Justin Baldoni’s Team Blasts Blake Lively, Says They’ve Received Death Threats amid Lawsuits [Video]

The publicists joining Justin Baldoni in his new lawsuit against Blake Lively amid the ongoing It Ends with Us fallout say they’re “private individuals” who have been plagued by threats since Lively first filed a complaint against Baldoni and his associates.

In the wake of Baldoni’s lawsuit against Lively, Ryan Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s PR firm Vision PR, Inc., filed on Jan. 16, in the Southern District of New York, his publicists Jennifer Abel and Melissa Nathan tell PEOPLE in a statement that they’ve been ” forced to answer this viciously selfish ongoing litigation littered with documented and provable lies in the midst of the tragedy impacting California where we reside.” (Fires have been plaguing Los Angeles for over a week, killing at least 24 and displacing thousands.)

“Five months ago, Ms. Lively chose to promote a film about domestic violence in a way that caused instant negative and organic backlash due to her …