WME dropped the Hollywood actor-director soon after Lively filed a lawsuit against him in December last year.
While WME at the time did not specify the reason behind the decision, its boss Ariel Emanuel has now cleared his stance on the legal dispute.
During a recent interview, Emanuel landed his support for Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds amid their legal war with Justin Baldoni.
The WME boss even termed the ‘It Ends With Us’ star’s social media campaign as ‘evil.’
“Social media is a good thing at times because it lets stars connect with their fans, but these two guys used it evilly if that’s true,” he said, seemingly referring to Baldoni and Jamey Heath, Baldoni’s co-producer and CEO of their production company Wayfarer Studios.
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Ariel Emanuel urged the two to stop their social media campaign and let the courts decide on the matter.
“We just have to be cognizant that they should no longer be out there intimidating people, using social media to try to hurt them. And using what they had been doing before it now to go against them — they should just stop. If they think they’re innocent, they should let the process play itself out,” he said.
Emanuel went on to praise Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, saying, “These are good people who have been in the business for decades and have never had any bad press about them. And all the people they’ve worked with like them.”
The WME boss also confirmed that it was he who fired Justin Baldoni after the ‘It Ends With Us’ drama made it to the court.
“I fired him. I am a ride-or-die,” he said about Baldoni’s firing as a client.
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