Blake Lively’s brother-in-law calls Justin Baldoni a ‘fraud’
Blake Lively‘s brother-in-law, Bart Johnsonhas reported “fraud” Justin Baldoni.
The High school musical actor, who is married to Lively’s sister, Robin Livelytook to X on Monday, December 23 to share his candid thoughts on Baldoni amid Blake’s sexual harassment lawsuit against her It ends with us director and costar.
‘He’s a fraudster. He puts on the ‘costume’ of a hero, man bun and all,” says Johnson, 54, shared.
“Used all the trendy slogans and buzzwords for his podcasts,” he continued, referring to Baldoni’s podcast “Man Enough,” in which the actor and director tackles themes of toxic masculinity, mental health and gender inequality.
Months after a reported split between It Ends With Us costars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, she sued him for sexual harassment. In the lawsuit, which was filed on Friday, December 20 and obtained by Us Weekly after TMZ and The New York Times reported on it, Lively accused Baldoni of […]
According to Johnson, “None of it is real. It’s all theater. And everyone fell for it. For years. Watch his videos again with a more critical eye and see how he compliments and praises himself with faux humility and self-mockery. What an achievement.”
Blake, 37, filed a complaint against Baldoni, 40, with the California Civil Complaints Department on Friday, December 20, accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set of their recent film. Colleen Hoover amendment. She also alleged that Baldoni was behind a digital smear campaign to damage her reputation.
In a statement to We weekly on Saturday, December 21, Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedmansaid Blake’s allegations were “completely false, outrageous and deliberately salacious.” Freedman claimed that Blake filed a lawsuit to “repair her negative reputation” and “retell a story” about the film’s production. Freedman further alleged that Blake made “multiple demands and threats” during filming It ends with usincluding “threatening not to show up on set, threatening not to promote the film, ultimately leading to its demise during release, if her demands were not met.”
Johnson – best known as Coach Bolton in the High school musical movies – previously supported his sister-in-law on Saturday after news of the lawsuit became public.
“Her complaints were made during the filming. On the plate. Long before the public conflict. The cast unfollowed him for a reason,” Johnson claimed in the comments section of The New York TimesInstagram post about Blake’s lawsuit Read this article before you spit [sic] ignorance.”
“His PR team was great. Gross and disgusting, but very effective,” Johnson continued. “Read the article, their text messages and his PR campaign strategy to bury her by any means necessary. No one is without [sic] mistakes. But the audience was played.”
Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Sony Pictures Blake Lively has received public support from her famous friends and other Hollywood stars following news of her lawsuit against Justin Baldoni. Lively sued It Ends With Us director and costar Baldoni for sexual harassment in a lawsuit filed on Friday, December 20. According to court documents, that […]
Johnson claimed that “of course mistakes were made” and pointed out Blake’s many responsibilities, including mothering four children for her and her husband Ryan Reynoldschildren.
“But imagine being a stay-at-home mom raising four kids, being married to the busiest man in Hollywood, and simultaneously being a girl boss running multiple companies while writing, producing, running a nonprofit and more than working from home 16 hours a day so you can be with your kids,” he wrote. “Launching two new companies that you have been working on/developing for many years (launch planned by distributors, not you btw), while being attacked by a VERY expensive PR smear campaign because you filed a sexual harassment claim for the film that you have to make go out and advertise with just the right tone or you will be cooked!?”
Johnson noted that it seems like Blake is “doing a great job for me and trying to do good things for the right reasons.”
Blake Lively followed in her family’s footsteps by joining the entertainment industry. Born in 1987 in Los Angeles, Blake is the youngest of Ernie and Elaine Lively’s five children. Elaine previously welcomed her eldest three children – Lori, Jason and Robyn – with her ex-husband, Ronnie Lively, before marrying Ernie in 1979. […]
“But hey, let’s post from our couch how much we hate her for making mistakes,” he continued. “That makes sense. I mean, she’s been rude in these interviews that were magically repeated. I saw it. None of us have ever been wrong or mean. Never. We must discount decades of goodness for those few bad moments. I’m glad I’m not under the microscope every day of my life.”
Johnson’s wife Robyn supported her sister on social media on Saturday. “FINALLY justice for my sister @blakelively,” Robyn, 52, wrote via her Instagram Story, sharing screenshots of a New York Times article about the lawsuit.
