Justin Baldoni’s Team to Launch Website of Exchanges With Blake Lively

Justin Baldoni’s team has plans to launch a website that will allegedly support the It Ends With Us director’s allegations against Blake Lively.

“Justin and team have the right to defend themselves with the truth,” Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, said in a statement to Us Weekly on Tuesday, January 21. “And this is what we will be continuing to show with the upcoming website containing all correspondence as well as relevant videos that directly quash her claims.”

News of the forthcoming website comes shortly after Us obtained footage from the set of It Ends With Us from Freedman, who claims the videos disprove Lively’s allegations that his client acted “inappropriately” on the set of It Ends With Us.

The clip began with a statement that read, “Ms. Lively’s complaint alleges that during a scene Mr. Baldoni and Ms. Lively were filming for a slow dance montage, Mr. Baldoni was behaving inappropriately. The following videos captured on May 23, 2023, clearly refute Ms. Lively’s characterization of his behavior. The scene in question was designed to show the two characters falling in love and longing to be close to one another. Both actors are clearly behaving well within the scope of the scene and with mutual respect and professionalism. These are all three takes filmed of the sequence.”

Following the on-screen explainer, Baldoni, 40, and Lively, 37, can be seen smiling and laughing as they filmed a dancing scene with no dialogue. At one point, Lively suggested that it would be “more romantic” if she and Baldoni were talking in the scene.

Baldoni and Lively’s ongoing drama and subsequent legal battles began last year, after rumors swirled of an on-set tension between the pair. Those same rumors hit a fever pitch after Lively and Baldoni did not promote the Colleen Hoover adaptation together.

In December 2024, Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, accusing the director of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment. Baldoni has denied the allegations.

The following month, Baldoni’s studio, Wayfarer, sought legal action against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and Lively’s publicist Leslie Sloan. In the filing, Baldoni, accuses the trio of civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy and more. The paperwork also included alleged text message exchanges between Lively and Baldoni as they collaborated on It Ends With Us. Baldoni is seeking $400 in alleged damages.

“This lawsuit is a legal action based on an overwhelming amount of untampered evidence detailing Blake Lively and her team’s duplicitous attempt to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and their respective companies by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored information to the media,” Baldoni’s lawyer said in a statement to Us on Thursday, January 16. “It is clear based on our own all out willingness to provide all complete text messages, emails, video footage and other documentary evidence that was shared between the parties in real time, that this is a battle she will not win and will certainly regret. Blake Lively was either severely misled by her team or intentionally and knowingly misrepresented the truth.”

 

Lively’s legal team later hit back with a response to Baldoni’s lawsuit.

“This latest lawsuit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its associates is another chapter in the abuser playbook. This is an age-old story: A woman speaks up with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation and the abuser attempts to turn the tables on the victim,” Lively’s lawyers told Us in a statement on Thursday. “This is what experts call DARVO. Deny. Attack. Reverse Victim Offender. Wayfarer has opted to use the resources of its billionaire co-founder to issue media statements, launch meritless lawsuits, and threaten litigation to overwhelm the public’s ability to understand that what they are doing is retaliation against sexual harassment allegations.”