When “It Ends With Us” premiered last August, fans noticed something was amiss after lead actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni failed to promote the film together. It turns out that this was a small glimpse of a much larger legal battle brewing between the two.

Now, TikTok is ablaze with videos summarizing the legal challenges both actors have made. The videos and comments, which have taken over the actual movie, skew heavily in support of Baldoni, who also directed the film.

“This is mean girl Blake coming out,” Talk TV commentator Samara Gill said in a video summarizing Baldoni’s lawsuit against The New York Times. “It didn’t go her way. She tried to fight it, but Baldoni is showing he’s not going to back down.”

Seeing these videos fills me with the same sense of dread I had watching the discussion of the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard trial, and it’s depressing to see this story follow the same narrative. It’s another instance of a woman needing to be “the perfect victim” to have her concerns taken seriously.

I am not Lively’s biggest fan. I didn’t enjoy “Gossip Girl”; I’ve never seen “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.” I don’t care about her marriage to Ryan Reynolds or her friendship with Taylor Swift. Her repeated public gaffes have made........

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