Blake Lively’s Brother-in-law Calls Justin Baldoni a ‘Cheat’

Blake Livelybrother in law, Bart Johnsonhit out at “fraud” Justin Baldoni.

The High School Musical actor, who is married to Lively’s sister, Lively Robyntook to X on Monday, December 23, to share his candid thoughts on Baldoni in the middle Blake’s sexual harassment lawsuit against her It Ends With Us director and costar.

“It is a fraud. He wears a hero ‘suit’, man bun and all,” Johnson, 54, share.

“He used all the catchphrases and buzzwords for his podcasts,” he continued, referring to Baldoni’s podcast, “Man Enough,” where the actor and director tackle themes such as toxic masculinity, mental health and gender inequality.

According to Johnson, “None of it is authentic. It’s all theatre. And everyone fell for her. For years. Re-watch his videos with a more critical eye and watch him praise and praise himself with a lack of humility and self-deprecation. What a performance.”

Blake, 37, file a complaint against Baldoni, 40, with the California Department of Civil Complaints on Friday, December 20, accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set of their recent Colleen Hoover adapt. She also claimed that Baldoni was behind a digital smear campaign to tarnish her reputation.

In a statement to Us Weekly Saturday, December 21, Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedmanhe said Blake’s accusations were “absolutely false, outrageous and deliberately salacious.” Freedman claimed that Blake sued to “fix her negative reputation” and “remake a narrative” regarding the film’s production. Freedman further alleged that Blake made “multiple demands and threats” during filming It Ends With Usincluding “threatening not to show up to set, threatening not to promote the film, ultimately leading to its demise during release, if her demands were not met.”

Johnson – best known as Coach Bolton in the High School Musical movies – previously supported his sister-in-law on Saturday after news of the lawsuit became public.

“Her complaints were filed during the filming. On record. Long before the public conflict. The cast didn’t follow him for a reason,” Johnson claimed in the comments section The New York Times‘ Instagram post about Blake’s lawsuit “Read this article before spewing (sic) ignorance.”

“His PR team was stellar. Gross and disgusting but highly effective,” Johnson continued. “Read the article, their text message exchange and his PR campaign strategy to bury her by any means necessary. No one has out (sic) faults. But the public played.”

Johnson claimed that “of course mistakes were made” and pointed to Blake’s many responsibilities, including being a mother of four and husband Ryan Reynolds‘ children.

“But imagine being a stay at home mom raising 4 kids, married to the busiest man in Hollywood and at the same time being a girl boss running multiple companies while writing, producing, running a non-profit and working 16+ hour days at home so you can be with your kids,” he wrote. “Launching 2 new businesses you’ve been working on/developing for many years (a launch organized by distributors, not you, btw) all while being attacked by a VERY expensive PR smear campaign because for you to file a sexual harassment claim for the very film you have to make. just go out and promote with the right vibe or you’re cooking!?”

Johnson noted that it looks like Blake is “making a hell of a job for me and trying to do good things for the right reasons.”

“But yeah let’s post from our couch how much we hate her for making mistakes,” he continued. “That makes sense. I mean, she’s been rude in these interviews which she played over and over again charmingly. I saw None of us have ever been wrong or mean. Never. We should disregard decades of good for those few bad moments. Glad I’m not under the microscope every day of my life.”

Johnson’s wife, Robyn, supported her sister via social media on Saturday. “FINALLY justice for my sister @blakelively,” wrote Robyn, 52, via her Instagram Story, sharing screenshots of New York Times article about the lawsuit.