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Topics: Blake Lively, Celebrity, Entertainment, Hollywood, Justin Baldoni, Ryan Reynolds, Court
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Topics: Blake Lively, Celebrity, Entertainment, Hollywood, Justin Baldoni, Ryan Reynolds, Court
Blake Lively allegedly sent a bizarre Games of Thrones text to Justin Baldoni as he sues her company for $400,000,000.
Baldoni is suing Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, their publicist, PR firm, and friend, Taylor Swift, for $400 million on a raft of claims, sparked by the Gossip Girl star filing her own federal lawsuit accusing him of sexual harassment and 'trying to destroy her reputation'.
The fall out all took place while Baldoni and Lively co-starred in the romantic drama, It Ends With Us, adapted from Colleen Hoover's bestselling 2016 novel, which Baldoni also directed.
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Baldoni's team branded Lively's claims as 'categorically false' and is now counter suing on claims of civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, as well as prospective economic advantage, negligent interference with prospective economic advantage and intentional interference with contractual relations, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage.
Speculation swirled surrounding Baldoni and Lively's alleged 'friction' on the set of 2024 movie, while Lively also found herself being slammed online during the film's press tour.
Now, Baldoni claims Lively embodied a Game of Thrones character in alleged text messages while the pair were filming the romantic drama
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The director's 179-page lawsuit, filed on January 16, claims that he was facing Lively's 'dragons', two of of the most influential and wealthy celebrities in the world, who were not afraid to make things very difficult for him', reports PEOPLE.
As part of this claim, he says Swift and Reynolds pressured him to accept Lively's tweaks to certain scenes in the script and was 'summoned' to a meeting with Reynolds, accompanied by Swift, where they 'praised' Lively's version.
In his complaint, Baldoni claimed he later text Lively that he found her rewrites 'fun and interesting', but 'would have felt that way without Ryan and Taylor' and added an emoji.
Lively allegedly responded comparing herself to Khaleesi, while her husband and friend are her two 'dragons'.
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The alleged message read: "I happen to have a few dragons. For better or worse, but usually for better. Because my dragons also protect those I fight for. So really we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine. [Smiley-face emoji] you will too, I can promise you."
Bryan Freedman, Baldoni's lawyer, previously told UNILAD: "This lawsuit is a legal action based on an overwhelming amount of untampered evidence detailing Blake Lively and her team’s duplicitous attempt to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and their respective companies by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored information to the media."
He continued: "Let’s not forget, Ms. Lively and her team attempted to bulldoze reputations and livelihoods for heinously selfish reasons through their own dangerous manipulation of the media before even taking any actual legal action. We know the truth, and now the public does too. Justin and his team have nothing to hide, documents do not lie."
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UNILAD has reached out to representatives for Wayfarer Studios, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Taylor Swift for comment.