Blake Lively responded to claims within Justin Baldoni’s $250 million libel lawsuit against the New York Times on Thursday, saying the Tuesday motion “changes nothing” about her sexual harassment claims against the “It Ends With Us” director and star.
On New Year’s Eve, Baldoni was one of 10 plaintiffs that filed a lawsuit against the newspaper, alleging that the publication was libelous in its Dec. 21 report, “‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine.” The report was a write-up of Lively’s own sexual harassment complaint against the actor, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging that Baldoni and executives at his Wayfarer Studios created an unsafe work environment.