The Good Place alum Jameela Jamil is explaining your recently opened text messages.
“I’m willing to say a few things, especially to clarify the timing because the timing is key to the context,
Jamil, 39 years old, said in a Friday, January 23, video shared via TikTok. “I think it’s very strange that my private text messages from 18 months ago have suddenly been published now.”
He continued: “My name has been deliberately not redacted to cause me as much trouble as possible, even though these text messages have nothing to do with the case.”
Us Weekly confirmed earlier this month that texts between Jamil and Jennifer Abel, Justin Baldoni‘s publicist, were released in the middle of the End With Us the director’s legal battle Blake Lively. (Lively, 38, accused Baldoni, 41, of stalking and trying to destroy her reputation on the set of 2024 End With Us He vehemently denied the allegations.)
“I want to officially add nightmare c*** and demon c*** to my vocabulary; INCREDIBLE; She’s doing this to herself,” Abel reportedly wrote of Lively to Jamil in texts obtained by we
Jamil, for his part, replied: “She’s a suicide terrorist at this point.” He later accused Lively of engaging in a “freak dolan” act in a separate message.
In his video on Friday, Jamil emphasized this she didn’t “talk about the case” in any of your text messages.
“Check the dates. They were (sent) in August 2024. The lawsuit wasn’t filed until December 2024. It was four months between when I was saying these things and when a lawsuit came to light,” he said. People we meet on vacation the actress stated, adding that she is not familiar with the legality of the lawsuit. “I had no idea about any of this stuff, so I was just telling my friend how I felt about the press release for that goddamn terrible movie.”
According to Jamil, he “didn’t like the way the press is being handled” given the film’s themes of domestic violence.
“I grew up with domestic violence in my home, I was a victim of domestic violence in my 20s (and it) made me feel a certain way,” Jamil said, referring to the End With Us promotional tour “The way the interviews were set up for the success of doing a very nice bond interview and he got insensitive, sarcastic or cold or watered down answers. I was offended.”
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Lively, who played Lily Bloom End With Us and was also an executive producer of the film, she was publicly called tone-deaf because she rarely spoke about the issues of domestic violence in her press interviews. Meanwhile, he shared a list of resources on social media, which Jamil sent to Abel who seemed “so cool.”
“I took it to the group chat, I talked about it with my friend who is being treated very badly by some very powerful rich celebrities, some of whom are involved,” Jamil alleged on Friday. “I don’t know about you, but when my girlfriend is upset about someone, I don’t care what’s going on or who did what… I see red, I’m 10 toes down, balls to the shit wall. I’ll ride dawn for my girlfriends and they’ll do the same for me.”
Jamil further emphasized that his texts are usually meant for his group of friends to “stick and affirm” each other.
The legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni continues with 181 pages of documents unsealed on Tuesday, January 20. In the documents, obtained by Us Weekly, several members of the cast of It Ends With Us – including Jenny Slate and Isabela Ferrer – were dismissed and hit Baldoni during his testimony. Communications between Lively (…)
“We’re there for each other, and it’s a joyful part of womanhood,” she said of their group chat. “It’s a victimless crime because no one should ever see these text messages. Calling it a ‘suicide attack’ is just a reference to me as I see someone using their own terrible answers in interviews to blow up their own career or their own project.”
Jamil also noted that she was “joking around with private text messages” that no one but her friend was supposed to read.
“I would never have put that out there for the world … because I don’t want to cause harm or trouble to that person,” Jamil said. “I don’t want anyone to feel bad. I just want to be able to express this to my friend. This is healthy (and) it’s normal.”
Lively has not publicly addressed Messages from Jamil, although a source said so we, “It’s disappointing that instead of listening to women when they speak out, other women call them names and discredit them in defense of a fake male feminist.”