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JULY 8, 2026<\/span>In a five-minute-long video posted to Instagram, the Baldonis said they are \u201chealing\u201d from what they called a \u201ctraumatic\u201d experience and said they\u2019d been leaning on faith and \u201cgratitude\u201d to move forward. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThat gratitude, it doesn’t negate the injustice and the pain that we have also felt in the last few years,\u201d Emily Baldoni said. \u201cAnd we’ve had to wrestle with so many things and try to understand so many things, like how could something like this even happen? Let alone disguised as a fight for women\u2026 There’s been a lot of trauma for us to move through as a family.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Read a full transcript of the Baldonis\u2019 video here. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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May 4, 2026<\/span>Lively and Baldoni\u2019s production company Wayfarer Studios reached a settlement ending the lawsuit just weeks before a more truncated version of her suit was set to go to trial after a judge dismissed most of her claims in April.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Terms of the agreement were not disclosed and, in a joint statement, attorneys for the two sides said they hoped the settlement \u201cbrings closure and allows all involved to move forward constructively and in peace, including a respectful environment online.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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April 2, 2026<\/span>Judge Lewis Liman threw out 10 of 13 allegations in Lively’s case against Baldoni, leaving only her claims of breach of contract, retaliation, and aiding and abetting in retaliation to be tried next month. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lively’s claims, which included sexual harassment, were thrown out because Liman said they were brought in the wrong jurisdiction and he said others, like retaliation, couldn’t move forward because Lively was an independent contractor, not an employee of those she brought claims against. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sigrid McCawley, a member of Lively’s legal team, told multiple outlets in a statement: “This case has always been and will remain focused on the devastating retaliation and the extraordinary steps the defendants took to destroy Blake Lively’s reputation because she stood up for safety on the set, and that is the case that is going to trial… She looks forward to testifying at trial.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jan. 22, 2026<\/span>A federal judge considers Baldoni’s bid to dismiss Lively’s lawsuit accusing him of sexual harassment, creating a hostile work environment and orchestrating a smear campaign against her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jan. 20, 2026<\/span>Text messages between Lively and longtime friend Taylor Swift, as well as a transcript of actress Jenny Slate\u2019s September deposition in the case, were unsealed. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nov. 13, 2025<\/span>Attorneys for Baldoni filed a request to dismiss Lively’s lawsuit against him, arguing the defendants did not commit any crimes nor that Lively had appropriately proved the “behavior she disliked was caused by her sex or gender, a basic prerequisite for her ‘sexual harassment’ claims.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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July 16, 2025<\/span>Jed Wallace, who was named in Lively’s lawsuit against Baldoni as the social media expert who allegedly helped him orchestrate a smear campaign against her, was dismissed as a defendant in her lawsuit Wednesday after Liman ruled the New York federal court wasn\u2019t the proper venue for him to be sued. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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June 9, 2025<\/span>Lively addressed her legal battle on her Instagram, saying she and the 19 women\u2019s groups that backed her in court \u201cstood proudly\u201d in \u201cdefending women\u2019s rights to speak up for their safety,\u201d stating she felt the \u201cpain of a retaliatory lawsuit\u201d and the \u201cmanufactured shame that tries to break us,\u201d hours after a judge dismissed Baldoni\u2019s defamation and extortion lawsuit filed against her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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June 9, 2025<\/span>Liman dismissed Baldoni\u2019s $400 million lawsuit against Lively and Reynolds and his $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times, after Baldoni alleged they each conspired in a \u201cvitriolic smear campaign\u201d to end his career\u2014Lively\u2019s attorneys Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb celebrated Liman\u2019s ruling as a \u201ctotal victory and a complete vindication.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Liman ruled Baldoni did not allege Lively was responsible for comments made outside of her civil suit against him, which are \u201cprivileged,\u201d while Reynolds, Lively\u2019s publicist Leslie Sloan and the Times published or made other statements about Baldoni they believed were true \u201cbased on the information available to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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June 4, 2025<\/span>In a new amicus curiae brief, 14 women\u2019s rights groups, including the National Organization for Women and its New York City chapter, the National Network to End Domestic Violence and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, supported Lively\u2019s claims of sexual harassment against Baldoni while accusing him of using the \u201cDARVO\u201d tactic\u2014deny, attack, reverse victim and offender\u2014to smear and silence Lively.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lively\u2019s legal team has portrayed Baldoni\u2014who has advocated for women throughout has career, including in a viral Ted Talk in 2017\u2014as turning his back on his feminist beliefs: \u201cBaldoni is now contradicting years of his own public persona,\u201d Lively\u2019s legal team told Forbes in a statement, citing Baldoni\u2019s legal team\u2019s attempt to challenge the amicus briefs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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June 2, 2025<\/span>Baldoni\u2019s lawyers said in a legal filing Lively\u2019s counsel informed them she has requested to withdraw her claim of emotional distress made in her lawsuit against Baldoni, which his lawyers say was done after his legal team requested she provide medical and mental health records to demonstrate the distress she says she suffered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Baldoni\u2019s lawyers also said in their letter to the judge they oppose Lively\u2019s request to withdraw her emotional distress claim without prejudice, which means she can refile the claim at a later time, though Lively\u2019s lawyers dismissed Baldoni\u2019s legal team\u2019s letter as a \u201ca press stunt\u201d and that they are \u201cstreamlining and focusing\u201d Lively\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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June 2, 2025<\/span>Lively\u2019s legal team accused Baldoni and his lawyers of trying to \u201cprevent women\u2019s rights groups from being heard\u201d in a statement to Forbes, alleging they are trying to \u201cshred a law designed to protect all victims just to make sure they \u2018bury\u2019 one,\u201d referring to the #MeToo law Lively invoked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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June 1, 2025<\/span>Thomas Canestraro, who acted as Baldoni\u2019s stunt double in \u201cIt Ends With Us,\u201d spoke with the Daily Mail, stating the set was \u201ctense\u201d and filming took longer than expected, adding Lively was more \u201cclosed off\u201d on set than when he previously worked with her on the 2018 film, \u201cA Simple Favor.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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May 29, 2025<\/span>Baldoni and his lawyers sent a letter asking the judge to dismiss amicus briefs filed by women\u2019s groups, alleging they are \u201cirrelevant\u201d to Lively\u2019s motion to dismiss Baldoni\u2019s lawsuit, while accusing Lively\u2019s legal team of using the briefs as a \u201cvehicle to renew [Liively’s] public attacks\u201d against Baldoni and as more of a \u201cpublicity stunt for Lively than a useful aid for the Court at the pleading stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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May 27, 2025<\/span>San Francisco-based Equal Rights Advocates and former government employee and sexual harassment survivor Elyse Dorsey filed amicus briefs supporting Lively\u2019s invocation of a new California law that is meant to protect sexual assault and harassment survivors from defamation lawsuits, commonly known as the #MeToo law after the Hollywood anti-sexual harassment movement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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May 22, 2025<\/span>Baldoni\u2019s lawyers withdrew the subpoena, Variety and Deadline reported, after previously requesting texts between Swift and Lively, which they argued would show that Lively attempted to extort Swift for a public show of support amid her legal battle, though Lively\u2019s legal team denied this (Forbes has reached out to representatives for both Lively and Baldoni\u2019s legal teams for comment, though Lively\u2019s lawyers told Deadline they are \u201cpleased\u201d the \u201cinappropriate subpoenas\u201d were withdrawn).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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May 9, 2025<\/span>Taylor Swift was subpoenaed in Baldoni\u2019s lawsuit against Lively, which includes texts from Lively that appear to refer to Swift as \u201cone of her dragons,\u201d though representatives for the billionaire singer argued she should not be involved in the dispute, telling Variety and NBC News that beyond the inclusion of her song \u201cMy Tears Ricochet\u201d in a \u201cIt Ends With Us\u201d trailer, Swift had no involvement in the making of the movie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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May 8, 2025<\/span>Lively\u2019s legal team told multiple news outlets she plans to take the stand and testify once her trial begins: \u201cThe ultimate moment for a plaintiff’s story to be told is at trial. We expect that to be the case here. So we would, of course, expect her to be a witness at her trial. Of course she\u2019s going to testify,\u201d Gottlieb told People (Forbes has reached out to Lively\u2019s legal team for comment).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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May 1, 2025<\/span>Lively gave her first televised interview since filing her lawsuit against Baldoni to promote \u201cAnother Simple Favor\u201d on Seth Meyers\u2019 late night show, in which she acknowledged she can\u2019t discuss much about her legal battle with Baldoni\u2014whom she did not address by name\u2014but stated she has faced the \u201chighest highs and the lowest lows of my life\u201d over the past \u201cintense year,\u201d adding she feels \u201cfortunate\u201d she has been able to speak about her experience because many women are \u201cafraid to share their experiences\u201d or do not have the opportunity to.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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May 1, 2025<\/span>\u201cAnother Simple Favor,\u201d Lively\u2019s first film since \u201cIt Ends With Us\u201d and a sequel to the 2018 film \u201cA Simple Favor,\u201d premiered on Amazon Prime Video and received mostly positive reviews from critics. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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April 28, 2025<\/span>Baldoni\u2019s lawyers submitted a letter to the court opposing Marvel\u2019s request to quash the subpoena, doubling down on their claim that \u2018\u201cNicepool\u201d is a defamatory and mocking portrayal of Baldoni\u201d and that such a portrayal could establish malice for his defamation claim, while accusing Marvel\u2019s counsel of \u201crefusing to engage\u201d with Baldoni\u2019s Wayfarer Studios to resolve the dispute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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April 25, 2025<\/span>In response to Baldoni\u2019s allegation that a character in the 2024 Marvel film \u201cDeadpool & Wolverine,\u201d Nicepool, was crafted by Ryan Reynolds as a caricature of Baldoni, Marvel Studios sent a letter to Liman asking the court to squash Baldoni\u2019s subpoena for relevant documents, stating the claims are irrelevant to Baldoni\u2019s claims of defamation and that releasing confidential Marvel documents would harm the studio.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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April 24, 2025<\/span>In an amended response to Jones\u2019 lawsuit against Baldoni, which she filed in December accusing him of defamation and breach of contract, Baldoni accused Jones of colluding with Lively to file a \u201csham legal proceeding\u201d in New York in September under a company affiliated with Lively, Vanzan Inc., against unnamed defendants as a \u201ctransparent ploy to obtain subpoena power\u201d without Lively\u2019s name attached so the parties could obtain text messages\u2014which were central to Lively\u2019s claims, and the basis for a New York Times story\u2014sent among Baldoni\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a statement to Deadline, Jones\u2019s lawyer Kristen Tahler accused Baldoni\u2019s team of \u201cpresenting zero new evidence\u201d and of conducting \u201ca desperate ploy by a team who tonight all but admits they\u2019re in trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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April 24, 2025<\/span>Lively attended the Time 100 Gala as an honoree, where she made a speech apparently alluding to her ongoing legal battle: \u201cI have so much to say about the last two years of my life, but tonight is not the forum,” Lively said, in a speech in which she largely focused on abuse against women, a central theme of \u201cIt Ends With Us,\u201d and revealed her mother was a victim of abuse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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April 13, 2025<\/span>\u201cIt Ends With Us\u201d storyboard artist Talia Spencer defended Baldoni in an interview with \u201c60 Minutes Australia,\u201d stating she felt Lively \u201csmelled [Baldoni\u2019s] kindness, mistook it for weakness and tried to take advantage and take power,\u201d alleging Lively \u201ctried to\u201d take control of the film, resulting in a \u201cmassive compromise\u201d of Baldoni\u2019s vision for the movie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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April 8, 2025<\/span>An actor who played a small role in \u201cIt Ends With Us\u201d as Lively\u2019s character\u2019s gynecologist pushed back against Lively\u2019s description of a birthing scene in her lawsuit as \u201cinvasive and humiliating,\u201d telling PageSix Lively wore a \u201cfull hospital gown, black shorts and torso-covering prosthetic\u201d and was not \u201cnearly nude\u201d as she had claimed in her complaint.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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March 20, 2025<\/span>In a counterclaim to Jones\u2019 December lawsuit against Baldoni and Abel, Baldoni alleged Jones attempted to undermine Abel\u2019s authority as a PR representative for Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios production company, claiming she suddenly terminated Abel from her PR firm, seized her phone and leaked texts to Lively\u2019s team, which the lawsuit says was done in response to Abel voicing her intent to leave Jones\u2019 firm and Jones\u2019 fear she would take Baldoni as a client with her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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March 20, 2025<\/span>In her motion to dismiss, Lively slammed Baldoni\u2019s \u201cvengeful and rambling lawsuit\u201d as a \u201cprofound abuse of the legal process,\u201d urging the court to \u201cdismiss all claims against Ms. Lively with prejudice, deny leave to amend, and award Ms. Lively all relief sought,\u201d including attorney\u2019s fees and damages for \u201creputational and emotional harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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March 18, 2025<\/span>Reynolds filed a motion to dismiss Baldoni\u2019s lawsuit, in which he is named as a co-defendant, alleging Baldoni\u2019s lawsuit does not prove Reynolds defamed him and is instead \u201ca list of grievances attempting to shame Mr. Reynolds for being the man Mr. Baldoni has built his brand pretending to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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March 7, 2025<\/span>Lively attended the South by Southwest premiere of \u201cAnother Simple Favor,\u201d a sequel to the 2018 film \u201cA Simple Favor,\u201d where she received a warm reception from the crowd and spoke primarily about her work on the film, though co-star Anna Kendrick dodged a question that appeared to allude to Lively\u2019s legal battle, and one protester held up a sign that said \u201cJustice for Justin Baldoni\u201d outside the theater.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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March 6, 2025<\/span>At a hearing Thursday, Lively\u2019s attorneys argued certain information should be treated as highly classified \u201cattorney\u2019s eyes only\u201d material, which lawyer Sigrid McCawley said would help minimize the risk of \u201cirreparable harm if marginal conversations with high profile individuals with no relevance to the case were to fall into wrong hands\u201d\u2014apparently suggesting messages between Lively and celebrity friends may leak. The judge did not rule on the request Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Though it\u2019s unclear which \u201chigh profile individuals\u201d McCawley was referring to, Baldoni\u2019s lawyer Bryan Freedman has previously suggested he could request Lively\u2019s friend Taylor Swift testify, after she appeared to be referred to in Baldoni\u2019s lawsuit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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March 5, 2025<\/span>The Los Angeles Times published an investigative report on Baldoni\u2019s career, citing multiple unnamed employees at his Wayfarer Studios production company, some of whom said he injected \u201ctoxic positivity\u201d and his Bahai faith into the workplace culture in a way that felt \u201cprofessionally inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Representatives for Baldoni and Wayfarer told the Los Angeles Times there have \u201cnever been any reported complaints regarding the workplace culture\u201d and Wayfarer\u2019s work is rooted in \u201cvarious faiths and backgrounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

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March 4, 2025<\/span>Liman, a U.S. district judge, said the New York Times\u2019 motion to dismiss Justin Baldoni\u2019s $400 million case against the newspaper provided \u201csubstantial grounds,\u201d suggesting the lawsuit\u2014in which Baldoni accused the Times of working with Lively\u2019s team to smear him\u2014could be dismissed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Feb. 28, 2025<\/span>Shapiro, who formerly served as the CIA\u2019s deputy chief of staff between 2013 and 2015 before starting his own strategic consulting firm, will advise Lively\u2019s litigation team on legal communications relating to the lawsuit she filed against Baldoni in New York federal court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Feb. 20, 2025<\/span>Attorneys submitted a letter on behalf of Lively and Reynolds asking a new, more extensive protective order be imposed that would shield \u201cpersonal, sensitive or proprietary information\u201d from the public after claiming they and their allies have been victimized since the legal battle began. The letter goes on to say that it is “inevitable” that the release of more discovery in the case will further violate their privacy, expose them to threats and create “a climate of possible witness intimidation.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Feb. 18, 2025<\/span>Lawyers for Lively filed an amended complaint that included new accusations Baldoni\u2019s behavior made at least two additional, unnamed female cast members uncomfortable and that both of those women brought their complaints to Lively, who documented them in writing and reported them to higher-ups on the film (the complaint references Baldoni\u2019s \u201cunwelcome behavior\u201d but does not specify exactly what he is accused of doing). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The suit claims Baldoni was made aware of at least one of the additional cast members’ concerns and responded to her in writing at the time, promising “adjustments would be made\u201d\u2014but alleges he instead launched a PR campaign to discredit any future claims made against him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Forbes reached out to Baldoni\u2019s attorney, Bryan Freedman, for comment on the new complaint Wednesday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Feb. 13, 2025<\/span>Baldoni and Lively\u2019s letter to the judge, filed in New York federal court on Thursday, said mediation or reaching a settlement would be \u201cinappropriate\u201d and \u201cpremature\u201d for this case, suggesting their legal feud could eventually head to trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Feb. 12, 2025<\/span>Hoover, who deactivated her Instagram account as the legal battle between Lively and Baldoni continued to play out, has wiped any photos with Lively or Baldoni from her account. Most posts related to the film at all have been deleted, including an post supporting Lively that went up shortly after she filed her initial lawsuit against Baldoni: “@blakelively, you have been nothing but honest, kind, supportive and patient since the day we met. Thank you for being exactly the human that you are. Never change. Never wilt,” she wrote. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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During promotion for the \u201cIt Ends With Us\u201d film, Hoover appeared to take Lively\u2019s side when a clear rift emerged among the film\u2019s cast and crew. Lively refused to promote the movie alongside Baldoni and the pair were never interviewed or photographed together during its highly publicized press tour, Hoover and most of Lively’s co-stars, including Jenny Slate, Brandon Sklenar and Isabela Ferrer, appeared at her side rather than Baldoni\u2019s. Hoover still follows Lively on Instagram, but does not follow Baldoni.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Feb. 11, 2025<\/span>A three-year-old video interview of Blake Lively admitting to Forbes she\u2019s ruffled feathers in the film industry by attempting to have more \u201cauthorship\u201d over her projects has gone viral. In a resurfaced interview from the 2022 Forbes Power Women’s Summit, Lively said just following direction as an actress “wasn’t fulfilling for me” and that she’s received backlash for stepping in and trying to be part of costume design, writing and other aspects of a project. She said she’s had writers, producers and directors “welcome that and invite that,” and others who resented her for stepping on toes. She also said she hasn\u2019t always upfront with her plans to step in to other parts of a project when she was hired as an actress, and that she \u201cwouldn’t reveal that I actually need to have authorship in order to feel fulfilled… Sometimes that might have felt like a rug pull.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Feb. 8, 2025<\/span>Filmmaker Judd Apatow joked about “It Ends With Us” at the 77th Annual Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards Saturday night, calling it “such a terrible movie” and referencing the Baldoni-Lively lawsuits. “I loved Wicked. I saw it four times in the first four days,” Apatow added. “It was the highest-grossing movie musical of all time. Do you know that? Usually to make that much money, you have to sue Blake Lively.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Feb. 7, 2025<\/span>Comedian Chelsea Handler, who hosted the Critics\u2019 Choice Awards, also poked fun at the legal battle, which has played out dramatically in the media over the last six weeks. Handler thanked the pair for providing a “distraction” from heavier headlines: \u201cI want to personally extend my gratitude to Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively… I’m grateful. I think we’re all grateful. And I think we’re good. I think everybody in this room, no matter whose side you’re on, we can all agree to accept that there’s probably not going to be a sequel. It ends with us, guys.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Feb. 5, 2025<\/span>Baldoni\u2019s lawyer suggested in an interview with TMZ he could call on Taylor Swift\u2014a close friend of Blake Lively\u2019s who may have been alluded to in Baldoni\u2019s lawsuit against the actress\u2014to testify once the case goes to trial. After TMZ\u2019s Harvey Levin asked about deposing Swift, Freedman didn\u2019t rule out the idea, calling it a \u201cgame time decision\u201d and adding he would seek testimony from anyone who may have relevant information (Freedman also said Swift was present alongside Baldoni, Lively and Ryan Reynolds at a meeting about Lively\u2019s proposed script edits to \u201cIt Ends With Us\u201d that is referenced in Baldoni\u2019s lawsuit, though the suit only refers to the alleged attendee as \u201cTaylor\u201d with no last name).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Feb. 4, 2025<\/span>Wallace, owner of the crisis PR firm Street Relations, sued Lively in Texas federal court for defamation, alleging she falsely claimed in a civil rights complaint and her lawsuit that Wallace participated in an alleged smear campaign against the actress at the behest of Baldoni\u2019s public relations team, which he says caused him \u201cmillions of dollars in reputational harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Feb. 4, 2025<\/span>\u201cA Simple Favor 2,\u201d Lively’s latest film, will open at the SXSW Film and TV Festival next month, Director Paul Feig said, after rumors the film had been shelved, partially due to the Lively\/Baldoni legal battle. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Feb. 3, 2025<\/span>Liman told lawyers for Lively and Baldoni that he would move up the trial date, set for March 2026, if the case continued to be \u201clitigated in the press.\u201d Liman ordered both sides to adhere to the New York Rules of Professional Conduct, which stops lawyers from making public comments that have a \u201csubstantial likelihood\u201d of tainting a jury, but stopped short of sanctioning Baldoni\u2019s attorney, Freedman, despite claims from Lively\u2019s team that he has gotten close to defaming her and has made \u201cextrajudicial statements\u201d about her and her character. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Feb. 1, 2025<\/span>Baldoni\u2019s team published a website dedicated to supporting his lawsuit against Lively and Reynolds that links to to an amended complaint filed on Jan. 31 and contains a timeline of events outlining what he says happened on the set of \u201cIt Ends With Us,\u201d including corresponding text messages, emails and a statement Baldoni has said he was pressured into releasing by Reynolds and Lively that would have seen him take the blame for the “troubled production” of the movie (he refused to put out the statement). In addition to the statement, Baldoni released a text message exchange with Lively that showed she chose not to meet with the on-set intimacy coordinator he hired, leaving him to relay uncomfortable information from the meeting on his own. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jan. 30, 2025<\/span>Lawyers for Lively and Reynolds said in a letter to Liman that they plan to move to dismiss the lawsuit filed against them at a pre-trial conference scheduled for Monday, Feb. 3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jan. 29, 2025<\/span>The Hollywood Reporter cited unnamed sources in reporting Baldoni has “lost three jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars\u201d since Lively first filed suit against him in December and that an in-the-works “Pac-Man” movie project he was set to direct is now in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jan. 27, 2025<\/span>Liman told Lively and Baldoni’s lawyers to prepare for a March 9, 2026 trial date and set a pretrial conference to discuss, among other things, complaints from Lively’s team about the conduct of Baldoni’s lawyer. Lively’s lawyers have claimed Freedman is trying to paint potential jurors by creating a website to release communication between the two actors and documents from set, and accused him of making an “endless stream of defamatory and extrajudicial media statements.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jan. 27, 2025 <\/span>The Daily Mail first published a nearly seven-minute voice note it says Baldoni sent to Lively at 2 a.m. during the filming of “It Ends With Us,” in which he allegedly apologizes for not being open enough to script changes she made, admits he is a \u201ca very flawed man\u201d and makes a reference to her breastfeeding her then-newborn child. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jan. 21, 2025<\/span>Baldoni\u2019s legal team countered Lively\u2019s claims that he acted inappropriately while filming a slow dancing scene for the film by releasing a 10-minute video from set that includes three takes of the same scene, which Baldoni’s team says is the entirety of the footage shot for that scene, during which Lively alleged in a lawsuit Baldoni \u201cleaned forward and slowly dragged his lips from her ear and down her neck as he said, \u2018it smells so good.’\u201d The footage shows a similar interaction, where Baldoni is seen nuzzling Lively\u2019s neck, and she says, “I\u2019m probably getting spray-tan on you,” to which he responds, “It smells good.” Lively’s team says the footage fully corroborates her account, and \u201cany woman who has been inappropriately touched in the workplace will recognize Ms. Lively\u2019s discomfort.\u201d Baldoni\u2019s lawyers said the footage proves both actors clearly behaved “well within the scope of the scene and with mutual respect and professionalism.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jan. 16, 2025<\/span>Baldoni filed a federal lawsuit in New York against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, her publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s firm Vision PR alleging his co-star “tormented” him, his family and his partners, falsely accused him of sexual harassment and used him as a “scapegoat” to dodge the negative press surrounding. He also pushed back on claims he sexually harassed her, instead claiming she “calculatingly devised” fake stories to destroy his reputation and livelihood, seized control of the film he was directing and set out to damage his career and Wayfarer Studios “if they did not bend to her incessant demands\u201d (Here\u2019s more on Baldoni\u2019s lawsuit). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jan. 10, 2025<\/span>Deadline reported Baldoni’s former publicist Stephanie Jones, who sued the actor and a handful of others for defamation and breach of contract in December, has issued subpoenas to WhatsApp, Signal, website hosts Hostinger and Name Cheap, digital publishing platform AnyFlip and chatbot company Gab AI in attempts to discover who may have been behind posts and websites aimed at harming Lively and Baldoni\u2019s reputations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jan. 10, 2025<\/span>Feig, who directed Lively’s upcoming film “A Simple Favor 2,” responded to viral rumors the film had been shelved “indefinitely,” partially due to the Lively\/Baldoni legal battle, calling it “total BS” and confirming the film “is finished and coming out soon.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jan. 8, 2025<\/span>In an interview with Baldoni\u2019s attorney, Bryan Freedman, TMZ founder Harvey Levin said about the co-stars\u2019 competing accusations about online campaigns to damage one another\u2019s reputation: \u201cBoth sides tried to skew this story. We’ve been on the recipient end of that … It has happened on both sides in the Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni war. Both sides.\u201d Freedman responded by saying, \u201cThat\u2019s good to know.\u201d (In recent days, Freedman has denied Lively\u2019s allegations that she faced a smear campaign by Baldoni\u2019s PR team, claiming Lively\u2019s team was instead working to smear Baldoni.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jan. 7, 2025<\/span>Freedman appeared on Megyn Kelly\u2019s YouTube show to discuss Baldoni\u2019s plans to sue Lively \u201cinto oblivion\u201d and pushed back on several of the actresses\u2019 allegations, accusing Lively of not reading the source material for the film, refuting claims she was sexually harassed and accusing her of orchestrating her own smear campaign against Baldoni. The interview also included newly released sound from a voice note from Baldoni explaining that he was “sent to the basement” of the film’s premiere because Lively “didn’t want me anywhere near her or the rest of the cast\u201d (Here\u2019s more on what Freedman said on Kelly\u2019s show.) <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jan. 3, 2025<\/span>Freedman told NBC\u2019s “Today” he “absolutely” plans to file suit against Lively after she alleged she was subjected to “sexually inappropriate behavior” by Baldoni on the set of their 2024 film, but wouldn’t say exactly what the countersuit would allege, though denied Lively\u2019s claim that Baldoni and his team launched a smear campaign against the actress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jan. 2, 2025<\/span>Glaser, the first solo female to ever host the Golden Globes, warned viwers in advance that she wouldn’t be poking fun of Baldoni and Lively while on stage. \u201cI think the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni thing is such a hot-button thing right now that even a mere mention of it will seem like I could be on the wrong side of things, even though I would never be,\u201d Glaser told Yahoo Entertainment. \u201cI also don\u2019t want to give (Baldoni\u2019s) name any \u2014 I\u2019m mad I even know his name, to be honest with you, so I don\u2019t need to say it anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dec. 31, 2024<\/span>Baldoni filed a $250 million libel lawsuit against The New York Times for the paper’s reporting on Lively’s allegations, accusing the outlet of having “cowered to the wants and whims of two powerful ‘untouchable’ Hollywood elites”\u2014Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds (on Jan. 31, Baldoni added defamation allegations against the Times to his sweeping lawsuit against Lively and Reynolds, and his attorney said he would drop the original suit against the paper). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dec. 31, 2024<\/span>Lively formally filed a lawsuit in New York federal court against Baldoni, his publicist, Wayfarer Studios and other defendants for “retaliating against her for reporting sexual harassment and workplace safety concerns.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dec. 24, 2024<\/span>Baldoni was sued by his ex-publicist, Stephanie Jones, over an alleged conspiracy to discredit her and steal her clients. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dec. 24, 2024<\/span>Vital Voices, a nonprofit that focuses on empowering women, rescinded an award it gave to Baldoni, who has made a career expressing his support of women\u2019s stories and co-hosted a podcast about masculinity called “Man Enough,” which his co-host pulled out of the same day. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dec. 21, 2024<\/span>Baldoni was reportedly dropped by his talent agency. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dec. 20, 2024<\/span>Lively filed a complaint with the California Civil Rights Department claiming Baldoni invaded her privacy by “entering her makeup trailer uninvited while she was undressed,” pressured her to lose weight four months after giving birth and coordinated a PR campaign with a crisis firm “designed to ‘destroy’ Ms. Lively’s reputation.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What Did Justin Baldoni Say In A Supposed Voice Note To Blake Lively? <\/h2>\n

The message, which was obtained by the Daily Mail and has since gone viral on TikTok, appears to be Baldoni apologizing for his reception to changes Lively proposed for a scene in “It Ends With Us.” Baldoni says his reaction to the changes “fell short” and thanked her for telling him how she was feeling about his response, according to the newspaper. “I f***ed up, that is a fail on my part,” he appears to say. “One thing you should know about me is that I am willing to apologize when I fail… I am a very flawed man, as my wife will attest.” Baldoni then appears to talk for almost another five minutes, in which he says there is \u201cnothing more exciting to me\u201d than working with Lively. The message does not specifically say which scene Baldoni is referring to but his lawsuit against Lively mentions tension over a rooftop scene in the film that Lively rewrote and presented to Baldoni as her own work before telling media outlets that her husband, Reynolds, actually wrote it. <\/p>\n

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Key Background<\/h2>\n

Baldoni directed and co-starred with Lively in \u201cIt Ends With Us,\u201d the movie adaptation of Colleen Hoover\u2019s bestselling book of the same name, which released last August. Rumors of a rift developing between Lively and Baldoni during post-production began to emerge around the movie\u2019s release, and were further fueled during the film’s press tour when Lively appeared to avoid mention of Baldoni in interviews. Speculation emerged that there were disputes over creative control and sources told TMZ Baldoni had “fat-shamed” Lively by inquiring about her weight, telling an on-set trainer he wanted to avoid injury while lifting the actress in the movie. Baldoni and Lively were never photographed together while promoting \u201cIt Ends With Us.\u201d As rumors of a feud grew, Baldoni hired Melissa Nathan, a crisis PR manager who represented Johnny Depp in his defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard. According to texts published by The New York Times, Nathan suggested plans including \u201cfull social take downs\u201d by creating \u201cthreads of theories\u201d and planting pieces in the media of \u201chow horrible Blake is to work with.\u201d Lively said the alleged smear campaign had caused \u201csevere emotional distress\u201d for her and her family, prompting her to back out of hosting the \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d season 50 premiere.<\/p>\n

How Were These Text Messages From Baldoni Released?<\/h2>\n

Lively’s initial complaint included excerpts from thousands of pages of text messages and emails, which were the main focus of the Times article at the center of Baldoni’s lawsuit. The text messages were largely between Baldoni, his publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis management expert Melissa Nathan, and were obtained through a civil subpoena, Lively’s complaint said. A lawsuit filed by Baldoni’s ex-publicist Stephanie Jones, the founder of the Jonesworks publicity firm, days later revealed she was the source of the text messages, which were obtained from Abel\u2019s work phone. In her own lawsuit against Baldoni, Jones claimed Abel was fired for conspiring to steal clients from her firm and Jones later had Abel\u2019s company-issued phone \u201cforensically preserved and examined in detail.\u201d Lively’s team then obtained the texts through a subpoena against Jonesworks. The texts show discussions on how to coordinate a social media campaign against Lively, and how Baldoni wanted to feel like Lively “can be buried\u201d under negative media. The messages show the trio talking about the \u201cshift on social\u201d against Lively, and reveal that Baldoni was aware of the negative messaging against her. Messages from Baldoni also show him encouraging the P.R. team, flagging social media posts for them to use and, in one case, suggesting \u201cflipping the narrative\u201d on a positive story about Lively and Reynolds, according to The Times. In other messages, he reiterates that the campaign needs to be untraceable. <\/p>\n

Surprising Fact<\/h2>\n

Around the time of the \u201cIt Ends With Us\u201d premiere, Lively was the subject of intense criticism online targeting how she promoted the film, the opportune release of her haircare line and other behaviors. In one promotional video, Lively encourages the audience to “grab your friends, wear your florals and head out to see (the movie).” Fans instantly criticized Lively’s upbeat tone and claimed she was attempting to promote the movie as a lighthearted love story, cheapening the movie’s serious take on domestic abuse. Comments on the video attacked Lively\u2014”shame on you and your PR team for turning a blind eye,” one said\u2014but praised Baldoni for how he handled promotion. Lively was also criticized for seeming to promote her newly launched hair-care line, Blake Brown, off the back of the film, but it was later revealed that the two were never supposed to launch at the same time. Production delays caused by Hollywood strikes in 2023 pushed the premiere of \u201cIt Ends With Us,\u201d then coinciding with the predetermined launch date of the brand. At the same time, Lively was freshly criticized for her reaction to an interviewer in a resurfaced 2016 clip. Lively\u2019s lawsuits claim the public\u2019s attacks were part of the smear campaign she says was orchestrated against her. <\/p>\n

Tangent<\/h2>\n

A number of celebrities have come out to support Lively since she filed her initial complaint, including Hoover, Lively\u2019s \u201cSisterhood of the Traveling Pants\u201d co-stars and actress Amber Heard, who claimed to be a victim of a similar social media takedown. Hoover, who The Times reported also refused to do press with Baldoni, posted to Instagram after Lively first made her allegations to call her “nothing but honest, kind, supportive and patient.” America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel and Amber Tamblyn, who starred alongside Lively in her 2005 breakout role in “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” slammed the \u201cvindictive effort ensued to discredit her voice\u201d and Heard said she has seen similar social media campaigns “firsthand and up close,\u201d calling it “horrifying and destructive.\u201d Actresses Kate Beckinsale and Abigail Breslin shared their own stories of harassment and retaliation in the wake of Lively’s lawsuit, and director Paul Feig posted that Lively “did not deserve any of this smear campaign.\u201d Lively’s “It Ends with Us” costar Brandon Sklenar posted a link to the initial New York Times story and Jenny Slate, another co-star in the film, said she stands by her “loyal friend.” Amy Schumer posted a story on Instagram that said, \u201cI believe Blake.\u201d Political influencer Candace Owens posted in support of Baldoni after he was stripped of his Vital Voices award, writing that he should “have his day in court” before such drastic measures are taken. <\/p>\n

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Further Reading<\/h2>\n

Forbes<\/span>Blake Lively Accuses \u2018It Ends With Us\u2019 Co-Star Justin Baldoni Of Sexual Harassment And Smear Campaign<\/span>By Ty Roush<\/span><\/small><\/span><\/span>Forbes<\/span>Amber Heard Calls Blake Lively Smear Campaign \u2018Horrifying\u2019 And \u2018Destructive\u2019 As Celebrities Voice Support For Actor<\/span>By Conor Murray<\/span><\/small><\/span><\/span>Forbes<\/span>Justin Baldoni\u2019s Former Publicist Sues Actor, PR Team Over Blake Lively Controversy<\/span>By Alison Durkee<\/span><\/small><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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