Justin Baldoni has leaked some alleged text messages from Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds as the case takes another dramatic turn.
Lively and Baldoni have been embroiled in legal disputes since December 2024, just months after the release of It Ends With Us.
Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni and his production company, Wayfarer Studios, accusing him of sexual harassment and intimidation.
In response, Baldoni denied the allegations and later sued The New York Times for libel, claiming the publication had unfairly sided with Lively’s account.
He then launched a $400 million lawsuit against Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, alleging civil extortion, defamation, and invasion of privacy.
Lively has claimed that Baldoni and his production company engaged in a deliberate effort to tarnish her reputation. Baldoni's team, however, denies these claims and insists that the actress and her husband were instead working to discredit him.
To support his claims, Baldoni has published what he describes as a "timeline of relevant events," which includes text exchanges allegedly between himself, Lively, and Reynolds, per the Independent.
One of the messages shared on the website reportedly shows Reynolds expressing excitement about Lively and Baldoni working together.
In a response to Baldoni’s February 28, 2021, text about collaborating with Lively, Reynolds allegedly wrote: "You've hit the jackpot with B. She literally passes on every film and every filmmaker all the time.
"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."
Another text exchange focuses on a scene in It Ends With Us that Lively requested to revise. In one alleged message, she wrote: "You OK if I play around with the dialogue to give her a bit more agency and fun and send to you? We can amp up their verbal ping pong/volley."
She followed up in another message, saying: "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…."
As tensions escalated, Lively’s talent agency, WME, reportedly demanded that Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios take full responsibility for any negative press about Lively.
According to Baldoni's website, they drafted a statement for him that read in part: "It Ends With Us was a troubled production which we take full accountability for.
"Blake Lively, Colleen Hoover, the entire cast and crew led with professionalism every step of the way, any negativity aimed at them is ours to own. We have always said we are not perfect and even if [we] unintentionally make mistakes, we always own them."
Baldoni’s website had been previously mentioned as a potential legal strategy. Lively’s lawyer, Michael Gottlieb, told the Daily Mail:
"The planned website will release what Mr. Freedman self-servingly proclaims will be 'full unedited WhatsApp, text and email exchanges between Lively and Baldoni,' although neither the media nor public will have any way of knowing which communications Mr. Freedman has selectively omitted from disclosure, including communications that Mr. Freedman and his clients may have deleted."
The first court hearing in the case is scheduled for Monday, February 3.