Blake Lively‘s publicist argued in a legal filing Thursday that it was not defamatory to tell a reporter that the entire cast of “It Ends With Us” hated director Justin Baldoni.
Leslie Sloane, who represents Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, is accused in Baldoni’s lawsuit of spreading the malicious falsehood that he was a sexual predator in order to deflect attention away from Lively’s behavior on set.
Baldoni’s suit quotes text messages between Sloane and a Daily Mail reporter on Aug. 8, in which the reporter sought comment about a “power struggle” between Lively and Baldoni, saying that Lively had been labeled “difficult” on set.
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