Blake Lively claims Justin Baldoni made other women ‘uncomfortable’ on ‘It Ends With Us’ set
Blake Lively submitted an amended version of her complaint filing against her “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni, alleging that he made other women feel “uncomfortable” on set.
The “Gossip Girl” alum, 37, updated her initial lawsuit, which was filed on Dec. 31, in New York federal court late Tuesday, court documents obtained by The Post show.
The new 163-page filing “provides significant additional evidence and corroboration of her original claims,” Lively’s lawyers Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb told The Post.
Hudson and Gottlieb added that this version “includes previously undisclosed communications” involving the “Age of Adaline” actress, Sony, Wayfarer Studios and “numerous other witnesses.”
“The complaint includes significant contemporaneous evidence that Ms. Lively was not alone 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,” the attorneys said, though they did not mention any names.
Lively’s legal team added that there is also a “new claim of defamation” included in the amended document, which is “based on the repeated false statements the defendants have made about Ms. Lively since she filed her original complaint, and adds Jed Wallace and his company as defendants,” they said.
Wallace, for his part, is individually suing the “A Simple Favor” actress and denies any involvement in an alleged smear campaign.
“Over the next several weeks, we will move to dismiss the utterly meritless lawsuits brought against Ms. Lively and Mr. Reynolds, and we will move full speed ahead with discovery that we expect will reveal shocking details about the depth to which the Defendants have sunk in their unending efforts to ‘bury,’ ‘ruin,’ and ‘destroy’ Ms. Lively and her family,” Hudson and Gottlieb concluded.
Lively’s amended complaint also insists that Baldoni’s “false narrative crumbles under the indisputable truth” that Lively raised her concerns about Baldoni’s alleged behavior “not in connection with some imagined power play for control of the film in 2024.”
The amended filing also “details the corroboration that backs up Blake’s original sexual harassment and retaliation concerns,” Lively’s legal team alleges, and proves how “other women confided in Blake about their discomfort and fear of coming forward and their concern about the current public vitriol.”
Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, responded to Lively’s amended complaint, tellingThe Post he found it “underwhelming.”
“Our clients have been transparent in providing receipts, real time documents and video showing a completely different story than what has been manipulated and cherry picked to the media,” Freedman said.
“Our clients have taken this matter and these issues very seriously notwithstanding the jokes made publicly by the plaintiff and her husband,” he added, referring to how Lively’s husband Ryan Reynolds made a joke about the lawsuit during the couple’s appearance at the “SNL 50” special on Sunday.
Baldoni’s attorney went on, “[Lively’s] underwhelming amended complaint is filled with unsubstantial hearsay of unnamed persons who are clearly no longer willing to come forward or publicly support her claims.”
“Since documents do not lie and people do, the upcoming depositions of those who initially supported Ms. Lively’s false claims and those who are witnesses to her own behavior will be enlightening,” Freedman continued. “What is truly uncomfortable here is Ms. Lively’s lack of actual evidence.”
The duo’s legal war started in December after Lively detailed allegations of sexual harass✱ment, retaliation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence and more against Baldoni, who also directed “It Ends With Us,” and film producer Jamey Heath in a complaint first filed with the California Civil Rights Department and later in federal court.
Baldoni, in his own lawsuit filed in January, insisted that Lively “falsely” had accused him🎀 in an attempt to repair her reputation amid the fallout around the movie’s press tour after the actress took control of the film.
The actor’s legal team claimed that Lively had no evidence of a deliberate smear campaign and instead worked to repair her reputation by accusing the actor and others of sexual harassment.
Both sides have denied the allegations against them and have shown no interest in settling the lawsuit.
Earlier this month, Lively and Reynolds’ legal team 🅠;subpoenaed phone records of Baldoni and others involved in the courtroom showdown over the alleged plot to ruin the actress’s reputation.
Freedma𝔉n slammed the move as a “fishing expediti𓆏on.”
He also took aim at Reynolds and Lively for their appearancꦏe at the “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary📖 special.
