Justin Baldoni bemoaned being banished to the basement by Blake Full of life throughout the It Ends with Us premiere, in response to a purported leaked voice message he despatched to his associates.
The message was performed in full on The Megyn Kelly Present throughout an interview the previous Fox Information host carried out with Bryan Freedman, Baldoni’s lawyer.
Kelly supplied little context as to how she obtained the message, however Freedman stated within the interview that he deliberate to place “each single textual content message, each single doc” within the public area. Freedman has repped Kelly previously. Deadline has been unable to independently confirm or date the voice message.
In the course of the message (full transcript beneath), Baldoni stated he was “despatched to the basement with all my family and friends” for over an hour as a result of he was not “allowed to be seen” with Full of life and the solid.
“We begin laughing due to the ridiculousness of this entire factor and I understand like on an evening that was alleged to be so materialistically joyful, I used to be within the basement with the folks that love me probably the most and we had been all joyful and laughing cos none of that s**t issues, none of it,” he stated.
The premiere befell at New York Metropolis’s AMC Lincoln Sq. Theater on August 6, 2024. Baldoni and Full of life weren’t pictured collectively throughout the curtain raiser for Sony’s Colleen Hoover adaptation.
Publication of the voice memo is the most recent escalation within the volcanic dispute between Full of life and Baldoni, the latter of whom directed in addition to starred in hit film It Ends With Us. Full of life has sued over her accusations of sexual harassment and an internet smear marketing campaign, however Baldoni is but to formally retaliate in opposition to his co-star. Freedman pledged to Kelly that Full of life can be sued “into oblivion.” Baldoni has already sued The New York Instances over its explosive article on the saga, headlined: ”We Can Bury Anybody’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine.’
In an interview with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo earlier this week, Freedman expanded on his technique to flood the zone with non-public communications over the It Ends With Us affair.
“We’re going to take what the younger children name receipts, and we’re going to take these textual content messages and we’re going to place them out for the general public to see,” the Hollywood lawyer instructed Cuomo, who can also be a shopper. “And we’re doing it as we communicate, and we have now been doing it, and what you’re beginning to see is you’re beginning to see an entire turnaround on this story, and also you’re beginning to see a turnaround, as a result of persons are questioning, is that this truthful or not?”
Deadline has contacted Full of life’s reps for touch upon the Baldoni voice message. In an announcement on Tuesday, her attorneys stated: “Ms. Full of life’s federal litigation earlier than the Southern District of New York entails severe claims of sexual harassment and retaliation, backed by concrete information. This isn’t a ‘feud’ arising from ‘artistic variations’ or a ‘he stated/she stated’ state of affairs. As alleged in Ms. Full of life’s criticism, and as we’ll show in litigation, Wayfarer and its associates engaged in illegal, retaliatory astroturfing in opposition to Ms. Full of life for merely making an attempt to guard herself and others on a movie set.”
“Whereas we undergo the authorized course of, we urge everybody to keep in mind that sexual harassment and retaliation are unlawful in each office and in each trade. A basic tactic to distract from allegations of the sort of misconduct is to ‘blame the sufferer’ by suggesting that they invited the conduct, introduced it on themselves, misunderstood the intentions, and even lied. One other basic tactic is to reverse the sufferer and offender, and counsel that the offender is definitely the sufferer. These ideas normalize and trivialize allegations of significant misconduct.”
Freedman instructed NewsNation: “It’s painfully ironic that Blake Full of life is accusing Justin Baldoni of weaponizing the media when her personal crew orchestrated this vicious assault by sending The New York Instances grossly edited paperwork previous to even submitting the criticism.”
Justin Baldoni’s voice message:
“On what may have been one of the vital stunning nights of my life career-wise, I actually was despatched to the basement with all my family and friends for over an hour as a result of I wasn’t allowed to be seen, she didn’t need me wherever close to her or the remainder of the solid.
“So that they ushered me off the carpet and despatched us right down to the basement, we had been down there collectively, my family and friends, the folks that love me probably the most.
“We begin laughing due to the ridiculousness of this entire factor and I understand like on an evening that was alleged to be so materialistically joyful, I used to be within the basement with the folks that love me probably the most and we had been all joyful and laughing cos none of that s**t issues, none of it.
“That’s not why we’re within the enterprise … to attend a premiere and be celebrated like that, we’re in it as a result of we’re artists and we imagine in what we do and since we wish to create artwork that touches folks’s souls and may transfer folks.
“And that’s what we did, that’s what you each did and I imagine that can observe us, the reality will prevail and light-weight and love will win.”