Blake Full of life’s authorized workforce condemns ‘extra assaults’ from Justin Baldoni; say claims of sexual harassment ‘backed by concrete information’ |
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Blake Full of life’s authorized workforce has issued a powerful assertion condemning what they describe as “extra assaults” from ‘It Ends with Us‘ director Justin Baldoni and his associates.
The actress, hit headlines final week for submitting a proper grievance in opposition to Baldoni, his producing companions, and publicists, on New 12 months’s Eve, alleging sexual harassment and a ‘smear marketing campaign’ meant to break her repute, claims that Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, dismissed as “false, outrageous, and deliberately salacious.”
Subsequently, Baldoni filed a $250 million lawsuit in opposition to The New York Instances on December 31, accusing the publication of aiding Full of life in what he referred to as a “calculated smear marketing campaign” via its reporting on her allegations.In a press release launched on Monday, Full of life’s reps advised PEOPLE that her severe claims of sexual harassment are “backed by concrete information.”
“This isn’t a ‘feud’ arising from ‘artistic variations’ or a ‘he mentioned/she mentioned’ scenario,” the assertion learn. “As alleged in Ms. Full of life’s grievance, and as we’ll show in litigation, Wayfarer [Studios] and its associates engaged in illegal, retaliatory astroturfing in opposition to Ms. Full of life for merely making an attempt to guard herself and others on a movie set. Their response to the lawsuit has been to launch extra assaults in opposition to Ms. Full of life since her submitting.”
The assertion went on to notice that sexual harassment and retaliation are “unlawful in each office” and added that whereas it’s a traditional tactic to ‘blame the sufferer’ the workforce shared their resolve to “proceed to prosecute her claims in federal court docket, the place the rule of legislation determines who prevails, not hyperbole and threats.”
This assertion comes after information experiences on Mirror said that Blake claimed that the alleged ‘smear marketing campaign’ considerably impacted her enterprise ventures. Based on a lawsuit, the alleged actions brought about gross sales of her haircare model, to drop by as much as 78%, alongside substantial hurt to her beverage manufacturers.
The swimsuit claims the marketing campaign was designed to retaliate in opposition to Full of life for talking out, leading to each private {and professional} fallout. Courtroom paperwork reveal that gross sales of her haircare model plummeted between 56% and 78%, attributed to what Full of life described as “a sudden and surprising adverse media marketing campaign.”
Her beverage manufacturers have been equally affected, with their social media accounts inundated with hateful feedback.
She additionally alleged emotional toll that not solely impacted her husband, but additionally her husband Ryan Reynolds, and their 4 kids. The lawsuit states, “Behind closed doorways she has suffered from grief, worry, trauma, and excessive anxiousness.”