CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses alleged sexual assault and domestic violence.
Jameela Jamil has responded to her brutal leaked texts about Blake Lively, and instead of backing away slowly from the drama, she’s… kind of owning it.
Court documents tied to Blake Lively’s ongoing It Ends With Us legal battle with Justin Baldoni included an August 2024 text exchange between Jamil and Baldoni’s publicist, Jennifer Abel. In the messages, the pair were reacting to a TikTok calling out Lively’s promo for the film, where she was spruiking haircare and floral ‘fits while being in a movie about domestic violence. Abel texted that she wanted to add “nightmare c*nt” and “demon c*nt” to her vocabulary and said, “She’s doing this to herself”, to which Jamil replied, “She’s a suicide bomber at this point.”
The texts didn’t mellow from there. When Lively later posted a domestic violence survivors’ link and said her character was more than “just a victim”, Abel messaged, “Did you see Blake post the survivors link?” and Jamil responded “dead”, calling the move “so cold”. At one point Jamil wrote, “I’ve never seen such a bizarre villain act before. She’s over over”, and the two agreed they hated Lively “so much”. A source close to the situation later described Jamil’s comments as “disappointing” to Page Six, saying, “Instead of listening to women when they speak out, other women call them names.”
After the messages went public and Jamil copped heavy backlash online, she took to Instagram Stories to clarify where she stands. She said feminism “means fighting for the political, social and economic equity for women. Just gender equity”, but stressed “it does not mean you have to like every single woman”.
“It doesn’t mean you have to be friends with every single woman,” she added, arguing that as a feminist “you can actually beef with other women” as long as you’re also fighting for their basic rights.
Then came the essay. In a Substack piece titled “So, my private texts were leaked to the world…”, Jamil wrote that she doesn’t want to be “some Hollywood robot, speaking through the lens of a publicist”.
“I don’t want to carefully craft my output to have an avatar of myself liked. I want to be liked and loathed for my true self,” she said, admitting that her texts were “vitriolic” because she was angry her friend and publicist was “being mistreated”.
She explained that she has what she calls an “Itty Bitty Shitty Committee”, a private emotional dumping ground “where nobody is judged for being gratuitously gossipy and shallow and petty and mean, because it’s a safe, private space”.
She described it as a “victimless crime” and said she wants her friend to know she’s all in: “Thelma to her Louise. I will hold her hand all the way off the cliff”. Jamil also labelled herself the friend who “holds a grudge for 20 years” against anyone who makes her mate cry, coining the term “fempathy” — “a specifically female experience” she says she loves because “we ride at dawn for each other”.
Despite leaning into her “shallow, petty and mean” side, Jamil said she “HATE[s]” that her privacy was invaded when her texts were “unredacted and leaked”, calling the move “gross” and “disturbing”.
The People We Meet On Vacation actress reiterated her frustration on TikTok. “I think it’s really weird that my private text messages from 18 months ago have suddenly been released now. My name has deliberately been un-redacted to cause as much trouble as possible for me even though these text messages have nothing to do with the case,” she said.
She’s also pointed out that the messages were sent months before Lively filed her December 2024 sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni, urging people to “check the dates” and insisting the texts weren’t about the legal claims, but about what she saw as a “diabolical press tour” for “that disappointing movie”.
In the background, Lively’s case against Baldoni — which includes allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation that he denies — is still making its way through the US courts, after his $400 million countersuit against Lively and Ryan Reynolds and his separate defamation case against the New York Times were dismissed in 2025. Lively, Reynolds and Baldoni have not publicly addressed the leaked texts.
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