Justin Baldoni was not “happy” about that Blake Lively is negatively criticized before lawsuits

• Justin Baldoni’s lawyer Brian Friedman says the star was not ‘happy’ about any negative attention It ends with us collided with his release in August 2024
• “Not in his interest, Blake Lively was negatively criticized,” Friedman said
• Blake Lively accused Baldoni of launching a campaign with strokes to destroy her reputation that he denies
  

Justin BaldoniA lawyer claims that the star did not want negative attention aimed at Blake LivelyDespite the fact that she claims that he launched a campaign with a smear directed at her.

On Thursday, March 13, Baldoni’s lawyer Brian Friedman appeared on City Podkast with Matthew Bellon, where the couple discussed key problems in Constant legal conflict Between the Live, 37, and her It ends with us Director and Kostar that is set for trial in March 2026.

One day, Friedman appealed to the statement of Master Bellon that text reports between Baldoni’s publicists and crisis managers, which are a complaint of Livly, show that the group “celebrates the” negative press against Lively.

He said emoji had been removed from those talks in a claim that make “they joke” about articles that were organically published It ends with us‘Output.

“In fact, publicists say,” We have nothing to do with it. “And there are other people who say the same, and organically this press is out,” Friedman said.

“Justin was not pleased with anything that would be negative about Blake, a movie, about him or anything. It was not just about him or just about it, it concerned the project they worked together.”

Friedman said It ends with us It was the “Passion Project” Baldoni, and it was not satisfied with any negative attention that the film received after the release in August 2024.

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“The last thing he wanted to see is all that would somehow criticize the movie,” Friedman added. He characterized Baldon communications with crisis representatives PR after It ends with us“Let go like Baldoni who wants to” know what’s going on there and if there is something that people could do otherwise to change the response to the movie or otherwise. ”

“Blake Lively was not negatively criticized; it is not in his interest to be negatively criticized,” Friedman said. “It is not in his interest that this movie is doing something else than a rewarding of a rental and a family of violence in a family of violence, and they feel like a project and understand and hear them.”

The lively included a A series of predictable text messages Between the Baldon, his publicist Jennifer Abel and the crisis expert of Melissa Nathan, who Lively argued that she showed that the smear campaign was organized and aimed to “destroy” her reputation in her complaint.

Baldoni’s team claimed that any Negative attention lively received During and after the film’s press was Created organicallyAnd they argued that in the changed complaint that the Baldon was subjected to a masbova campaign.

His legal team also argued in the changed complaint, filed in February that Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds tried to force Baldoni to issue a statement in August 2024, which would outline the blame It ends with us’ WhatRestless production“And the negative press of Lively received on the feet of Baldon. The legal team of Baldoni said she refused to issue this statement.

During an interview with the podcasts, Friedman stated that communication between Baldon and his representatives included in the Lively lawsuit “was really something organic when the press would come out.”

“They were not satisfied with the negative press against Blake Lively and how she sold the movie,” he added.