Justin Baldoni's business partner planned to go scorched earth on Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, according to Lively's amended complaint ... comparing the impending legal battle to Israel's campaign against Hamas.
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00:00Well, it's not like the Blake Lively Justin Baldoni
00:03battle needs any more
00:06feel verbally or fuel, but how about a comparison to
00:11Hamas a comparison to the Israel Hamas war
00:15That was actually spoken by someone in the middle of all this at least according to Blake Lively so late last night
00:22She amended her lawsuit
00:25That she had filed against Justin it now is also includes
00:31Brian Friedman
00:33Justin's attorney as a defendant. She's
00:37alleging defamation
00:39Against against Brian Friedman, but in this amended complaint God. Yeah, I mean, there's everybody
00:45It's literally like the joke like so everybody believable. So everybody
00:50so
00:52Sorry, I'm sorry other thing in the amended complaint was a
00:56What Blake says a conversation that she heard?
01:00Had taken place with Steve Serovitz Steve Serovitz is the head of Wayfair Studios
01:06he is the co-founder of Wayfair Studios along with Justin and
01:10She says in this lawsuit that is it interesting? She says this is what I heard
01:14He said but it's presented as a quote in the lawsuit
01:17She says that Steve said I will protect the studio like Israel protected itself from Hamas
01:25There were 39,000 dead bodies
01:27There will be two dead bodies when I'm done referring to Blake and Ryan Reynolds
01:32because this was allegedly spoken back in August when there was already a lot of
01:39talk about the
01:40Battle between Justin and Blake and that Ryan had gotten involved go back to that quote
01:45So go back to that quote. Mm-hmm. I want to show you something, right?
01:48So, I don't know how this necessarily helps Blake Lively
01:52I will protect the studio like Israel protected itself from Hamas
01:57so he's saying my job is to protect the studio and
02:02I think what he's at least insinuating there is that Blake or and or Ryan
02:10Were threatening the studios
02:13Existence by what they were doing. So oh, that's definitely what he is
02:17But I don't know how that helps Blake because it sounds like well, this guy is saying there are problems
02:22It's the over-the-top language of yeah, but I'm carrying them and saying that you're gonna take out
02:28No way to say that he did walk it back later and say look
02:32I'm not saying I'm actually gonna kill them, but I mean obviously I'm not gonna kill him
02:37But what he's saying is that he's not calling them Hamas
02:40He's saying I will protect Wayfair as fiercely as Israel protected
02:46Hamas so that doesn't mean he's comparing them to Hamas. He's just saying that's how it's very bombastic language, though
02:52It's bombastic language, right, but I don't know that it helps Blake because it makes like so
02:57Maybe it doesn't help
02:58well
02:58Here's what helps Blake a little bit because a lot of this has been positioned as Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are big
03:03Important people in Hollywood with deep pockets who are bullying Justin Baldoni and now this is framing as there's a guy in the background
03:10Who is a billionaire who said on a different occasion that he would spend up to nine figures in waging this crusade?
03:17Against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. So now it looks like more of an even match
03:20They they've positioned it as we're the victims here
03:23Even though we're a list Hollywood people this guy has a deep war chest that he's using to sink us
03:28Okay, yeah, that's a little more on point
03:32The Hamas thing I don't get I get what you just said
03:35So Brian Friedman is obviously now the new defendant has reacted to this, right?
03:40By the way
03:40The other thing major thing in the amended complaint was the fact that she said there are two other women on the set who felt
03:49Uncomfortable with Justin's behavior and that she says they are willing to testify in court against him
03:55Although she does not name them in the lawsuit at this point
03:58Obviously if they were going to testify the names would come out courts, so Brian Friedman's reaction to all of this
04:05her Blake's
04:06underwhelming amended complaint is filled with
04:09Unsubstantial hearsay of unnamed persons who are clearly no longer willing to come forward or publicly support her claims
04:17Interestingly Blake says they are willing to but she's not naming them yet. Ah
04:22This is never going to trial
04:25The more the more people they pull in it's a less likely it's trial
04:30This just feels like a bond both sides just it's a PR war not a legal war
04:36I mean, which is why they're dragging in more everybody like right
04:40They you think you can win the and to be honest one of them is winning the PR war
04:46It just changes every week. It changes it. Well, although it's been pretty stable for a month
04:50Yeah that Justin's winning but again, it's PR not legal I think hey
04:56This is not different or Rochelle. And honestly, I feel like we've all lost we've all lost
05:02We are all losing I'm tired of hearing about these updates every week
05:06I just want to be over go to court and leave us all alone