
Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively clashed in a Los Angeles courtroom on Tuesday, 28 April, as Baldoni's legal team argued that the actor-director cannot be blamed for any downturn in Lively's brands and instead cited her 'unlikable' image, including her widely criticised joke about Kate Middleton's edited Mother's Day photo, as the real problem.
The two stars are locked in an increasingly acrimonious legal battle tied to their collaboration on It Ends With Us, the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's bestselling novel.