Justin Baldoni's lawyer slams Blake active's claims, calls them 'revoltingly false'
A fierce legal struggle is unfolding between actress Blake lively and actor-director Justin Baldoni, with Baldoni's legal professional, Bryan Freedman, issuing a scathing reaction to energetic's allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation.
speakme completely to deadline, Freedman defined
active's claims as a continuation of "revoltingly false sexual allegations"
following the filing of what he termed a "complete lawsuit packed with nearly two hundred pages of plain data and documentary evidence." This proof, in line with Freedman, dismantled earlier accusations of a smear marketing campaign against Baldoni, which covered doctored communications reportedly provided to The the big apple times.
Freedman pulled no punches in defending his client. "The mere truth that Ms active feels that she will publicly destroy Mr Baldoni's popularity in an try to devastate his destiny career and then deny him or his crew their very own capability to protect theirselves against her is preposterous. Mr Baldoni never once publicly tried to call Ms energetic out for her personal many wrongdoings for the duration of filming, he kindly addressed all her concerns at some point of filming in an appropriate manner despite the truth that he totally disagreed, he himself turned into dedicated to do things in another way and to maintain the peace as she specifically admitted to in her personal lawsuit," stated the lawyer.
Freedman similarly accused active of leveraging her affect unfairly. He said, "we can no longer simplest maintain to guard our clients against Blake's electricity, privilege and all out lies, however we will now fight even harder for the unvoiced within the DV network who are unfairly suffering even as she maintains to push on her very own self-serving and egocentric vendetta within the media."
the public dispute escalated after lively filed an in depth sexual harassment and retaliation criticism in opposition to Baldoni and others with California's Civil Rights branch on december 20.