In Purported Leaked Voice Message, Justin Baldoni Laments Being “Sent To The Basement” By Blake Lively During ‘It Ends With Us’ Premiere

[ad_1] Justin Baldoni bemoaned being banished to the basement by Blake Vigorous in the course of the It Ends with Us premiere, in keeping with a purported leaked voice message he despatched to his associates.

The message was performed in full on The Megyn Kelly Present throughout an interview the previous Fox Information host performed with Bryan Freedman, Baldoni’s legal professional.

Kelly offered little context as to how she obtained the message, however Freedman stated within the interview that he deliberate to place “each single textual content message, each single doc” within the public area. Freedman has repped Kelly previously. Deadline has been unable to independently confirm or date the voice message.

In the course of the message (full transcript under), Baldoni stated he was “despatched to the basement with all my family and friends” for over an hour as a result of he was not “allowed to be seen” with Vigorous and the solid.

“We begin laughing due to the ridiculousness of this complete factor and I notice like on an evening that was purported to be so materialistically joyful, I used to be within the basement with the those who love me probably the most and we had been all joyful and laughing cos none of that s**t issues, none of it,” he stated.

The premiere happened at New York Metropolis’s AMC Lincoln Sq. Theater on August 6, 2024. Baldoni and Vigorous weren't pictured collectively in the course of the curtain raiser for Sony’s Colleen Hoover adaptation.

Publication of the voice memo is the most recent escalation within the volcanic dispute between Vigorous and Baldoni, the latter of whom directed in addition to starred in hit film It Ends With Us. Vigorous has sued over her accusations of sexual harassment and a web based smear marketing campaign, however Baldoni is but to formally retaliate in opposition to his co-star. He has, nonetheless, sued The New York Occasions over its explosive article on the saga, headlined: ”We Can Bury Anybody’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine.’

In an interview with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo earlier this week, Freedman expanded on his technique to flood the zone with personal communications over the It Ends With Us affair.

“We’re going to take what the younger children name receipts, and we’re going to take these textual content messages and we’re going to place them out for the general public to see,” the Hollywood lawyer advised Cuomo, who can be a shopper. “And we’re doing it as we converse, and we have now been doing it, and what you’re beginning to see is you’re beginning to see a whole turnaround on this story, and also you’re beginning to see a turnaround, as a result of individuals are questioning, is that this truthful or not?”

Deadline has contacted Vigorous’s reps for touch upon the Baldoni voice message. In a press release on Tuesday, her attorneys stated: “Ms. Vigorous’s federal litigation earlier than the Southern District of New York entails critical claims of sexual harassment and retaliation, backed by concrete information. This isn't a ‘feud’ arising from ‘artistic variations’ or a ‘he stated/she stated’ state of affairs. As alleged in Ms. Vigorous’s grievance, and as we are going to show in litigation, Wayfarer and its associates engaged in illegal, retaliatory astroturfing in opposition to Ms. Vigorous for merely making an attempt to guard herself and others on a movie set.”

“Whereas we undergo the authorized course of, we urge everybody to keep in mind that sexual harassment and retaliation are unlawful in each office and in each trade. A basic tactic to distract from allegations of any such misconduct is to ‘blame the sufferer’ by suggesting that they invited the conduct, introduced it on themselves, misunderstood the intentions, and even lied. One other basic tactic is to reverse the sufferer and offender, and counsel that the offender is definitely the sufferer. These ideas normalize and trivialize allegations of great misconduct.”

Freedman advised NewsNation: “It's painfully ironic that Blake Vigorous is accusing Justin Baldoni of weaponizing the media when her personal staff orchestrated this vicious assault by sending The New York Occasions grossly edited paperwork previous to even submitting the grievance.”

Justin Baldoni’s voice message:

“On what might have been one of the vital lovely nights of my life career-wise, I actually was despatched to the basement with all my family and friends for over an hour as a result of I wasn’t allowed to be seen, she didn’t need me anyplace close to her or the remainder of the solid.

“So that they ushered me off the carpet and despatched us all the way down to the basement, we had been down there collectively, my family and friends, the those who love me probably the most.

“We begin laughing due to the ridiculousness of this complete factor and I notice like on an evening that was purported to be so materialistically joyful, I used to be within the basement with the those who love me probably the most and we had been all joyful and laughing cos none of that s**t issues, none of it.

“That’s not why we’re within the enterprise … to attend a premiere and be celebrated like that, we’re in it as a result of we’re artists and we consider in what we do and since we wish to create artwork that touches individuals’s souls and may transfer individuals.