Blake Lively‘s family has stepped in to support her following her recent lawsuit against her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director, Justin Baldoni.

In the lawsuit, Lively claims she was the target of a smear campaign after accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment during the film’s production.

Following the news, Blake Lively’s brother-in-law, Bart Johnsonhas spoken out, blasting Justin Baldoni and his PR team.

Johnson took to the comments section of an Instagram post about the news from The New York Times to express their true feelings about the situation.

“Her complaints were made during filming. Registered. Long before the public conflict. The cast no longer followed him [Baldoni] for a reason,” he said. “His PR team was excellent. Big and disgusting but very effective. Read the article, their text message exchanges and his PR campaign strategy to bury it by any means necessary. Nobody is without [sic] defects. But the public was played.

He later admitted that “of course mistakes were made” on Lively’s part: “Just IMAGINE being a stay-at-home mom raising 4 kids, married to the busiest man in Hollywood and at the same time being a boss lady running multiple businesses while writing, producing, running non-profits, and working 16+ hour days at home so you can be with your kids. »

“Launching 2 new businesses that you have been working on/developing for many years (launch planned by the distributors, not you, btw) while being attacked by a VERY expensive smear campaign because you filed a harassment complaint sexual for the very film you have to go out and promote with just the right tone or you get cooked! ? » he added to his comment.

The actor then addressed the resurfaced interviews, in which Blake Lively appeared to respond to interviewers in a dismissive or rude manner.

“But yeah, let’s post from our couch how much we hate her for her mistakes. It makes sense,” he said. “I mean, she was rude in these interviews that magically repeated themselves. I saw it. None of us have ever been wrong or mean. Never. We should discard the decades of good times for these few bad times. I’m glad the microscope isn’t on me every day of my life.

As previously reported The explosionBlake Lively has filed a lawsuit against Justin Baldoni, his production company WayFarer Studios, producers of “It Ends with Us,” and several others. The suit includes allegations of sexual harassment, negligence, interference with potential economic advantage, intentional infliction of emotional distress and more.

Lively’s legal team is also filing a retaliation suit, arguing that Baldoni and WayFarer Studios “embarked on a sophisticated press and digital plan to retaliate against Ms. Lively exercising her legally protected right to speak out about their on-set misconduct, with the additional goal of intimidating him as well as anyone else to reveal in public what really happened,” according to the filing.

The lawsuit also reveals a “scenario planning document” allegedly sent by a hired crisis management team to Baldoni, WayFarer Studios head Steve Heath, and others. That document reportedly outlined three potential strategies that Lively’s team could pursue and detailed how Baldoni’s team should respond if they went public with their grievances.

Lively’s attorney claims the document was distributed by Melissa Nathan, Baldoni’s crisis public relations manager, on August 2, 2024, in an effort to promote “misleading counter-narratives.”

In a resurfaced interview, Justin Baldoni openly admitted to struggling with an “unhealthy” relationship with pornography — a revelation that has garnered renewed attention in light of Blake Lively’s sexual harassment allegations against him.

“I discovered porn when I was 10 years old. Way before I could, you know, get an erection or even know how I felt about anything,” he revealed during a July 2021 episode of the “A Life of Greatness” podcast. by Sarah Grynberg. “It was, you know, like any young boy seeing breasts for the first time, it’s exciting because our culture has protected them from us because they’re sexualized. It’s cultural.”

“You go to places like Africa and different tribes… and breast is breast,” he added. “We’ve sexualized this thing, so, of course, it becomes fascinating and interesting and you’re like, ‘Oh my God.’ , breasts.’ And then, you know, the hormones start raging.

He admitted that he “often sought refuge” in pornography during moments of loneliness, abandonment or emotional pain, describing it as a source of a “dopamine rush”.

“I’ve trained my brain to deal with the pain caused by dopamine… but that doesn’t mean I’m not using something in an unhealthy way,” he explained.