{"id":140885,"date":"2024-12-29T09:01:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T09:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/justin-baldoni-preparing-shock-counter-complaint-against-blake-lively\/"},"modified":"2024-12-29T09:01:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T09:01:43","slug":"justin-baldoni-preparing-shock-counter-complaint-against-blake-lively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/justin-baldoni-preparing-shock-counter-complaint-against-blake-lively\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni preparing &apos;shock&apos; counter-complaint against Blake Lively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-12-29\" datetime=\"1735462903\" pubdate=\"\">29 December 2024<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Justin Baldoni is preparing a \u201cshock\u201d counter-complaint against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/blake-lively\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,blake-lively\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blake Lively<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Justin Baldoni is preparing a \u2018shock\u2019 counter-complaint against Blake Lively<\/p>\n<p>The actor and director, 37, has been accused by actress Blake of sexual harassment on the set of their movie \u2018It Ends With Us\u2019 and according to the Daily Mail, he is now preparing to submit legal documents of his own when the courts reopen after New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer Bryan Freedman also told Deadline Saturday: \u201cI am not going to speak to when or how many lawsuits we are filing but when we file our first lawsuit, it is going to shock everyone who has been manipulated into believing a demonstrably false narrative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be supported by real evidence and tell the true story. In over 30 years of practicing, I have never seen this level of unethical behaviour intentionally fuelled through media manipulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mail added Justin\u2019s lawsuit will flip Blake\u2019s narrative Justin and his crisis PR team allegedly planted a smear campaign to \u201cdestroy\u201d her reputation.<\/p>\n<p>\nSupporters of Blake amid her battle against Justin have included actress Kaitlin Olson, 49, whose husband Rob McElhenney, 47, is a friend and business partner of Blake\u2019s 48-year-old partner Ryan Reynolds.<\/p>\n<p>\nKaitlin wrote on her Instagram Stories: \u201c@blakelively is a kind, lovely, honest and generous person (and an incredible mom.) FYI.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\nJustin, 40, has denied the allegations made by Blake, with his lawyer describing the claims as \u201ccategorically false\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\nMr Freedman, who is acting as a lawyer for the actor and his Wayfarer Studios production company, told Variety: \u201cThese claims are completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publicly hurt and rehash a narrative in the media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/justin-baldoni-preparing-shock-counter-complaint-blake-lively-1411318.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 December 2024 Justin Baldoni is preparing a \u201cshock\u201d counter-complaint against Blake Lively. Justin Baldoni is preparing a \u2018shock\u2019 counter-complaint against Blake Lively The actor and director, 37, has been accused by actress Blake of sexual harassment on the set of their movie \u2018It Ends With Us\u2019 and according to the Daily Mail, he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1457,8588,5935,10246,1468,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-140885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-blake-lively","9":"tag-bryan-freedman","10":"tag-justin-baldoni","11":"tag-kaitlin-olson","12":"tag-rob-mcelhenney","13":"tag-ryan-reynolds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}