In a Dec. 24 lawsuit, the founder of a publicity firm that represented actor Justin Baldoni effectively outed herself as the source of texts. She disavows involvement.

Justin Baldoni’s lawyer is claiming that a planned countersuit against Blake Lively will “shock everyone,” a group that does, in fact, contain us. (Also: Everyone.) Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, was talking to Deadline about a recent Daily Mail article contending that a Baldoni counter-suit against Lively—who lodged a complaint against her It Ends With Us director and co-star a week ago,

Legal documents seen by The Independent as well as an investigation by The New York Times accuse Baldoni and associates of a targeted effort to “destroy” the actor and drag her in the media, which Lively says has caused her “severe emotional distress.