Justin Baldoni and Britney Spears’ first assembly didn’t go in response to plan, as he revealed in a resurfaced clip.
The 40-year-old star gave the impression to be discussing the awkward expertise in an 2017 interview, the place he recalled the second when Spears was a visitor star in Jane the Virgin.
“I do know she was a fan of the present. We have been capturing after which a couple of of us that weren’t in scenes along with her got here to observe considered one of her scenes. Because I had tweeted her and she or he had tweeted me again, I’d gone as much as her [too], so in my thoughts we have been buddies, however we weren’t. I went up and I gave her an enormous hug and I feel I scared her,” he instructed Fuse in a clip that’s making rounds throughout social media.
Following the uncomfortable interplay, the It Ends With Us star noticed his co-stars laughing, which made him marvel, “Did I simply harass Britney Spears?”
He went on to say, “I used to be an enormous Britney Spears fan in highschool…The visitor star I used to be most excited to work with was Britney Spears. And then it turned out, I didn’t get to work along with her. And there was zero scenes with Rafael and Britney Spears — most likely at her request.”
The viral second circulated on social media after Blake Lively filed a criticism of sexual assault, and launching a smear marketing campaign, towards her It Ends With Us co-star.
Baldoni responded days later along with his personal lawsuit, wherein he sued The New York Times for $250 million after its reporting on Lively’s authorized motion.