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The merchandise of nan highly anticipated movie adaption of Colleen Hoover’s book “It Ends With Us” was dominated by rumors of a feud betwixt its main stars, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
Fans first noticed thing was disconnected betwixt nan 2 erstwhile they grounded to do property for nan movie together and moreover seemingly avoided each different during nan premiere connected Aug. 6, 2024.
Multiple sources told Page Six astatine nan clip that Baldoni and Lively did not get on connected set.
An insider first told america that Baldoni, who is besides nan head of nan movie, made Lively consciousness “uncomfortable” and created an “extremely difficult” ambiance connected group for nan formed successful general.
And while sources who person worked pinch Baldoni told america he would ne'er intentionally make anyone uncomfortable, further insiders claimed “none of nan formed enjoyed moving pinch Justin.”
Four months later, Lively filed a intersexual harassment complaint against Baldoni and accused him of trying to “destroy” her reputation.
She filed a general lawsuit successful December 2024, nan aforesaid time that Baldoni sued nan New York Times for $250 cardinal complete nan outlet’s reporting — earlier yet countersuing Lively arsenic well.
Read connected to study everything we cognize astir nan “It Ends With Us” drama.
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Part of nan logic for Baldoni and Lively’s feud was reportedly because location were heavy imaginative differences connected set, according to nan Hollywood Reporter. While Baldoni was nan director, Lively was besides a shaper successful nan film.
“There was a fracture among nan filmmakers successful nan postproduction process, wherein 2 different cuts of nan movie emerged,” nan outlet reported.
A root besides said Lively commissioned a trim of nan movie from editor Shane Reid, who worked connected hubby Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s “Deadpool & Wolverine.”
Reid antecedently worked pinch Lively connected Taylor Swift’s “I Bet You Think About Me” euphony video, which she directed.
The “Gossip Girl” alum highlighted 1 illustration of imaginative differences was utilizing Lana Del Rey’s “Cherry,” which was “too charged and heavy,” successful nan film.
Rolling her eyes, she told Hits Radio UK, “They begged maine to return it retired of nan movie. … I’m not expected to beryllium talking astir this.”
Ryan Reynolds’ role
Lively and Baldoni’s imaginative differences could person been further fueled erstwhile Reynold seemingly took complete nan writing for 1 of nan scenes successful nan movie.
During nan movie’s premiere, Lively told E! News, “The iconic rooftop scene, my hubby really wrote it. Nobody knows that, but you now.
“He useful connected everything I do. I activity connected everything he does,” she noted astatine nan time.
All hands connected deck
Baldoni besides revealed that Lively was “involved successful each aspect” of its production.
“[With] each touch, she made [it] better,” he told “Extra.”
“I’m grateful to Blake for conscionable being a powerhouse of a performer and an astonishing collaborator and conscionable each nan people, nan crew,” Baldoni added.
Passing nan baton
After confessions of Reynold and Lively’s involvement, Baldoni suggested that he wouldn’t beryllium returning arsenic a head for nan sequel, “It Starts With Us.”
While speaking pinch “Entertainment Tonight,” he called nan actress, who played Lily Blossom Bloom, a “better” action to nonstop nan imaginable adaption.
He besides told Variety that he had yet to perpetrate to nan task contempt his company, Wayfarer Studios, buying nan authorities for an “It Starts With Us” movie adaption.
“I haven’t moreover begun to deliberation that acold ahead. I’m trying to enactment successful nan coming arsenic overmuch arsenic I can,” he told nan outlet successful July 2024.
Two abstracted camps
Baldoni walked nan carpet during nan movie’s premiere and posed only pinch his wife, Emily Fuxler.
Meanwhile, Lively posed pinch Hoover, Brandon Sklenar, who plays Atlas and Jenny Slate, who plays Alyssa.
She besides posed pinch her hubby and Hugh Jackman, who stars pinch Reynolds successful “Deadpool & Wolverine.”
It was besides reported that Lively and nan formed watched nan movie successful 1 theatre while Baldoni and his woman watched from another. Even erstwhile Hoover and Lively introduced nan movie earlier nan screening, Baldoni was absent.
Absent Baldoni
Most notably, Baldoni promoted nan movie and sat for interviews solo.
On nan different hand, Lively did property tours pinch Sklenar, Isabela Ferrer, who plays a younger type of her characteristic successful nan movie, and much co-stars.
Fans person besides pointed their interviews suggested they were promoting 2 different movies arsenic Baldoni said retired astir nan film’s home unit theme, while Lively talked astir nan wardrobe and really maltreatment doesn’t “define” her character.
After days worthy of backlash for “being reside deaf” and not speaking astir nan home unit her characteristic experiences successful nan movie, Lively tried to hole things by sharing resources for maltreatment survivors successful an August 2024 Instagram Story.
She besides re-posted a BBC interview wherever she explained her characteristic is much than conscionable a “survivor” and a “victim.”
Although Lively did not reside her rumored beef pinch Baldoni astatine nan time, Slate went viral for wholly sidestepping a mobility astir moving pinch Baldoni, who was juggling being nan head and an character successful nan film.
“What an aggravated job,” nan comedian quipped to Deadline. “To person to do truthful galore things.”
Social media shade
Many fans person noticed that astir of Baldoni’s co-stars do not travel him backmost connected Instagram — and neither does nan series’s author, Hoover.
Hoover and Baldoni first connected successful 2019 erstwhile nan second secured nan movie authorities to her book.
Reynolds reportedly blocked Baldoni connected nan societal media level months earlier nan film’s premiere.
Throwback footage
After a societal media personification shared footage of Lively and Baldoni seemingly arguing connected set successful 2023, news collapsed connected Aug. 13, 2024, that he hired seasoned PR situation manager Melissa Nathan.
TMZ claimed nan pursuing time that Lively, who had precocious given commencement to babe No. 4, believed her co-star fat-shamed her connected group by asking his trainer really overmuch she weighed and really to debar injuring his backmost erstwhile picking her up.
The outlet besides reported that she felt he lingered excessively agelong during 1 of their kissing scenes.
Breaking her silence
In December 2024, Lively revenge a intersexual harassment title against Baldoni and accused him of trying to “destroy” her estimation pinch an alleged smear campaign.
She claimed that location had antecedently been an “all hands connected deck” gathering — pinch Reynolds besides coming — astir Baldoni’s behavior.
At nan time, it was allegedly requested that nan head refrain from adding much activity scenes “outside nan scope” of nan pre-approved script, extremity showing her “nude videos and images of women” and more.
Baldoni denied his co-star’s “shameful” allegations successful a connection reading, “These claims are wholly false, outrageous and intentionally salacious pinch an intent to publically wounded and rehash a communicative successful nan media.”
He besides deed backmost astatine claims that he had hired a situation PR head to prosecute successful “social manipulation” against Lively.
His and Wayfarer Studios’ attorney, Bryan Freedman, told Page Six nan hiring came arsenic a consequence of Lively allegedly “threatening to not showing up to set, threatening to not beforehand nan film, yet starring to its demise during release, if her demands were not met.”
Co-stars’ comments
Sklenar showed his support for Lively via Instagram Stories connected Dec. 23, 2024, penning that his followers needed to “for nan emotion of deity read” her complaint.
Slate followed suit with a lengthy connection to Today nan adjacent day, which concluded with, “I commend my friend, I respect her bravery and I guidelines by her side.”
Hoover, for her part, made headlines for calling Lively “honest and kind” connected societal media.
The publicist crippled thickens
Baldoni’s erstwhile publicist Stephanie Jones sued him — arsenic good arsenic his situation PR manager, Melissa Nathan, and her erstwhile worker Jennifer Abel, among others — complete an alleged breach of contract.
Jones claimed successful her suit that Abel and Nathan “coordinated pinch Baldoni and Wayfarer to instrumentality an fierce media smear campaign” against Lively that she allegedly “had nary knowledge aliases engagement in” earlier “publicly pin[ning the] blame” connected her.
She maintained nan allegations aft a root blasted them arsenic “retaliatory.”
Making it official
Lively revenge a general suit against Baldoni connected Dec. 31, 2024, suing her co-star successful New York national tribunal complete mislaid wages and affectional distress.
She made nan aforesaid allegations arsenic she did successful her first title revenge pinch nan California Civil Rights Department.
In summation to Baldoni, Lively sued Nathan, Abel and Wayfarer Studios, which produced “It Ends pinch Us.”
Libel lawsuit
That aforesaid day, Baldoni — and 9 different plaintiffs, including Nathan and Abel — took ineligible action, filing a $250 cardinal libel suit against nan New York Times’ communicative astir Lively’s intersexual harassment complaint.
The filing claimed that “the Times communicative relied almost wholly connected Lively’s unverified and self-serving narrative, lifting it astir verbatim while disregarding an abundance of grounds that contradicted her claims and exposed her existent motives.”
Lively’s rep insisted to Page Six astatine nan clip that “nothing successful [that] suit changes thing astir nan claims [she previously] advanced.”
Another lawsuit
On Jan. 16, 2025, Baldoni revenge different lawsuit, but this time, against Lively, Reynolds and their publicist, Leslie Sloane. He sued them for $400 cardinal for defamation and extortion.
The character alleged successful nan title obtained by Page Six that tried to asseverate imaginative power successful respective aspects of nan film, including nan book and wardrobe.
He besides alleged that Lively utilized her relationship pinch world superstar Taylor Swift to manipulate him.
Baldoni’s lawyers based on that their customer “felt obliged to matter Lively to opportunity that he had liked her pages and hadn’t needed Reynolds and her megacelebrity friend to unit him.”
“The connection could not person been clearer. Baldoni was not conscionable dealing pinch Lively. He was besides facing Lively’s ‘dragons,’ 2 of nan astir influential and able celebrities successful nan world.”
Baldoni besides reiterated past claims that Reynolds yelled astatine him during an all-hands meetings and denied that his publicists conspired to ruin Lively’s reputation.
Raw footage revealed
After filing his suit, Baldoni began to merchandise accusation that he thought mightiness corroborate his lawsuit successful nan tribunal of nationalist opinion.
The character and his ineligible squad first leaked earthy footage from an “It Ends With Us” segment successful which he and Lively were cuddled up for a slow-motion creation sequence.
Before board yelled “action” to footwear disconnected nan shoot, nan co-stars could beryllium overheard talking astir their respective spouses, and Lively moreover making a joke astir nan size of Baldoni’s nose.
Baldoni’s lawyer, Freedman, claimed nan clip showed nan brace treated each different pinch “mutual respect and professionalism,” debunking Lively’s intersexual harassment claims.
However, Lively’s lawyers slammed nan merchandise of nan clip and said “the video itself is damning.” They past filed a petition for a gag order against Baldoni’s lawyer, which he called a “bullying” tactic.
An intimacy coordinator agreed pinch Lively’s squad that nan grounds showed the character was intelligibly “uncomfortable” during nan scene.
A sound statement heard astir nan world
Baldoni’s squad besides dropped a astir 7-minute sound note, successful which nan character is overheard apologizing to Lively pursuing an alleged conflict they had complete edits she made to a rooftop scene.
“I want to commencement pinch an apology,” nan character is heard saying successful nan clip. “I for judge fell short and you worked really difficult connected that, and nan measurement you framed it, and really that made you consciousness … I conscionable wanted to opportunity convey you for sharing that pinch me.”
Baldoni promised to not make Lively consciousness for illustration different “f–head” board successful nan past had done, saying, “I’m conscionable still benignant of blown distant that this is nan manufacture we’re successful and that you’ve knowledgeable that arsenic a woman.”
He concluded, recognizing nan clip astatine which he was sending nan sound note, “You astir apt person kids each complete you, and a baby connected your boob and you’re listening to maine ramble.”
Reps for Lively did not instantly respond to nan merchandise of this audio.
Legal experts telephone Baldoni’s bluff
Baldoni sued Lively and Reynolds for $400 million, which is 4 times nan couple’s reported mixed nett worth. However, respective ineligible experts explained to Page Six with nan monolithic magnitude is apt a “PR play.”
“It’s communal to sprout for nan moon. It’s for scare worth and to get property attention,” family rule lawyer Raiford Dalton Palmer told us.
Neama Rahmani, president of Los Angeles-based West Coast Trial Lawyers, agreed, “Obviously, a precocious number successful nan suit makes for awesome headlines, and this lawsuit is arsenic overmuch astir Baldoni clearing his sanction and sending a connection to Lively than really getting money retired of her.”
Entertainment lawyer Camron Dowlatshahi added that successful bid for Baldoni to really locomotion distant pinch that full sum successful damages, he would person to beryllium he was “on his measurement to making a half cardinal dollars” earlier he was allegedly defamed and extorted.
Team Baldoni launches website
Baldoni made bully connected their connection and released an full website dedicated to nan lawsuit successful early February 2025.
The tract featured his updated title and lawsuit, a168-page archive detailing a timeline of events, never-before-seen matter messages, emails and more, spanning from 2019 to 2024.
In nan communications, Lively and Baldoni discussed rewrites of scenes, their meetings pinch intimacy coordinators and a expected gathering pinch Swift, who nan character infamously referred to arsenic 1 of her “dragons.”
He besides included texts about really “f–king terrified” he was astir saying nan “wrong thing” to Lively astir her character’s wardrobe, which received backlash from fans.
Ballooning budget
Speaking of clothes, Baldoni alleged that nan film’s “wardrobe fund ballooned” by $430,000 to meet nan actress’ demands.
“They had to reshop everything for Blake aft imaginative changes, but it’s a batch of money,” an email from an alleged statement shaper read.
While they primitively group a $185,000 fund for clothes, nan unnamed worker claimed they spent $615,000 connected Lively and Baldoni’s wardrobe alone.
In Baldoni’s amended complaint, he alleged that nan wardrobe rumor was conscionable 1 of nan ways Lively tried to return complete his project.
“Ignoring nan director’s imagination for her characteristic and disposing of nan weeks of effort and productivity spent by nan wardrobe squad connected shopping and cautiously crafting her wardrobe, Lively sent hundreds of images to nan Film’s costume designer, including into nan precocious hours of nan evening, depicting nan style of wardrobe she wanted for her character,” nan filing alleged.
When he approached her astir nan issue, she allegedly ignored him and suggested he was being “gaslit” by producers.
Jed Wallace enters nan scene
Lively was sued by a Jed Wallace-led situation PR firm successful early February 2025.
Wallace alleged that nan character defamed him and his company, Street Relations Inc., erstwhile she named him arsenic nan designer down Baldoni’s “smear campaign” successful her original California Civil Rights complaint.
However, she did not sanction Wallace successful nan existent suit revenge successful New York.
Wallace claimed nan alleged correction costs him “millions of dollars successful reputational harm pinch a projected nonaccomplishment to his institution that exceeds different million.” He is suing Lively for $7 million.
The actress’ ineligible squad requested to depose Wallace successful Texas truthful he and others could beryllium added to their New York suit against Baldoni.
Request to lawsuit texts
In mid-February 2025, Lively sent retired respective subpoenas to Baldoni and Wallace’s compartment carriers successful a hunt for “receipts” successful nan case.
“Ms. Lively has initiated find that will expose nan people, tactics, and methods that person worked to ‘destroy’ and ‘bury’ her estimation and family complete nan past year,” her attorneys said astatine nan time.
In contrast, nan “Five Feet Apart” director’s lawyer called Lively’s petition “flagrantly overbroad.”
“They are asking for each azygous call, text, information log, and moreover real-time location accusation for nan past 2.5 years, sloppy of nan sender, recipient, aliases taxable matter,” he said successful a statement.
“This monolithic sportfishing expedition demonstrates that they are desperately seeking immoderate actual ground for their provably mendacious claims. They will find none.”
A judge later ruled that Lively would not beryllium capable to lawsuit each of Baldoni’s texts complete nan past 2 years, stating that it was “overly intrusive and disproportionate to nan needs of nan case.”
However, her petition for immoderate compartment records revolving astir those progressive successful nan lawsuit was partially granted, pinch nan judge starting that she “is permitted to usage nan devices of find to place nan interaction accusation aliases telephone numbers for those individuals.”
Both Baldoni and Lively refused tribunal mediation.
‘SNL 50’ contention
Another furniture of contention was added to nan operation aft Lively and Reynolds stepped retired for nan “Saturday Night Live” 50th day special, wherever nan “Green Lantern” prima made a joke astir nan ineligible battle.
When asked really he was doing during nan unrecorded broadcast, Reynolds replied, “Great! Why, what person you heard?”
Some fans — and Hollywood insiders — questioned nan mates for making ray of nan business fixed nan superior topics of intersexual harassment, defamation and extortion.
More women added to nan mix
In an amended complaint, Lively alleged that she wasn’t nan only personification Baldoni made “uncomfortable” connected set.
The “Simple Favor” prima alleged that at slightest 2 different women were consenting to attest about nan actions of Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios CEO Jamey Heath.
However, their names were near retired of nan title owed to concerns complete cyberbullying and retaliation.
Lively and 1 of nan different women allegedly reported Baldoni’s behaviour but thing was done astir it.
Baldoni’s ‘shocking’ behaviour revealed
Lively also added unseen matter messages to her complaint, successful which she discussed nan director’s alleged “shocking” behaviour connected set.
A May 2023 connection Lively sent to a friend seemingly references Baldoni and Heath’s inappropriate conduct.
“It’s for illustration HR nuts today. The some of them,” she wrote astatine nan time. “I wasn’t expecting that turn. I mean it’s been coming but coming I came location and cried.”
In different text, Lively called Baldoni and Heath “creeps” earlier continuing, “Like support your hormones to yourselves. This is not mine. I don’t want it. I don’t want you [sic] regard aliases words aliases lingua aliases videos of your naked wife. Yeah. It’s shocking. Clowns.”
She besides alleged that Baldoni asked “intrusive” questions astir her and Reynolds’ activity life, furthering her claims of intersexual harassment.
The mother of 3 claimed that nan erstwhile podcast big erstwhile asked if they “climax simultaneously” during intercourse.
Lively alleged that Baldoni wanted her to “orgasm” connected camera — despite agreeing to return nan segment out.
Lively requests stronger PO
The character asked nan judge to grant her a stronger protective order successful precocious February 2025 owed to nan sensationalized quality of nan case.
In nan projected PO, her ineligible squad requested to person definite find worldly categorized arsenic “Attorney’s Eyes Only,” limiting what is made nationalist fixed nan quality of nan case.
The missive noted that nan lawsuit deals pinch “high-profile individuals, to whom a work of confidentiality is owed.”
Specifically, Lively’s ineligible squad besides requested a protective order for their client’s private texts pinch her personage pals — which could origin “irreparable harm” if they “were to autumn into incorrect hands.”
“There are 100 cardinal reasons for these parties to leak accusation because nan PR worth is greater than complying pinch nan court’s orders.”
Lively’s first petition referenced nan “vicious” backlash Lively has faced online as different logic for stronger protections, noting that she has “received violent, profane, sexist, and threatening communications.”
However, Baldoni’s ineligible squad based on that Lively brought it to nan nationalist first by bringing her first title to nan New York Times. They besides cited Reynolds’ “planned skit” astatine “SNL 50,” which put nan lawsuit successful beforehand of “almost 15 cardinal viewers.”
Lively scores a mini win
Lively’s protective bid was approved successful March 2025, which meant Baldoni could not leak delicate accusation to nan nationalist by law.
Evidence successful their ineligible conflict would beryllium “confidential” and for “attorneys’ eyes only.”
There was a loophole, however, arsenic nan filing stated “the Court [was] improbable to seal aliases different spend confidential treatment” for documents cited during nan trial.
Lively and Reynolds petition to disregard lawsuit
That aforesaid month, Lively requested to propulsion retired Baldoni’s “abhorrent” countersuit altogether, calling it “vengeful and rambling.”
Her hubby did nan same.
Baldoni’s lawyer called nan mates “cowardly,” quipping that nan ineligible conflict was a “self-concocted disaster” Lively “initiated.”
Talk show time
Lively made a uncommon talk show quality amid nan ongoing play to promote “Another Simple Favor,” alluding to nan ungraded while discussing her “intense year.”
“This twelvemonth has been afloat of nan highest highs and lowest lows of my life,” she told “Late Night With Seth Meyers” viewers successful May 2025. “I spot truthful galore women astir acrophobic to speak, especially now, acrophobic to stock their experience.
“Fear is by design, it’s what keeps america silent,” she continued astatine nan time. “But I besides acknowledge that galore people don’t person nan opportunity to speak, truthful I do consciousness fortunate that I person been capable to.”
Taylor Swift enters nan chat
In May 2025, Swift was subpoenaed successful Lively and Baldoni’s ongoing ineligible war.
The popular star’s rep deed backmost astatine this, telling Page Six, “Taylor Swift ne'er group ft connected nan group of this movie, she was not progressive successful immoderate casting aliases imaginative decisions, she did not people nan film, she ne'er saw an edit aliases made immoderate notes connected nan film.
“She did not moreover spot ‘It Ends With Us’ until weeks aft its nationalist release, and was walking astir nan globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining nan biggest circuit successful history,” nan connection continued.
Judge tosses Baldoni’s lawsuit
On June 9, 2025, Judge Lewis J. Liman filed a mobility to disregard Baldoni’s lawsuit against Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Leslie Sloane, arsenic good arsenic his suit against nan “New York Times.”
Her lawyers gushed astir nan “total triumph and complete vindication” successful a connection to Page Six.
“This “$400 million” suit was a sham,” nan attorneys wrote. “The Court saw correct done it. We look guardant to nan adjacent round, which is seeking attorneys’ fees, treble damages and punitive damages.”
However, Freeman told us, “Ms. Lively and her team’s predictable declaration of triumph is false, truthful fto america beryllium clear astir nan latest ruling. … We march forward.”
Baldoni’s subsequently majorly shifted their ineligible strategy to attraction connected nan defense.
Deposition drama
When Lively was deposed astatine her attorney’s agency successful New York City successful July 2025, Baldoni was present for a “face-to-face showdown.”
In a heavily-redacted transcript of nan deposition, Lively deed backmost astatine her erstwhile co-star’s team’s alleged “smear campaign” against her.
“The property that you person done and nan statements that you person made astir maine and my characteristic have felt incredibly retaliatory,” she claimed astatine nan time.
Isabela Ferrer enters nan chat
In August 2025, Ferrer claimed Baldoni was “harassing” her for accusation aft subpoenaing her — and allegedly making “transparent efforts to exert unit on” her.
Baldoni’s squad clapped back pinch a rebuttal pointing retired that Lively was nan first to rumor Ferrer a summons.
“Ms. Lively should not beryllium permitted to get find from Ms. Ferrer, while Ms. Ferrer and her counsel frustrate each effort by nan Wayfarer Parties to get nan find captious to nan mentation of their defense,” they wrote, requesting that “none of nan parties will usage immoderate connection to, from aliases concerning Ms. Ferrer, aliases immoderate grounds from her.”
The harassment claims continue
In September 2025, an individual — whose sanction was redacted successful tribunal docs — accused Baldoni of “repeated, antagonistic interactions” and “verbal abuse.”
The unidentified accuser claimed Baldoni “was not “permitted connected group during nan mostly of accumulation arsenic a consequence of those experiences” and it was requested he “not beryllium progressive successful trading aliases nationalist relations efforts.”
The personification is expected to attest successful Lively’s case.
End of an era … aliases is it?
Four months aft Baldoni’s suit was tossed retired by a judge, nan countersuit came to a melodramatic extremity erstwhile nan actor’s squad declined to record an amended title by nan deadline.
U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Liman officially ended nan case successful November 2025.
Baldoni’s ineligible squad told Page Six that nan head opted not to record an amended title truthful he could perchance proceed pinch an entreaty astatine a later date.
Make it stop
After Lively claimed a whopping $161 cardinal successful damages successful November owed to Baldoni’s alleged actions, he requested nan suit beryllium tossed.
Baldoni insisted connected Nov. 13, 2025, that “no reasonable jury” would find him guilty.
He noted successful his general petition that damages for mislaid profits must beryllium proven pinch “reasonable certainty” and cannot beryllium “speculative, imaginable aliases imaginary.”
His petition came connected nan heels of Lively scoring a ineligible win against nan PR patient tied to Justin Baldoni that sued her for defamation successful Texas, pinch a judge ruling nan tribunal did not person nan powerfulness to woody pinch nan lawsuit.
The pursuing month, Lively successful tribunal docs obtained by Page Six that she deserved her “day successful court,” bashing Baldoni’s petition arsenic thing much than his “latest effort to debar accountability.”
Deposition details
In an October 2025 deposition obtained by Page Six connected Dec. 4, 2025, Baldoni admitted to telling Lively he was circumcised successful a individual speech astatine nan actress’ location astir her then-unborn son.
When asked whether he has shared this item pinch different co-stars complete nan years, Baldoni replied, “I don’t talk astir my genitalia, truthful no.”
Other notable moments from nan transcript included Lively claiming Hoover was “reluctant” to prosecute a antheral director, Baldoni accusing her of posing arsenic a unfortunate arsenic portion of nan “Taylor Swift playbook” and more.
The ‘Taylor Swift playbook’
Also included successful nan October 2025 deposition were comments by Baldoni accusing Lively of playing nan unfortunate connected set of “It Ends With Us” and utilizing nan “Taylor Swift playbook.”
Baldoni was asked during his deposition about a gathering wherever Lively elaborate nan conditions needed for her to return to set.
As a consequence to nan “traumatizing” meeting, he wrote to a friend group that “[Lively] had nan atomic bomb.
“If she doesn’t beforehand nan movie, she tin leak that I’m a bad personification aliases that she felt unsafe pinch maine and each nan worldly she has connected me. Then she’s nan victim. It’s nan Taylor Swift playbook,” he said, referencing nan singer’s estimation for “playing nan victim” successful her feuds.
Taking purpose astatine A-list pals
Justin Baldoni attempted to expose Swift and much of Lively’s A-list pals successful their messy ineligible war.
He revenge an objection connected Jan. 12, 2026, to Lively’s petition to hide nan identities of A-listers progressive successful their legal battle.
Lively, specifically, called her husband an “innocent 3rd party” successful her and Baldoni’s ongoing proceedings, according to docs obtained by TMZ.
The actor’s lawyers claimed that Lively’s effort to seal records is meant to prevention nan nationalist images of her A-list friends, whom she allegedly “recruited arsenic advocates connected her behalf against nan Wayfarer Parties successful her effort to return complete nan film.”
They requested nan mostly of Lively’s sealing requests beryllium rejected, pointing retired that nan identities of imaginable witnesses — which person included Swift, Hugh Jackman, Emily Blunt and America Ferrera — are already public.
Jameela Jamil enters nan chat
Jameela Jamil branded Lively a “suicide bomber” and a “villain” successful backstage texts to Baldoni’s publicist, Jennifer Abel, successful August 2024.
The “Good Place” alum and PR strategist were reacting to a TikTok video astir Lively’s allegedly “tone-deaf” promotion of nan film, according to unsealed tribunal docs obtained by nan Daily Mail.
“I want to officially incorporated nightmare c–t and demon c–t into my vocabulary; UNBELIEVABLE; She’s doing this to herself,” Abel texted Jamil, who is besides her client, astir Lively.
Jamil replied, “She’s a termination bomber astatine this point.”
As their speech continued, Jamil texted, “I’ve ne'er seen specified a bizarre villain enactment before. She’s Over over.”
Jamil subsequently defended her harsh labels of Lively and insisted she is still a feminist.
Voice memos unsealed
A friendly, backstage sound memo from Lively to Baldoni astir nan “It Ends With Us” accumulation schedule successful February 2023, was unsealed.
“I dream you’re truthful well,” nan character began successful nan tribunal exhibit, obtained by People on Jan. 29, 2026. “I conscionable wanted to link to put thing connected your radar.”
Lively went connected to explicate that she was speaking to Baldoni “as a friend much than anything” complete really “stressed” she felt astir filming their movie and “Proxy” backmost to backmost after welcoming boy Olin.
Another sound statement — this clip from Baldoni to Lively — was leaked connected Feb. 2, 2026, wherever he calls his co-star beautiful.
“Hey Blake, I dream nan fitting was ace successful,” he said astir 2023. “Thank you for sending those pictures, it was really cool.”
“I was successful nan section caput meeting, and they came through, and I was waiting for them to load, and I legit sewage nan chills erstwhile I saw it,” Baldoni added. “You look beautiful. It’s going to activity truthful well.”
No extremity successful sight
The archenemies arrived astatine nan U.S. District Court successful Manhattan connected Feb. 11, 2026, for a final chance astatine resolving their ineligible battle up of their May 2026 trial.
Bizarrely, they sported strikingly akin pinkish and greenish ensembles for nan court-ordered colony conference.
Lively arrived solo, while Baldoni arrived pinch his wife astatine his side.
Justin and Lively’s closed-door proceeding was overseen by U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah L. Cave and marked nan first clip nan brace aced disconnected successful tribunal since their legal conflict began.
However, their colony talks were unsuccessful.
Sexual harassment claims dismissed
In a tribunal ruling connected April 2, 2026, Judge Lewis Liman dismissed 10 retired of nan 13 claims successful Lively’s suit against Baldoni, including her intersexual harassment claims.
However, 3 of her claims tin proceed — breach of contract, retaliation, and aiding and abetting successful retaliation.
The character reacted to nan large loss successful a statement.
“This lawsuit has ever been and will stay focused connected nan devastating retaliation and nan bonzer steps nan defendants took to destruct Blake Lively’s estimation because she stood up for information connected nan group and that is nan lawsuit that is going to trial,” Sigrid McCawley, a personnel of Lively’s ineligible team, told Page Six successful a statement.
McCawley added that for Lively, “the top measurement of justness is that nan group and nan playbook down these coordinated integer attacks person been exposed and are already being held accountable by different women they’ve targeted,” and said nan “Gossip Girl” alum “looks guardant to testifying astatine proceedings and continuing to radiance a ray connected this vicious shape of online retaliation truthful that it becomes easier to observe and fight.”
Attorneys for Baldoni besides said retired astir nan ruling.
“We’re very pleased nan Court dismissed each intersexual harassment claims and each declare brought against nan individual defendants: Justin Baldoni, Jamey Heath, Steve Sarowitz, Melissa Nathan, and Jennifer Abel,” Alexandra Shapiro and Jonathan Bach told Page Six successful a statement.
“These were very superior allegations, and we are grateful to nan Court for its observant reappraisal of nan facts, rule and voluminous grounds that was provided.”
