A Texas crisis communications specialist has sued Blake Lively for defamation after the actor pulled him into her legal fight with co-star and director Justin Baldoni over their film, “It Ends With Us.”

Jed Wallace and his company, Street Relations, filed the $7 million lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division. It says he had nothing to do with any campaign to harm Lively's reputation as she alleged in a court filing.