Blake Lively claims she has proof Justin Baldoni is a predator — based on something he said in a podcast!
In her amended complaint filed on Tuesday, the Gossip Girl star recalled a car ride she shared with the It Ends With Us director, her assistant, and a driver during production of the movie. She claimed Justin opened up about a time he was sexually abused by a former girlfriend, something he’s shared publicly.
The Jane the Virgin alum told her the incident caused him to do a lot of reflecting on his past relationships, allegedly remarking:
“Did I always ask for consent? No. Did I always listen when they said no? No.”
The comment “alarmed” the actress, and even her driver told her “that he did not want Ms. Lively to be alone with Mr. Baldoni going forward.” The lawsuit then referenced a podcast interview Justin did in which he opened up about his struggles with consent — claiming this backs up the theory that he’s a predator! The lawsuit stated:
“In fact, Mr. Baldoni publicly acknowledges that he has struggled with consent. He echoed language similar to the words he spoke to Ms. Lively in the car ride described above in a podcast interview, in which he admitted that he had ‘crossed boundaries and lines in my teens and twenties’ with respect to obtaining consent, a flaw which he blamed on his early exposure to pornography: ‘you start to think that is what women want, and in porn, as we know, ‘no’ means ‘yes’ or ‘try harder.’’”
In the resurfaced 2023 podcast interview conducted by No More (an organization working to end domestic violence and sexual assault and a charitable partner of the IEWU film), the Five Feet Apart filmmaker was discussing porn and the effects it has on young boys’ viewpoint of sex. He’s previously been open about having a porn addiction, by the way.
In the very candid chat, the Man Enough author expressed:
“This is where the porn conversation comes in, of course, because — but, then, when you hit 11 or 12 and your friends have a phone and maybe you don’t and you’re being shown things on that phone for the first time, and that’s cool. And then you start to think that that is what women want. Porn as we know, no means yes or try harder, quoting our good friend Ted Bunch, A Call to Men.”
Hmm. Inneresting that Blake makes it sound like the “no means yes or try harder” comment was his own original thought when he very clearly said he was quoting someone. Justin went on:
“It starts to become something that is very confusing. […] Sure, I have crossed boundaries and lines in my teens and twenties. Not even thinking about it, simply because the porn I was consuming. You are what you consume, it’s that simple.”
He blamed porn on these boundary issues, adding:
“So many men, so many of us men — I would argue that in the high 90s — are consuming it on a daily or weekly basis, and that is absolutely influencing the way that they see the world, the way that they see their relationship, and the way that they see women as objects and not people.”
He was VERY honest about his past mistakes, but does that make him a predator?? For the record, no one has come out publicly to accuse him of sexual assault, but Blake seems to think these comments are super damning nonetheless.
