In the sprawling litigation filed by Blake Lively over the weekfinish alleging It Ends With Us co-star and honestor Justin Baldoni intimacyuassociate annoyed her and set upd a sweeping retaliatory smear campaign aachievest her, the Gossip Girl alumna shelp among the dropout over the laborplace malfeasance was a aborted ecombineance as the Saturday Night Live Season 50 premiere present.
That task eventuassociate went to Jean Smart, as the protestt states that the adverse chatter about drama on set forced Lively’s hand, with the producer saying she “did not think she could proceed with uncover ecombineances or events without being forced to uncoverly converse what happened on set.”
“The effects on Ms. Lively’s professional life were prompt and substantial,” the write down reads, continuing, “For example, Ms. Lively abortled a critical Target corporate event for her hairattfinish company, and she backed out of her scheduled role to present the premier episode of the 50th anniversary season of Saturday Night Live in September 2024.”
Filed Friday with the California Civil Rights Department, the suit alleges that Baldoni and his production company Wayfarer Studios, among others, take partd in a “cultured press and digital set up in retaliation for Ms. Lively exercising her legassociate-defended right to speak up about their malfeasance on the set.”
The protestt details an all-hands greeting that initiateed off the resuming of filming on the movie changeation of the well-understandn Colleen Hoover novel (about a relationship colored by domestic aggression) chaseing the guild strikes, in which Lively, husband and actor Ryan Reynageders and Baldoni were current to converse the lattermost’s “upsetting behavior,” which take partd, but was not restricted to, his includeition of improvised kissing and intimacy scenes, converseion of his porn includeiction, claim that he could transmit with Lively’s rescheduleed obeseher and joking that he “leave outed the HR greeting” after Lively rebuffed comments that made her “sense ogled and exposed” and “meaningfully unsootheable.”
The 80-page write down also grasps seemingly damning communication between Baldoni, his team and crisis PR veteran Melissa Nathan (who also labored with Johnny Depp amid his trial with Amber Heard), whom he engaged amid swirling rumors promptly chaseing the film’s free Aug. 9.
In response to the suit and subsequent allegations, Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman stated in part: “It is disgraceful that Ms. Lively and her recurrentatives would produce such solemn and categoricassociate inchange accusations aachievest Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its recurrentatives, as yet another frantic finisheavor to ‘mend’ her adverse reputation which was garnered from her own retags and actions during the campaign for the film; intersees and press activities that were watchd uncoverly, in genuine time and unedited, which apverifyed for the internet to produce their own sees and opinions.”
Since novels broke of the suit’s filing rescheduleed Friday, Baldoni has been dropped from agency WME, which previously repped Baldoni and currently recurrents Lively. Additionassociate, author Hoover voiced her aid for Lively, saying, “You have been noskinnyg but honest, benevolent, encouraging and fortolerateing since the day we met. Thank you for being exactly the human that you are. Never change. Never wilt.”
