The It Ends With Us star says she’s not the only one who felt uncomfortable on set.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Words by Nikki Peach<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/Blake-Lively.jpg” alt=”Jennifer Aniston” title_text=”Blake Lively” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] 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.<\/p>\n Filed in New York federal court just ahead of the judge\u2019s deadline, the amended complaint states that additional women who worked on the set of the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover\u2019s novel,\u00a0It Ends With Us<\/em>, were made uncomfortable by Baldoni\u2019s \u2018unwelcome behaviour\u2019.<\/p>\n According to Lively\u2019s complaint, another female co-star reported concerns about Baldoni to Sony, the film\u2019s distributor.<\/p>\n \u2018Ms Lively brought this lawsuit because she was one of the “women or two” that Mr Baldoni “one million percent” “made uncomfortable\u201d on the set of the film,\u2019 the amended lawsuit continues. \u2018Ms 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 \u201cuncomfortable\u201d, he turned his TED Talk and \u201cfeminist\u201d advocacy on its head.\u2019<\/p>\n 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 \u2018responded to that female cast member in writing, acknowledging that he was aware of her concerns, and that adjustments would be made\u2019.<\/p>\n One week later, Lively\u2019s lawsuit claims the female cast member told her about \u2018her growing concerns with the conditions on set\u2019 and that she \u2018found it difficult to talk to Mr Baldoni\u2019.<\/p>\n Lively\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n The\u00a0It Ends With Us\u00a0protagonist has also added two new causes of action to her lawsuit, including defamation, alleging that Baldoni\u2019s lawyer Bryan Freedman has made defamatory comments about Lively in the media, retaliating against her for \u2018speaking up and bringing legal claims against Mr Baldoni\u2019.<\/p>\n Lively\u2019s attorneys, Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb told CNN, \u2018The 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\u2019 retaliatory campaign.\u2019<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}”] 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n He is suing Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds for $400 (\u00a3326 million) in damages on claims of defamation, civil extortion and invasion of privacy. Baldoni also claims that Lively and her team spread \u2018grossly edited\u2019 and \u2018unsubstantiated\u2019 information to the media.<\/p>\n The actor is also suing the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0for libel, claiming their report on Lively\u2019s experience on the set of\u00a0It Ends With Us<\/em>\u00a0relied on her \u2018self-serving narrative\u2019.<\/p>\n Baldoni\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n It therefore came as a surprise when Reynolds appeared to mock the dispute during the SNL 50th\u00a0anniversary special last week. In the now viral clip, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler asked, \u2018Ryan Reynolds! How\u2019s it going?\u2019 and Reynolds, who was sat next to Lively in the audience, said, \u2018Great! Why, what have you heard?\u2019 jokingly referring to their highly publicised legal situation.<\/p>\n 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, \u2018It\u2019s very plausible that Justin\u2019s legal team will use this public outing to defend him. Justin is taking this lawsuit in all seriousness and isn\u2019t making a mockery out of it.\u2019<\/p>\n A second insider disagrees and claims Lively \u2018was initially hesitant to attend the anniversary show but, ultimately, she\u2019s glad she went and had a really nice time. Blake and Ryan have no regrets about making an appearance and they\u2019re glad they showed up because they have nothing to hide and no reason not to\u2019.<\/p>\n Lively\u2019s 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.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”] Photo: <\/b>IMAGO<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lively has added new claims to her lawsuit against her co-star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":6028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"guestgrazia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7219"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7230,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions\/7230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}‘The complaint includes evidence that Ms Lively was not along in raising allegations of on-set misconduct’<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]