Justin Baldoni’s legal team is responding to Blake Lively’s new allegations, claiming that he made other women uncomfortable on the set of It Ends With Us.
“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,” Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman said in a statement to Us Weekly on Wednesday, February 19. “Our clients have taken this matter and these issues very seriously notwithstanding the jokes made publicly by the plaintiff and her husband.”
The statement continued: “Her 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. What is truly uncomfortable here is Ms. Lively’s lack of actual evidence.”
Lively’s attorneys filed an amended complaint against Baldoni, 41, Wayfarer Studios, producing partner Jamey Heath and more on Tuesday, February 18. According to documents obtained by Us, Lively, 37, claimed that she was not the only one who raised sexual harassment concerns regarding Baldoni.
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“The amended complaint details the corroboration that backs up Blake’s original sexual harassment and retaliation concerns, including that (1) Justin Baldoni and Jamey Heath made other women uncomfortable on set; and (2) other women confided in Blake about their discomfort and fear of coming forward, and their concern about the current public vitriol,” a spokesperson for Lively told Us in a statement on Tuesday. “The new filing also details that a Sony representative spoke to Baldoni about the concerns, and that Baldoni responded, including by reaching out to one of the other women who complained to reassure her that he heard her and promised to make adjustments.”
Lively and Baldoni’s legal drama began when the actress first filed a lawsuit against him in December 2024. She accused the It Ends With Us director and costar of sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and lost wages.
Baldoni has denied what he described as the “completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious” accusations in a statement shared via his lawyer to Us at the time. The actor subsequently filed his own $400 million lawsuit against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and Lively’s publicist Leslie Sloane, accusing the group of civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy and other claims.
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Lively denied the allegations and, in a statement shared by her legal team, referred to Baldoni’s suit as “another chapter in the abuser playbook.”
“This is an age-old story: A woman speaks up with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation and the abuser attempts to turn the tables on the victim,” the statement read. “This is what experts call DARVO. Deny. Attack. Reverse Victim Offender. … The strategy of attacking the woman is desperate, it does not refute the evidence in Ms. Lively’s complaint, and it will fail.”
Baldoni and Lively’s legal teams have rejected settling the dispute in mediation and a trial is currently scheduled for March 9, 2026.
