Blake Lively had Justin Baldoni crying, allegedly.
The actress has filed a grievance towards Baldoni, alleging sexual harassment and making a hostile work setting throughout the manufacturing of It Ends With Us.
The particulars, obtained by The New York Times, define a sequence of incidents that Lively, 37, claims occurred throughout filming in 2023.
The Gossip Girl alum alleges that Baldoni, 40, entered her trailer whereas she was naked bod and allowed his “associates” to look at her filming intimate scenes. These actions, together with different behaviors, reportedly made Lively really feel objectified and uncomfortable on set.
The actress, who welcomed her fourth little one with husband Ryan Reynolds simply months earlier than filming started in May 2023, described Baldoni’s repeated deal with her bodily look.
According to the submitting, he handled her as a “intercourse object” and expressed issues about her weight.
The grievance particulars a selected incident early in manufacturing when Baldoni reportedly delayed filming for hours.
He allegedly cried in Lively’s dressing room, claiming that social media feedback criticized her look in paparazzi photographs, saying she regarded “outdated and unattractive.”
Lively stated she reassured him that her character’s genuine look—depicted as having simply endured abuse—was applicable for the position and never meant to seem “sizzling.”
Baldoni is additional accused of secretly contacting Lively’s health coach, pressuring her to shed extra pounds inside two weeks, and suggesting he was involved a few scripted scene requiring him to choose her up—although the grievance notes no such scene existed.
The actress additionally alleges that Baldoni made unsolicited feedback about her well being.
When she contracted strep throat throughout filming, he reportedly supplied to attach her with an professional specializing in probiotics, calling it a “present.”
Lively’s submitting paints an image of a office the place she felt degraded and undermined. It claims Baldoni used “again channel methods” to criticize her physique and weight, compounding an already tense setting.
