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Hey, guys. Okay, so I am back. We are going through the expert psychologist report. We're actually on page 19. The expert psychologist that was hired retained by Blake Lively's attorneys to talk about the coercive control and the sexual harassment that went on at a relational level, at an institutional level, the abuse of authority, all these things we talked about institutional betrayal, betrayal, trauma, betrayal, betrayal, blindness. The biggest thing was this psychologist coined the term darvo, which is something the world needed. So, Dr. Freed, shout out to you, and I'm also coming to you today with this after the. The Lively hearing. The lively Baldoni hearing, where Baldoni's team asked to have all of this dismissed. And the lawyers on Lively side just very cleanly explained that we can't dismiss it because this isn't about one woman. This is about women having the ability to work and not fear sexual harassment. And if something were to occur, that they have the proper recourse and the perpetrators have consequences. And in this case, we have no HR department. The perpetrators were the authoritative figures, the owners of Wayfair. And, yeah, everyone will say that Blake Lively has so much power. She was still doing a job and doing a movie, and she was still caring about all of the cast and crew members. So what this is doing is. It's actually really setting a precedent for. You can't just do this to even the most famous woman in the world, one of the most famous women. You can't do this. Misogynistic men can't keep running the show. We. I mean, did we learn nothing from me, too? So we have this incredible psychologist, and she walks us through what happened, and. And she's reviewed everything and things that you and I haven't seen and won't be able to see. So she gets to the point where she starts to talk about Ms. Lively's response. She says, given Ms. Lively's frequent necessary contact with Wayfair as its employee and the power differential. And Despite Wayfarer's conduct, Ms. Lively nevertheless tries to see the best in Wayfair and Mr. Baldoni in particular. For example, she felt a responsibility to keep the production on track for the benefit of all cast and crew. And I very much believe that after talking to many, many cast and crew members that haven't spoken up to all of you, that haven't been mentioned, that don't have the money to get into a legal battle as a result, is my opinion that Ms. Lively oscillated between awareness of Mr. Baldoni and Wayfarer's toxic behavior and an understandable Desire to hope for the best. You can't tell me that you haven't been in a situation like that where it's not completely clear that you're being abused. You don't really fully know what's going on, and you just hope for the best. For example, in June 2023, after Ms. Lively had made her concerns known, Ms. Lively explained how she felt during a meeting in which Mr. Baldoni and Ms. Lively discussed her complaints. Quote, I just wanted a safe set. I just wanted a workplace that wasn't controlled by their touch and their gaze and how they wanted to do and their lack of boundaries and their behavior when a boundary was expressed. So an apology was not something I was looking for. I just wanted to do my job. If you are defending Balt, it's just. It is so a part of the world right now that women are being suppressed and depressed and this lawsuit is fighting for that. Stop following all the media like, oh my God, she messaged with Matt Damon. Who? Who the fuck cares? Look at the deeper issue in this case goes on to say around the same time, after a female cast member told Ms. Lively about her growing concerns with the conditions on set and that she found it difficult to talk to Mr. Baldoni, Ms. Lively responded, I know. I find it really hard to speak to him. I try to cover it with busyness, but not sure that covers what's going on. But at the same time, it is my opinion. This is Dr. Fried. That Ms. Lively did keep giving Mr. Baldoni and Wayfair the benefit of the doubt. For example, in January 2020, Ms. Lively reassured a female cast member that as a result of the productions for Return to Production that Wayfair and Sony had agreed to, you don't need to hug anyone this time. To which the female cast member responded with gratitude, this is Jenny Slate. Ms. Lively continued that he won't touch you or shouldn't. I don't think he or Jamie Heath will. Ms. Lively expressed her belief that after the production, the protections for Return to Production it would be a professional set and we're getting good work. She had. She moves into section four, analyzing Ms. Lively's experiences. I be here is my opinion that Mr. Baldoni's interpersonal betrayal was intermixed with and exacerbated or made worse by Wayfarer's institutional betrayal. As noted earlier in my report in research on institutional betrayal with a focus on omission, we operationalize and assess institutional betrayal using this measure that she had this psychologist made and researched IBQ research context researchers Categorize someone as having experienced institutional betrayal if that participant endorsed one or more items. It is instructive to consider the experiences of Ms. Lively in light of these behavioral descriptions of institutional betrayal. Based on the information presented to me, it is my opinion that Ms. Lively's experience are consistent with many, if not all of the behaviors captured on the survey that she made. She got her doctorate in 1983. I think she's pretty well versed in understanding these behaviors. She provides examples. Now here are the examples. The Tuition play a role by creating an environment in which this type of experience seemed common or normal. Using the items from IBQ2 as a guide to thinking about this case, we can consider item number two. Did the institution play a role by creating an environment in which this type of experience seemed common or normal? Ms. Lively testified that she repeatedly raised concerns about conducts Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath by Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath that she perceived to be sexually harassing and that instead of addressing her concern to Wayfarer, dismissed her. For example, Ms. Lively testified that during filming, Mr. Heath showed her a video of his nude wife without Ms. Lively's consent. When Ms. Lively confronted Mr. Baldoni, Mr. Baldoni did not condemn or renounce Mr. Heath's conduct, but only expressed that it was his fault. I told him to show you because I thought you wanted to see it. Mr. Heath testified that he showed Ms. Lively the video because Mr. Baldoni told him that she wanted to see see it. This only served to confirm Ms. Lively's concern that Wayfair didn't did not see such behavior as an issue and would not ensure a safe set. So Baldani lied to Heath saying Blake wants to see this when Blake did not want to see it and had no expectation of seeing it. And then he just shows her a video of Keith's wife's vagina. Nice. Just guess that like Keith and Baldoni are going to be divorced and in a relatively short period these women are are living under the impact of Darbo and eventually women start to get on site and see what they're living in in this cycle of domestic abuse going back to the report. Similarly, when Ms. Lively raised her concerns to Andrea Giannetti, now she's the one that works for somi, who had grossly minimized everything and really I think sucks ass. Currently the Executive Vice president, Production and Senior Creative of Columbia Pictures, a label owned by Sony Pictures, blah blah blah. She should not have that role and she definitely doesn't have the training for that role. Ms. Gianetti downplayed and minimized Ms. Lively's concerns. Although Ms. Gianetti acknowledged that the video was not appropriate to show in the workplace without consent, she chalked the event up to a misunderstanding. And not tell anyone in human resources at Wayfair that Mr. He had shown Ms. Lively a video of his wife nude in a tub in connection with the birth of their child. So? So Ms. Lively, Blake is trying to get help and no one is helping her. And these behaviors are continuing. This is all day, every day, this gross, obsessed sexual shit that they, the women are enduring. Also, Giannetti is known. They are known. Sony is known for taking these complaints, we might call them, writing them down, documenting them and storing them in Sony facilities and not actually doing anything with that. The men in Sony have been known, and I have been told by multiple actresses and employees that the head of Saudi and the men there are just as misogynistic and gross and they just want to make money. So a claim like this moving forward and hitting the media before the movie, oh, no, no, no. They were not going to let that happen. Back to the report. As another example, Mr. Baldomi referred to women in the workplace, including Ms. Lively, as sexy or hot. On one occasion, Mr. Baldoni said to Ms. Slate, I can say this because my wife is here, but you look sexy in what you're wearing. Another instance, Mr. Baldoni called Ms. Lively sexy, to which Ms. Lively replied, that's not what I'm going for now. In her deposition, Ms. Lively's deposition, she actually had a lace bra on and he was staring at her chest, and he asked her to zip down on her chest, her outfit, onesie a little more so he could see her breasts, then stated, oh, I'm sorry, hot. Deeply uncomfortable. Ms. Lively replied, not that either. Mr. Baldoni responded, oh, well, I guess I missed the HR meeting. Thanks. Accountability. So that would be gaslighting. And try triangulation. You know, it's not just him, Tim, and HR. Right. Ms. Slate testified, Jenny Slate, that she chimed in to explain to Mr. Bowdeni how uncomfortable it can be to receive unwarranted comments. But instead of ceasing his inappropriate behaviors, Ms. Lively and Ms. Slate felt that Mr. Baldoni was trying to justify and backpedal. These are from sworn depositions. Although Ms. Lively was very uncomfortable afterward, especially given the repeated nature of Wayfarer's conduct, she continued filming because she, end quote, knew that she had to be in scenes and maintain some level of chemistry and camaraderie with Mr. Baldoni to do her job. Furthermore, Mr. Baldoni and Jamie Heap made jokes about how one cannot make eye contact with people anymore, which undermined and lessened the importance of wanting to be comfortable in the workplace. Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath also engaged in daily hugging rituals with the cast and crew. When Ms. Lively or others avoided their touching, Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath would retaliate by becoming irritated, cold and uncollaborative, Ms. Lively recalled. They would become prickly and standoffish and shut down. It is my opinion, and this is what we do in forensic psychology, right? We're hired to state we're opining. Our opinions are based on research and science and a lot of research. So Dr. Fried says, it is my opinion that when Ms. Lively and others raised their concerns to Ms. Gianetti, Ms. Gianetti downplayed and minimized them and thereby enabling and exacerbating the institutional betrayal of Wayfair and the betrayal trauma by Mr. Baldoni and Mr. He. Although Ms. Giannetti knew that Ms. Lively had raised concerns about Wayfair that Ms. Giannetti characterized as Mayfair being too loose or too casual on set, as well as too sensitive, Ms. Gianetti never spoke to anyone in human resources about how to handle such concerns and whether a neutral investigation was warranted. Yeah, but she did document it. Ms. Gianetti testified that she did not think there was a reason to call human resources, even though she also testified that something that was illegal, such as sexual harassment or retaliation, would trigger her desire to get someone neutral involved. So Therehere we go. Ms. Gianetti calling the behaviors illegal. I said, in the past, just this case edges on criminality. And people would joke and say, oh, you can't take me seriously, right? This case still edges on criminality and not just because of the sexual things, because of insurance fraud and other things where they just wanted to pocket money and threaten. Testified that it was not her responsibility to learn who was responsible for handling human resources complaints because Sony was the co financer and the distributor of the film. So she's shoving it off to somebody else who's not going to do anything, who's been sued numerous times. Everyone knows that they're not going to follow through because they want the film to get out and they want to make the money. This is going to hurt the film. And her role on the movie was to protect Sony's investment in the film. That's in quotes. Did I not just say that? As another example, Mr. Baldoni wrote an apology letter to Alex Sachs, a female producer on the film, and he yelled at her when she tried to voice her opinion about abuse, and as he noted in his letter, he mansplained to her about sexual trauma and abuse. When asked about the apology letter written by Mr. Baldomi addressing his behavior with Ms. Sachs, Ms. Gianetti thought the letter was a little overkill and noted she personally had never been offended by any communication that she had with Justin Baldoni. Duh. Why would he want. He's sucking up to you. You're higher up than him, okay? Ms. Giannetti failed to acknowledge that Mr. Baldoni's apology letter was written in gendered terms, referencing mansplain and women and comparing communication with this female producer with how he would communicate with women generally in his life. On another occasion, Mr. Baldoni asked Ms. Sax about a scene being shot, proceeded to yell at her, slammed his hands on a chair that was next to her while saying her name, and walked away. Ms. Sachs felt physically intimidated by Mr. Baldoni and turned to Ms. Gianetti and Mr. Heath, who were both present and said if Mr. Baldoni did something like that to me one more time, that I was going to walk off the movie. Mr. Heath said nothing and Ms. Gianetti said something resembling, well, it's his movie. He can keep shooting and steaming to show that this guy is a douche. Okay? The other Item on the IBQ2 test, did the institution play a role by making it difficult to report the experience? Ms. Lively testified that I was never provided an HR resource and like I said, I wasn't provided an HR resource. I had made attempts to file HR claims. Hello everybody. She spoke on the phone to people, Giannetti to Sony. They took notes, they documented it, they wrote it down. They went around and are also allegations that emails were cleaned without the employees ability to stop it, that employees were asked to leave the building and they came back and emails containing these ablates were deleted. But everybody seems to be playing this very careful game around song. She also explained Wayfarer parties never offered me or made me aware of who to go to for hr. That's standard on a set. I don't know movies that happen anymore in which the actor doesn't have to do an HR meeting along with the rest of the crew. That's a requirement. But this film did not provide it as far as I'm aware. And so I called Angel Gianetti and told her that I would like to file one through Sony and was told that I couldn't. Blake Levy is calling Angian Eddie circulated around. Others on set similarly testified that Wayfair did not make harassment training resources or reporting avenues readily available in connection with the film. Wayfair set up a third party sexual harassment training, but any reporting all went back to Wayfair as opposed to Sony. So Justin Baldoni runs Wayfair and Jamie Heath. So you get sexually harassed by Jamie, neither Justin Baldoni. You have to go report it to Jamie Heath and Justin Baldoni. Makes a lot of fucking sense, right? Ms. Giannetti testified that Wayfair was responsible for handling human resources complaints related to production, and Sony would typically expect a production company it was working with such as Wayfair to provide workplace harassment training for the cast and crew before the start of product. She did not think it was her job to police behavior on set. Wayfair, however, did not have a human resources department dedicated to the film. Before production began, Ms. Sachs raised concerns to Wayfair that given Mr. Baldoni's role at the company, the film's workplace harassment protocols should come from Sony. Mr. He later later agreed it might be advisable to hire an outside agency for the production, but no such agency was ever retained. When asked why, Mr. Heath testified that there had been a constant flow of suggestions before filming and added that most independent films do not have human resources personnel outside the production company. When pressed whether Wayfarer's HR was responsible for onset issues, Mr. Heath said he deferred to Ms. Sachs, the production supervisor and line producer, to the measure. Additional items that were positive or there are present on this scientific, well studied measure on abuse. Additional items did the institution play a role by covering up the experience? Did the institution play a role by denying your experience in some way? Did the institution play a role by punishing you in some way for a poor reporting the experience such as loss of privileges or status? Yes, yes, yes, and yes. Now let's go into the detailed reason why. As noted earlier, in a research context we would categorize someone as having experienced institutional betrayal if that participant endorsed one or more of the items on this test. In this case, using these items as guides and taken together, the evidence indicates repeated instructions. Institutional betrayals perpetrated by the defendant against Ms. Lively. Another strong opinion. Spot on. It is my opinion that Ms. Lively experienced a pattern of retaliation and intentional reputation damage directed at Ms. Lively, as set forth in detail below in Darbo. Remember, deny, reverse, you know, all of coercive control, narcissistic shit they were doing to her. Each time Mr. Baldwini was confronting with concerns, he tried to explain and justify why his behavior was okay, why Ms. Lively shouldn't feel the way she felt about it. Didn't he say, yeah, I forced myself on women when they say no? Yeah. How do you turn that around? Oh, oh, that's right. You try and live your life as a feminist when you are so that people won't really say, oh yeah, he really raped someone. No. And you hope that the people at Long Beach State don't come forward eventually and talk to you. But they're close. They don't want to be in this giant mess like Blake Lively is because they don't have the resources. But you know who you are. Additionally, November 10, 2023 and Sony received Ms. Lively's protections for return to production. Nicole Marshall, the president of business affairs at Sony and Ms. Giannetti told Mr. He as discussed, overall, the tone of the response has to be part denying the underlying insinuations alle but doing so in a way that doesn't inflame or escalate further, since most of what's on that list is acknowledging and addressing. So let's try and validate these women just enough so that they won't continue to be angry, so that they won't stand up for themselves and that we can make money off them. That's pretty much what it is. My opinion that Sony's response to immediately invalidate and deny implications of wrongdoing without any investigation or understanding of the facts leading up to the protections for return to production further facilitated the institutional betrayal by Wayfair. Next day on November 11, 2020, Wayfair responded to Ms. Lively's protections for return to production. Echoing that requested tone, Wayfair, Sony and Production respectfully acknowledge that your client has concerns regarding safety, professionalism and work workplace culture. Although our perspective differs in many aspects, ensuring a safe environment for all involved is paramount, irrespective of different viewpoints. Was told by a guy higher up than her to tone down her message. That was further toning down the actresses. Yeah, you see this? This is Hollywood, guys. Following day on November 12, Mr. Baldoni texted his friends in an effort to gain more power over me personally and the studio, we received a legal letter citing how unsafe I and the workplace were for the we all know what this document insinuates, that I am unsafe, sexually harassing, etc. Etc. Etc. There's even silly things inferring Jamie was inappropriate, which is silly. It's all manipulation. I believe this is in part punishment for standing my ground and not giving her the little things she wanted. On January 5, Mr. Baldoni texted his friends again stating my brain was trying to defend itself when they were needing me to apologize for all of the things I had fucked up and made her feel unsafe. They essentially said that Jamie and I are not who we claimed to be and that for us to to have a podcast is unsafe because it makes people feel like we are safe. I was read from a phone things that I did. While many of them were based in actual situations, the events were wrong and things were taken completely out of context. It's not him, guys. Yeah, not me. When you need like a hundred things to finally realize it's you. Yeah. So the word creepy and abuse were used in reference to me in my behavior. It's hard to feel so much of what they believe about me is false because they are so convinced that it's real. Yeah, that statement lacks completeness. Shocked because he really does not grasp what a monster he is. May never know Wayfair signed the Protections for Return to production on January 19. It is my opinion that Mr. Baldonis texted his friends after receiving his live these protections for Return to production, accusing Ms. Lively of being manipulative and manufacturing her complaints on played her concerns while at the same time acknowledging that she was accusing him of sexual harassment and creating an unsafe set. Additionally, on May 6, at a dinner with Colleen Luber, the author of the book on which the film was based, it is my opinion that Mr. Beldoni and Mr. Heath continued to cover up Ms. Liveby's experience. Ms. Hoover left left the dinner blindsided and disappointed that it felt like she was made to not like Ms. Lively and that Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath's intention was to get Ms. Hoover on their side or just explain their side. Ms. Hoover heard it from Ms. Lively or testify that this behavior was not at all what she would have been expected from Mr. Baldoni based on how he had portrayed himself early on when he optioned a book from this Hoover Bello Ferrer. Even now the psychologist goes into how this Lively experienced Darbo. As explained earlier in this report, Darbo stands for deny, attack, reverse victim and offender. Institutions or individuals who engage in Darvo use it as a form of defense or punishment to shift blame to the complaint, complainant to the person complaining, and undermine their credibility and minimize the conduct. The materials provided to me include examples of those components of Darbo and show that defendants engaged in Darbo, another narcissistic abuse, coercive control absolute or it can depend on minimizing the severity of behavior. In this case, defendants relied primarily on minimization. Mr. Baldowni always admitted to his behavior. He would just try to explain and justify why it was okay, why Ms. Lively shouldn't feel the way she felt about it. Mr. Baldoni claimed that there were innocent things I've said taken completely the wrong way and it's all manipulation. I believe this is in part punishment for standing my ground and not giving her little things she wanted. He also claimed the events were wrong and things were taken completely out of context. Context who saw my fault. I did this a million times my whole life. The word creepy and abuse were used in reference to me in my behavior. It's hard to feel so much of what they believe about me is false because they are so convinced that it's real, like you said earlier. But when Ms. Lively confronted Mr. Baldoni and about Mr. He showing her in the initial seconds of a video of his wife in connection with the birth of their child, her vagina, Mr. Baldoni responded, I told him to show you because I thought you wanted to see it. Minimization and deflection, Mr. He also admitted to his behavior, but also claimed that Mr. Baldoni told him that Ms. Lively wanted to see it. But it's not our fault and you're overreacting because you're alone. Mr. Heath also repeatedly downplayed and reframed Ms. Lively and others complaints, portraying them as overly sensitive or difficult while characterizing their reports of misconduct as norhole creative friction or misunderstanding in vivid detail. Each incident that occurred on set, he recalled in vivid detail. Mr. Heath consistently framed the women's experiences as mere differences in perception. Multiple women with nine women now involved that are saying things like this, insisting that while they may have seen events one way, he and Wayfarer saw them differently. It is my opinion that Mr. Heath essentially offered a performative acknowledgment of the woman's experiences, recognizing them only to deny their validity and reassert his version of events as though the woman's experiences were subjective misunderstandings rather than actual misconduct. Psychologist view has nothing to do with the celebrity realm or anything. She's a professor and a researcher. Like she's, she's not biased. She got all the information. Not knowing or humming aside not knowing what she's going to read and this is what she's concluding. And all of you guys that are, you know, basically brushing Blake Lively off and Jenny Slate and Isabella Ferrer and Claire Ayub and Alex Sachs, you know, you're doing exactly what this psychologist is saying was done to all of them to the attack in Darvo. Attack usually takes the form of attacking the credibility of the person or people making an accusation of harmful behavior, reverse victim and defender can build upon this attack by positioning the true victim as cause causing harm to the true perpetrator. In this case, the evidence suggests a particularly pernicious form of attack and reverse victim funder which included an online intentional retaliation campaign led by Wayfair, otherwise known as the smear campaign. It is my opinion that from in the very beginning of production until now, each time Ms. Lively raised the concern, Wayfair minimized her concerns and attacked her instead. As the discussed in the prior section Before, Ms. Lively had to take matters into her own hands with the protections for return for production. I can't even believe she had to write something like that in a fucking Hollywood movie. When, for example, Ms. Lively avoided Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Geese touching on set, they would retaliate by becoming irritated, cold and uncle aberrant. At least Ms. Lively recalled that they would become prickly and standoffish. Standoffish and shut down. And again, other female cast members recalled the same reaction when they disagreed with Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath's conduct on set. Can we just step back and say this isn't fucking Young? Later in November 2023, as discussed above, when Sony received Ms. Lively's protection, Mr. Marshall directed Mr. He as discussed. Overall, the tone of the response has to be heard, denying the underlying insinuations allegations. So again, validate the women a little bit, just enough so that they don't get angry and actually find their emotions. And we don't want it to fuck up this movie and my paycheck. The next day, Wayfair responded to Ms. Lively. And echoing that, the day after that again, Baldani is texting his friends asking about his religious grief. Where I think it was Rainn Wilson was in that too. Oh my God, how can this be happening to me? Because he's the victim. This, he's the victim. Not like finally who had a little cloth over her vagina. And Justin put his. His friend as the doctor last minute in the role to birth the fake baby. A lot like Lively, whose tit was out and the makeup artist couldn't cover her up and so they threw a little cloth over her nipple because Jamie Heath's been leaving the room. No, no, Justin's the victim. On January 5, Mr. Baldowni texts his friends, again attacking Ms. Lively and accusing her of manipulating and manufacturing complaints. Now this is where I think this, he's very strategic, where I think he knows he's going to be getting sued for at least in a Lot of trouble and. And now's the time to start doctoring some evidence. He starts writing, his brain is fucked up, blah blah blah. We went through that. He's in shock that he got caught and called out by people he wants to be on the same level with that he never will be because they are skilled and professional, ethical actors, professions. Additionally, on May 6, after they signed the Return, Mr. Baldenni and Mr. Beef continued to attack Ms. Lively's character at a dinner with Ms. Husso. Here we go again. They are just continuing trying to attack, trying to get Hoover on their side. But she realized that they were completely manipulating her. June 2024. Ms. Lively and others fulfilled certain publicity obligations for the film without Mr. Baldoni. No one wanted him there, mainly because they were uncomfortable with the behaviors that Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath engaged in on set. Now that's significant as the again the PR smear campaign show him in the basement of his family. He chose that. He's a grown up guys. He chose all these decisions. One of those publicity events was an early screening of the film at book bonanza on June 14th. Attended by Ms. Lively, Colleen Hoover, Brandon Splanar and Isabella Ferrer. The event drew exceptionally strong public praise and a highly positive perception. Days later, Mr. Heath directed Wayfair's vice president of operations. Let me try to say this, Mits Taskovic, to create a timeline cataclysm. I think I'm getting too tired to read the logging each and every alleged incident involving Ms. Lively, complete with dates and placeholders for details to be filled in. This timeline, largely drafted and populated by Mr. Heat himself, was transmitted to TAG on July 3, 2020, and ultimately became part of Wayfair's coordinated effort to publicly smear and discredit Ms. Lively's character. Wayfarer's behavior continued. Ms. Abel texted Mr. Heath for concern. We can't have fans starting to guess why Mr. Baldoni is left out of this stuff. Mr. Baldoni proposed an offensive and an offensive to explain that anything he had been accused of was social awkwardness and impulsive speech. That's where he wanted to pretend he was neurodivergent. To try and get away with things. If you suffer with the divergence or you know anyone, just make fun of you or put it on. You actually harass people because they don't understand the room, right? Absolutely disgusting. Baldani told his team that they needed a plan to get ahead of Ms. Library's claims against him in the event they were to go public. Ms. Abel emailed Mr. He discussing what would be helpful to arm us in the case we need to refute Any time the film was released in August 2024, it is my opinion that Wayfair engaged in further attack and RVO Reverse Kitchen Fender by causing the online smear campaign to commence with attack and RPO themes that followed. The same themes Mayfair had used against Ms. Lively up to this point. Ms. Lively alleges that the goal of the smear campaign was twofold. One, to conceal the pattern of harassment and other misconduct by Wayfarer and thus is relevant to the deny component of Darbo and to retaliate against Ms. Lively by battering her image, harming her business and causing her and her family severe emotional He Baldoni was really, really excited to he was. The texts were like, oh my God, this woman is fantastic. It was friends too, saying, if we can get her, we just made the film, yet now all of a sudden the world hates her and she's worthless. Wow, that sounds like a smear campaign. Please deposit Ms. Lively further explains Part of what was so unique about the smear campaign is there was not a single event or moment or experience or revelation that led to this. This. It felt like a scattershot of negativity. So I can't even keep track of all the narratives. Yeah, they came in fast and hard, probably how Justin Baldani likes to do it, not caring. The narratives included and continue to include an assault on Ms. Lively's character and casting her as a mean girl, a bully, tone deaf and power hungry, including by attempting to tease quote the film. This felt to Ms. Lively like an erasure of so much, not only goodwill that she had built up over decades, but on the film's press tour in July 2024, Wafer engaged a crisis communication specialist, Melissa Nathan, and her company, the Agency Group PR llc, otherwise known as tag, along with Jed Wallace and Street Relations. Now, Jed Wallace, as I'm sure you all know, secured the smear. On July 30, Wayfarer transmitted to Tag the timeline it had been building that cataloged each and every alleged incident involving Ms. Lively. On Aug. 2, TAG circulated a scenario planning document to Wayfarer. Should Ms. Lively and her team make her grievances public? Which advanced misleading counter narratives, including blaming Ms. Lively for production member losing their jobs. My analysis assumes that Wayfair, through Tag and others, engaged in whole or in part in the conduct set forth in this scenario plan. Mr. Baldomi expressed concerns that the plan had not much defense and lacked protection. In response, Tag and Wayfair exchanged text stating among other things, that Mr. Baldoni wants to feel a like Ms. Lively can be buried. And imagine if a document saying all the things that he wants ends up in the wall like a narcissistic wound. Here he's really wanting to just bury her. Finally, also in August 2024, Wayfarer was asked to issue a statement to help correct the situation by accepting accountability for the production it oversaw. But rather than doing so, Ms. Nathan advised that issuing such a statement would be a career killer from Mr. Baldoni, who she urged to lawyer up and fight. The smear campaign is consistent with the attack and rvo reverse victim offender stages of Darvo, which seeks to shift the focus from the misconduct to the accuser's character and credibility and to undermine the accuser and frame her as untrustworthy. 3. Reversing victim and Defender the insidious element of Darbo often appears as set forth in the examples which we've gone through above. It also appears most notably in August 2024 when, for example, Mr. Baldomi sent Ms. Abel a screenshot of a thread on X that had accused another female celebrity. That's Hailey Bieber, I think of bullying women, Mr. Baldemi stated. This is what we would need after December 2024, with and through its council continued the Darbo by filing multiple lawsuits against Ms. Lively and others in three jurisdictions for hundreds of millions of dollars. In my opinion, Wayfair's entire defense in such court proceedings is a classic example of Darbo. The lawsuits accused Ms. Lively and lying about the sexual harassment and retaliation during filming and promotion of the film, and extorting Wayfarer to take control of the film, among other allegations. Wayfair continued to minimize the severity of Ms. Leife's complaints by saying she raised a series of grievances that she appeared to have spent the past five days over analyzing and scrutinized every minor infraction and perceived slaves. Despite this, Wayfarer included text messages in its filing acknowledging that Ms. Lively genuine behavior that she has been mistreated where it quotes just know her personality and this is the kind of person that genuinely believes she's right and that all this is unjust the way she is being treated. Wayfair's amended complaint acknowledged the behavior Ms. Lively alleged, but attempted to undermine it. As a further example, Wayfair attempted to make themselves the victims of Ms. Lively's unwillingness to take photos at the film's premiere with Mr. Baldoni, the perpetrator of betrayal, trauma, institutional betrayal, and Darvo. Wayfair claimed that Ms. Lagley was responsible for her and the cast not participating in any marketing or promotion of the film alongside Beldoni. And in spite of Baldoni and Wayfarer's acquiescence to all her demands, her. My opinion. Oh, and also, you know the world's believing this, right? Because they're like, oh, my God, we finally get to see the inside workings of a celebrity lawsuit. They're showing us exactly what we want to see. Being completely fucking manipulated. However, in my opinion, it is expected for a victim of betrayal, trauma, institutional betrayal, and Darvo to not want to further subject herself to trauma at the hands of the same individuals and institution. Ms. Lively hadn't really gone into detail about her accusations against Mr. Baldoni. But, like, I mean, I was. It was obvious that they didn't get along. This is from Colleen Hoover's deposition. She insinuated that she was a victim of sexual harassment and didn't want to be in the same room with them. She didn't even, like, go into detail. She could have hurt Justin even more, and she didn't. Indeed, Ms. Uber, Ms. Slate and another actor on the film, Brandon Splinar, did not want to be on the premiere with Mr. Baldoni because they independently felt uncomfortable. In stark contrast to Wayfair's framing of Ms. Lively's contribution to the team, Josh Greenstein, formerly the president of the motion picture group at Sony, recalled that Ms. Lively had incredible ideas, wished the marketing team every day to be better, and was just relentless in a positive way. By claiming that Ms. Lively was threatening to. Threatening not to promote the film or go to the premiere, Wayfarer engaged in further reverse. Victim offender. You guys see this? These psychological tactics? Yeah, they're subtle. That's why the judge said today, the Baldoni site said Ms. Lively has a bunch of small potatoes. And the judge said, well, sometimes small potatoes turn into a big meal or something like that. This is why. Because it's subtle and no one wants to take the time to sit and read this hundred page report and actually understand everything. In addition to filings in court, Wayfarer, with and through its attorneys, have attacked Ms. Lively's character in the press, accusing her of being a liar and coward. Who's this? Right. Of less money than Blake and I've. The head of Wayfarer Studios and Ms. Lively's employer was prepared to spend whatever necessary to defend Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and himself against Ms. Lively and her husband. Wayfair's lawyers have stated their intention to sue Ms. Lively into oblivion. Even proposed taking her deposition at Madison Square Garden and charging tickets for admission. The real winner. Wonder how many affairs he said heard of. A few said to people hold the deposition at Madison Square Garden, sell tickets or stream it and donate every dollar to organizations helping victims of domestic abuse. Dr. Yi also represented Justin, who stole a movie from the Flores family, who's currently suing Brian Friedman for the U.N. okay. Is engaging in Darvo and domestic violence right now in this case, actually, a lot of people are. Okay. So then we get into the defendant's conducts. Puts Ms. Lively at increased risk of physical and mental distress. Consistent with tons of fucking research. At the outset, it is important to establish that institutional betrayal often precedes co occurs with or follows betrayal trauma. Darvo follows betrayal trauma. These patterns characterize many instances of institutional betrayal associated with interpersonal harm that occur in an institutional context. We know from research on institutional betrayal in these cases that the harm is best understood as a new injury that exacerbates. Makes worse guys. The harm of the betrayal trauma. Sometimes people think that multiple traumas would protect the victim from new harm, imagining perhaps that traumas are like immunity to a virus in which initial exposure helps protect against future severity. However, as explained earlier in this report, victimization, or other psychologists might call it complex ptsd, Post traumatic stress disorder. The impact of multiple traumas, including institutional betrayal and Darvo, is just the opposite of this. Each new trauma compounds the impact of the prior traumas that as immunity. I would often say, like, if somebody punched you once, what's the big deal if they punch you again? Because you like, kind of know how the experience of being punched in comparison to if you've never been punched and someone's gonna punch you. You know, the first initial punch is the scariest. And so we often minimize when we're getting harmed more and more in the future because we've already taken it. That's a very common experience with sexual abuse survivors. So based on the documents provided to the psychologist and based on decades of research on betrayal trauma and trauma exposure, tons of trauma science. It is my opinion that Wayfair's conduct puts Ms. Lively at increased risk of betrayal blindness, including forgetting, unawareness and not telling. I don't think she has all of those, but that's what she's comparing the severity of what Dean. Ms. Lively has confirmed that she suffers from certain of these symptoms because of the score. Pity, ridicule, humiliation suffered which resulted in. Mr. Green. Stein recalled a phone call with Ms. Lively that he described as someone who was going through severe trauma is all I Can describe almost hyperventilating, crying, incredibly upset, inconsolable. It is important to note that many victims of betrayal, trauma and institutional may have experienced some of these symptoms prior to the new events. This is the key. I'm always asked on the stand, how do you know that this trauma led to these symptoms rather than a previous trauma? The research on polyvictimization or complex ptsd, as I like to say, indicates that symptoms increase as a function of exposure to betrayal, trauma and institutional betrayal. As noted above here, my opinion is that Wayfarer sexual harassment, initial retaliation during filming and promotion of the film, and subsequent retaliatory litigation created a scenario where Ms. Lively was and continues to be victimized repeatedly at the hands of her former employee, including through the media, online commenters and others. People have been horrible, horrible. I. I can't believe they wouldn't flip the script script and see that if they had a daughter, a sister, a mother, an aunt who was being treated like this online. I cannot, can't believe that they would come without having actual facts or understanding or knowing that they're saying. It's appalling. It says, given the ongoing nature of this institutional betrayal in Darvo, I would expect Ms. Lively's risk associated with the above symptoms to be extremely high. That's really fucking crucial. Assuming the allegations and the documents provided to me are true, Ms. Lively was subjected to experiences of betrayal, trauma and institutional betrayal, along with subsequent aspects of Darvo by each of the defendants. These traumas put Ms. Lively at risk for significant physical and mental health impacts. However, as the research on polyvictimization shows, the repeated abuse Ms. Lively suffered, first in the form of Wayfarer sexual harassment on set, then the retaliation and severe campaign, and finally defendants litigation tactics in this lawsuit confirms that Ms. Lively is at heightened risks. All the lists we said before, depression, anxiety, bad shit, dissociation, trauma, tsd. My opinions are provided to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty and are based on my education. 30 years, I think 40 years of education. No. And she's also a professor, so she's like constantly getting more and more information from all these students all the time. So based on her education, training, experience, both expertise, knowledge of the scientific literature and other materials. And she finished this October 17th. Today is January 22nd, and we are still, still in this because everything was just unsealed. So the fact that it's been months since she wrote this report, and it's even worse. I'm so glad that Lively hired Jeffrey Epstein's victim, survivor's attorney because now someone can actually finally understand what she went through and can finally adopt the report. The other side did not give any expert reports and so this carries a significant amount of weight. And what I said before is I really wish Lively had had a forensic evaluation and also Justin Baldoni, I don't think they still have time to do that. I mean the judge personality cognitive malingering assessment for him definitely like sexual predatory assessments and to really analyze them and really get some objective facts. But anyway read it for yourself. Jennifer Freed, Ph.D. amazing psychologist truly believes that Blake Lively was sexually harmed psychologically and emotionally needed all the way through the movie set through immunization by Angion, furthermore by Sony, furthermore by the lawsuit, furthermore by the public's reaction to the lawsuit and the ongoing litigation fucking mess. There will be a settlement hearing tomorrow on 1 23. I think that there's something going on in February but trial will be in May.