Comic Hannah Berner is setting the file straight on a joke she made about Blake Full of life in Netflix's new Torching 2024: A Roast of the Yr.

Within the particular, which began streaming Friday, Berner pokes enjoyable at varied pop-culture headlines from 2024 in her three-minute set, and at one level deadpans, "The phrase 'c–t' was trending this yr. I don't suppose Blake Full of life was that dangerous."

The ill-timed joke caught viewers' consideration on-line within the wake of Full of life's much-publicized authorized grievance in opposition to her It Ends With Us director and costar Justin Baldoni, resulting in Berner addressing it in an Instagram story, additionally shared on Friday. "My joke within the Netflix roast was filmed earlier than information of the [complaint]. To be 100% clear, I assist Blake xoxo," Berner wrote.

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In keeping with Netflix, the Jeff Ross-hosted comedy particular was filmed at The Bellwether in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Dec. 17. In the meantime, Full of life filed her grievance on Dec. 20, through which she alleges that Baldoni sexually harassed her, buried her complaints about his conduct, and coordinated a web-based smear marketing campaign to break her status.

The submitting, which names Baldoni, Baldoni's Wayfarer Studios, and producer Jamey Heath and extra as defendants, claims partly, "Mr. Baldoni, Mr. Heath, and Wayfarer engaged in harassing conduct and failed their obligations to research complaints of office harassment, to stop inappropriate and harassing behaviors on set, and to supply avenues for forged and crew members to soundly increase issues to impartial events in order that they might be investigated and appropriately addressed."

It additionally alleges that Baldoni employed a disaster public relations agency shortly earlier than the movie's premiere to ascertain a "refined, coordinated, and well-financed retaliation plan" within the occasion that allegations in regards to the director's on-set conduct got here to mild.

"I hope that my authorized motion helps pull again the curtain on these sinister retaliatory ways to hurt individuals who communicate up about misconduct and helps defend others who could also be focused," Full of life mentioned in a press release on the time to The New York Times.

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Baldoni and Wayfarer's legal professional, Bryan Freedman, has denied all allegation of wrongdoing. "These claims are fully false, outrageous and deliberately salacious with an intent to publicly harm and rehash a story within the media," Freedman informed Leisure Weekly in a press release on the time, calling Full of life's allegations as "yet one more determined try to ‘repair’ her adverse status which was garnered from her personal remarks and actions in the course of the marketing campaign for the movie."

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Along with Berner, a variety of different stars have spoken out in assist of Full of life in current days, together with her Sisterhood of Traveling Pants costars America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn, and Alexis Bledel; A Simple Favor helmer Paul Feig; It Ends With Us author Colleen Hoover and costar Jenny Slate; Amber Heard; and Full of life's brother-in-law and High School Musical star Bart Johnson.

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