As the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni furore rumbles on, an unearthed clip has surfaced of a fellow celeb seemingly labelling Blake "a nightmare to work with".
The footage from 2017 shows Armie Hammer speaking about the It Ends With Us star alongside comedian, Chelsea Handler. Armie was was asked by a fan at the time to name the biggest diva on the set of Gossip Girl. Armie appeared alongside Blake for four episodes in 2009.
In the response on Watch What Happens Live, Armie shared an awkward pause initially as he squirmed and admitted he wishes he could pass on the question. He then replied: "Let me just say that was a tough show to film and I didn’t end up actually filming all of the episodes I was supposed to because it was such a tough filming."
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Bravo)His cryptic response seemingly hinted at his exit not being his choice, too. As show host Andy Cohen sounded surprised and asked Armie if it was a case of 'get me out of this' the actor continued: "It was also like, 'Get him out of here.'" Andy then tried to continue probing his response and questioned who his character's love interest was on the show. Armie replied: "I was Blake Lively's love interest."
Fellow guest Chelsea Handler then jumped in: "Sounds like she was the problem," before Andy added: "It's true. It sure does, Chelsea. That's exactly what I was thinking." While Armie stopped short of admitting it, he held his hands up and awkwardly laughed while shaking his head."
The resurfaced clip comes after Lively's extensive 80-page legal complaint against Baldoni was lodged on December 20 last year. It followed what has been described as a tense working relationship on the Hollywood film, It Ends With Us, released in August. Part of her complaint accuses him of deliberately trying to "destroy her reputation" as well as sexual harassment. She alleges that his behaviour resulted in her suffering "severe emotional distress."
Baldoni denied the allegations against him and Lively filed a second lawsuit accusing Baldoni of causing "severe emotional distress and pain, humiliation and embarrassment". She also accused him, along with his publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis PR Melissa Nathan, of making her suffer 'mental pain and anguish' as well as lost wages'.
Baldoni has also filed, but against New York Times, who published an article called 'We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine. The lengthy article included claims that Baldoni and his team were trying to create a smear campaign against Lively. The NYT said they "plan to vigorously defend against the lawsuit."
According to the legal documents, as Variety reports, Baldoni claimed Lively's husband Ryan Reynolds 'berated' him during a meeting held at the couple's home on January 4. The meeting was also attended by other It Ends With Us producers as well as a rep for Sony.
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