Justin Baldoni's Lawyer Says They Will Show Blake Lively's "Pattern of Bullying"

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Justin Baldoni's lawyer is doubling down saying he will show Blake Lively's pattern of bullying. Baldoni's legal team is responding to a new statement from Lively's legal team in the latest between the two parties who are locked in a lawsuit and reputational struggle that has mesmerized the industry. Baldoni's lawyer Bryan Freedman teased additional forthcoming information about the 'It Ends with Us' star, presumably as part of an upcoming countersuit.

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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.

01:43For more updates to this story, head to THR.com.

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