Justin Baldoni will sue It Ends with Us costar Blake Lively soon following her s exual ha rassment complaint
«We want the truth to be out there,» Baldoni’s attorney Bryan Freedman told NBC News two days after Lively filed a federal complaint against the actor/director.
Almost two weeks after Blake Lively accused her It Ends with Us costar Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment and lauching a retaliatory public smear campaign against her, Baldoni’s lawyer says the actor/director plans to fire back with his own countersuit.
When asked by NBC News in an interview that aired Thursday, Jan. 2, if his client plans to sue Lively, attorney Bryan Freedman replied, «Absolutely … yes.»
«We plan to release every single text messages between the two of them,» Freedman told NBC News. «We want the truth to be out there. We want the documents to be out there. We want people to make their determination based on receipts.»
PEOPLE has exclusively learned that the plaintiffs will include Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios (his production company behind It End with Us), his publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis publicist Melissa Nathan.
They plan to name Lively, her publicist Leslie Sloane and Baldoni’s former publicist Stephanie Jones in the suit. (Jones sued Baldoni, Wayfarer, Abel and Nathan on Dec. 24.)
