Blake Lively Subpoenas Justin Baldoni, Publicists for Phone 'Receipts' | TMZ Live - video Dailymotion

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Blake Lively wants to go through Justin Baldoni's phone, and she's now fired off a legal demand to get that done ... in hopes of finding a "smear campaign" smoking gun.

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00:00Blake Lively wants to go through Justin Baldoni's phone for...

00:05Even though they're not married.

00:06Even though they're not married, they're not dating,

00:09and yet she still wants to go through his phone.

00:11Because she believes that there is evidence there.

00:14Evidence of the alleged smear campaign against her.

00:19This is part of her lawsuit.

00:20She's suing him for not only sexual harassment, but for...

00:24Retaliation.

00:25And I think that's the reason she says she wants to go through

00:29the cell phone to see if there are vindictive messages.

00:32Right, and I guess this started with the text messages that she already put in her lawsuit.

00:39The text messages between Justin's PR crisis team,

00:43where they said things like they were out to bury or destroy Blake's career.

00:49So she thinks there's more evidence there.

00:51So she has now subpoenaed three different cell phone carriers.

00:55AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon.

00:59And she wants to go back a long, long way.

01:01More than two years.

01:03So basically, since they started working on this movie together,

01:08and she wants the cell phone records not only for Justin,

01:11but his two publicists, Jennifer Abel, Melissa Nathan,

01:15the co-founder of his Wayfarer Studios, another crisis manager, and a producer.

01:21Can we just revisit this whole thing we talked about a couple of weeks ago?

01:24About this is feeling less and less like a legal case,

01:29and more like a PR case on both sides.

01:32That, yeah, I mean, maybe it shows that.

01:36But the reality is here that these are two people who ultimately didn't get along,

01:42disliked each other.

01:44The PR people did what PR people do.

01:47And they want to now let all of that stuff surface,

01:51which is, in some respects, the way Hollywood works.

01:55We know that.

01:56We know that.

01:57I would agree with you, unless there actually was sexual harassment.

02:01I want to separate that.

02:03Right, and I want to separate that part.

02:04But the phone thing, to me, is more about the retaliation part,

02:08which is more about the way Hollywood works.

02:10Yes, so this is what Blake's lawyer said about these subpoenas.

02:13They said,

02:22So Brian Friedman, Justin Baldoni's attorney,

02:30reacted, I think, to your point, exactly how you would expect him to react to these subpoenas.

02:35He said,

02:51Justin Baldoni's positioning in this case has been,

03:00I'm showing all of the receipts.

03:02So if Blake Lively's team says,

03:04I want to see all the receipts,

03:05I'm going to go on my own fishing expedition and look through all of the receipts,

03:09he can't really take that position with a straight face.

03:12His whole mode in this is, let's open it all up.

03:15You're right.

03:16Now the question, is that more of a legal thing or a PR thing?

03:19This case is a PR case at this point.

03:21But they're using the tools of litigation, which is fascinating to me,

03:24because subpoenas allow you to have the power to get these documents.

03:28So we're seeing litigation tools used for PR purposes.

03:30It's fascinating.

03:32All of which adds up to no trial, no trial.

03:36Samantha, Ohio, it's giving invasion of privacy.

03:39I don't even feel that comfortable going through my boyfriend's phone.

03:42So I don't know, at this point, Blake and Justin both just need to drop it,

03:47forget about it ends with us, and forget about Colleen Hoover.

03:50Can I tell you who really supports your position?

03:53Me.

03:54Your boyfriend.

03:55Your boyfriend.

03:56And lots of other people in here who were applauding when you said,

04:00you don't want to go through your boyfriend's phone.

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