Justin Baldoni, the 40-year-old actor and director, is going through intense scrutiny after a sexual harassment lawsuit was filed by his It Ends With Us co-star, Blake Lively.
In the lawsuit, Lively accuses Baldoni of inappropriate habits on set and allegedly orchestrating a smear marketing campaign towards her after she voiced considerations.
But it’s not simply the authorized battle that’s elevating eyebrows.
Journalist Andrew Billen, who interviewed him after the discharge of his 2021 memoir Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity, has now described him as “probably the most conflicted particular person” he’s ever met.
On one hand, he comes throughout as a faithful husband, father, and male feminist, however on the opposite, Billen paints a much less flattering image of him as a “materialistic, fast-car driving porn addict” who objectified his personal physique simply as a lot as anybody else’s.
The allegations in Gossip Girls stars’ lawsuit, which embrace claims that Justin confirmed her express movies and pictures of different girls whereas discussing his alleged porn habit, have solely added gasoline to the fireplace.
It additionally particulars a number of situations of inappropriate habits, together with allegedly exhibiting Blake an express video of his spouse, barging into her trailer whereas she was nude or breastfeeding, and making sexual remarks that made her and different feminine workers uncomfortable.
In Andrew’s interview, Justin admitted to changing into hooked on express content material on the age of 10 or 11, which, in flip, formed his sexuality in complicated and troubling methods.
Growing up in a strict non secular family, Baldoni’s Baha’i religion forbade alcohol and intercourse earlier than marriage, however that did not protect him from the pull of pornography.
