Blake Lively is suing Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment

Blake Lively is suing her It Ends with Us co-star Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment.

In the lawsuit, Lively alleges that Baldoni, the film’s director, coordinated a public relations campaign with a crisis firm that her lawyers described as “social engineering” aimed at “destroying” Ms. Lively’s reputation after she faced problems with the behavior on set, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by USA TODAY on Saturday.

The lawsuit, which includes copies of text messages sent by Baldoni, offers a glimpse into the off-screen controversy that sparked months of speculation about an alleged feud between the two. Lively’s lawyers claim Baldoni hired crisis PR specialist Melissa Nathan and her company The Agency Group to run an online smear campaign.

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“He wants to feel like she can be buried,” a publicist who works with Baldoni wrote to Nathan, who responded with a text message of his own: “You know we can bury anyone.”

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The heartbreaking film, based on a book by author Colleen Hoover, follows a flower shop owner named Lily Blossom Bloom (Lively) who falls in love with a dashing neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid (Baldoni) and reconnects with her stoic childhood sweetheart Atlas Corrigan ( Brandon Sklenar). But the film also deals with the insidious nature of domestic violence and the cycles of abuse across generations.

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Blake Lively is suing Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment

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