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Blake Lively will testify at trial with Justin Baldoni, her lawyer says


Blake Lively plans to testify in her legal battle against Justin Baldoni over allegations of harassment and retaliation

Of course she will testify,” Hudson and Gottlieb said in a statement to CNN on Thursday.Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and retaliation in a complaint first filed with the California Civil Rights Department in December, preceding a lawsuit that followed about a week later. Baldoni also accused Lively in his defamation suit of working to “destroy” him professionally by collaborating with The New York Times on an article about the complaint she filed with the California Civil Rights Department in December. Baldoni, who directed and starred alongside Lively in “It Ends with Us,” also filed a libel suit against The New York Times in January, in which he claimed that the newspaper published an article “rife with inaccuracies, misrepresentations, and omissions.”

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