Brett Cooper

I mean, it does not make sense.

And I mean, yes, like I am sure, yes, that Baldoni retaliated in some way with his PR team.

That is what a good PR and crisis management team does.

They're there to get you out of a mess, to fight back against attacks that are being hurled at you.

And maybe that was not happening on social media, but maybe in Justin's mind, it was happening behind the scenes and he wanted to, you know, get ahead of it.

But I do not think, I really do not think that it was all because of a sexual harassment complaint.

That is not where this started.

And you cannot convince me that that is why Justin Baldoni retaliated.

I think it's because he knew that objectively, based on the text that we have, that she had been bad-mouthing him and attempting to cut the legs off of his career out from under him.

That is what I learned from these text messages.

And here's the kicker.

This is probably the most important thing in this entire episode.

Going back to what I was saying earlier about not knowing when this started.

You know, what was the catalyst for all of this anger and resentment?

Based on these texts, based on what has now been unveiled, it did not just start in post-production.

but didn't even start on set after this alleged sexual harassment incident.

We now have confirmation, thanks to these texts with Blake and Taylor, that they were plotting against him and bad-mouthing him from before the production even started in May of 2023.

No sexual harassment claims had happened.

There was no anything.

HR had not been called.