Blake Lively has made new and serious allegations against Justin Baldoni, claiming she felt pressured into an uncomfortable and humiliating situation while filming a birth scene for It ends with us.
Newly revealed details from Lively’s testimony in her ongoing legal battle with Baldoni describe what she says was an unnecessary push for near-nudity during a hospital birth scene, despite her objections.
According to Lively, the problem arose on the day the birth scene was filmed, when Baldoni and producer Jamey Heath allegedly pushed for her character to appear naked while giving birth.
As per TMZshe said Baldoni referenced his own wife’s childbirth experience, claiming she tore off her clothes during the birth.
Lively stated that she backed out, explaining that she herself had given birth four times and had never been like this, and that she expected her character to wear a hospital gown as the scene was set in a medical setting.
Despite these objections, Lively claims she felt “forced to compromise and ultimately agreed to simulate [the situation] from below the chest down, which we had not previously discussed or agreed upon.”
She described spending hours filming the scene while positioned on her back in a hospital bed, legs spread in stirrups, while crew members walked through the set.
The only covering, she said, was a hospital gown and “a small, thin, flat piece of black cloth to cover [little to nothing].”
Lively also claimed that multiple camera angles were filmed, including frontal shots, and that she sometimes had to ask for a blanket between takes for basic privacy.
She said she was disturbed to learn that the actor who plays the OB/GYN was a close friend of Baldoni and was “repeatedly placed between my legs in close proximity.”
“I was extremely uncomfortable with the degree to which I was exposed during the birth scene, which felt abusive and humiliating,” Lively said, adding that the presence of Baldoni’s friends on set that day only made the experience worse.
She also claimed that it was inappropriate for the film’s financier to visit during the filming of such a sensitive scene.
Lively further claimed that the following day, Heath showed her a video of a woman giving birth, which she initially thought was inappropriate, before he told her it was his wife.
There has been no comment from Baldoni representatives on the allegations.
