The legal battle between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively continues to escalate, with Baldoni’s lawyer launching a scathing rebuke of Lively’s “abuser playbook” statement.
Baldoni and his publicists sued Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds for allegedly cooking up a scheme to discredit them and destroy their careers. However, the actress’s lawyer called their lawsuit “another chapter in the abuser playbook.”
In response, Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman branded Blake Lively’s team’s response as the “heinous pivot” they have left. Freedman stated that Lively’s response was to double down on revoltingly false sexual allegations against him.
The legal battle is set to get more intense as Freedman suggested they’ll now “fight even harder for the voiceless” in the Domestic Violence community.
Baldoni filed a $400 million lawsuit, accusing Lively of attempting to take away his stake in the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel and using her star power to pressure him into accepting one of her rewrites.
Lively’s lawyers responded by accusing Baldoni of employing “DARVO” tactics against her co-star. They claimed that his lawsuit was an attempt at retaliation for her earlier filed suit where she accused him of sexual harassment and fostering a toxic workplace environment on the set of “It Ends With Us.”
Source: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/justin-baldonis-lawyer-claims-blake-200046953.html