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Blake Lively Hits Back At Justin Baldoni's Lawsuit -- Says It's PROOF He's An Abuser!

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Blake Lively isn’t waiting for her day in court to object to Justin Baldoni‘s lawsuit!

If you haven’t heard, the It Ends With Us director made good on his threat and filed a $400 million lawsuit against Blake and her husband Ryan Reynolds. He’s claiming the movie star couple were just trying to take his movie away from him — so Blake could control the brand. And all her claims of sexual harassment are just to make him look like the villain.

He contends after her “disastrous marketing efforts” led to terrible press for her — which only got worse when old interviews resurfaced — she decided to claim this was all because was running a smear campaign against her. Her own lawsuit accuses him of retaliating after she stood up to his various forms of abuse on the set — including sexual harassment. He says all the harassment claims are BS to make her look like the victim.

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We’ll have to wait to see what legal action Blake takes now — whether his filing demands a countersuit or what. It seems pretty obvious this is headed to court, and it’s only going to get more contentious as it gets closer. But for now there’s the court of public opinion to think of, and Blake’s rebuttal for that jury is already here. Her legal team released this judo hip-throw of a statement on Thursday afternoon:

“This latest lawsuit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and its associates is another chapter in the abuser playbook. This is an age-old story: A woman speaks up with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation and the abuser attempts to turn the tables on the victim. This is what experts call DARVO. Deny. Attack. Reverse Victim Offender.”

Wow. That is a response alright.

“DARVO,” as coined by psychologist Jennifer Freyd in 1997, begins with gaslighting as she observed abusers don’t simply deny wrongdoing — they turn accusations around and make themselves the victim.

Since it’s specifically an abuser tactic, she’s essentially saying his lawsuit is proof he’s an abuser. Damn. Hard to beat that rap. We mean, what course of action should an innocent person take in a circumstance like this? If they are the victim of a powerful person’s smear campaign? Wouldn’t the truth come across as DARVO in that case?

But the statement did not let up! Blake’s team compared Justin’s lawsuit to dudes defending rapists!

“Their response to sexual harassment allegations: she wanted it, it’s her fault. Their justification for why this happened to her: look what she was wearing. In short, while the victim focuses on the abuse, the abuser focuses on the victim. The strategy of attacking the woman is desperate, it does not refute the evidence in Ms. Lively’s complaint, and it will fail.”

What do YOU think of Blake’s opening salvo of a response to Justin’s suit?? Is she spot on? Is it proof she finally read a book about abuse? Or do you think Justin is the one telling the truth?? And she’s reversing the victim and offender??

[Image via CBS Mornings & Variety/YouTube.]

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Jan 16, 2025 18:19pm PDT