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Topics: Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively, Celebrity, Film and TV
Lucy Devine
Topics: Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively, Celebrity, Film and TV
Justin Baldoni has claimed that Blake Lively tried to set him 'up for a trap' during filming for their 2024 movie, It Ends With Us.
Baldoni and Lively have been locked in a legal dispute for over a year, after Lively launched legal action in December 2024, accusing her It Ends With Us co-star of sexual harassment and of creating a smear campaign against her.
Baldoni launched a separate $400,000,000 defamation lawsuit against Lively, the New York Times - which published a story that features claims of sexual harassment - and Lively's husband, Ryan Reynolds.
Baldoni's case was later thrown out, but Lively's sexual harassment lawsuit remains ongoing.
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In a recent development, it has emerged that Baldoni previously claimed that Lively had tried to set him 'up for a trap', according to new unsealed messages.
In legal documents obtained by Us Weekly, a text exchange between Baldoni and his former WME agent, Danny Greenberg, took place in December 2023.
"Hey man, had a really really bad week," Baldoni begins.
"She [Lively] had the audacity to email me directly and invite me to a meeting at her house alone if I chose. She’s refused a body double which now Sony [the film’s distributor] and Todd [Black, a producer on the film] have to jump in to make sure that happens because that’s just setting me up for a trap.
"Although she’s making me have one."
They continued: “She’s rejected all my Story Boards for the sex scenes... she’s trying to keep all of... our clothes on for the big love scene, which is just ridiculous if you know the book.
“The whole thing is just a gigantic cluster f**k and yet I’m doing my best to stay positive, although it’s been very draining on me and time-consuming over this break to be dealing with an actress who is rewriting the writer and Director.”
The messages were made public as part of a motion filed by WME.
Further messages from Baldoni went on: “I’ve gone through the whole script, I’m giving her 95 percent of what she wants for peace but this is just a brutal experience.”
According to Us Weekly, Greenberg then suggested possible mediation options, to which Baldoni said: “I’m doing my best to just stay positive and give her as many wins as possible to just finish this thing but it’s gonna be tough at some point Warren [Zavala, a WME talent agent] needs to know that she is destroying her reputation.
“Where we will need the most help is during the edit because I’m not going to get everything she wants and I foresee that being a big issue.”
UNILAD has reached out to Lively's rep for comment.