Kate Beckinsale Responds to Blake Lively Suit, Details Abuse

Blake Lively‘s latest legal complaint regarding Justin Baldoni inspired Kate Beckinsale to open up about the abuse she has been subjected to on set.

“I have followed, as many people have, this situation between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, and I must emphasize that I do not know either of them. I’ve never met any of them and I wasn’t on the set,” said Beckinsale, 51, in a Sunday, 29. Instagram video. “But I would say what is highlighted is this machine effect when a woman complains about something legitimately offensive, upsetting, harmful or whatever in this industry.”

Beckinsale recalled a time when she was working on a project and was called names after expressing concern about working with an unidentified employee.

“I was referred to, by the end of it, both over the walkie-talkie and to my face as ‘the c—,'” she alleged. “Because I said, ‘I’m having a really hard time – my co-star is drunk every day and he’s obviously going through something and I have full sympathy for that, but I’m also waiting, like the whole crew, six hours a day to he can learn his lines. And that means I’ll never see my daughter at night for the whole movie.”

Beckinsale shared that the studio ended up giving her a bike to use during her downtime. The actress also reflected on an instance in her career where she was put on a “strict diet and exercise program” that resulted in her missing her period twice. Beckinsale further claimed that she felt “uncomfortable” in a “fight situation on two different movies with two different actors” and had to get an “MRI” to show that she was injured.

“I was gaslighted and made to feel like I was a problem and blamed and ostracized,” she claimed. “(I was) left out of cast dinners not talked to as soon as I mentioned there was a problem.”

In addition to being treated poorly by others on set, Beckinsale claimed she had a problem with someone on her own team.

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“I was forced by a publicist that I used to do a photoshoot the day after I had a miscarriage,” she claimed in the clip. “I said, ‘I can’t.’ I’m bleeding. I don’t want to go and change clothes in front of people I don’t know and do a photo shoot. I’m bleeding from a miscarriage,” she said. “She said, ‘You’re going to have to or you’re going to get sued.'”

Beckinsale said the examples she recalled in the clip were just some of the many similar experiences she has had in her career over the years. While Beckinsale noted that times have changed, she claimed that these issues are still prevalent today, and she’s proud to see Lively, 37, standing up for and inspiring other women like her.

“I’m grateful to Blake Lively for highlighting that this isn’t an archaic problem that no one faces — it’s ongoing,” Underworld said actress. “And then when that happens, a machine goes into place to completely destroy you. And I’m sure that’s the case in other industries as well, and it just needs to stop.”

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Lively filed a complaint against Baldoni, 40, on December 20, accusing him of sexual harassment and launching a “social manipulation” campaign against her to “destroy” her reputation while promoting their film It ends with us.

“I hope my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak out about misconduct and help protect others who may be targeted,” Lively said in a statement to New York Times on December 21.

Baldoni denied the allegations, claiming through his lawyer that the allegations are “completely false, outrageous and deliberately malicious.”