00:00Justin Baldoni's lawyer is doubling down, saying he will show Blake Lively's pattern of bullying.
00:06Baldoni's legal team is responding to a new statement from Lively's legal team
00:10in the latest between the two parties who are locked in a lawsuit
00:13and reputational struggle that has mesmerized the industry.
00:17Baldoni's lawyer, Brian Friedman, teased additional forthcoming information
00:20about the It Ends With Us star, presumably as part of an upcoming countersuit.
00:25It is painfully ironic that Blake Lively is accusing Justin Baldoni
00:28of weaponizing the media when her own team orchestrated this vicious attack
00:32by sending the New York Times grossly edited documents prior to even filing the complaint.
00:38We are releasing all of the evidence which will show a pattern of bullying
00:41and threats to take over the movie.
00:43None of this will come as a surprise because consistent with her past behavior,
00:47Blake Lively used other people to communicate those threats
00:50and bully her way to get whatever she wanted.
00:52We have all the receipts and more.
00:54The remark was in response to a statement given by Lively's legal team
00:58on Monday to People magazine, which accused Baldoni's team of trying to distract
01:02and attack in the press, describing such efforts as a classic technique
01:06to discredit a victim of sexual harassment.
01:09Lively's original December 20th complaint accused her It Ends With Us director
01:12and co-star of sexual harassment on the set of the film
01:15and of orchestrating a smear campaign afterwards.
01:18A story in the Times detailed the accusations
01:21and included sensational text messages among Baldoni's PR and crisis management team.
01:26Last week, Baldoni filed a $250 million libel lawsuit against the Times,
01:32accusing the publication of coordinating with Lively to cherry-pick facts,
01:36which gave readers an inaccurate impression of events.
01:39Then last week, Lively followed up her complaint with a lawsuit in New York Federal Court.
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