Additionally on Saturday, the New York Occasions revealed an article revealing alleged non-public messages detailing that alleged smear marketing campaign in opposition to Energetic, which have been documented within the lawsuit. Baldoni and his crew have denied the allegations and referred to as the go well with an try to “repair her damaging status.”

“Now we have beforehand expressed our help for Blake in connection together with her work on and for the movie. We absolutely and firmly reiterate that help right now,” Sony Footage Leisure, which distributed It Ends with Us, mentioned in an announcement. “Additional, we strongly condemn any reputational assaults on her. Any such assaults haven’t any place in our enterprise or in a civil society.”

Former Bachelor and podcast host Nick Viall was among the many first to defend Energetic, famously referred to as out Baldoni again in August for hiring famend disaster supervisor Melissa Nathan — of the identical agency that labored with Johnny Depp throughout his ugly defamation go well with in opposition to Amber Heard — as the general public was turning in opposition to Energetic amid their movie’s launch and rumors beginning to leak of points on set and rigidity between Baldoni and Energetic.

And Viall is not the one one talking out after Energetic provided an in depth tackle her purported experiences whereas making and selling the Colleen Hoover adaptation, with stunning particulars of alleged sexual harassment and a coordinated smear marketing campaign in opposition to her.

Amy Schumer merely wrote “I imagine Blake” on her Instagram Story, whereas Gwyneth Paltrow appeared to point out help by selling Energetic’s Blake Brown haircare line the identical day the lawsuit broke — posting, “Simply added to my Christmas want record,” and a queen emoji to Instagram.

Others, nonetheless, wrote extra of their help of Energetic. Maintain studying to see all the opposite stars in her nook.

Hacks and It is All the time Sunny In Philadelphia star Kaitlin Olson — whose husband, Rob McElhenney, is a co-investor in Wrexham AFC with Blake’s husband Ryan Reynolds — confirmed her help on Instagram.

Like many others, Olson shared a hyperlink to the New York Occasions piece about Energetic’s lawsuit, including the commentary, “@BlakeLively is a form, beautiful, trustworthy and beneficiant individual (and an unbelievable mother.) FYI.”

Jenny Slate, who performed the sister to Baldoni’s character in It Ends With Us, firmly stands behind Energetic.

“As Blake Energetic’s castmate and pal, I voice my help as she takes motion in opposition to these reported to have deliberate and carried out an assault on her status,” Slate mentioned in an announcement to TODAY. “Blake is a frontrunner, loyal pal and a trusted supply of emotional help for me and so many who know and love her.”

“What has been revealed concerning the assault on Blake is extremely darkish, disturbing, and wholly threatening,” she concluded. “I commend my pal, I like her bravery, and I stand by her aspect.”

Fellow costar Brandon Sklenar additionally confirmed his help to Energetic by sharing a hyperlink to The New York Occasions article.

He added, “For the love of god learn this,” tagging Energetic and including a coronary heart emoji.

Again in August, when Energetic was battling an immense quantity of negativity relating to the best way she had been selling their film, Sklenar issued an announcement defending her as properly.

“Vilifying the ladies who put a lot of their coronary heart and soul into making this movie as a result of they imagine so strongly in its message appears counterproductive and detracts from what this movie is about,” he mentioned on the time.

Michele Morrone opened up about working with Energetic on Easy Favor 2 after she completed It Ends with Us.

“I feel it’s time to face up for an individual I actually love and this individual is Blake Energetic,” he mentioned in a video shared on his Instagram Story to his 16 million followers.

“I personally met Blake throughout A Easy Favor 2, we shot this unbelievable movie collectively, and I felt one thing was fallacious, and I felt the ache after which we had the chance to speak, me and her. Blake was in ache,” he mentioned. “And I am actually drained to see these type of merciless and unhealthy feedback about her with out figuring out the scenario.”

“In order that’s why I wish to hyperlink proper right here the article [in] The New York Occasions, so that you could perceive earlier than commenting, what occurred,” he added. “That is all I ask. That is what I need you to do. Blake, I like you a lot. Stick with it and we’re going to see one another very, very quickly. Love you.”

Paul Feig, who directed each A Easy Favor and its upcoming sequel, additionally confirmed help for Energetic on social media.

“I’ve now made two motion pictures with Blake and all I can say is she’s one of the crucial skilled, inventive, collaborative, gifted and sort folks I’ve ever labored with,” he wrote.

He concluded: “She really didn’t deserve any of this smear marketing campaign in opposition to her. I feel it’s terrible she was put by this.”

Amber Heard additionally spoke out after her personal ordeal on the receiving finish within the wake of her divorce from Depp and his defamation lawsuit in opposition to her, saying in an announcement, “I noticed this firsthand” and “it is horrifying.”

“Social media is absolutely the personification of the traditional saying ‘A lie travels midway world wide earlier than fact can get its boots on,” she mentioned in an announcement acquired by NBC Information right now.

“I noticed this firsthand and up shut. It’s as horrifying as it’s harmful.”

In a brand new video posted to his TikTok, Nick Viall mentioned he is “not hear to brag,” though he says he did clock Justin Baldoni all the best way again in August. In actual fact, as Energetic was getting trashed all around the web, so was Viall for questioning Baldoni.

“I am not right here to brag, I am actually simply completely satisfied that the reality is out about this man, and extra importantly, how fallacious you all have been about Blake,” Viall mentioned in his new TikTok.

He went on to problem those that are nonetheless struggling to imagine the actress “as a result of she reminds you of somebody you went to highschool with otherwise you’re simply obsessed along with his jawline,” to really learn her criticism.

“It is filled with screenshots, proof, and in nice element paints an image about who Justin actually is and never who he pretends to be,” he mentioned.

For the truth star and podcast host, the primary crimson flag occurred method again in January 2023 moments earlier than his personal prolonged interview with Baldoni on a wet LA day in August, and is why he latched on to that phrase “fake.”

As Viall defined it, he’d stepped out for a second and by the point he’d returned, Baldoni was again, however not fairly prepared but. He was, per Viall, meditating … within the room with everybody current.

“I feel meditation is unbelievable … however as one thing you do for your self, you already know, you do not do it for an viewers,” he argued. “And it was clear he was doing it for an viewers. I used to be pondering to myself, why would not you simply do that in your automotive? It is pouring rain, the vibe’s are nice outdoors.”

As with most of Baldoni’s appearances for the movie, the director and star centered his method on a women-first response to the guide and movie’s troublesome subject material on home abuse.

“So through the interview, I actually needed to see if he, like, believed within the stuff he was operating about? Did he even perceive it?” Viall mentioned in his new rationalization. “And actually, I simply felt like his solutions have been disingenuous.”

“My massive takeaway is like, this man type of sucks. And I simply left with the vibe that this man is cosplaying as an ally and is not really one,” he added.

In August, Viall went viral for questioning why Baldoni had even employed a PR disaster crew as tales have been starting to leak about filming of the film. He questioned why he wasn’t as a substitute on the market defending ladies — or a minimum of one girl — from on-line assaults.

“Why is a person who consistently talks about listening and defending ladies, why as a substitute of defending Blake from the net hate that she was getting?” he requested. “Why is he hiring a disaster PR crew who famously has destroyed the credibility of different ladies?”

It has been nearly 20 years since The Sisterhood of the Touring Pants helped make Blake Energetic a big-screen star, and it seems like some sisterhoods really can stand the take a look at of time.

In actual fact, Energetic’s costars within the movie America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn, and Alexis Bledel, penned a joint assertion in passionate help of Energetic after the stunning allegations leveled in her authorized submitting.

“As Blake’s buddies and sisters for over 20 years, we stand together with her in solidarity as she fights again in opposition to the reported marketing campaign waged to destroy her status,” the ladies mentioned of their assertion shared on Instagram.

“All through the filming of ‘It Ends with Us,’ we noticed her summon the braveness to ask for a protected office for herself and colleagues on set, and we’re appalled to learn the proof of a premeditated and vindictive effort that ensued to discredit her voice,” the trio continued.

“Most upsetting is the unabashed exploitation of home violence survivors’ tales to silence a girl who requested for security,” they added. “The hypocrisy is astounding.”

The assertion continued, “We’re struck by the truth that even when a girl is as sturdy, celebrated, and resourced as our pal Blake, she will face forceful retaliation for daring to ask for a protected working atmosphere.”

“We’re impressed by our sister’s braveness to face up for herself and others. For anybody looking for extra info or participating on this vital dialog on-line,” they wrote, encouraging everybody to “please learn the total authorized criticism within the investigative reporting by Megan Twohey, Mike McIntire, and Julie Tate for the New York Occasions.”

The bond cast between the 4 ladies within the 2005 movie and its 2008 sequel has by no means wavered, with the group most not too long ago coming collectively in help of Ferrera’s Oscar-nominated breakout efficiency in Barbie final 12 months.

No stranger to the business, Blake Energetic’s brother-in-law, Excessive Faculty Musical star Bart Johnson has additionally recognized her for greater than 25 years now, having married Blake’s older sister Robyn Energetic — who additionally starred in It Ends With Us — again in 1999.

He was fast to defend his sister-in-law, however not simply with a passionate response, however with info to push again in opposition to a few of the on-line narratives which have cropped up over these pasts months because the movie’s August launch.

“Her complaints have been filed through the filming. On report. Lengthy earlier than the general public battle,” Johnson emphasised in a prolonged remark posted to a New York Occasions Instagram publish about her go well with. “The forged unfollowed him for a motive. Learn this text earlier than spiting ignorance.”

He then went on to present credit score the place it was due, similar to it’s, writing, “His PR crew was stellar. Gross and disgusting however extremely efficient.”

“Learn the article, their textual content message exchanges and his PR marketing campaign technique to bury her by any means mandatory,” he famous. “Nobody is with out faults. However the public obtained performed.”

He went on to color a little bit of an image of the type of strain Energetic was enduring on the time of the movie’s launch and promotion, writing, “And sure of COURSE errors have been made. However simply IMAGINE being a keep at house mother elevating 4 youngsters, married to the busiest man in Hollywood and on the identical time being a lady boss operating a number of firms whereas writing, producing, operating non earnings and dealing 16+ hour days from house so that you might be along with your youngsters… launching 2 new companies you been engaged on / creating for a few years (launch scheduled by distributors, not you, btw) all whereas getting attacked by a VERY costly PR smear marketing campaign since you filed a sexual harassment declare for the very movie you need to exit and promote with simply the suitable tone otherwise you get cooked!?”

“Seems to be like she’s doing a hell of a job to me and attempting to do good issues for the suitable causes. However yeah let’s publish from our sofa how a lot we hate her for making errors,” he lashed out. “That is smart.”

“I imply, she’s been impolite in these interviews that magically performed on repeat. I noticed it,” he continued. “None of us have ever been fallacious or imply. By no means. We should always low cost many years of excellent for these few unhealthy moments. Glad the microscope isn’t on me day-after-day of my life.”

In one other remark to another person, he referred to as his sister-in-law one in every of his heroes, explaining {that a} “lady boss,” to him, is “a girl that’s kicking a$$ as an entrepreneur and/or enterprise proprietor in what has been beforehand dominated by males, and displaying they’re each bit as succesful and certified if no more so in that area.”

“She’s my hero as is any girl charging it like this. You’re free to outline it as you want, however that’s on you,” he added.

In one other publish on Monday night time, he added, “He’s a fraud. He places on the ‘costume’ of a hero, man bun and all. Used the entire stylish catchphrases & buzz phrases for his podcasts. None of it is real. It is all theater. And everybody fell for it. For years. Rewatch his movies with a extra essential eye and watch him praise and reward himself with fake humility and self deprecation. What a efficiency.”

Johnson’s spouse Robyn was amongst these additionally sharing their help for Blake publicly, taking to her Instagram Tales on Saturday to publish a sequence of quotes from the NYT piece, underlining a number of alternative passages and captioning the picture, “FINALLY justice for my sister @blakelively.” She adopted that with a rainbow-hued coronary heart and a plea to “Please crimson!” the NYT article.

Director Shawn Levy, who has labored with Ryan Reynolds on Free Man, and is collaborating with Energetic on an upcoming movie, shared the headline blurb to his IG Tales, commenting, “Proud to name @blakelively a pal.”

On Saturday afternoon, Colleen Hoover — who wrote the guide and served as an government producer of the It Ends With Us movie  — took to her Instagram Tales to additionally shared her help for Energetic. The creator posted a photograph of herself and Blake sharing a heartfelt embrace in a movie show, the place they have been cheered on by the viewers at what was seemingly a screening of the movie.

“@blakelively, you will have been nothing however trustworthy, sort, supportive and affected person because the day we met,” Hoover wrote over the photograph. “Thanks for being precisely the human that you’re. By no means change. By no means wilt.”

She then shared a lengthier tackle Monday night, alongside the group message from Energetic’s Sisterhood of the Touring Pants costars.

“I believed this word was lovely and was going to share in my tales like I shared my publish about Blake in my tales yesterday. I needed to point out help however I had nervousness pondering of placing my publish about Blake in my feed and sending myself right into a psychological spiral from the inevitable feedback. They are often vile, and over the past 12 months or two, there’s been an enormous shift in my angle towards social media,” she started. “Quite than rise up for myself and for fact, I allowed and nonetheless enable folks to blindly choose me with out a rebuttal, as a result of that is what we’re informed to do. ‘Ignore it. It is the web. Individuals are simply imply on-line.”

“However this assertion from these ladies and Blake’s potential to refuse to sit down down and ‘be buried’ has been nothing in need of inspiring. Seeing these three ladies rise up for his or her pal after they know good and properly they’ll be ripped aside by the individuals who select to not settle for or learn receipts is inspiring,” she continued. “I’m performed being afraid to publish in worry of the remark part hurting my status. I don’t care about my future legacy.”

Even a few of these individuals who possibly have not had the very best expertise with Blake aren’t essentially supportive of the purported “smear marketing campaign” she’s not too long ago needed to endure.

Norwegian journalist Kjersti Flaa went viral for sharing a video of a clumsy 2016 Energetic interview she mentioned “made me wish to stop my job,” however shortly pushed again in opposition to implications within the NYT piece she had any involvement in a coordinated assault in opposition to the star.

“I additionally learn the article within the New York Occasions this morning. I have been studying by the lawsuit and I see there’s been a lot soiled work occurring behind-the-scenes,” Flaa mentioned in an interview response to the lawsuit and NYT article.

“I simply needed to say I had nothing to do with it. Once I learn the textual content messages that have been going backwards and forwards between Justin Baldoni’s PR crew, I used to be as shocked and appalled, like everyone else,” she mentioned.

“I’d by no means participate in something like that. That is such an insult to me,” Flaa added. “And I actually hope when you have time, take a look at my video that I simply posted on YouTube the place I clarify issues, as a result of I do not need part of this.”

“I posted a video. I confirmed how Blake Energetic was behaving in my interview, and that is it,” Flaa mentioned in her video response.

Flaa first discovered herself tied in with the months-long feud rising between the costars in August 2024 — simply because the fallout from It Ends With Us was taking form — when she shared video from a 2016 interview she’d performed with Energetic she dubbed “‘The Blake Energetic interview that made me wish to stop my job.”

In it, Flaa made a remark about Energetic’s evident child bump, which appeared to not go over properly with the actress, resulting in a tense remainder of the interview.

Referring to the timing of Flaa’s video launch in August 2024 amid the Energetic-Baldoni feud, the Occasions wrote, “In the meantime, an internet backlash in opposition to Ms. Energetic was underway. It’s inconceivable to understand how a lot of the damaging publicity was seeded by Ms. Nathan, Mr. Wallace and their crew, and the way a lot they seen and amplified.”

The article additionally famous, “It wasn’t the primary time she had posted a video aligned with a consumer of Ms. Nathan. In 2022, within the midst of Mr. Depp’s authorized battle with Ms. Heard, Ms. Flaa posted clips of her interviews with the actor, tagged #JusticeForJohnnyDepp.”

In explaining why she filed go well with, Energetic mentioned in an announcement to TMZ, “I hope that my authorized motion helps pull again the curtain on these sinister retaliatory ways to hurt individuals who converse up about misconduct and helps defend others who could also be focused.”

Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, fired again on the lawsuit in an announcement, calling the entire claims “fully false, outrageous and deliberately salacious with an intent to publicly harm and rehash a story within the media.”

Freedman mentioned Wayfarer Studios “did nothing proactive nor retaliated” in opposition to Energetic, slamming the lawsuit as “one other determined try to ‘repair’ her damaging status.”

He additionally addresses Energetic’s alleged habits on set, claiming that her “calls for and threats” included “threatening to not displaying as much as set, threatening to not promote the movie, in the end resulting in its demise throughout launch, if her calls for weren’t met.”

The go well with itself alleges a sequence of inappropriate interactions with Baldoni by Energetic and different feminine members of the movie’s forged. Energetic accused him of objectifying her and different ladies as ‘intercourse objects,” whereas additionally going “out of his method to message criticisms of her age and weight.” The lawsuit additionally alleges inappropriate feedback about ladies’s clothes and appearances on set.

Moreover, Energetic accuses Baldoni of a “social manipulation” marketing campaign after an “all arms” assembly to “deal with the hostile work atmosphere” on set. The lawsuit claims that Baldoni retaliated by “battering her picture, harming her companies, and inflicting her and her household extreme emotional hurt” with their “assault” on her status.

You’ll be able to learn all of the particulars of the lawsuit right here.