Justin Baldoni is already coping with main fallout days after Blake Lively filed a lawsuit in opposition to him.
The New York Times reported on December 21 that Energetic filed a lawsuit on December 20 by which she accused him of sexual harassment and launching a “social manipulation” marketing campaign in opposition to her to “destroy” her status in the course of the promotion of their movie It Ends With Us. The docs, which had been additionally obtained by Us Weekly, claimed that Energetic was not the only cast member who complained about Baldoni.
Baldoni, who has been a vocal supporter of girls’s points, has denied the allegations through his lawyer Bryan Freedman who known as Energetic’s accusations “utterly false, outrageous and deliberately salacious” in an announcement to Us. The assertion claimed that Energetic filed the lawsuit to “repair her destructive status” and “rehash a story” concerning the movie’s manufacturing.
Us reached out to Energetic’s rep for remark however didn’t instantly hear again. In an announcement to The New York Occasions concerning her lawsuit, the actress mentioned, “I hope that my authorized motion helps pull again the curtain on these sinister retaliatory techniques to hurt individuals who converse up about misconduct and helps shield others who could also be focused.”
Months after a reported rift between It Ends With Us costars Blake Energetic and Justin Baldoni, she sued him for sexual harassment. Within the lawsuit, which was filed on Friday, December 20, and obtained by Us Weekly after it was reported on by TMZ and The New York Occasions, Energetic accused Baldoni of launching a […]
Whereas Baldoni has maintained innocence because the lawsuit’s submitting, he has suffered from a collection of profession setbacks. Baldoni was rapidly dropped from his expertise company along with having an award rescinded.
Maintain scrolling to see what Baldoni has misplaced since information broke of Energetic’s lawsuit:
Dropped From WME
The identical day that information broke of Energetic’s lawsuit, expertise company WME (William Morris Endeavor) dropped Baldoni as a client. Deadline reported that the choice was made by WME management and was partly as a consequence of Energetic’s lawsuit.
WME additionally represents Energetic the place she nonetheless stays a shopper.
Very important Voices Award Rescinded
One week earlier than information broke of Energetic’s lawsuit, Baldoni was awarded on the 2024 Very important Voices Solidarity Awards which is an “awards program that honors outstanding males who’ve proven braveness and compassion in advocating on behalf of girls and women worldwide,” per the group’s web site. The glory was introduced by his It Ends With Us costar Hasan Minhaj.
On December 23, Very important Voices introduced they rescinded the award and alerted Baldoni of the choice amid the authorized drama.
“The Voices of Solidarity Award honors outstanding males who’ve proven braveness and compassion in advocating on behalf of girls and women,” an announcement shared via Instagram learn. “On December 9, 2024, we acknowledged Justin Baldoni with this award. On Saturday, December 21, we discovered by way of information studies a couple of lawsuit introduced by Blake Energetic in opposition to Mr. Baldoni, his publicists, and others that’s disturbing and alleges abhorrent conduct. The communications amongst Mr. Baldoni and his publicists within the lawsuit — and the PR effort they point out — are, alone, opposite to the values of Very important Voices and the spirit of the Award.”
Shedding a Cohost
Baldoni hosted the podcast “Man Sufficient” alongside writer Liz Plank. On December 23, Plank introduced her departure from the present after 4 years.
“I’m writing to you at present to let you already know that I’ve had my representatives inform Wayfarer that I’ll not be co-hosting the ‘Man Sufficient’ podcast,” Plank wrote in an announcement obtained by People. “Thanks for trusting me together with your hearts and tales, for holding area for mine, and for making this present what it was. I’ll miss you, the listeners, a lot. I like what this neighborhood created along with each fiber of my being, and that’s due to you.”
Plank added that whereas “this chapter closes” for her, she plans on staying “dedicated to the values we’ve constructed collectively.”
“Thanks for being right here, for trusting me, and for being by my aspect for the final 4 years. All of us deserve higher, and I do know that collectively, we will create it,” she continued. “I’ll have extra to share quickly as I proceed to course of every thing that has occurred. Within the meantime, I’ll proceed to help everybody who calls out injustice and holds the individuals standing of their means accountable.”
She didn’t check with Baldoni or the lawsuit in her assertion.
Podcast Episode Deleted
Within the wake of Energetic’s lawsuit, Elizabeth Day, host of the podcast “Methods to Fail,” deleted an episode the place she interviewed Baldoni about It Ends With Us.
“I’ve made the choice to take away the current Methods to Fail interview with Justin Baldoni from all platforms whereas the distressing allegations made in opposition to him in Blake Energetic’s current lawsuit are totally investigated,” Day wrote in an announcement shared through Instagram on December 24. “Each particular person has a proper to a protected office. Each girl has the correct to dignity in that office. Each type of abuse needs to be known as out and I salute the people who’ve the braveness to take action.”
