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80 pages? Yikes! Thanks for the info. There is still some stuff that I am questioning the validity. Just bare with me. I've been an extra in 8 movies and 2 TV shows. I'll go into that later. I am going to point out the things that I find very hard to believe. My comments are in bold.

These changes and additions — which included “a scene in which Ms. Lively was to orgasm on-camera” and a “detailed scene” of the younger version of Lively’s character, Lily Bloom, losing her virginity that was not in the novel — were added without the actress’ consent after she signed on to the film, according to the complaint.When Lively “objected to these additions, Mr. Baldoni insisted he had added them because he was making the film ‘through the female gaze,’ ” the complaint alleges. And he ultimately removed the scenes--except for one where both characters orgasmed simultaneously on their wedding night. He also “intrusively asked” Lively whether she and her husband (the actress is married to Ryan Reynolds) also “climax simultaneously during intercourse,” a matter Lively found “invasive” and declined to discuss with him, according to the complaint.

Okay, but what is so wrong with a change about having an orgasm after sex? Changes are made after an actor signs on to a project all the time. Sometimes it by the director, screenwriter, the studio and even the actor. Definitely inappropriate if he asked her anything about her sex life with her husband.

During the intimate scenes that made it into the final script, Baldoni also “improvised physical intimacy that had not been rehearsed, choreographed or discussed with Ms. Lively, with no intimacy coordinator involved,” the complaint alleges.

One such improvisation, the complaint claims, occurred when Baldoni “discreetly bit and sucked on Ms. Lively’s lower lip during a scene in which he improvised numerous kisses on each take,” a scene he “insisted” on shooting “over and over again.”

During another scene, a slow dance between Lily and Ryle that required no sound, Baldoni, speaking as himself, “leaned forward and slowly dragged his lips from her ear and down her neck as he said, ‘it smells so good,’ ” the complaint alleges.

Baldoni “was caressing Ms. Lively with his mouth in a way that had nothing to do with their roles,” the complaint alleges, adding that when Lively later objected to his behavior, Baldoni responded by telling her, “I’m not even attracted to you.” Following a meeting between Lively, Baldoni, producers and Ryan Reynolds in January 2024, Wayfarer Studios agreed an intimacy coordinator would be on set "for all scenes involving nudity and/or simulated sex" and there would be "no more improvising of kissing," according to the complaint.

In all 8 movies I was an extra in--I learned quickly that they do multiple takes of the same scenes numerous times. It's about angles, close-ups, sound and at times, the director, or even the actor asks for another take. The same thing for the TV shows.

The complaint also alleges that Heath showed both Lively and her on-set assistant a graphic and "fully nude" video of his wife giving birth — which Lively initially thought was “pornography" — without consent. It also alleges that the two men “invaded” Lively’s privacy by repeatedly entering her trailer unannounced while she was undressed.

When Lively tried to meet with Heath to discuss Baldoni’s “unprofessional behavior” on the second day of filming, the complaint alleges, he “arrived unannounced” at Lively’s makeup trailer while she was “topless and having body makeup removed by makeup artists.”

After Lively said they could meet “once she was clothed,” he insisted she allow him to enter, and she “reluctantly agreed, but asked that Mr. Heath keep his back turned,” but allegedly noticed minutes later that the producer “was staring directly at her while she was topless.”

So a male producer repeatedly walked in on an actress--including when she advised she was not dressed? He insisted on speaking with her, so she agreed as long as he kept his back turned and then he eventually turned around and saw her topless? This happened in front of a witness? I have my doubts about this.

As filming continued, both Baldoni and Heath exhibited a “shocking lack of boundaries” by entering the actress’s trailer “uninvited” while she was undressed or “vulnerable” — “including when she was breastfeeding her infant child,” the complaint alleges.

Both Baldoni and Heath spoke “often” of their “previous pornography addiction,” and also shared their past sexual relationships in a way that Lively found “disrespectful and disturbing,” the complaint alleges. In one instance, during a car ride with Lively, her assistant and a driver, the director said he was “sexually abused” by an ex-girlfriend — which he has since spoken about publicly — before allegedly admitting to engaging in sexual conduct without consent in a past relationship.

“Did I always ask for consent? No. Did I always listen when they said no? No,” Baldoni allegedly said during the car ride, which ended with Lively’s driver saying that he did not want her to be left alone with the director in the future.

"Did I always listen when they said no? No!" Things were tense between BL and JB--So Justin freely admitted to sexual assault like it was nothing?

The stuff about her body and weight--I fully believe. So wrong!!! 😟

The other thing I am questioning here is why she didn't go to HR? I haven't heard any mention that she did. That's what HR is for. Movie studios and TV shows have HR. I am certain. If she did and I am not aware then sincerely apologies. If she didn't, then are we to believe she just endured all this and only told her husband and her team?! Decades ago on the Young and the Restless. Michelle Stafford (Phyllis) spit on Victoria Rowell (Dru). According to MS--she cleared it with VR and the director. VR vehemently denied it and when producers did nothing--she went to HR and Sony/CBS sent someone to mediate and they forced MS to apologize.

Blake has been in a business for a long time. She knows what it takes to make a TV show and a movie. Why didn't she fire off an email to HR and CC the director, producer, Justin and the movie studio? If they did nothing--she would have that huge receipt.

The stuff about the smear campaign is disgusting. Those text message are likely enough for her to win, but I predict a quiet settlement here and maybe even an apology from JB.