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(NewsNation) — Blake Lively has reasserted her assertion that Justin Baldoni orchestrated a smear run against her, a caller unsealed deposition revealed.
The histrion sat down for the deposition July 31 and was peppered with questions by Baldoni’s lawyer regarding her ineligible conflict with her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director.
In a December 2024 lawsuit, Lively accused Baldoni and the workplace of embarking connected a “multi-tiered plan” to harm her reputation pursuing a gathering successful which she and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, addressed “repeated intersexual harassment and different disturbing behavior” by Baldoni and a shaper connected the movie.
Lively was asked by an lawyer erstwhile the alleged smear run against her came to an end.
“It doesn’t consciousness similar it’s ended,” Lively responded, adding that not lone does she judge Baldoni was involved, but truthful was everyone she sued, including the lawyer who questioned her.
According to her archetypal complaint, Baldoni's program included a connection to station theories connected online connection boards, technologist a societal media run and works quality stories captious of Lively.
Blake Lively: Justin Baldoni tried to harm my reputation
“Outside of what I cognize done my attorneys, I judge the enactment of a retaliatory suit and the property that you person done and the statements that you person made astir maine and my quality person felt incredibly retaliatory,” Lively said.
Lively besides claimed successful the December 2024 lawsuit that Baldoni created a hostile situation connected the movie set.
The justice presiding implicit the lawsuit threw out Baldoni’s $400 cardinal countersuit against Lively and Reynolds successful June. He said Baldoni’s squad had not alleged Lively was liable for immoderate statements extracurricular her California Civil Rights Department complaint, which helium said is privileged.
Justin Baldoni, left, and Blake Lively successful a country from "It Ends With Us." (Nicole Rivelli/Sony Pictures via AP)Justin Baldoni attended Blake Lively's deposition
While Lively doubled down connected the smear run allegations, Baldoni was reportedly successful the room.
Sources told TMZ that Baldoni showed up astatine the New York City bureau of Lively’s lawyer arsenic his attorneys questioned her astir the lawsuit.
Lively scored a legal victory past week erstwhile the justice granted the actress’s question to onslaught a unsmooth draught of her deposition transcript from the docket.
Details from Lively’s deposition were revealed connected Aug. 4, including a substance concatenation among editors of the movie. In the documents, the editors are seen criticizing Lively implicit her taking power of the movie’s enactment scenes involving her character, including scenes successful which different histrion played the younger mentation of Lively's character.
