The sisterhood reigns on.
Actresses America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel launched a joint assertion on Sunday, standing “in solidarity” with their “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” co-star, Blake Lively, who’s at the moment embattled in a lawsuit with actor Justin Baldoni, her costar and the director of her 2024 movie, “It Ends with Us.”
“As Blake’s associates and sisters for over twenty years, we stand together with her in solidarity as she fights again in opposition to the reported marketing campaign waged to destroy her status,” the ladies wrote.
America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel launched a joint assertion in assist of Blake Lively on Sunday. (Andrew Toth/Getty Images)
“Throughout the filming of ‘It Ends with Us,’ we noticed her summon the braveness to ask for a protected office for herself and colleagues on set, and we’re appalled to learn the proof of a premeditated and vindictive effort that ensued to discredit her voice.”
“The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” was launched in 2005. The actresses, Blake Lively, America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel have maintained a detailed relationship. (Blake Lively Instagram)
Per the lawsuit, following an “all-hands” assembly between Lively and Baldoni, in addition to some manufacturing employees, the actress requested a number of measures be carried out to make sure a conducive, protected house.
“We are appalled to learn the proof of a premeditated and vindictive effort that ensued to discredit her voice.”
Justin Baldoni is being sued by Blake Lively for a plethora of issues, together with sexual harassment. (David Buchan/Variety/Penske Media by way of Getty Images/Lia Toby/Getty Images)
The following are simply among the provisions agreed upon by all events:
- “No extra exhibiting nude movies or photographs of girls, together with producer’s spouse, to BL [Lively] and/or her workers.”
- “No extra point out of Mr. Baldoni’s or Mr. [Jamey] Heath’s earlier ‘pornography dependancy’ or BL lack of pornography consumption to BL and different crew members.”
- “No extra discussions to BL.and or her workers about private experiences with intercourse, together with because it pertains to spouses or others.”
- “No extra inquiries by Mr. Baldoni to BL coach with out her information or consent to reveal her weight.”
- “An intimacy coordinator have to be current always when BL is on set in scenes with Mr. Baldoni.”
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“Most upsetting is the unabashed exploitation of home violence survivors’ tales to silence a girl who requested for security. The hypocrisy is astounding,” the statement of Ferrera, Tamblyn and Bledel continued. The movie depicts an abusive relationship between Lively and Baldoni’s characters. The movie relies on Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel.
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“We are struck by the truth that even when a girl is as robust, celebrated, and resourced as our pal Blake, she will face forceful retaliation for daring to ask for a protected working setting. We are impressed by our sister’s braveness to face up for herself and others.”
The 4 ladies appeared in New York City on the world premiere of “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2” in July 2008. (Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
Representatives for Lively and Baldoni didn’t instantly return Fox News Digital’s request for touch upon the assertion.
The 4 ladies have maintained a powerful friendship since “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” premiered in 2005. The collection, additionally based mostly on a e-book of the identical identify, included a sequel movie that was launched in 2008.
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Blake Lively, America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel and Amber Tamblyn are photographed in August 2008, selling the movie’s sequel. (Michael Loccisano/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
As Fox News Digital beforehand reported, Lively is suing Baldoni and his manufacturing firm, WayFarer Studios (which produced “It Ends with Us”), in addition to a number of people for a litany of issues, together with sexual harassment, negligence, interference with potential financial benefit, intentional affliction of emotional misery, and extra.
Lively’s group can be suing for retaliation, alleging that Baldoni and WayFarer Studios “launched into a classy press and digital plan in retaliation for Ms. Lively exercising her legally-protected proper to talk up about their misconduct on the set, with the extra goal of intimidating her and anybody else from revealing in public what truly occurred,” as written within the submitting.
Per the lawsuit obtained by Fox News Digital, a “Scenario Planning Document” was despatched from a employed disaster administration group to Baldoni, Heath and others, which laid out three probably eventualities that Lively and her group may make the most of and, conversely, how Baldoni’s group would reply if she selected to “make her grievances public.” Lively’s lawyer claims within the submitting that Baldoni’s employed disaster PR supervisor, Melissa Nathan, distributed the doc on Aug. 2, 2024, “to advance deceptive counternarratives.”
Blake Lively and Taylor Swift out collectively. (Gotham/Getty Images)
One plan of action the group might take, as written within the doc, could be to “discover planting tales in regards to the weaponization of feminism and the way folks in BL [Lively]’s circle, like Taylor Swift, have been accused of using these techniques to ‘bully’ into getting what they need.”
Bryan Freedman, an lawyer for Baldoni and Wayfarer, instructed The New York Times, “These claims are fully false, outrageous and deliberately salacious with an intent to publicly damage and rehash a story within the media.”
Freedman added that Wayfarer, and its executives and PR group “did nothing proactive nor retaliated” in opposition to Lively. Freedman claims Lively’s grievance is “one other determined try to ‘repair’ her destructive status.”
Representatives for Baldoni, together with Freedman, didn’t reply to Fox News Digital’s earlier request for remark.
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