Justin Baldoni Escalates Blake Lively Legal Battle by Launching Website, Leaking New Texts from Ryan Reynolds

Mar. 15, 2025

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds; Justin Baldoni.Photo:Theo Wargo/WireImage; Araya Doheny/Variety via Getty

Theo Wargo/WireImage; Araya Doheny/Variety via Getty

As his legal battle withBlake Livelycontinues,Justin Baldoniis trying to take their conflict to the court of public opinion — and using previously unseen texts to do so.

Less than a month after Baldoni’s teamfirst shared plans to launch a websiteto bolster his accusations against Lively, 37, theIt Ends with Usactor-director has published a website linking to a new, amended complaint, filed in court on Friday, Jan. 31, that details his side of the stars’ behind-the-scenes conflict.TMZwas first to report the news.

PEOPLE reached out to attorneys for both Baldoni and Lively, as well as reps for Lively, for further comment.

As of the afternoon of Saturday, Feb. 1, thewebsite, simply titled, “Lawsuit Info,” contains just one page featuring buttons linking to two different documents related to thecostars’ ongoing legal battle.

The website Justin Baldoni launched to share his side of things amid his legal battle with Blake Lively.The Lawsuit Info

The Lawsuit Info

The first, titled “Amended Complaint,” contains a link to the amended version of the complaint that Baldoni, 41 — along with a group of five other plaintiffs, including his production company Wayfarer Studios — filed against Lively on Jan. 16 in response toLively’s initial filingagainst him.

In December 2024, Lively sued Wayfarer Studios and Baldoni — plusIt Ends with Us’leadproducerJamey Heath, Baldoni’s publicist Jennifer Abel, crisis publicist Melissa Nathan and more —alleging sexual harassment and a smear campaignlaunched in retaliation for speaking out about alleged misconduct.

Baldoni has denied the sexual-harassment allegations, and subsequentlycountersued Lively, her husbandRyan Reynoldsand their publicist Leslie Sloane, as well as Sloane’s PR firm Vision PR, Inc., on accusations of defamation and extortion.

The second button on the newly created website, titled “Timeline of Relevant Events,” is an exhibit to the amended complaint, and it offers a timeline of events leading up to and following the filming of theColleen Hoover adaptationIt Ends with Us, beginning with Baldoni’s first email exchange with the author in January 2019.

Justin Baldoni; Blake Lively.James Devaney/GC Images; Kristina Bumphrey/WWD via Getty

James Devaney/GC Images; Kristina Bumphrey/WWD via Getty

Throughout 168 pages, the timeline uses texts, emails and more correspondences — some of which have not previously been made public — shared in chronological order to paint Baldoni’s version of events. The document claims to “[provide] a summarized account of the sequence of key events,” and is “intended to be read in conjunction” with the amended complaint also linked on the new website.

Among the newly publicized messages is one in which Lively, while discussingrewrites to the rooftop scene’s banterin April 2023, allegedly wrote: “if you knew me (in person) longer you’d have a sense of how flirty and yummy the ball busting will play. It’s my love language. Spicy and playfully bold, never with teeth….”

Another text exchange dated February 2023 shows Reynolds, 48, allegedly texting Baldoni: “I’m excited for you to work together. I’m excited for Blake to crack open her creative piggy bank with someone as dynamic as you. This is gonna be INCREDIBLE. … I happen to adore you, Justin.”

Additionally, the amended complaint and timeline leak alleged emails fromNew York Timesreporters and his PR team, and reveal a statement that Lively and Reynolds allegedly crafted for Baldoni to release in August 2024 amid the negative media attention on the film, which he says he denied putting his name on.

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Justin Baldoni; Blake Lively.John Nacion/Variety via Getty (2)

John Nacion/Variety via Getty (2)

News of Baldoni’s latest effort in his ongoing legal battle with Lively comes ahead of the stars’ pre-trial conference on Monday, Feb. 3.Both cases inLively v. Wayfarer Studios et al.are now scheduled for trial on March 9, 2026, Judge Lewis J. Liman outlined in an order filed Monday, Jan. 27, but the pre-trial conference was scheduled to hash outLively’s prospective request for a gag order.

After Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedmanreleased a 10-minute video from the set of the movie— intended to refute some of Lively’s claims — and announced plans to share evidence in support of Baldoni on a website,Lively’s team asked Limanto address “the appropriate conduct of counsel.” They stated in their letter to Liman that “federal litigation must be conducted in court and according to the relevant rules of professional conduct” and claimed Freedman’s actions risked “tainting” a potential jury pool.

source: people.com