And after Blak’s team branded the lawsuit “another chapter in the abuser playbook”, Baldoni’s representatives have hit out at her “preposterous” behaviour. “The mere fact that Ms Lively feels that she can publicly destroy Mr Baldoni’s reputation in an attempt to devastate his future career and then deny him or his team their own ability to defend theirselves against her is preposterous.

EXCLUSIVE: With yet another week of more lawsuits in the ever increasing obloquy fray between It Ends With Us stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, the court of public opinion has proved as much of a field of operations as the state and federal dockets.

Baldoni is suing 'It Ends with Us' costar Lively and her husband Reynolds, as well as their publicist Leslie Sloane and her PR firm, for $400 million