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Justin Baldoni's Publicist Breaks Silence To DEFEND Those Leaked Texts About Blake Lively!
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Justin Baldoni's Publicist Breaks Silence To DEFEND Those Leaked Texts About Blake Lively!
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Justin Baldoni's Publicist Breaks Silence To DEFEND Those Leaked Texts About Blake Lively!
Justin Baldoni ‘s publicist is speaking out, and it’s uh… quite something.
Over the weekend, Blake Lively sued her It Ends With Us co-star and director for alleged sexual harassmentand a smear campaign meant to “destroy” her reputation.
She included many text messages between Justin and his team, including publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis management expert Melissa Nathan .
Well, now Jennifer is breaking her silence on the matter.
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In a since-deleted Facebook post, verified by The Hollywood Reporter on Monday, the PR guru defended herself and her client, arguing all her messages were just lighthearted jokes:
No negative press was ever facilitated, no social combat plan, although we were prepared for it as it’s our job to be ready for any scenario.
But we didn’t have to implement anything because the internet was doing the work for us.”
OK, so her defense is that they planned a viral internet campaign against Blake, a viral internet campaign against Blake happened… but it wasn’t them.
“Sure we talked about it, contemplated if we needed certain things, flagged accounts that we needed to monitor, worked with a social team to help us stay on top of the narrative so we could act quickly if needed, and yes, we rejoiced and joked in the fact that fans were recognizing our clients heart and work without us having to do anything but keep our heads down and focus on positive interviews for our client.”
That she’s willing to admit to?
“As the texts show, we sophomorically reveled and again, joked, privately to each other about the internets feedback to the woman whose team was making our lives incredibly difficult over the course of the campaign.
The long hours, months of preparation, on top of my day to day scope … it felt good to see that although we were prepared, we didn’t have to do anything over the top to protect our client.”
You don’t hire the best of the best — someone known for taking down other women— if you’re not planning to use them.
Besides, how does she explain their texts?
After the Jane The Virgin star expressed frustration “with the document” Melissa and her team sent about how they were going to go after Blake, Jennifer told Melissa:
“I think you guys need to be tough and show the strength of what you guys can do in these scenarios.
He wants to feel like she can be buried.”
Melissa responded by reminding Jennifer that they “can’t write we will destroy her” — but that they “can bury anyone.” In mid-August, Jennifer also remarked on how well Justin was doing amid online commentary, literally writing:
“But I see this as a totally success, as does Justin.
There are SO many more texts to suggest Melissa wasn’t just hired and never tasked with anything, too.
Now, back to Jennifer’s statement.
She went on to argued that Ryan Reynolds ‘ wife and her team were the ones making her life “incredibly difficult,” adding:
“I was notified at the start of the [marketing] campaign that the opposing team had been planting horrible stories about my client as a ‘fail safe’ if my client did not comply with the demands set forth for the campaign.
FWIW, Justin hired the crisis team after rumors of a feud started to spread… Jennifer went on:
“My sole job was to put together interviews, screening opportunities and speaking opportunities for my client in support of the film, a standard scope of work.
After reviewing the evidence, facts, hard proof that countered every single thing that was being claimed and demanded at the start of production, I made a choice to stand by my client of almost 5 years, who had dedicated his life to the equal treatment of others, especially women.
As representatives, we all have to make that choice.
So I did that to the best of my ability, and felt good about our efforts.”
“I had recently left my previous firm [ Jonesworks ], at which I was still with during this campaign (with a team who all participated in the campaign and a boss who oversaw) and who had access to my work emails and work phone, so you can deduce from that what you will.”
OK, so she’s implying the texts were exposed in an illicit way??
Justin’s attorney, Bryan Freedman , who has already denied the allegations on his client’s behalf, claimed per THR :
“Jonesworks was the pr company contractually responsible to promote and protect Wayfarer and Justin.
Our investigation has determined that on August 21st, Jonesworks utilized a lawyer and security guard to take possession of Wayfarers confidential information through confiscation of Jen Abel’s phone.
We are continuing to investigate the use of that confidential information but demands are being made to Stephanie Jones and Leslie Sloan and once we obtain the evidence, anyone actively involved in any possible connection with this abhorrent conduct will be sued into oblivion.”
He also maintained the defense that while Melissa and her team drafted up a plan of action, per Justin’s desires, they supposedly never used it, saying:
The standard scenario planning TAG PR drafted proved unnecessary as audiences found Lively’s own actions, interviews and marketing during the promotional tour distasteful, and responded organically to that which the media themselves picked up on.
It’s ironic that The New York Times , through their effort to ‘uncover’ a dubious PR effort, played directly into the hands of Lively’s own dubious PR tactics by publishing leaked personal text exchanges that lack critical context — the very same tactics she’s accusing the firm of implementing.”
We just… They talked about doing it.
They talked about how it was working and congratulated each other… But we’re supposed to believe all that time they never actually did anything.
“I never thought the day would come when I needed to defend myself with my own peers, but this certainly has been an interesting, and devastating quite frankly, couple of days.”
Well, how does she think Blake felt dealing with this kind of negativity for weeks?!
That’s not even including the pain she dealt with having to put up with Justin’s alleged behavior on set!
This whole thing is a mess, and boiling down these texts as nothing but “jokes” — as if that makes it any better — is certainly not going to shut down the controversy any faster!
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