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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The make up artist's deposition describing the incident with Heath coming into the makeup trailer describes a much worse situation than I think has been previously described.

She says that Blake was naked down to her underwear because her costume had been handed out the door to the costume people, and that Blake was sitting in a chair facing the mirror in just her underwear with her breasts exposed, nursing her baby.

She also says that when Heath knocked on the door, all three women inside yelled no, don't come in, because Blake was undressed, and that he came in anyway, and Blake asked to do the conversation later since she was undressed and he insisted on staying. And that he was looking at her in the mirror the entire conversation, and he didn't even close the door behind him while he talked to her.

One of the makeup artists threw a towel over Blake's exposed breast just to cover it up, but she describes just feeling so uncomfortable and never having experienced anything like that on a set before.

Sorry, that sounds really bad.

Reading the intimacy coordinator's depo now and it also seems pretty bad. Justing frequently adding sexual content to scenes that wasn't in the script. Also the way he handled the scenes with the two younger actors sounds pretty bad, and the IC actually insisted on being on set for a scene that didnt' even involve sex (according to the script) because of concerns Justin would try to add initimacy to the scene with these two very young actors.

I haven't read anything else so dont' know anything about the Taylor Swift texts or whatever, I've been really interested in hearing from other people on the set for a while.[/quote]

But the make up artist version of events directly contradicts Blakes version. first of all she starts off and says a few times her memory is very vague. So that is not great. But her version of events is actually much worse than what Blake described and I feel like why wouldn’t Blake have told the truth about this at the start?? Blake said that he was invited in and that while she was breast-feeding, he kept looking down and wouldn’t meet her eyes.

That’s not what the makeup artist says. The makeup artist says that he burst in after they screamed don’t come in -that is  objectively much worse and I’m just not sure why Blake didn’t lead with that or that wasn’t in the New York Times article. So somebody’s not telling the truth here and it’s either Blake or the makeup artist.

Given the makeup artist is blatantly admitting she doesn’t remember much. I’m gonna take Blake’s version.

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I don't think they are contradictory, actually. It's good that their versions are slightly different because it indicates that Blake didn't talk to the makeup artist and try to line up a narrative at any point -- what you reading the depo is what the makeup artist actually remembers. People always remember stuff differently. They also describe things differently, but similarly enough that they back up one another's story. Both recall Heath knocking on the door and the women inside saying not to come in. Both recall Lively asking Heath to leave and saying she would meet with him after she had finished in hair and makeup, and both recall Heath insisting that the meeting happen immediately. The makeup artist then says that she didn't really pay attention to what Lively and Heath discussed in the conversation because she was focused on trying to finish her work on Lively as quickly as possible. This is not a contradiction of Lively, it's just the makeup artist saying she doesn't know what they discussed because it didn't concern her, plus she was stressed by the situation and working quickly so that Lively could get dressed. Lively testified that she asked Heath to turn around and that he agreed to, but that he did wind up looking directly at her. And the makeup artist confirms that, saying she saw Heath looking at Lively. And then both women testify to the incident being very uncomfortable (the makeup artist uses the word "uncomfortable", Lively describes being "shaken" afterwards).

Both women testified that that after that incident, it became a habit to lock the door to the hair and makeup trailer when they could, to prevent something like this from happening again, so that if someone tried to come in, they would have to unlock it to let him in.

Their accounts really are not contradictory at all and hearing what the makeup artist remembered about this event that happened two years prior, and that her recollection closely matches Lively's and also hearing the details that stuck out there despite how long ago (how unclothed Lively was, the other makeup artist trying to cover Lively up at least partially with a towel, Heath's insistence on staying, and him looking directly at Lively in her undressed state) is quite persuasive to me. The makeup artist really does not have any reason to lie about this, and as you point out, she repeatedly says she doesn't remember when asked about certain things. But she was quite definite about what she *does* remember, and it matches up well with Lively's account in such a way that I do now believe this happened and that it was certainly a violation of Lively's privacy and was very unprofessional and transgressive on Heath's part. [/quote]

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