Days after American actor Blake Lively sued her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni in a case that is now being termed as among the most defining ones on sexual harassment coming out of the Hollywood industry, questions were raised about the methods that Lively took to secure the texts messages of Baldoni and his team that she used in her complaint. The bombshell texts that point to an alleged ‘smear campaign’ against her, it is now being revealed, were sourced from a phone belonging to Baldoni’s former publicist Jennifer Abel, who subsequently quit her past job.

According to The Los Angeles Times, Stephanie Jones, the founder of Jonesworks, which was previously representing Baldoni and his production company, outed herself as the source of the damaging communications in a lawsuit she filed on December 24. She disavows involvement in the campaign.