Blake Full of life is thrilled Justin Baldoni determined to launch unedited footage from “It Ends With Us,” as a result of she says it solely proves her level … that she was visibly uncomfortable with Baldoni’s advances in the course of the scene.
Blake’s authorized staff tells TMZ, “Justin Baldoni and his lawyer could hope that this newest stunt will get forward of the damaging proof in opposition to him, however the video itself is damning. Each body of the launched footage corroborates, to the letter, what Ms. Full of life described in Paragraph 48 of her Grievance.”
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They proceed, “The video exhibits Mr. Baldoni repeatedly leaning in towards Ms. Full of life, trying to kiss her, kissing her brow, rubbing his face and mouth in opposition to her neck, flicking her lip together with his thumb, caressing her, telling her how good she smells, and speaking together with her out of character.”
Whereas it’d seem to be they had been merely actors appearing out a scene that is speculated to depict them falling love … Blake’s staff factors out not one of the intimacy was mentioned or choreographed. As they put it, “Each second of this was improvised by Mr. Baldoni with no dialogue or consent prematurely, and no intimacy coordinator current. Mr. Baldoni was not solely Ms. Full of life’s co-star, however the director, the top of studio and Ms. Full of life’s boss.”
Blake leaning away from Justin within the scene was not appearing, in response to her legal professionals. They are saying, “The video exhibits Ms. Full of life leaning away and repeatedly asking for the characters to only discuss. Any girl who has been inappropriately touched within the office will acknowledge Ms. Full of life’s discomfort. They’ll acknowledge her makes an attempt at levity to attempt to deflect the undesirable touching. No girl ought to should take defensive measures to keep away from being touched by their employer with out their consent.”
As we reported, Justin’s staff launched almost 10 minutes of uncooked footage, however they believed it proved he did NOT sexually harass Blake in the course of the scene.
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This newest growth within the high-profile authorized warfare comes on the heels of Blake Full of life’s authorized staff responding final Thursday to Justin Baldoni’s lawsuit with a scathing assertion, saying … “That is an age-old story: A lady speaks up with concrete proof of sexual harassment and retaliation and the abuser makes an attempt to show the tables on the sufferer. That is what specialists name DARVO. Deny. Assault. Reverse Sufferer Offender.”
Full of life’s staff says Justin and his manufacturing firm are pulling out all of the stops to attempt to “overwhelm the general public’s capability to know that what they’re doing is retaliation in opposition to sexual harassment allegations.”
Taylor Swift notably popped up in Justin’s lawsuit — the place he included a textual content he says exhibits Blake Full of life evaluating herself to Daenerys Targaryen, a significant character on “Sport of Thrones” and TS and husband Ryan Reynolds are her “dragons.”
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He is suing Full of life, Reynolds and Blake’s publicist, Leslie Sloane for defamation, civil extortion, interference with contractual relations and a slew of different allegations — and is in search of a minimum of $400 million in damages.
On the opposite facet … Blake accused Baldoni of displaying her bare images and movies of girls, speaking about an alleged “pornography dependancy,” discussing his sexual conquests and commenting on her weight. After submitting her preliminary criticism, she sued Baldoni for psychological anguish and emotional misery.
Blake’s legal professionals inform us, “Releasing this video to the media, quite than presenting it as proof in court docket, is one other instance of an unethical try to control the general public. It’s also a continuation of their harassment and retaliatory marketing campaign. Whereas they’re targeted on deceptive media narratives, we’re targeted on the authorized course of. We’re persevering with our efforts to require Mr. Baldoni and his associates to reply in court docket, beneath oath, quite than by means of manufactured media stunts.”