Justin Baldoni continues to disclaim Blake Vigorous's claims that he ever fat-shamed the actress.
In response to court docket paperwork obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, November 13, Baldoni, 41, and his authorized staff responded to Vigorous's accusations of “fat-shaming.”
“This allegation is predicated on a single occasion during which Baldoni, who had persistent again issues and anticipated a scene during which he must raise Vigorous up, privately requested a bodily coach he had consulted with, who additionally skilled Vigorous, about her weight,” court docket paperwork state. “He did so discreetly, exterior the office and out of doors Vigorous's listening to.”
Baldoni's staff continued, “Even when this inquiry was, as Vigorous now portrays it, a sly criticism, any petty slight which may have arisen when the coach, on his personal initiative, repeated the remark to Vigorous, is just too trivial to represent sexual harassment.”
Us has reached out to Vigorous's staff for touch upon the docs.
In December 2024, Vigorous, 38, sued her It Ends With Us costar and director for sexual harassment. In response to the swimsuit, Baldoni's alleged habits induced Vigorous “extreme emotional misery.”
The lawsuit alleges that there was a gathering performed to handle Vigorous's claims that there was a “hostile work surroundings” on set.
Per the lawsuit, a few of her calls for that had been addressed included “no extra exhibiting nude movies or pictures of girls to Blake, no extra point out of Baldoni's alleged earlier ‘pornography habit,' no extra discussions about sexual conquests in entrance of Blake and others, no additional mentions of forged and crew's genitalia, no extra inquiries about Blake's weight and no additional point out of Blake's useless father.”
Blake Vigorous and Justin Baldoni Sony Photos Releasing / courtesy Everett Assortment
Baldoni has persistently denied Vigorous's claims.
After Vigorous filed her lawsuit in December 2024, Baldoni's lawyer addressed the actress' “fully false, outrageous and deliberately salacious” accusations in a press release to Us, claiming that Vigorous filed the lawsuit to “repair her damaging repute” and “rehash a story” concerning the movie's manufacturing.
In January, the actor filed his personal lawsuit towards the actress. In June, nonetheless, the case was dismissed.
“As we've stated from day one, this ‘$400 million' lawsuit was a sham, and the court docket noticed proper by it,” Vigorous's attorneys stated in a press release after the choose's ruling.
Blake Vigorous and Justin Baldoni's battle is “not a celeb feud,” a supply near the matter tells Us Weekly. “Blake Vigorous has alleged she was sexually harassed within the office and retaliated towards,” the insider completely instructed Us on Monday, February 3. “This isn't a celeb feud, this isn't drama, that is […]
Baldoni's staff has vowed to battle towards Vigorous's allegations as a trial date looms in March 2026. As for the Gossip Woman alum, she isn't backing down on her claims that Baldoni and his staff orchestrated a retaliatory smear marketing campaign towards her.
In response to court docket paperwork filed Wednesday, November 12, Vigorous's staff claims a number of people “had been concerned in instantly or not directly” of “amplifying, boosting or suppressing” data concerning Vigorous or Baldoni “to affect the net social and media narrative concerning them, together with by means of criticizing and propounding false narratives about Ms. Vigorous's allegedly problematic on-set habits, and/or being a ‘bully' or ‘imply woman.'”
Vigorous's authorized staff beforehand claimed that she suffered $161 million in damages on account of Baldoni's alleged “smear marketing campaign.” Her staff claimed the potential monetary losses embody $56.2 million for previous and future earnings connected to the One other Easy Favor star's appearing and producing profession in addition to from talking engagements and endorsements.
