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Blake Lively is following the same game plan as her husband Ryan Reynolds ... officially asking a judge to cut her out of Justin Baldoni's lawsuit.

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00:00To Blake Lively and her filing, following suit with what her husband did earlier this week,

00:07she has now filed a motion to be dismissed from Justin Baldoni's lawsuit,

00:12which is the defamation suit he filed against Blake, Ryan Reynolds, her publicist, the New York Times.

00:20But Blake says she should be cut out of this whole thing

00:24because what Justin is doing to her by suing her is actually unlawful, in California at least.

00:32And she cites the fact that she says he's only suing me for defamation

00:38because I alleged sexual harassment in the workplace.

00:42And she's saying I am protected that under California law,

00:47you cannot sue me, go after me in a court of law like that when I have merely reported you for sexual harassment.

00:56Right, except what he's saying, neither one of these are going to fly.

01:02The motions to dismiss.

01:04Number one, he's saying I didn't sexually harass you.

01:08So he's not saying how dare you, he's saying you're lying.

01:12But there's a difference between saying you're lying and then suing her for saying that.

01:16If somebody makes a claim and it's false, you're not protected against a lawsuit

01:22where somebody tries to convince a jury that this was a lie and therefore defamatory.

01:28So that's number one.

01:30But number two, these are questions of fact.

01:33And you've got to remember, Blake is the one who started it.

01:36She's the one who sued Justin.

01:39Well, first she filed a complaint.

01:41Right, and then she sued.

01:43And then she sued him.

01:44And what Justin is saying is a smear campaign right back at you.

01:49You conducted one against me and Ryan Reynolds got me fired from my talent agency.

01:55We should say, by the way, she's the one who mentioned a smear campaign first.

01:58Right.

01:59In her lawsuit, she alleged that Justin started a smear campaign against her

02:03once she reported the sexual harassment while they were shooting.

02:06These are questions of fact for a jury.

02:09And they keep pointing the finger at each other like you're the bully.

02:12No, you're the bully.

02:13Because remember, Justin Baldoni, in his lawsuit,

02:16he claimed that Blake and Ryan were bullying him

02:20and using their Hollywood contacts to, you know,

02:23really suppress him in the making of the movie that he directed,

02:27which also he starred in.

02:29And remember, like he said, that she used Taylor Swift and Ryan Reynolds

02:33to come after him and, you know, make him feel like worthless in this movie.

02:38Well, she's also responding to that in these documents saying like,

02:42no, you're actually the bully because you're trying to silence me

02:46when I am just bringing up sexual harassment.

02:49So it's like, who's the bully here?

02:51Like, it's just we're all so confused.

02:53Wow.

02:54Here's the thing.

02:55Most of these, all of these motions to dismiss, almost all of them fail.

03:00This will, too.

03:02And I know I've had two predictions today on what judges do,

03:06and I never do this, but these are questions of fact for the jury.

03:10Judges don't dismiss based on questions of fact.

03:14They can only do it based on law.

03:16And if her position is, well, you're challenging me on the sexual harassment,

03:20if his claim is it didn't happen and you defamed me by claiming it did,

03:26that's going to be a question for the jury.

03:28Hi, I'm Portia DeShannon from Atlanta.

03:30I'm not surprised at all by this filing by Blake or Ryan.

03:34Honestly, they have to throw whatever they can at the wall to see what sticks at this point.

03:39So, you know, we'll just see what happens.

03:42But I just hope whoever, Justin or Blake, has evidence to show for their case.

03:48Yeah.

03:49Again, it's just inconceivable to me that they end up in court and then sit for depositions.

03:57I'm telling you, videotape depositions with all this.

04:01That may be the point where they go,

04:03Maybe let's lay down our guns.

04:04What was Beyonce's song again?

04:06Fold'em?

04:07Hold'em or Fold'em?

04:08Hold'em?

04:09Yeah, but I think it's more Fold'em.

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