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Justin Baldonicrisis management team spoke Taylor Swift in their alleged plan to take down Blake Lively.
Lively, 37, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni, 40, on Friday, December 20, and her allegations against him including creating a “hostile work environment” and causing “severe emotional distress” to the actress.
Exhibits attached to the complaint showed that a crisis management specialist working for Baldoni wrote in an email on August 6 that “we have seen the most innocuous issues become huge due to social events or the biggest crises don’t get no impact on social at all. You can’t tell right now. But, BL has some of the same TS fan base so we’ll take it seriously.”
A separate “scenario planning” document from Baldoni’s side also states that “our team can also explore planting stories about weaponizing feminism and how people like Taylor Swift, have been accused of using these tactics to ‘bully’ to get the this is what they want.” (Lively and Swift, 35, have been and have been close document their friendship over the years.)
Us Weekly has reached out to Lively’s rep for comment. Us also reached out to Swift’s rep for comment.
Baldoni also appeared to be using a social media post from Hailey Bieber as an example in an astroturfing scheme against Viviog. A text exchange was reviewed in a legal complaint obtained by Us on Saturday, December 21, Baldoni showed a screenshot of an X thread that unpacked “Hailey Bieber’s bullying of women,” according to the text, writing, “This is what we would need.”
Lively’s December complaint states that “millions of people (including many reporters and influencers) who saw these planted stories, social media posts, and other online content” were “unwitting consumers of a crisis PR campaign, astroturfing, and a digital revenge campaign” that was allegedly orchestrated. by Baldoni against Lively.
Lively filed and sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni on Friday, and claimed that a meeting was taking place during production It Ends With Us in January 2024 to address Lively’s claims against her costar. According to the lawsuit, Lively’s demands included “no more showing Blake videos or nude images of women, no more talking about Baldoni’s alleged history. ‘pornography addiction,’ no more discussions of sexual conquests in front of Blake and others, no further mention of cast and crew’s genitalia, no more inquiries about Blake’s weight, and no further mention of Blake’s dead father.”
Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman addressed Lively’s “completely false, outrageous and deliberately disingenuous” claims in a statement to Us. He claimed that Lively filed the lawsuit to “fix her negative reputation” and “remake a narrative” regarding the production of the film.
He further alleged that the actress made “multiple calls and threats” during filming, including “threats not to show up to set, threats not to promote the film, ultimately leading to her demise during the release period , if her demands were not met.
In a statement to The New York Times In December, Lively said, “I hope my legal action will help pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about wrongdoing and help protect others who may be targeting.”
The actress denied spreading negative information about Baldoni.