I know I cried my way home many nights because you try so hard to please someone who is never pleased and puts you down constantly,” Barbara Szeman wrote.

Blake Lively faces serious allegations from former assistant director Barbara Szeman, who claims the actress fostered a hostile environment on the set of 'A Simple Favor', leading to her departure from the film industry.

The negative comments come as she’s struggling to gain the upper hand in her legal and public relations battle against Justin Baldoni.

Blake Lively allegedly caused a former assistant director to quit her job after her "cruel" behavior on set. Barbara Szeman, who worked on Lively's film A Simple Favor, implied the Gossip Girl star put her down "constantly" in a series of social media posts.

Barbara Szeman, who worked as an assistant director on 'A Simple Plan', claimed that a certain person's poor behavior led her to 'quit being an AD'

Barbara Szeman, listed on IMDb as an assistant director for the 2018 film, seemingly called out Lively in a series of now-deleted comments on Henry Golding’s recent Instagram post about the sequel, Another Simple Favor, which is set to release soon.

Blake Lively faces allegations of mistreatment on the set of A Simple Favor, with an assistant director claiming she was repeatedly reduced to tears.

Barely 2 months into 2025, and we're already knee-deep in controversies. This time around, it's Blake Lively who's found herself in the thick of it. An assistant director from A Simple Favor has alleged that her experience working with the starlet wasn't exactly pleasant.