Brett Cooper

Blake Lively on social media was getting run through because of her promotion of her new Blake Lively haircare line, basically trying to pull off a Timu Barbenheimer with her husband's movie doing this floral girly pop promotion about a domestic violence movie.

Then you have Justin Baldoni, the lead actor and the director who is nowhere to be found.

in all of this press.

He's not at the premiere, which actually we learn later on, he was in the basement of the premiere, not allowed out, but he's on his own.

He's not partaking in the florals and the silliness, and he's promoting this movie by bringing awareness to domestic violence and trying to shed light on survivors and what this story means to them.

And the internet picked up

tension.

They weren't happy with the way that Blake Lively was promoting the film, they obviously saw that Justin Baldoni was not there, and the internet sleuths dove in.

So now let's fast forward to December of 2024 when a bombshell New York Times article drops detailing this alleged smear campaign by Justin Baldoni against Blake Lively, how she endured sexual harassment on this set, and that when she brought it to light and tried to address it with Justin Baldoni and his team, his team, his PR team, they turned the internet against her.

They retaliated by enacting

a smear campaign.

And the same article announced that Blake Lively had filed a legal complaint just the Friday before.

And one thing to note is that we don't know how the New York Times got that information.

It was supposedly a leak.

They found out this information, like who knows how all of this information, the texts, the complaints just landed in their lap.

That is how smear campaigns work, Blake.

Actually, you would know.

Sorry, getting ahead of myself, allegedly, allegedly, allegedly.

Now fast forward to 2026.

We are getting closer to when these cases are going to trial.