Justin Baldoni Thinks Decide Dismissing Lawsuit Is ‘Not Truthful,’ Says Lawyer

Justin Baldoni‘s lawyer is sharing how the actor took the information that his lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds was dismissed.

“What was Justin’s response to it? The identical as my response to it, which is: It isn’t honest. It isn’t proper,” legal professional Bryan Freedman stated in an interview on TMZ Live Tuesday, June 10.

“I feel that he is an individual who needs to be vindicated, and that is all that he cares about,” continued Freedman. “He is aware of who he’s. He is aware of what he is accomplished. He is aware of what he hasn’t accomplished. And he needs the reality to return out, and he needs to do this within the applicable approach. … He is ready for his day in courtroom, the place he can converse out to inform the reality.”

Freedman, who stated they “weren’t happy” with the decide’s June 9 resolution to toss the countersuit, added that 41-year-old Baldoni’s authorized battle with Energetic, 37, is “so removed from over, let’s simply put it that approach.”

Whereas sustaining their standpoint that Energetic’s sexual harassment and retaliation claims in opposition to Baldoni and the Wayfarer Studios events are “utterly incorrect,” Freedman claimed Energetic is “afraid of the reality.”

“The reality goes to be proven by way of depositions, which is what’s going to be subsequent,” he stated, including that he despatched discover to conduct Energetic’s deposition someday in June.

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“We’re gonna proceed ahead with the case, and we’ll present that there was no sexual harassment, and we’ll present that there was no smear marketing campaign. It is actually simply that easy. It is unlucky to be wrongfully accused right here,” stated Freedman.

While on CNN June 9, Energetic’s lawyer Mike Gottlieb informed host Jake Tapper the actress is “decided to see her claims by way of and to pursue them to have a full public accountability of what she’s alleged occurred to her.”

“I feel that immediately is a message that these form of retaliatory lawsuits which can be actually designed to silence and punish individuals who converse up gained’t work,” Gottlieb stated through the interview. “They don’t seem to be going to work. They gained’t be tolerated by our justice system and they won’t achieve success. I feel that’s an vital message for many who wish to converse up in opposition to the mistreatment that they might face of their workplaces.”

Earlier on June 9, Decide Lewis J. Liman granted motions to dismiss each the $400 million countersuit in opposition to Energetic and Reynolds, plus the $250 million libel lawsuit in opposition to The New York Instances for its protection of Energetic’s grievance in December 2024.

The decide famous, nevertheless, that Baldoni’s authorized staff can nonetheless amend the claims for breach of implied covenant and tortious interference with contract, with a deadline of June 23.

In a press release after the information, Energetic’s legal professionals Gottlieb and Esra Hudson declared it a “whole victory and an entire vindication” for the actress. She spoke out in a message on her Instagram Stories that the “abusive” countersuit was now “defeated.” Freedman adopted up with a press release saying their “predictable declaration of victory is fake.”

Freedman additional claimed in his assertion that Energetic’s allegations are “no more true immediately than they have been yesterday, and with the info on our facet, we march ahead with the identical confidence that we had when Ms. Energetic and her cohorts initiated this battle and look ahead to her forthcoming deposition, which I shall be taking.”

Gottlieb and Hudson issued a followup assertion June 10: “No quantity of spin, bluster or artistic accounting from Baldoni’s authorized staff will change the embarrassing actuality staring them within the face: The plan to sue Blake Energetic and her household into oblivion has been an entire and whole failure.”