Blake Lively at the London premiere of It Ends With Us over the summer

Blake Lively has accused her It Ends With Us director and co-star Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set of the movie, and a subsequent effort to deliberately “destroy” her reputation.

In a legal complaint obtained by The Associated Press, which The New York Times reported was filed on Friday with the California Civil Rights Department, precedes a lawsuit.

It names Baldoni, the studio behind the romantic drama It Ends With Us and Baldoni’s publicists among the defendants.

In the complaint, Lively accuses Baldoni and the studio of embarking on a “multi-tiered plan” to damage her reputation following a meeting in which she and her husband Ryan Reynolds addressed “repeated sexual harassment and other disturbing behaviour” by Baldoni and a producer on the movie.

The plan, the complaint said, included a proposal to plant theories on online message boards, engineer a social media campaign and place news stories critical of Lively.

Baldoni enlisted publicists and crisis managers in a “sophisticated, coordinated, and well-financed retaliation plan” meant to “bury” and “destroy” Lively if she went public with her on-set concerns,........

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