In a bombshell legal filing, It Ends With Us star Blake Lively is claiming that its co-star/director Justin Baldoni and a producer of the film hired a public relations team to turn the tide of public opinion against her. According to Lively, the alleged smear campaign was a retaliatory measure after Baldoni and producer Jamey Heath engaged in “repeated sexual harassment and other disturbing behavior,” the filing claims, during the production of the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover‘s 2016 novel, which was famously plagued by rumors of trouble on set.
The 80-page administrative complaint, filed in California Civil Court on Friday and obtained by Vanity Fair, follows a filing made the same day by Lively’s legal team with California’s Civil Rights Department. Instead of requesting that state investigators look into the allegations, Lively requested an immediate right to sue. That right was granted, sources familiar with the case tell Vanity Fair.
According to the complaint, when …