Blake Full of life’s brother-in-law, Bart Johnson, has hit out at “fraud” Justin Baldoni.
The High School Musical actor, who’s married to Full of life’s sister, Robyn Full of life, took to X on Monday, December 23, to share his candid thoughts on Baldoni amid Blake’s sexual harassment lawsuit against her It Ends With Us director and costar.
“He’s a fraud. He puts on the ‘costume’ of a hero, man bun and all,” Johnson, 54, shared.
“Used all of the fashionable catchphrases & buzz words for his podcasts,” he continued, referring to Baldoni’s podcast, “Man Enough,” on which the actor and director tackles themes akin to toxic masculinity, mental health and gender disparity.
Months after a reported rift between It Ends With Us costars Blake Full of life and Justin Baldoni, she sued him for sexual harassment. Within the lawsuit, which was filed on Friday, December 20, and obtained by Us Weekly after it was reported on by TMZ and The Recent York Times, Full of life accused Baldoni of launching a […]
In response to Johnson, “None of it’s real. It’s all theater. And everybody fell for it. For years. Rewatch his videos with a more critical eye and watch him compliment and praise himself with faux humility and self-deprecation. What a performance.”
Blake, 37, filed a grievance against Baldoni, 40, with the California Civil Complaints Department on Friday, December 20, accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set of their recent Colleen Hoover adaptation. She also claimed Baldoni was behind a digital smear campaign to tarnish her popularity.
In an announcement to Us Weekly on Saturday, December 21, Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, said Blake’s accusations were “completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious.” Freedman claimed that Blake sued to “fix her negative popularity” and “rehash a narrative” regarding the film’s production. Freedman further alleged that Blake made “multiple demands and threats” while filming It Ends With Us, including “threatening to not show as much as set, threatening to not promote the film, ultimately resulting in its demise during release, if her demands weren’t met.”
Johnson — best often called Coach Bolton within the High School Musical movies — previously supported his sister-in-law on Saturday after news of the lawsuit went public.
“Her complaints were filed throughout the filming. On record. Long before the general public conflict. The forged unfollowed him for a reason,” Johnson alleged within the comments section of The Recent York Times’ Instagram post about Blake’s lawsuit “Read this text before spiting [sic] ignorance.”
“His PR team was stellar. Gross and disgusting but highly effective,” Johnson continued. “Read the article, their text message exchanges and his PR campaign technique to bury her by any means obligatory. Nobody is with out [sic] faults. But the general public got played.”
Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Sony Pictures Blake Full of life has received public support from her famous friends and other Hollywood stars following the news of her lawsuit against Justin Baldoni. Full of life sued It Ends With Us director and costar Baldoni for sexual harassment in a lawsuit filed on Friday, December 20. In response to court documents, which […]
Johnson claimed that “in fact mistakes were made” and pointed to Blake’s many responsibilities, including being a mom of 4 to her and husband Ryan Reynolds’ children.
“But just IMAGINE being a stay at home mom raising 4 kids, married to the busiest man in Hollywood and at the identical time being a lady boss running multiple corporations while writing, producing, running non profits and dealing 16+ hour days from home so you possibly can be together with your kids,” he wrote. “Launching 2 latest businesses you been working on / developing for a few years (launch scheduled by distributors, not you, btw) all while getting attacked by a VERY expensive PR smear campaign since you filed a sexual harassment claim for the very film you might have to exit and promote with just the fitting tone otherwise you get cooked!?”
Johnson noted that it looks like Blake is “doing a hell of a job to me and attempting to do good things for the fitting reasons.”
Blake Full of life followed in her family’s footsteps by joining the entertainment industry. Born in Los Angeles in 1987, Blake is the youngest of Ernie and Elaine Full of life’s five children. Elaine previously welcomed her eldest three children — Lori, Jason and Robyn — together with her ex-husband, Ronnie Full of life, before marrying Ernie in 1979. The couple later […]
“But yeah let’s post from our couch how much we hate her for making mistakes,” he continued. “That is smart. I mean, she’s been rude in these interviews that magically played on repeat. I saw it. None of us have ever been mistaken or mean. Never. We must always discount many years of fine for those few bad moments. Glad the microscope isn’t on me on daily basis of my life.”
Johnson’s wife, Robyn, supported her sister via social media on Saturday. “FINALLY justice for my sister @blakelively,” Robyn, 52, wrote via her Instagram Story, sharing screenshots of a Recent York Times article in regards to the lawsuit.
