Why is Blake Lively making claims of a smear campaign against her?
Al Jazeera
The It Ends With Us star is accusing co-star Justin Baldoni of ‘sexual harassment’.
Hollywood star Blake Lively has filed a legal complaint against her It Ends With Us director and co-star Justin Baldoni, accusing him of “repeated sexual harassment” on set and of an intensive smear campaign against her after the movie’s release.
Lively filed the complaint, which precedes a lawsuit, on Friday with the California Civil Rights Department, according to reports by The Associated Press news agency. Baldoni, his publicists and senior executives of Wayfarer, Baldoni’s studio behind the 2024 movie, have all been named as defendants in the complaint.
“I hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and helps protect others who may be targeted,” Lively said in a statement to journalists.
Baldoni, who is known for speaking up about “toxic masculinity” and for supporting women, has not personally responded to the claims. His legal team, however, has called them “completely false”.
Here’s what we know about the dispute:
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