Blake Lively’s brother-in-law breaks silence amid Justin Baldoni lawsuit
Blake Lively sued her ‘It Ends With Us’ costar Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment
Blake Lively’s brother-in-law, Bart Johnson has spoken out after the actress filed a lawsuit against her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni.
As per Just Jarred, Bart stepped in to defend Blake on social media and shed some light on the situation.
The 54-year-old actor, who is married to Blake’s sister Robyn Lively, alleged in the comments section of The New York Times’ Instagram on Sunday, December 22, “Her complaints were filed during the filming. On record. Long before the public conflict. The cast unfollowed him for a reason.”
The High School Musical actor added, “Read this article before spiting ignorance. His PR team was stellar. Gross and disgusting but highly effective. Read the article, their text message exchanges and his PR campaign strategy to bury her by any means necessary. No one is with out faults. But the public got played.”
Under his comment, he went on to say, “And yes of COURSE mistakes were made. But just IMAGINE being a stay at home mom raising 4 kids, married to the busiest man in Hollywood and at the same time being a girl boss running multiple companies while writing, producing, running non profits and working 16+ hour days from home so you can be with your kids…”
Bart continued, “Launching 2 new businesses you been working on / developing for many years (launch scheduled by distributors, not you, btw) all while getting attacked by a VERY expensive PR smear campaign because you filed a sexual harassment claim for the very film you have to go out and promote with just the right tone or you get cooked!?”
Blake’s brother-in-law added, “Looks like she’s doing a hell of a job to me and trying to do good things for the right reasons. But yeah let’s post from our couch how much we hate her for making mistakes.”
In the end, he wrote, “That makes sense. I mean, she’s been rude in these interviews that magically played on repeat. I saw it. None of us have ever been wrong or mean. Never. We should discount decades of good for those few bad moments. Glad the microscope isn’t on me every day of my life.”
For the unversed, Blake has filed a legal complaint against Justin, alleging sexual harassment and a campaign to “destroy” her reputation.
