What’s New
The public relations crisis management team hired by Justin Baldoni has entered his feud with Blake Lively.
The actors starred in the summer box office hit It Ends With Us, which Baldoni also directed and Lively co-produced, but rumors of tensions between the two surfaced during the film’s press tour in August.
Why It Matters
On Friday, Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni and Jamey Heath, the CEO of Wayfarer Studios who co-produced It Ends With Us.
Lively accused the pair of misconduct on set, including sexual harassment that was addressed in an all-hands meeting during production and resulted in a list of agreements between the parties.
“No more personal, physical touching of, or sexual comments by, Mr. Baldoni or Mr. Heath to be tolerated by [Lively] and/or any of her employees, as well as any female cast or crew without their express consent,” read one agreement from the list.
Lively claimed in her lawsuit that following that meeting Baldoni then hired a PR team …