When Blake Lively, who rose to fame in the 2000s in Gossip Girl, was cast as the main character, fans became even more excited, describing her as the perfect choice to play Lily Bloom, a young woman who grew up witnessing domestic abuse and winds up in the same position years later.

"Like so many others, I've felt the pain of a retaliatory lawsuit, including the manufactured shame that tries to break us." This marks the first time Lively has publicly addressed the case since Baldoni,

Blake Lively and several women organisations slam actor-filmmaker Justin Baldoni for abandoning his promise of supporting women.