Blake Lively has claimed her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni said he could ‘speak to the dead’ and that he could talk to her late father in her lawsuit against him.
The actors starred alongside each other in the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling, with Baldoni also acting as the movie’s director.
But after the film’s release in August, speculation surrounding the pair’s alleged ‘friction’ arose, while Lively also found herself being slammed online during the film’s press tour.
Lively has since filed a lawsuit against her co-star, with the actor accusing Baldoni of ‘other behaviors that were shocking and emotional distressing’, as per the complaint.
She claimed Baldoni claimed that he spoke with her ‘recently deceased’ father Ernie, a fellow actor who died aged 74 in June 2021 due to cardiac complications.
“For example, he claimed he could speak to the dead, and on several occasions told her that he had spoken to her dead father,” the lawsuit claimed as per the New York Times.
“It was off putting and violative for Ms. Baldoni [sic] to claim a personal relationship with her recently deceased father.”
UNILAD has reached out to Lively and Baldoni’s representatives for comment.
Also in the lawsuit, Lively accuses Baldoni of sexual harassment.
The suit claims that during filming, a meeting had to be called as a result of the alleged work environment being fostered on set and Lively listed certain requests.
The requests related to the film itself, allegedly including ‘no more adding of sex scenes, oral sex or on camera climaxing by BL [Blake Lively] outside the scope of the script BL approved when signing onto the project’.
Other requests also allegedly stated no discussions of a sexual nature were allowed to happen in front of Lively, as well as no mentions of cast and crew’s genitalia.
Lively demanded that there be no more discussion about her weight, no mention of Baldoni’s alleged previous ‘pornography addiction’ and no nude videos or images of women being shown to her.
The lawsuit claims Baldoni and his company,Wayfarer Studios, allegedly tried to ‘destroy’ her reputation through ‘social manipulation’ and have overall caused her and her family ‘severe emotional distress’.
Bryan Freedman, an attorney for Baldoni as well as Wayfarer Studios, told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement: “It is shameful that Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations against Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its representatives, as yet another desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation which was garnered from her own remarks and actions during the campaign for the film; interviews and press activities that were observed publicly, in real time and unedited, which allowed for the internet to generate their own views and opinions.”
The statement went on to slam the claims, dubbing them as ‘completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publicly hurt and rehash a narrative in the media’.
