Justin Baldoni’s Attorney Vows New Bombshells in Blake Lively War ‘Soon’

In just a couple of weeks the Justin Baldoni vs. Blake Lively saga has taken more twists and turns than a long-running TV drama, and now there’s another one.

Under-fire Baldoni’s outspoken lawyer Bryan Freedman has announced that his client will “soon” file another suit, this time directly against his It Ends With Us co-star Lively.

It comes just three days after the actor/director sued The New York Times for libel in response to its Dec. 21 article “‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine.”

The Times said its story was “meticulously and responsibly reported.” Baldoni and his team say it used “‘cherry-picked’ and altered communications stripped of necessary context and deliberately spliced to mislead.”

The new suit is a direct response to Lively’s Dec. 20 sexual harassment complaint, in which she claimed that Baldoni’s alleged behavior while making It Ends with Us and during its promotion caused her “grief, fear, trauma, and extreme anxiety.”

Freedman confirmed the move to NBC News in an interview that aired Thursday. He was asked if his client plans to sue Lively, and he replied: “Absolutely...yes.”

“We plan to release every single text message between the two of them,” Freedman told NBC News. “We want the truth to be out there. We want the documents to be out there. We want people to make their determination based on receipts.”

In a previous statement to the Daily Beast, Baldoni’s attorney said that the New York Times “cowered to the wants and whims of two powerful ‘untouchable’ Hollywood elites, disregarding journalistic practices and ethics once befitting of the revered publication by using doctored and manipulated texts and intentionally omitting texts which dispute their chosen PR narrative.”

The publication told the Daily Beast that Baldoni and his team were shown the texts that would be published and were offered the chance to respond.

“To address some inaccuracies in the lawsuit, when seeking comments from Mr. Baldoni and others who would be mentioned in the article, The Times shared the information that we intended to publish, including references to specific text messages and documents, asked them to identify any inaccuracies, provide additional context and speak with our team,” a spokesperson for the newspaper said.

“Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer and the other subjects chose not to have any conversations with The Times or address any of the specific text messages or documents and instead emailed a joint response, which was published in full.”

People reported that the plaintiffs in the latest suit will include Baldoni, his production company Wayfarer Studios, his publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis publicist Melissa Nathan. They plan to name Lively, her publicist Leslie Sloane, and Baldoni’s former publicist Stephanie Jones in the suit, the publication stated. It comes after Jones sued Baldoni, Wayfarer, Abel, and Nathan on Christmas Eve.

Lively’s legal team, Sloane, and Stephanie Jones did not immediately respond to a request for comment.