the Hollywood actress Blake Lively has filed a legal complaint against her it against her it ends with us co-star just in baldoni alleging harassment and a campaign to destroy her reputation Blake Lively says she wants to pull back the curtain on Sinister tactics used to harm people who speak up about misconduct Mr baldon’s legal team told BBC the allegations are categorically false well our reporter Matt graveling joins us now U Matt what more can you tell us well L me these details have come out in paperwork file to the.
California civil rights department and it’s a complaint by the actress Blake Lively and it accuses the actor Justin baldoni and his team of harassment and a campaign to destroy her reputation now to understand how we got to this point Lux me we do need to First rewind a little bit uh Lively and Boni were stars of the Netflix film it ends with us which came out in the summer now the film did very well with viewers but this paperwork F in California has made us aware of some big disagreements on the set now it states that on the 4th of.
January a meeting was held to address a hostile work environment now the meeting was attended by baloni who was also the film’s director and the co-chairman and co-found of wayf far who the production company for the film Blake Lively also attended with her husband and the Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds who wasn’t in the film alongside other members of the film’s production service now Blake Lively lawyers alleged that both Mr baldoni and the wayf farer CEO Jamie Heath engaged in inappropriate and.
unwelcome Behavior towards her and towards others on the set now the meeting included a list Lux me of 30 demands relating to the pair’s alleged misconduct to be met to ensure the production of the film could continue now among them Blake Lively requested there’s to be no more mention of Mr baldoni or Mr Heath’s previous pornography addiction there’s to be no more disc Des criptions of their own genitalia and no more adding of sex scenes outside of the script that Blake Lively had already approved when signing.
onto the project now just very uh briefly Matt we we know what was discussed at the meeting in January but where are we now well this came out in August this film LS me but fast forward to now and Blake livesy team have filed that complaint against baldon alleging the harassment and the campaign to destroy her reputation and the accusation is that bonian Wayfare Studio led a multi-ti plan to wreck her reputation saying this was the intended result of a carefully coordinated scheme to silence her and others from speaking.
out about that environment Blake Lively says she hopes her actions will help pull the curtain back on these Sinister ratory tactics to help people who speak up against misconduct now responding to the legal complaint baldon’s lawyer said the allegations are categorically false Lux me it’s a shame that Miss Lively would make such serious accusations and finally LS me Mr uh Mr baldon’s legal team also accused Miss live making numerous demands threatening to not show up to set threatening to not promote thE.