Blake Lively files another lawsuit against Justin Baldoni now alleging mental pain and anguish
Blake Lively has now filed a second lawsuit against Justin Baldoni, less than two weeks after her previous legal complaint against him went public.
In the first suit, she accused him of sexually harassing her and fostering a toxic work environment on the set of their movie It Ends With Us, in which he both directed her and acted with her. He has staunchly denied the allegations.
Also in the initial complaint, Lively claimed Baldoni worked to tarnish her reputation with a team including his publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis PR Melissa Nathan, who previously worked with Johnny Depp. Abel has denied waging a ‘smear campaign.’
Lively, 37, filed her first complaint earlier this month with the California Civil Rights Commission, but is now suing Baldoni in federal court in New York, TMZ reports.
Her new lawsuit targets Baldoni, Abel and Nathan as defendants, as well as Baldoni’s production company Wayfarer Studios.
In her latest complaint, Lively accuses the defendants of inflicting mental pain and anguish and emotional distress, as well as causing lost wages.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Nathan, Abel and Wayfarer Studios, as well as representatives for Lively and Baldoni for comment.
Blake Lively has now filed a second lawsuit against Justin Baldoni, less than two weeks after her previous legal complaint against him went public
Since news of Lively’s first lawsuit broke earlier this month, Baldoni’s career has imploded, as he was dropped by his agency William Morris Endeavor.
Liz Plank, one of the co-hosts of Baldoni’s Man Enough podcast that billed itself as a space for ‘positive masculinity,’ announced she was quitting the show.
Lively, who is married to Deadpool lead Ryan Reynolds and who is close friends with pop superstar Taylor Swift, has seen former colleagues rally around her.
Her It Ends With Us co-stars Brandon Sklenar and Jenny Slate have spoken out to support her, as has Colleen Hoover, author of the novel on which the film is based.
During the run-up to the release of It Ends With Us, Lively repeatedly went viral as social media users slammed her ‘mean girl’ behavior in interviews – a trend she now insists was the result of an ‘astroturfing’ campaign waged by Baldoni’s PR team.
