Blake Lively’s Lawsuit Is Making People Rethink the Hailey Bieber and Selena Gomez ‘Feud’

Per the NYT, Nathan eventually “floated” plans to hire contractors to “change narrative” online through “full social account take downs,” starting “threads of theories” that would be “untraceable.”

In a statement to the NYT, Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman claims Lively planted “negative and completely fabricated and false stories with media” about Baldoni, which “was another reason why Wayfarer Studios made the decision to hire a crisis professional.” The lawyer claims reps for Wayfarer Studios “did nothing proactive nor retaliated” against Lively.

“These claims are completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publicly hurt and rehash a narrative in the media,” Freedman wrote, describing Lively’s lawsuit as “another desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation.” You can read the New York Times’ extensive report here or just read the actual lawsuit here.

All this is forcing celebrity gossip connoisseurs to reckon with the intricate nature of smear campaigns, particularly the one they now believe was levied against Hailey Bieber in 2023. For a brief refresher, the internet has long pitted Bieber and Gomez against one another due to their relationships with Bieber’s husband and Gomez’s ex, Justin Bieber. The drama reached a fever pitch in 2023 after fans accused Kylie Jenner of making fun of Gomez during a FaceTime with Bieber.

Fans were convinced Jenner and Bieber zoomed in on their eyebrows to bully Gomez, who had recently joked about accidentally over laminating her eyebrows on TikTok. If that wasn’t ridiculous enough, the following internet pile-on was so rabid Bieber reached out to Gomez to ask her fans to stop sending her death threats. Over eyebrows!! Now, fans are recalling just how awful it really was.