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Teen Witch star Robyn Energetic reacted to the information that her sister, Blake Lively, sued It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment and deliberately attempting to sabotage her profession.
“FINALLY justice for my sister @blakelively,” Robyn, 52, wrote by way of Instagram Story on Saturday, December 21, sharing screenshots of a New York Instances article about Blake’s recent legal filing.
In a follow-up slide, Robyn requested her social media followers to “please learn” the Instances protection. She additionally tagged Blake’s account, drawing a rainbow coronary heart round it.
Information broke a number of hours earlier that Blake, 37, accused Baldoni, 40, of causing her “severe emotional distress” on the set of It Ends With Us. (Baldoni and Energetic costarred within the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, which he additionally directed, concerning the abusive relationship between their characters.)
Blake Energetic is claiming that It Ends With Us costar and director Justin Baldoni allegedly carried out a “social manipulation” marketing campaign to wreck her repute. Information broke on Saturday, December 21, that Energetic, 37, sued Baldoni, 40, for sexual harassment. Per The New York Instances, the lawsuit — which was filed on Friday, December 20 — […]
Blake additional claimed that Baldoni fostered a “hostile work atmosphere” and launched a “social manipulation” campaign to dry and destroy the actress’ repute.
Baldoni categorically denied the allegations in a press release supplied to Us Weekly by his legal professional, Bryan Freedman. In keeping with Freedman, the claims are “utterly false, outrageous and deliberately salacious” and the court docket movement was allegedly filed to “repair her damaging repute” and “rehash a story” relating to the movie’s manufacturing.
Freedman additionally claimed that Blake made “a number of calls for and threats” whereas filming It Ends With Us, together with “threatening to not present as much as set, threatening to not promote the movie, in the end resulting in its demise throughout launch, if her calls for weren’t met.”
Blake, who additionally served as an government producer, subsequently issued a response to Freedman’s claims.
“I hope that my authorized motion helps pull again the curtain on these sinister retaliatory techniques to hurt individuals who converse up about misconduct and helps defend others who could also be focused,” she stated in a Saturday assertion, denying Freedman’s accusations.
Earlier than It Ends With Us premiered in theaters earlier this yr, there were widespread rumors of a feud between Blake and Baldoni however neither ever publicly addressed the hypothesis.
“There have been two camps on the movie — workforce Blake and workforce Justin,” a source exclusively told Us on the time. “This inventive wrestle set the tone for the damaging expertise behind the scenes and grew into them not talking anymore.”
In keeping with the insider, Baldoni felt “his imaginative and prescient wasn’t as necessary as Blake’s,” which apparently “stifled the creativity on set.”
Costar Brandon Sklenar was one of many few It Ends With Us actors to address the apparent situation.
“Vilifying the ladies who put a lot of their coronary heart and soul into making this movie as a result of they imagine so strongly in its message appears counterproductive and detracts from what this movie is about,” he wrote via Instagram in August. “It’s, in reality, the other of the purpose. What might or might not have occurred behind the scenes doesn’t and hopefully shouldn’t detract from what our intentions have been in making this movie. It’s been disheartening to see the quantity of negativity being projected on-line.”
Sklenar, 34, continued, “In the end it’s meant to unfold love and consciousness. It isn’t meant to as soon as once more, make the ladies the ‘dangerous man,’ let’s transfer past that collectively. All I ask is that earlier than you unfold hate on the web, ask your self who its serving to. Ask your self in case your opinions are based mostly in any truth. Or should you merely need to be a part of one thing. Let’s be a part of one thing higher collectively. Part of a brand new story being written for girls and all folks all over the place.”
