How Blake Lively once complicated her advocacy against Hollywood predators

Over the weekend, Blake Lively elevated herself into the pantheon of famous Hollywood women who have taken monumental, #MeToo-inspired stands against sexual predation in the entertainment industry.

The 37-year-old star not only publicly detailed her own painful experience with sexual harassment on the set of her movie, “It Ends With Us,” in a legal complaint and in a viral New York Times story, she also chronicled the way she was allegedly targeted by a sophisticated social media “smear campaign” during the film’s release in August.