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Blake Vigorous’s Amended Criticism Claims Justin Baldoni Made Others on Set ‘Uncomfortable’



Blake Vigorous filed an amended model of her criticism within the ongoing authorized battle with Justin Baldoni.

The 163-page submitting landed in New York federal court docket late on Tuesday, Feb. 18, because the actress, 37, up to date her lawsuit, which was initially filed Dec. 31, in opposition to her It Ends With Us costar Baldoni and others.

In keeping with her legal professionals Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb, this model “offers vital further proof and corroboration of her unique claims” and “consists of beforehand undisclosed communications” involving Vigorous, Sony, Wayfarer Studios and “quite a few different witnesses.”

Hudson and Gottlieb added that the amended criticism “additionally added a brand new declare for defamation,” which they allege is “based mostly on the repeated false statements the defendants have made about Ms. Vigorous since she filed her unique criticism, and provides Jed Wallace and his firm as defendants.” (Wallace is individually suing Vigorous and has denied being a part of any smear marketing campaign.)

At one level within the amended criticism, Vigorous’s legal professionals write that Baldoni and the opposite defandants’ “false narrative crumbles below the indeniable fact” that Vigorous “was not alone in complaining about Mr. Baldoni and raised her considerations contemporaneously as they arose in 2023, not in reference to some imagined energy play for management of the movie in 2024.”

A spokesperson for Vigorous says the amended criticism “particulars the corroboration that backs up Blake’s unique sexual harassment and retaliation considerations.” The spokesperson claims it exhibits that “different ladies confided in Blake about their discomfort and concern of coming ahead, and their concern in regards to the present public vitriol.”

Attorneys for Baldoni didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark.

Blake Vigorous in New York Metropolis on Feb. 13, 2024; Justin Baldoni on the Immediately present Aug. 8, 2024.

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On Jan. 31, Baldoni, 41, amended his personal countersuit in opposition to Vigorous, Ryan Reynolds, their publicist and The New York Instances, which he revealed on a web site for his followers to entry his court docket filings.

Vigorous and Baldoni’s case is at the moment set to go to trial in March 2026. Attorneys for each side lately opted out of mediation.

Within the discovery course of, Vigorous’s attorneys final week mentioned they issued subpoenas for Baldoni’s cellphone data, which they really feel “will expose the individuals, ways and strategies which have labored to ‘destroy’ and ‘bury’ [Lively’s] popularity and household over the previous yr.”

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From L: Justin Baldoni, Blake Vigorous and Ryan Reynolds.

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In response, Baldoni’s legal professionals argued the subpoenas are too wide-ranging and referred to them as a “large fishing expedition” that exhibits her attorneys “are desperately looking for any factual foundation for his or her provably false claims,” including, “They may discover none.”

At a pre-trial listening to earlier in February, U.S. District Choose Lewis J. Liman warned each events to not litigate their fits via the media and that he may set an earlier trial date if the general public relations battle continues.



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