Blake Lively claims Justin Baldoni uses ‘foolish playbook’ tactics.

The actress and her “It Ends With Us” co-star have been at loggerheads after the actress filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual harassment and promoting a toxic work environment.

Justin Baldoni has denied the allegations and recently filed a counter-lawsuit in which he claims she tried to hijack production from him and used her relationships with Reynolds and Taylor Swift To put pressure on him.

Lively criticized Baldoni for allegedly using manipulative tactics in his recent $400 million lawsuit against her and her husband, Reynolds.

In response to Baldoni’s lawsuit, in which he claims, among other things, that the Hollywood power couple concocted schemes to kill his career, Lively’s lawyer issued a statement accusing Baldoni of using an “abusive playbook” in his new filing.

“This latest lawsuit filed by Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its partners is another chapter in the abusers’ playbook,” Lively’s lawyers said. Daily Mail.

They added: “This is an old story: A woman speaks out with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation, and the abuser tries to turn the tables on the victim. This is what experts call DARVO. Denial. Attack. Reverse the victim.” “The perpetrator.”

Elsewhere in their statement, the “Gossip Girl” star’s lawyer claimed that Baldoni’s lawsuit is “retaliation” for the lawsuit she filed earlier in which she accused him of sexual harassment and promoting a toxic work environment on the set of “It Ends With Us.”

The statement alleged that Baldoni’s production company Wayfarer Studios “chose to use the resources of its billionaire founder to issue media statements, launch baseless lawsuits, and threaten litigation to overwhelm the public’s ability to understand that what they are doing is retaliation for sexual harassment allegations.” “.

Lively’s lawyers continued: “They are trying to shift the narrative to Ms. Lively by falsely claiming that she seized creative control and alienated the actors from Mr. Baldoni. The evidence will show that the actors and others had their own negative experiences with Mr. Baldoni.” Baldoni and a passerby.”

The actress’s lawyers indicated in their statement that the production company Sony “asked Ms. Lively to supervise” her share of the film, which “then selected it for distribution and it achieved resounding success.”

They continued: “Their response to sexual harassment allegations: She wanted it, and it’s her fault. Their justifications for what happened to her: Look what she was wearing.”

“In short, while the victim focuses on the abuse, the abuser focuses on the victim. The strategy of assaulting the woman is desperate, does not refute the evidence in Ms. Lively’s complaint, and will fail,” the statement concluded.

Baldoni filed a lawsuit against Lively on Thursday, accusing her of trying to seize his stake in the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel, and of using her relationships with Reynolds and Taylor Swift to pressure him into accepting one of her rewrites for the film.

According to Daily MailHe accused her of competing with the production even though she had not read the book until filming began long ago, but wanted to change many parts of the scripts.

He stated in his filing that when the film entered pre-production, Lively allegedly requested to “take a pass” on the film’s rooftop scene, where her character, Lily Bloom, meets his character, Rail Kincaid, for the first time. time.

Baldoni said he was “reluctant” to let her “rewrite that key scene” but “agreed to take a look at what I put together” only to discover that she had changed the script “significantly” from its original form.

When he offered “very mild resistance,” Lively allegedly “remained silent for several days” and later said in an alleged text message that his reaction to her rewriting “wasn’t great to me” — or to Reynolds and another person whom Baldoni described as “another friend of mine.” Celebrity,” later identified as Taylor Swift.

Baldoni also noted that in Lively’s alleged kidnapping attempt, she went so far as to take him and his family downstairs after they arrived to the red carpet for the movie’s premiere because she “demanded him not to come.”

“Security personnel, acting as if there was an escape risk, escorted Baldoni’s group to the basement of the building,” the lawsuit states.

“There, they were confined to a makeshift holding area surrounded by concession seats, with only tables and folding chairs arranged in a square,” the document continued.

Elsewhere in the filing, he claims Lively also made fun of his body and suggested he get a nose job even as she “continued to break out of character” and “speak as herself and not as Lily Bloom, which was very confusing” for him. .