Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively’s court drama continues as Baldoni and his Wayfarer studios are trying to get out of a court case. But Lively isn’t backing down and believes she deserves her day in court.
During the filming of It Ends With Us, Lively alleges that Baldoni reached out to her trainer, body shamed her, and created a hostile working environment on their film that extended into the press tour for the film. It has since heated up in a legal battle between the two.
In a new memo released by Lively’s team, the statement makes it very clear that Lively still is ready to fight. As of this writing, a court date for March of 2026 is set and the duo have yet to reach a settlement prior to the upcoming date. In her statement, via Deadline, Lively’s team has pushed back at Baldoni’s desire to avoid court.
“In their latest effort to avoid accountability for the hostile environment they created during the production and marketing of ‘It Ends With Us’, Justin Baldoni, Jamey Heath, Steve Sarowitz, and their co-defendants ask this Court to shield them from trial, and deny Blake Lively her day in court, by throwing the kitchen sink at Lively’s sexual harassment and retaliation claims,” the statement says.
“Defendants’ campaign to transform Lively—a mother of four with decades of experience in the industry who simply sought a safe and respectful workplace—into a ‘bully’ who ‘took over’ Baldoni’s Film is not a defense to harassment, retaliation, defamation, or any claim Lively has advanced,” it continued.
“Lively may be a movie star, but on the set of the Film, Heath and Baldoni were her bosses with a total consolidation of power as lead actor, producer, director, co-chairman, president, and CEO. They set her schedule and her salary, appeared on and managed the set every day, were responsible for receiving and addressing HR concerns, and had the power to exert influence over Lively’s working conditions. Id. Heath and Baldoni also leveraged their close friendship to ‘act with a certain degree of impunity’ and cover the other’s misdeeds.”
We do not yet know what will happen with the Lively and Baldoni case.
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