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Justin Baldoni's explosive fightback against Blake Lively revealed: Claims her team smeared HIM, 'weaponised' WhatsApps and lawsuit is ploy to rebuild her image. Read ALISON BOSHOFF'S bombshell world exclusive

It was last Friday that the bombshell news first broke that 37-year old Lively - who found fame on Gossip Girl and is married to film star Ryan Reynolds - had filed a legal complaint against Justin Baldoni.

It was last Friday, just before the break, that the bombshell news first broke that 37-year old Lively – who found fame on TV soap opera Gossip Girl and is married to film star Ryan Reynolds – had filed an 80-page legal complaint against Baldoni. The nub of the legal action which Baldoni's attorney Bryan Freedman has spent the past few days preparing is that Lively's complaint, unusually submitted to the California Civil Rights Department rather than a court, is a ploy to rebuild her public image. At this point, says Lively, Baldoni began a malicious campaign of 'social manipulation' to 'destroy' her reputation, hiring crisis communications specialist Melissa Nathan, who had helped revive the image of beleaguered actor Johnny Depp, and PR Jennifer Abel.

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