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Actor Blake Lively is suing her "It Ends With Us" co-star and director Justin Baldoni, alleging sexual harassment and retaliation, according to a complaint filed Friday.
The complaint: The lawsuit includes details of a meeting convened to address hostile work environment of the set, where Baldoni, Lively and other attendees talked about certain inappropriate conduct allegedly perpetrated by Baldoni and lead producer Jamey Heath.
Those conduct include the alleged showing of nude videos and images of women to Lively.
The lawsuit also alleges that Baldoni launched a smear campaign to discredit Lively in the event that the actor goes public with these allegations.
"It Ends With Us": The film is an adaptation of Colleen Hoover's best-selling book about a woman's abusive marriage. The blockbuster, with a reported budget of $25 million, earned more than $350 million in global ticket sales.
Background: The lawsuit comes less than a decade after the #MeToo movement gained global attention starting in 2017, leading to a reckoning in Hollywood that led to the conviction of industry heavyweights like Harvey Weinstein.
What's next: LAist reached out to Wayfarer Studios, the production outfit owned by Baldoni, for a response.
His lawyer told Variety that the suit contains "categorically false accusations."
TMZ first reported about the lawsuit. A copy of the complaint was later obtained by the New York Times.