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Justin Baldoni releases new behind-the-scene clips to ‘refute’ Blake Lively’s claims

Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively’s controversial exchanges and legal battle continue to drag on as Baldoni just dropped new behind-the-scenes clips on the set of their film ‘It Ends With Us.’The video, captured back on May 23, 2023, was posted by Baldoni’s camp with the aim of refuting Lively’s sexual harassment allegations thrown toward Baldoni who also happened to be the film’s director.

The video clip consisted of three takes from a slow dance scene as well as their exchange of ideas on how to execute an intimate kissing scene which was supposed to portray the characters falling in love. At the beginning of the released clip, it claimed that there seemed to be inappropriate behavior on set with “mutual respect and professionalism” between the two of them—but the air still seems tense during these sequences of shots that similarly mirror their verbal exchanges.

The feud between Baldoni and Lively has come far enough for it to be inextinguishable anytime soon. The glaring irony of the story’s central theme on domestic violence, adapted from Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel of the same title, has dragged on with the recent lawsuit filed by Baldoni amounting to$400 million defamation and extortion against his co-star and her husband Ryan Reynolds following Lively’s claims against Baldoni’s inappropriate behavior on set.

It seems that Baldoni’s team had ignited the flame further as his lead lawyer, Bryan Freedman announced their team’s plan to put out a website filled with receipts critical of Lively along with text messages, emails, and other relevant videos to reinforce Baldoni’s contention.

The legal battle between the two goes beyond the walls of the court as the case and controversies are extremely exposed to the public eye and scrutiny. Much is expected to unfold in a relentless he-said-and-she-said situation and in how each camp of both Baldoni and Lively plans to sort through the haywire situation that has unfolded between them.

 

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