Justin Baldoni's Wife Emily Breaks Silence amid Blake Lively Legal Battle to Wish Him a Happy Birthday

Mar. 15, 2025

Emily Baldoni and Justin Baldoni on Aug. 6, 2024.Photo:Cindy Ord/Getty

Cindy Ord/Getty

Justin Baldoni’s wifeEmilybroke her silence amid his heated legal battle withBlake Livelyin order to publicly wish him a happy birthday.

TheIt Ends With Usdirector-actor turned 41 on Friday, Jan. 24, and Emily, 40, paid tribute to him on Instagram, writing alongside afamily photo: “Happy birthday my love. Celebrating the man, husband, and father that you are. I’d choose you again and again.”

Baldoni has been vacationing in Hawaii in recent days with Emily, whom he married in 2013, and their two kids,Maiya, 9, andMaxwell, 7.

In December, Lively, 37,suedJustin, accusing him of sexual harassment and orchestrating a retaliatorysmear campaignagainst her. Bryan Freedman, a lawyer for Baldoni, has called her allegations “false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publicly hurt.”

Blake Lively; Justin Baldoni.Katie Jones/Beauty Inc via Getty; Araya Doheny/Variety via Getty

Katie Jones/Beauty Inc via Getty; Araya Doheny/Variety via Getty

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Filed months afterrumors of behind-the-scenes strifeon the set of the adaptation of theColleen Hoover novelbegan, Lively’s complaint claimed that the actress “suffered from grief, fear, trauma, and extreme anxiety” due to Justin’s alleged actions, which included “invasive, unwelcome, unprofessional and sexually inappropriate behavior."

In turn, Baldonifiled a $400 million lawsuit against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, 48, and their publicist, claiming defamation and extortion.

Lively’s lawyers called the lawsuit “meritless"and “another chapter in the abuser playbook,” adding, “The strategy of attacking the woman is desperate, it does not refute the evidence in Ms. Lively’s complaint, and it will fail.”

Justin Baldoni and Emily Baldoni on Dec. 10, 2024.Raymond Hall/GC Images

Raymond Hall/GC Images

Lively has not been spotted in public since the lawsuits, though Reynoldsattended the National Board of Review galaon Jan. 7,spoke to students at Harvard Business School, and made asurprise appearance at friend Hugh Jackman’s opening nightat Radio City on Jan. 24.

source: people.com