It Ends With Us was released in August of 2024, and around the same time, reports about a conflict between its director and star, Justin Baldoni, and its lead, Blake Lively, started to circulate. In December of that year, the actress filed a complaint, and it turned into a legal battle. Now, it's been well over a year, this dispute is ongoing, and experts have weighed in on how it's impacting the actors' reputations.
The latest input from these experts comes in the weeks after court documents were released that revealed tons of text messages between the actress, director and various very famous people. The list of names involved with these texts includes (and is not limited to) Taylor Swift, Hugh Jackman, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and It Ends With Us actress Jenny Slate. In a report from Us Weekly, it goes over this situation and dives into the impact it could have on Lively and Baldoni’s reputations, specifically. According to entertainment and defamation lawyer Tre Lovell, the damage caused here is greater than “any monetary compensation” either of them could get:
