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Justin Baldoni to Sue “It Ends with Us” Costar Blake Lively 'Soon' (Exclusive Details)

Almost a week after Blake Lively accused her It Ends with Us costar Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment and lauching a retaliatory public smear campaign against her, Baldoni's lawyer says the actor/director plans to fire back with his own countersuit.

When asked by NBC News in an interview that aired Thursday, Jan. 2, if his client plans to sue Lively, attorney Bryan Freedman replied, "Absolutely ... yes."

"We plan to release every single text messages between the two of them," Freedman told NBC News. "We want the truth to be out there. We want the documents to be out there. We want people to make their determination based on receipts."

PEOPLE has exclusively learned that the plaintiffs will include Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios (his production company behind It End with Us), his publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis publicist Melissa Nathan. They plan to name Lively, her publicist Leslie Sloane and Baldoni's former publicist Stephanie Jones in the suit. (Jones sued Baldoni, Wayfarer, Abel and Nathan on Dec. 24.)

Freedman did not provide a timetable in terms of when Baldoni's countersuit will be filed, but a source with knowledge of the lawsuit said it will be filed "soon."

It will be in response to Lively's allegations in her Dec. 20 complaint, in which she claimed that Baldoni's alleged behavior while making It Ends with Us and during its promotion caused her "grief, fear, trauma, and extreme anxiety." Lively's complaint includes allegations that during production he showed her explicit images and videos, asked her about her personal sex life and attempted to add intimate scenes to the film that she had not originally agreed to. She also claimed that Baldoni, alongside his publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis firm TAG PR's Melissa Nathan, attempted to manipulate social media and work alongside the press to "destroy" her reputation.

On Tuesday, Dec. 31, Baldoni sued The New York Times for libel in response to its Dec. 21 article "‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine." The suit alleges the newspaper used “‘cherry-picked’ and altered communications stripped of necessary context and deliberately spliced to mislead" in its article regarding Lively's lawsuit and behind-the-scenes trouble on It Ends with Us.

Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and It Ends with Us producers Jamey Heath and Steve Sarowitz, along with Jed Wallace, and publicists Nathan and Abel are named as plaintiffs in that lawsuit.

The New York Times defended its article as "meticulously and responsibly reported" in response to Baldoni's suit.

Since the first filing, Lively has received support from various of her famous friends, including A Simple Favor director Paul Feig and her The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants costars America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel and Amber Tamblyn. Baldoni, meanwhile, has been dropped by his talent agency, WME, which still represents Lively. His Man Enough podcast co-host announced she was stepping away from the show on Monday, Dec. 23.

Freedman told PEOPLE exclusively on Dec. 29 that Baldoni's lawsuit against Lively would form "a deliberate pursuit of truth."

“This lawsuit will uncover and expose the false and destructive narrative that was intentionally engineered by a trusted media publication who relied upon nefarious sources and neglected a thorough fact checking process to confirm the validity of these texts,” he said at that time.

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by Anonymousreply 26January 6, 2025 6:12 PM

Go, TEAM JUSTIN!!!

Get that Ryan Reynolds money.

He has lots of it.

Take him for everything he's worth, because of that CUNTING wife of his.

by Anonymousreply 1January 3, 2025 4:00 AM

He's got a mild case of derpface.

by Anonymousreply 2January 3, 2025 4:01 AM

Now the fun begins.

This is all out fucking war.

I think TeamBaldoni is giving Ryan Reynolds a clear warning when they say that "no timeline has been given yet" as to when they are going to countersue Blake Lively.

This warning is saying, WE ARE COMING FOR YOUR MONEY RYAN REYNOLDS.

And if Ryan Reynolds is smart, he will force that CUNTING wife of his to drop her fraudulent lawsuit against Justin Baldoni.

If he doesn't, and this case goes to court, then Ryan Reynolds will be the one ending up having to pay. I guarantee you that much.

Text leaks by their team have already shown that the allegations made by Blake Lively about sexual harassment, are lies.

SHE invited him to her trailer while she was breastfeeding. SHE wanted to dress sexier, and he didn't make her.

These are texts he has showing that this is the case, along with eyewitness accounts that other people (including one other woman) were in the trailer with Lively while she was breastfeeding, and Lively was fine with it.

It absolutely fills me with GLEE when men fight back against lying, manipulative cunts.

But it's even better when their pussy-whipped husbands are going to have to shell out millions of dollars for defamation and loss of wages.

They are COMING FOR YOUR MONEY, RYAN REYNOLDS!!!

by Anonymousreply 3January 3, 2025 4:11 AM

Blake Lively clearly fucked with the wrong one.

by Anonymousreply 4January 3, 2025 11:15 AM

Justin and his wife Emily seem like very nice people.

I feel bad for them and what they're going through because of that monster Blake Lively.

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by Anonymousreply 5January 3, 2025 11:31 AM

[quote] Baldoni V. Lively Takes Another Twist as Actor’s Lawyer Says He’ll Sue Former Co-Star ‘Soon’

In just a couple of weeks the Justin Baldoni vs. Blake Lively saga has taken more twists and turns than a long-running TV drama, and now there’s another one.

Under-fire Baldoni’s outspoken lawyer Bryan Freedman has announced that his client will “soon” file another suit, this time directly against his It Ends With Us co-star Lively.

It comes just three days after the actor/director sued The New York Times for libel in response to its Dec. 21 article “‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine.”

The Times said its story was “meticulously and responsibly reported.” Baldoni and his team say it used “‘cherry-picked’ and altered communications stripped of necessary context and deliberately spliced to mislead.”

The new suit is a direct response to Lively’s Dec. 20 sexual harassment complaint, in which she claimed that Baldoni’s alleged behavior while making It Ends with Us and during its promotion caused her “grief, fear, trauma, and extreme anxiety.”

Freedman confirmed the move to NBC News in an interview that aired Thursday. He was asked if his client plans to sue Lively, and he replied: “Absolutely...yes.”

“We plan to release every single text message between the two of them,” Freedman told NBC News. “We want the truth to be out there. We want the documents to be out there. We want people to make their determination based on receipts.”

In a previous statement to the Daily Beast, Baldoni’s attorney said that the New York Times “cowered to the wants and whims of two powerful ‘untouchable’ Hollywood elites, disregarding journalistic practices and ethics once befitting of the revered publication by using doctored and manipulated texts and intentionally omitting texts which dispute their chosen PR narrative.”

The publication told the Daily Beast that Baldoni and his team were shown the texts that would be published and were offered the chance to respond.

“To address some inaccuracies in the lawsuit, when seeking comments from Mr. Baldoni and others who would be mentioned in the article, The Times shared the information that we intended to publish, including references to specific text messages and documents, asked them to identify any inaccuracies, provide additional context and speak with our team,” a spokesperson for the newspaper said.

“Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer and the other subjects chose not to have any conversations with The Times or address any of the specific text messages or documents and instead emailed a joint response, which was published in full.”

People reported that the plaintiffs in the latest suit will include Baldoni, his production company Wayfarer Studios, his publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis publicist Melissa Nathan. They plan to name Lively, her publicist Leslie Sloane, and Baldoni’s former publicist Stephanie Jones in the suit, the publication stated. It comes after Jones sued Baldoni, Wayfarer, Abel, and Nathan on Christmas Eve.

Lively’s legal team, Sloane, and Stephanie Jones did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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by Anonymousreply 6January 3, 2025 12:07 PM

Hollywood insiders are watching this closely.

They may be supporting her publicly, just to be politically correct.

But in private, they're all talking shit about her.

She took a perfectly good movie that made a ton of money, and completely ruined it.

All because she's a narcissistic, egotistical Mean Girl who didn't get her way.

So she dragged the movie, the director, the entire cast, the studio, herself, and her husband with her.

"This Ends With Us" will forever be tainted, and instead of thinking about the movie and its message, they're going to be thinking about Blake Lively and all of this fucking drama.

by Anonymousreply 7January 3, 2025 6:11 PM

Who is this Blake Lively person? Is she TV?

by Anonymousreply 8January 3, 2025 6:20 PM

All of these stupid fucking celebs are going to be deleting their social media support of Lively, after she gets sued by Justin Baldoni and found guilty of lying.

Just watch.

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by Anonymousreply 9January 3, 2025 6:40 PM

Justin Baldoni lawyer speaks out on the Today Show: Will release text messages for 'world to see'

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by Anonymousreply 10January 3, 2025 7:12 PM

He needs to get on it soon. The white fraus have already sided with Blakem

by Anonymousreply 11January 3, 2025 7:20 PM

I just want Justin to get all of Ryan Reynolds' money, resulting in an inevitable Reynolds-Lively divorce, with ugliness played out in front of the media.

Now THAT is going to be delicious.

by Anonymousreply 12January 3, 2025 7:22 PM

What’s a Blake Lively? Is she like a Taylor Swift?

by Anonymousreply 13January 3, 2025 7:39 PM

The NYT suit will go nowhere.

If he has the receipts he claims to have on from Lively, he might or will make some progress there, but not with the NYT.

by Anonymousreply 14January 3, 2025 8:02 PM

R14 is going to eat her words.

by Anonymousreply 15January 4, 2025 1:28 AM

The "I Stand With Blake" Rats are abandoning the ship....

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by Anonymousreply 16January 4, 2025 11:23 AM

S.S. Blake Lively is the new Titanic.

by Anonymousreply 17January 4, 2025 12:09 PM

Here is my 2 cents. He is a weirdo porn addict, sexually messed up person. She is a reformed ho. They both wanted to fuck but the dilemma of dealing with their demons made the sexual tension unbearable. They both did some fucked up petty shit but I’m team Blake because she is simply not lying about his behavior and that is unacceptable on set.

by Anonymousreply 18January 4, 2025 12:42 PM

[quote] I’m team Blake because she is simply not lying about his behavior and that is unacceptable on set

Actually, Justin's counter suit will prove that she IS lying.

When she says he walked in on her breast feeding on purpose, she was LYING. There were two other people there with him, and one was a female. And they ackknowledge that she said it was fine for them to come in.

She also implies that he was trying to make her dress sexier for certain scenes, but he has texts to prove that it was HER suggestion, and not his. And that he just went along with whatever she was comfortable with.

And those are just a couple of instances cited in recent articles.

I'm sure that he has more proof to back up the fact that she is lying about EVERYTHING, and this was just a power play on her part to get back at him for making her look bad in the press.

It was also an attempt to extort the film rights for both his movie and the sequel, on the part of Lively and Reynolds.

So you're most definitely WRONG, R18.

by Anonymousreply 19January 4, 2025 12:51 PM

If what you say is true I am definitely wrong. I didn’t know all of that. 🤕

by Anonymousreply 20January 4, 2025 12:54 PM

R15?

I’ve eaten worse, so… no big deal.

And, I do believe her, still.

by Anonymousreply 21January 4, 2025 3:48 PM

R21 is obviously female.

by Anonymousreply 22January 5, 2025 3:02 AM

Lawsuit coming this week, I think.

by Anonymousreply 23January 6, 2025 5:26 AM

It Ends With Us producer Jamey Heath slammed Blake Lively’s demand she be given a producer credit on the film in an email leaked as part of their legal battle.

In Touch obtained the email dated June 27, 2024, filed as part of Jamey and the film’s director Justin Baldoni’s lawsuit against The New York Times.

Justin, 40, and Jamey sued the outlet over an article published about Blake's complaint against them. It claimed the reporters cherry-picked evidence to present a one-sided story.

In the email, that Jamey wrote to partners, “I’m writing to you all regarding a letter that I wrote on behalf of Justin and myself addressed to the Producers Guild.”

“As you know, we received a request to write a recommendation on behalf of Blake for her to receive the PGA mark. This was a request that we feel was unreasonable and cold hearted. Essentially, the movie [It Ends With Us] has been taken unjustly from Justin as a director and essentially from Wayfarer’s control due to the extortion of Blake,” he said.

Jamey continued, “Without going into all the details of the events that have transpired over the months, Justin and I ended up agreeing to write the letter due to feeling trapped. She continues to hold a threat over our heads and every time we try and hold a line she uses that threat either directly or indirectly to get us to fold.

Make no mistake, I am not suggesting that we were literally forced to acquiesce, but given the high profile of the movie, the partnership with Sony, the amount of money invested and the need to complete the movie, we have written the letter on her behalf, omitting the truth of how and why she was able to contribute in the ways we listed.”

He ended, “There is nothing to do with this letter now. It only serves as a way to memorialize why the letter was sent in the first place should we ever need to explain it.”

In the letter that Jamey wrote to the Producers Guild, he praised Blake’s work on the film and proposed she receive a producer credit.

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by Anonymousreply 24January 6, 2025 5:38 PM

People who say "receipts" when they mean evidence or proof al sound like crack addicts.

by Anonymousreply 25January 6, 2025 6:08 PM

Fifteen posts in this thread are from one person, OP.

OP you have 24 hours to think about what you have done.

by Anonymousreply 26January 6, 2025 6:12 PM
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