Justin Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit in opposition to Blake Lively over the controversial circumstances behind the scenes of their film It Ends with Us has obtained a response from the actress’s authorized staff.
In a press release, Lively’s authorized staff responded to the director-star’s extortion and defamation lawsuit, which was filed on Thursday, January 16.
“This newest lawsuit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and its associates is one other chapter within the abuser playbook.”
“This is an age-old story: A girl speaks up with concrete proof of sexual harassment and retaliation and the abuser makes an attempt to show the tables on the sufferer,” the assertion continued.
“This is what specialists name DARVO. Deny. Attack. Reverse Victim Offender.
“Wayfarer has opted to make use of the sources of its billionaire co-founder to challenge media statements, launch meritless lawsuits, and threaten litigation to overwhelm the general public’s means to know that what they’re doing is retaliation in opposition to sexual harassment allegations,” the assertion reads.
Lawyers for Lively, 37, say Baldoni and his associates “try to shift the narrative to Ms. Lively by falsely claiming that she seized artistic management and alienated the forged from Mr Baldoni,” the assertion continues.
“The proof will present that the forged and others had their very own unfavourable experiences with Mr. Baldoni and Wayfarer. The proof will even present that Sony requested Ms. Lively to supervise Sony’s lower of the movie, which they then chosen for distribution and was a powerful success.”
“Their response to sexual harassment allegations: she wished it, it’s her fault,” the assertion concludes.
“Their justification for why this occurred to her: look what she was sporting. In brief, whereas the sufferer focuses on the abuse, the abuser focuses on the sufferer. The technique of attacking the lady is determined, it doesn’t refute the proof in Ms Lively’s criticism, and it’ll fail.”
On the opposite hand, Baldoni is suing Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and their publicist for alleged extortion, defamation, and interference together with his enterprise relations.
