Blake Lively Accuses ‘It Ends With Us’ Director Justin Baldoni Of Sexual Harassment

Actor Blake Lively has filed a complaint against “It Ends With Us” co-star and director Justin Baldoni over alleged sexual harassment during production and a purported smear campaign targeting her, according to multiple media reports.

The complaint, reportedly filed Friday, alleges that production on the 2024 film became so toxic that a meeting was held about Baldoni’s behavior, with Lively’s husband — actor Ryan Reynolds — in attendance. It purportedly included demands for no further “sexual comments” from Baldoni to Lively or any female cast or crew member, as well as no further descriptions of his genitalia to Lively, inquiries about her weight or comments about a “pornography addiction” he allegedly had.

It also demanded that no more nude images of women be shown to Lively, and called for “no more adding of sex scenes, oral sex, or on camera climaxing by BL [Blake Lively] outside the scope of the script BL approved when signing onto the project.”

She further accused Baldoni of participating in a “social manipulation” campaign to “destroy” her reputation.

“He wants to feel like she can be buried,” a publicist working with Baldoni allegedly told Melissa Nathan, a crisis management expert hired by the director and producer Jamey Heath, in an August text message. Nathan allegedly wrote that “you know we can bury anyone.”

HuffPost has reached out to representatives for Lively and Baldoni for comment.

In response to Lively’s claims, an attorney for Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios told multiple media outlets, “It is shameful that Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations against Mr. Baldoni.”

The attorney, Bryan Freedman, said the complaint is a “desperate attempt” from Lively “to ‘fix’ her negative reputation.” He said this reputation “was garnered from her own remarks and actions during the campaign for the film,” adding that these “allowed for the internet to generate their own views and opinions.”

Lively was the subject of unfavorable headlines during that time as she urged people to “grab your friends” and “wear your florals” to go see the movie — remarks that were seen as insensitive while promoting a film about domestic violence. She also offered a joking response at first to an interviewer’s question…