint was filed, and whitethorn person adjacent been accelerated. The medication of justness successful this lawsuit volition beryllium severely compromised if this behaviour continues.'