Jennifer Abel gives her side to those bombshell internal messages and maintains Lively's "incredibly difficult" team were the real aggressors. While lawyer Bryan Freedman warns: "Anyone involved with this abhorrent conduct will be sued into oblivion.

Baldoni's attorney told NBC News that the director-star plans to sue Lively over her claims about a smear campaign and sexual harassment: "The question really in this case is, does it rise to the level of sexual harassment?

Jennifer Abel, the publicist for "It Ends With Us" director and star Justin Baldoni, refuted any notion that her client engaged in a campaign to ruin Blake Lively's reputation amid sexual harassment and other on-set complaints,