Blake Lively’s ‘A Simple Favor 2’ co-star says she was ‘in pain’ after filming ‘It Ends With Us’: ‘Something was wrong’

One of Blake Lively’s co-stars from the upcoming “A Simple Favor” sequel claims she was “in pain” after filming “It Ends With Us.”

Michele Morrone shared a clip on his Instagram Stories on Monday supporting Lively, 37, following her bombshell complaint against Justin Baldoni, where she accused the actor of sexual harassment and mounting a smear campaign against her.

Morrone, 34, and Lively filmed “A Simple Favor 2” together earlier this year, after she wrapped production on “It Ends With Us” with Baldoni, 40, who also directed the flick.

“So it’s usually not my thing to make these types of videos, but I think it’s time to stand up for a person that I really love and this person is Blake Lively,” Morrone said in his video.

“I personally met Blake during ‘A Simple Favor 2.’ We shot this incredible film together, and I felt something was wrong, and I felt the pain and then we had the opportunity to talk, me and her,” the Italian actor continued.

“Blake was in pain,” Morrone said. “And I’m really tired to see those kind of cruel and bad comments about her without knowing the situation.”

Morrone noted that he included a link to the New York Times article about Lively’s claims against Baldoni “so that you can understand before commenting, what happened.”

“That’s all I ask. That’s what I want you to do. Blake, I love you so much,” he added. “Keep it up and we’re going to see each other very, very soon. Love you.”

Lively starred in 2018’s “A Simple Favor” alongside Anna Kendrick. The film, like “It Ends With Us,” is based on a book. The sequel, which added Morrone to the cast, filmed from March to May of this year, and is expected to come out in 2025.

Meanwhile, filming for “It Ends With Us” began in May 2023 but temporarily paused due to the strikes. Production wrapped in January 2024.

When the domestic violence drama came out in August, Lively suffered a barrage of bad publicity as reports claimed that she and Baldoni — who directed the movie — clashed on set.

However, new details have come to light in Lively’s legal complaint that she filed on Friday.

The “Gossip Girl” alum accused Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.” She claimed that in an emergency meeting during production, Baldoni was asked to refrain from showing Lively photos or videos of nude women, talking about her dead father, and inquiring about her weight.

Baldoni, according to Lively’s lawsuit, also hired PR crisis manager Melissa Nathan — who worked with Johnny Depp during his defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard — to help him “destroy” Lively’s reputation.

Lively included copies of text messages that she alleges prove Baldoni, Nathan and others created a “retaliatory social manipulation campaign” against her after she spoke up about Baldoni’s on-set behavior.

Many stars have rushed to Lively’s side in the wake of the lawsuit, including her “A Simple Favor” director Paul Feig and her co-stars from “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrera and Alexis Bledel.

Brandon Sklenar, who also starred in “It Ends With Us,” and Colleen Hoover, who wrote the book that the film is based on, have both sided with Lively, as well.

Baldoni has denied all the accusations made against him in the lawsuit. 

“It is shameful that Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations against Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its representatives, as yet another desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation,” Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, previously told The Post.

Publicist Jennifer Abel, whose text exchanges with Nathan were included in Lively’s lawsuit as evidence of their alleged smear campaign against the actress, has also spoken out about the drama.

“What the cherry picked messages don’t include, although not shockingly as it doesn’t fit the narrative, is that there was no ‘smear’ implemented,” Abel wrote in a private Facebook post, per The Hollywood Reporter.

“No negative press was ever facilitated, no social combat plan, although we were prepared for it as it’s our job to be ready for any scenario,” Abel continued. “But we didn’t have to implement anything because the internet was doing the work for us.”