Justin Baldoni joined forces along with his publicists, Jennifer Abel and Melissa Nathan, in his new $400 million countersuit in opposition to Blake Lively.
Shortly after the lawsuit was filed on January 16 in response to Lively’s personal lawsuit in opposition to Baldoni, Abel and Nathan — who have been talked about extensively in Lively’s lawsuit — broke their silence in an announcement to People journal, detailing the extreme fallout they’ve confronted.
“Five months in the past, Ms. Lively selected to advertise a movie about home violence in a means that brought about prompt detrimental backlash attributable to her personal extremely publicised actions,” their assertion reads. “Instead of accepting duty, she determined to cruelly blame us.”
“This malicious assault on personal people by Ms. Lively and her workforce… set off a series of occasions that has been dangerous past measure,” Abel and Nathan said, accusing Lively of selling her movie It Ends with Us in a means that spurred “detrimental and natural backlash.”
The publicists declare they’ve endured “dying threats, abhorrent abuse and vile anti-Semitic slurs” since Lively filed her criticism in opposition to Baldoni and his associates.
Abel and Nathan described themselves as “personal people” caught within the crossfire of what they name a “viciously egocentric ongoing litigation affected by documented and provable lies.”
They additional alleged, “With this submitting, we carry our personal curtain of what occurs when the entitled weaponise energy, worry, and cash to destroy, intimidate, and bully those that get of their means.”
The publicists’ assertion comes within the wake of Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit in opposition to Lively and her workforce. While Lively has alleged unprofessional behaviour on the It Ends with Us set, Baldoni and his associates contend that the narrative has been manipulated to hurt their reputations.
For now, Abel and Nathan stay resolute of their protection, stating that they’ve been unfairly “scapegoated” for Lively’s actions.
“To be clear,” they declared, “Ms. Lively and her workforce initiated this smear marketing campaign within the media for the only real intention of gaining undeserved public sympathy.”
