The database of Blake Lively's grievances against Justin Baldoni is simply a agelong one, but the astir damning of each is her assertion that helium sexually harassed her portion filming It Ends With Us with unwanted kissing, talking astir his enactment beingness and trying to insert gratuitous raunchy scenes into the script.
After Lively filed a suit against Baldoni successful January, helium quickly filed a $400million countersuit against Blake, her hubby Ryan Reynolds and their publicist Leslie Sloane implicit claims of civilian extortion, defamation and penetration of privateness and has launched a website, thelawsuitinfo.com, outlining his mentation of events.
Amongst the pages of documents, emails and substance messages is an intriguing acceptable of handwritten notes made by Baldoni during his gathering with the film's intimacy co-ordinator which whitethorn good beryllium to beryllium the cardinal to the full case.
Lively has painted a representation whereby determination was nary intimacy co-ordinator progressive successful the accumulation until she demanded one; Baldoni introduced unwanted kissing successful intimate scenes, and helium spoke to her astir his ain enactment life.
However, his timeline appears to amusement that determination was successful information an intimacy co-ordinator engaged from the outset, who Lively declined to conscionable until filming began. This yet resulted successful Baldoni, who was besides the director, having to convey the intimacy co-ordinator's notes to Lively himself.
Her depiction of his adding graphic scenes to the film, Baldoni insists, was simply him filling her successful connected what had been discussed, specified arsenic her quality 'orgasming' - and, damningly, helium claims that Lively seemed incapable to discern betwixt a nonrecreational speech astir acting retired enactment scenes and being sexually harassed.
Baldoni allegedly met with the intimacy coordinator connected April 21 and made handwritten notes during the gathering (pictured), which helium claimed were shared with Lively
Lively claimed successful her suit against Baldoni that helium sexually harassed her by adding unwanted kisses into romanticist scenes
April 5, 2023 - Lively declines to conscionable the intimacy coordinator earlier filming starts
Texts sent by Baldoni to his co-star anterior to shooting the movie look to amusement that Lively declined to conscionable the intimacy coordinator earlier filming started.
Baldoni, who served arsenic manager and starred as Ryle Kincaid - the spouse of Lively's quality Lily Bloom - hired the coordinator connected April 5, 2023, and tried to acceptable up a gathering oregon telephone betwixt her and his co-star.
He sent Lively a connection to say: 'Just hired intimacy coordinator who I LOVE. Will acceptable you up to meet/FT with her adjacent week for intro.'
However, Lively responded to diminution his invitation, saying: 'I consciousness good. I tin conscionable her erstwhile we commencement :) convey you though!'
Baldoni past raised the contented with an unnamed pistillate producer, who gave him the go-ahead to conscionable the coordinator without Lively and study backmost to her connected the guidance given.
Baldoni's substance read: 'Just wanted to archer you astir this - seems she doesn't privation to conscionable intimacy coordinator until we commencement which whitethorn messiness up the workflow, but I tin inactive conscionable with her of course.'
The shaper responded: 'That's good if she doesn't privation to conscionable her now. You'll conscionable person to locomotion her done what you and [intimacy coordinator] are thinking.'
Baldoni's ailment alleged that due to the fact that of Lively's rejection of the meeting, 'many enactment scenes were not written with simultaneous collaboration and input from some Lively and the intimacy coordinator, arsenic Baldoni had agelong intended'.
'In the end, Lively rejected each of the intimacy coordinator's proposals to rewrite the scenes herself,' the ailment added.
Lively besides stands accused of 'falsely' suggesting that determination was nary intimacy coordinator connected set, contempt 1 being engaged by Wayfarer six weeks earlier accumulation started.
It Ends With Us had to cease filming successful June 2023 owed to the writers' strike.
Lively filed a ailment to the California Civil Rights Department and followed it up with a national tribunal lawsuit, successful which she has made allegations of intersexual harassment against Baldoni.
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni are pictured portion filming It Ends With Us successful New Jersey
According to her lawsuit, Lively's lawyer sent an email to Wayfarer Studios lawyers successful November 2023, containing a database of 17 provisions she requested to beryllium fulfilled earlier she resumed filming oregon she would instrumentality ineligible action.
Amongst those provisions was the petition that an intimacy coordinator during scenes featuring some Lively and Baldoni and that nary unwanted touching oregon intersexual comments would beryllium made without consent
Baldoni has argued that this seems to 'suggest' that nary intimacy co-ordinator had been contiguous during the archetypal limb of filming, contempt the information 1 had been hired close from the offset.
April 21, 2023 - Baldoni meets with the intimacy coordinator and aboriginal feeds backmost 'orgasm' notes to Lively
Baldoni says helium met with the intimacy coordinator and made handwritten notes during the meeting, which he claimed were shared with Lively during 1 of their 'script-writing meetings' astatine her residence successful New York.
'It was important to [Baldoni] that the intimacy coordinator beryllium a pistillate to assistance trade enactment scenes that would talk to the book's mostly pistillate audience—i.e., beryllium written from the ''female gaze'',' his suit claims.
In her lawsuit, Lively claimed that determination was 'inappropriate, improvised' kissing connected set, but Baldoni's ailment has contradictorily alleged that 'any improvisation was made by Lively'
Baldoni's handwritten notes were besides published connected his website, showing that the suggestions astir Lively's enactment scenes were fixed to him by the intimacy coordinator.
The ailment alleges that the notes disprove Lively's allegation that Baldoni personally added 'graphic content' to the movie and spoke astir his ain enactment life, 'including a country successful which Ms. Lively was to orgasm connected camera'.
Claiming her accusation is 'false', Baldoni insists that the orgasm absorption came straight from the intimacy coordinator earlier being shared with Lively - which they accidental is proven by Baldoni's notes
The handwritten notes from the gathering amusement words and phrases specified arsenic 'goes down connected her', 'orgasm', 'foreplay' and the 'cl*t test'.
'Ideally, these conversations would person taken spot straight betwixt Lively and the intimacy coordinator directly, arsenic Baldoni had requested,' the papers continued.
'However, Lively declined to conscionable with her, leaving Baldoni successful the little than perfect presumption of having to relay these notes to Lively successful her penthouse.'
Baldoni claims that having an intimacy co-ordinator contiguous for kissing scenes is not modular practice
When proceeding the orgasm suggestion, 'Lively [allegedly] remarked, ''Oh no, I'm excessively aged for that",' and Baldoni offered different proposition instead, besides from his notes from the gathering with the intimacy coordinator'.
Baldoni claims that Lively was incapable to separate these conversations astir their characters, which contained intersexual language, from reality.
He said that she 'mispresented these ideas arsenic personal, contempt the information that they were workshopping scenes for their characters'.
'Lively’s inability to discern the basal premise of the disagreement betwixt collaborating connected a movie and idiosyncratic interactions with her co-star and manager is woven passim her claims of intersexual harassment,' his suit claims.
May 5-12, 2023 - Baldoni speaks with the intimacy coordinator and Lively is fixed her nudity rider
In a gathering successful January 2024 with the It Ends With Us team, Lively allegedly requested that nary further intersexual scenes extracurricular of what she had primitively signed up for would beryllium permitted, according to a filing from Baldoni.
The papers besides stated that each enactment scenes would besides person to beryllium monitored by a typical of the actress.
It besides requested that everyone moving connected these intimate scenes had to beryllium hired professionals that Lively pre-approved, not 'friends' of the shaper oregon director.
She besides said that she would not movie immoderate much nude scenes without a SAG-compliant nudity rider - a papers outlining the scene's specifics - successful place. Any scenes changeable without one, Lively said, should not beryllium utilized without her ineligible team's consent.
However, Baldoni's timeline has refuted her allegation that determination was not a nudity rider successful place, claiming she received 1 agelong earlier immoderate intimate scenes were filmed.
According to the timeline, Baldoni emailed the intimacy coordinator connected May 5, 2023, with his notes connected the enactment scenes aft discussing Lively's comfortableness levels with her.
The papers claimed: 'Justin emphasizes that ''the mode these are changeable and what is shown volition beryllium a ''Collaboration betwixt [Baldoni] and Blake''.'
Just days later, connected May 8, emails assertion Lively's squad was provided with the nudity rider - which serves arsenic confirmation that Lively and the intimacy coordinator 'discussed and mutually approved the enactment scenes'.
Baldoni's ailment refuted immoderate proposition that Lively changeable scenes without a nudity rider and claimed she ne'er requested a 'closed set' during the negotiations - though accumulation yet agreed to this.
While enactment scenes were scheduled to beryllium changeable that week, they were rescheduled aggregate times owed to unwellness and the consequent strikes, and were not changeable until January 2024, the ailment added.
On May 12, Baldoni and Lively past allegedly worked astatine her apartment, making 'final publication changes' up of accumulation officially opening connected May 15.
May 22, 2023 - Lively and Baldoni execute a kissing country successful hospital
In her lawsuit, Lively claimed determination was 'inappropriate, improvised' kissing connected set, portion Baldoni besides allegedly spoke 'frequently of a pornography addiction and intersexual encounters'.
In a gathering successful which she acceptable 30 demands of her co-stars, Lively acceptable wide boundaries erstwhile it came to filming the movie's enactment and intimacy scenes.
She demanded an intimacy coordinator beryllium contiguous astatine each times successful each country involving Lively and Baldoni, adding determination should beryllium nary much 'improvising' kissing.
'No biting oregon sucking of articulator without [Lively's] consent,' the papers read.
A aboriginal request said that each enactment scenes request coordinator present, arsenic good arsenic a 'monitor' pre-approved by Lively to oversee them.
However, regarding her kissing claims, Baldoni's ailment has contradictorily alleged that 'any improvisation' successful the scenes were 'made by Lively herself' and each kisses were scripted.
The co-stars performed a kissing country successful which their characters got engaged astatine the infirmary connected May 22, and Baldoni's campy person insisted Lively 'initiated' the kissing connected that occasion.
The papers claimed: 'In 1 take, she pulls Baldoni successful and kisses him once; successful another, twice.
'Lively determined the fig of kisses based connected what she felt indispensable for the scene.'
It is alleged that Lively 'improvised' the fig of kisses successful the scene, but added that the buss itself was successful nary mode improvised and was included successful the script.
'If nary 1 was expected to improvise, Baldoni would person nary mode of knowing based connected Lively's ain actions,' the ailment added.
'Lively demonstrated, again and again, that this was a mean and acceptable portion of filming romanticist scenes.'
The timeline besides noted that portion determination was nary intimacy coordinator connected acceptable connected that day, it is not required for scenes wherever purely kissing is progressive and nary different intimacy oregon nudity is filmed.
Lively and her attorneys allegedly stated that she wanted an intimacy coordinator contiguous for kissing scenes, but Baldoni's squad claimed that is not successful enactment with manufacture practice, with 1 solely brought connected for 'simulated enactment and nudity scenes'.
MailOnline person contacted Lively's representatives for comment.
Baldoni besides revealed successful his ineligible ailment however Lively made 30 demands of her It Ends With Us co-stars to code the set's alleged 'hostile enactment environment'.
At the January 4 meeting, Lively stated the issues she had with Baldoni and the show's shaper Heath, according to the filing.
Everyone successful attendance reportedly agreed to the 30 conditions the histrion demanded successful bid to forestall further discomfort connected set. Most of the points Lively brought up were sex-related.
The archetypal petition was 'no much showing of nude videos oregon images of women, including the producer's wife' to Lively oregon her employees, according to the filing released by the New York Times.
Another jaw-dropping request was that radical connected acceptable halt discussing Baldoni and Heath's erstwhile 'pornography addiction' and Lively's 'lack of pornography consumption.
Lively besides asserted that nary 1 should beryllium talking astir their enactment lives, their genitalia oregon 'personal times that carnal consent was not fixed successful intersexual acts, arsenic either the abuser oregon the abused'.
The ailment revealed that Lively said nary 1 was to bring up immoderate erstwhile HR complaints made against WayFarer Studios, which Baldoni is co-founder of. She besides forbid anyone from asking her oregon her trainer astir her weight.
For formed safety, an 'experienced' shaper was asked to oversee the acceptable and it was agreed that Lively would not person immoderate 'abusive' oregon 'retaliatory' reactions to wanting to enactment the safeguards successful place.