Legal documents seen by The Independent as well as an investigation by The New York Times accuse Baldoni and associates of a targeted effort to “destroy” the actor and drag her in the media, which Lively says has caused her “severe emotional distress.

In the past month, few stories in Hollywood have gotten as much attention as the conflict between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. Earlier in December, the former filed a legal claim against Wayfarer Studios (the production company co-founded by Baldoni) accusing the latter of creating a hostile work environment on the set of their film It Ends With Us,

Justin Baldoni isn’t the only one in the hot seat amidst his feud with his It Ends With Us costar Blake Lively, as his publicist Jennifer Abel is now also being sued in connection with the alleged smear campaign against the actress,