Justin Baldoni‘s ex-publicist needs it recognized she was not a part of the alleged plot to smear Blake Vigorous — and, in actual fact, she’s now suing the ladies Blake accused … claiming they tried to destroy her repute, too.

Here is the deal … Stephanie Jones is a giant deal celeb publicist, who’s repped people like Tom Brady, Russell Wilson, Venus Williams and Baldoni … up till this 12 months, anyway. Within the lawsuit she simply filed, Jones says her ex-employee Jennifer Abel was assigned to deal with Baldoni’s publicity, and it was Abel’s choice to rent Melissa Nathan, a disaster PR specialist, when the “It Ends With Us” feud was beginning to erupt.

Keep in mind, as TMZ first reported, Jennifer and Melissa are the two publicists Blake is accusing of launching the smear marketing campaign.

Now, within the new docs obtained by TMZ, Stephanie says Jennifer and Melissa’s actual objective was, “tearing down Jones’ repute to take her purchasers and enrich themselves upon Abel’s deliberate departure from” Jones’ PR agency.

Her lawsuit consists of alleged textual content messages between the ladies … one in every of which, reveals Melissa telling Jennifer, “I do know. And as soon as you’re gone — we shall be on accounts collectively and make actually good cash and be completely satisfied.”

There are others discussing Jennifer leaving Jones’ agency and stealing Baldoni as a consumer.

Within the go well with, Stephanie stresses her ex-employee, Jennifer, did not even like Baldoni. One alleged textual content she despatched mentioned, “I can not stand him. He is so pompous. … you are not that necessary and no one offers a s**t how laborious your life is.”

Jennifer additionally allegedly texted that Baldoni wanted to be taken down a notch. In projecting “It Ends With Us” would possibly bomb on the field workplace, she wrote … “He must be humbled. When this film flops, he’ll attempt to blame each particular person round him for it.”

However, Stephanie claims Jennifer and Melissa additionally had their knives out for her — within the go well with, she says they labored media contacts to plant damaging tales about her. Particularly, she cites one article headlined, “Who’s Afraid of Stephanie Jones?”

There are different texts the place Jennifer is clearly excited concerning the plan to screw her boss. As an example, she allegedly texted Melissa, “We’re going to warfare … I really feel so alive hahahahah.” And Melissa replied, telling Jennifer she was leaving Stephanie’s firm “with a BANG.”

Stephanie is suing Justin, Jennifer, Melissa and Justin’s firm, Wayfarer Studios, for damages she believes her firm has suffered.