In the latest development in the ongoing legal drama between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, Lively has added nearly 50 pages to her lawsuit with more details about her initial allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation.

Filed in New York federal court just ahead of the judge’s deadline, the amended complaint states that additional women who worked on the set of the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel, It Ends With Us, were made uncomfortable by Baldoni’s ‘unwelcome behaviour’.

According to Lively’s complaint, another female co-star reported concerns about Baldoni to Sony, the film’s distributor.

‘Ms Lively brought this lawsuit because she was one of the “women or two” that Mr Baldoni “one million percent” “made uncomfortable” on the set of the film,’ the amended lawsuit continues. ‘Ms Lively was not the only one who was uncomfortable on set, and Mr Baldoni and Wayfarer knew it. After Mr Baldoni learned that he had caused Ms Lively and others to feel “uncomfortable”, he turned his TED Talk and “feminist” advocacy on its head.’

Lively claims that another female cast member reported her own concerns to a Sony representative and another of the film producers after she did in May 2023. The complaint states that the Sony rep shared those concerns with Baldoni and he ‘responded to that female cast member in writing, acknowledging that he was aware of her concerns, and that adjustments would be made’.

One week later, Lively’s lawsuit claims the female cast member told her about ‘her growing concerns with the conditions on set’ and that she ‘found it difficult to talk to Mr Baldoni’.

Lively’s legal team claims that instead of making any adjustments on set to make the women feel more comfortable, Baldoni retaliated against Lively by hiring a crisis management team and running a smear campaign to destroy her reputation.

The It Ends With Us protagonist has also added two new causes of action to her lawsuit, including defamation, alleging that Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman has made defamatory comments about Lively in the media, retaliating against her for ‘speaking up and bringing legal claims against Mr Baldoni’.

Lively’s attorneys, Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb told CNN, ‘The complaint includes significant contemporaneous evidence that Ms Lively was not along in raising allegations of on-set misconduct more than a year before the film was edited; as well as evidence detailing the threats, harassment, and intimidation of not just Ms Lively, but numerous innocent bystanders that have followed defendants’ retaliatory campaign.’

After suffering apparent damage to her reputation in the press run of the film last August, it was Lively who filed the original lawsuit at the end of December. She accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and retaliation in a civil rights complaint, which preceded her lawsuit.

Defendants include Baldoni, his business associates, including a publicist and crisis managers, as well as his production company, Wayfarer Studios. Baldoni not only denies all allegations, but he filed a counter lawsuit the same day.

He is suing Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds for $400 (£326 million) in damages on claims of defamation, civil extortion and invasion of privacy. Baldoni also claims that Lively and her team spread ‘grossly edited’ and ‘unsubstantiated’ information to the media.

The actor is also suing the New York Times for libel, claiming their report on Lively’s experience on the set of It Ends With Us relied on her ‘self-serving narrative’.

Baldoni’s team have since published the lawsuit online and it is publicly available to read. The whole saga is playing out on social media too, with various TikTok detectives offering different verdicts on a daily basis, often to an audience of millions.

It therefore came as a surprise when Reynolds appeared to mock the dispute during the SNL 50th anniversary special last week. In the now viral clip, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler asked, ‘Ryan Reynolds! How’s it going?’ and Reynolds, who was sat next to Lively in the audience, said, ‘Great! Why, what have you heard?’ jokingly referring to their highly publicised legal situation.

The quip received a knowing laugh from the audience and a look of slight dismay from Lively herself, but it has been met with a mixed response elsewhere. A source told Page Six, ‘It’s very plausible that Justin’s legal team will use this public outing to defend him. Justin is taking this lawsuit in all seriousness and isn’t making a mockery out of it.’

A second insider disagrees and claims Lively ‘was initially hesitant to attend the anniversary show but, ultimately, she’s glad she went and had a really nice time. Blake and Ryan have no regrets about making an appearance and they’re glad they showed up because they have nothing to hide and no reason not to’.

Lively’s recent amendment is all but another twist in this toxic, tumultuous tale. One which is likely to drag on well into next year as the trial is due to begin in March 2026.