US actress Blake Lively is said to be ‘devastated’ after legal loss against Justin Baldoni, a Hollywood expert has claimed, saying she is “ready to fight back.”
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed Blake Lively’s harassment claims in her lawsuit against actor and director Justin Baldoni.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman’s 152-page decision followed more than a year of acrimonious litigation over the movie, in which Lively and Baldoni co-starred and which Baldoni directed.
Following the major development, expert Rob Shuter has claimed Lively is reeling after a crushing courtroom defeat — but don’t expect her to back down.
The insiders told Rob, “She’s devastated. This is not the outcome she expected.”
The sources further said behind the scenes, emotions are running high.
Blake Lively is ‘angry’ and “She feels like her story isn’t being fully heard,” the close confidant tells the expert.
However, the insiders shared that “Blake is not quitting. She’s digging in.”
Meanwhile, the Reuters quoted one of her layers as saying Lively “looks forward to testifying,” and showing the efforts made to destroy her reputation “because she stood up for safety on the set.”
However, Baldoni’s lawyers said they were pleased with the dismissal of the harassment claims, and all claims against the five individual defendants.
The defendants have strongly denied wrongdoing.
