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Arwa Mahdawi

The Baldoni-Lively legal battle has depressing echoes of Depp v Heard

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Blake Lively, who has alleged sexual harassment by Justin Baldoni during the filming of It Ends With Us. Photograph: Anthony Harvey/Rex/Shutterstock

‘We can bury anyone’

First, a mea culpa. Last year I wrote a critical piece about the promotional campaign for the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s controversial novel It Ends With Us. The fact that Blake Lively appeared to be using a movie about domestic violence to promote her husband’s gin brand as well as her own haircare line, I noted, was pretty grim.

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