It Ends With Us: Horror Movie Edition
Two terrifying bombshells dropped today: Blake Lively's lawsuit against Justin Baldoni, and an accompanying NYT piece on the alleged smear campaign against Lively.
Surprise!
We’re launching our Diabolical Lies subscriber chat today with a conversation about this bombshell piece in the New York Times: “Private messages detail an alleged campaign to tarnish Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of It Ends With Us.”
If news of Blake Lively’s lawsuit against Justin Baldoni was the shot, then this NYT piece (which lays out exactly how Baldoni and his team allegedly orchestrated a massive smear campaign against Lively, receipts and all) is the chaser. It’s hard to read either of these articles without feeling several rounds of shivers running down your back.
Read both articles, take five minutes to marinate in the pure horror of what you just read, and then join us in the chat to discuss this impossibly thorny situation.
Wondering what the chat is, exactly?
Here’s the TLDR: it’s a conversation space exclusively for paid subscribers —kind of like a group chat or live hangout. Moving forward, we will periodically post in this thread with thoughts, comments, link shares, etc.
Come on in, the water1 is totally fine2…
How to get started
Get the Substack app by clicking this link or the button below. New chat threads won’t be sent sent via email, so turn on push notifications so you don’t miss conversation as it happens. You can also access chat on the web.
Open the app and tap the Chat icon. It looks like two bubbles in the bottom bar, and you’ll see a row for my chat inside.
That’s it! Jump into my thread to say hi, and if you have any issues, check out Substack’s FAQ.
by water I mean the cultural wasteland that is America in 2024
by fine i mean terrible