Blake Lively alleges Justin Baldoni made other women “uncomfortable” on set
In Blake Lively’s ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni, she has now filed an amended version of her complaint. The 163-page filing landed in New York federal court on February 18th, as the actor updated her lawsuit against her It Ends With Us co-star and director.
According to Lively’s lawyers, Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb, this amended version “provides significant additional evidence and corroboration of her original claims” and “includes previously undisclosed communications” involving Lively, Sony, Wayfarer Studios and “numerous other witnesses.”
Hudson and Gottlieb added that her updated complaint “also added a new claim for defamation”, which they allege 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.” Wallace is individually suing Lively and denies any involvement in an alleged smear campaign.
During the amended complaint, Lively’s lawyers have included that Baldoni’s “false narrative crumbles under the indisputable truth” that Lively “was not alone in complaining about Mr. Baldoni and raised her concerns contemporaneously as they arose in 2023, not in connection with some imagined power play for control of the film in 2024.”
A member from Lively’s team has added that this new document “details the corroboration that backs up Blake’s original sexual harassment and retaliation concerns,” per People. They claim it also proves how “other women confided in Blake about their discomfort and fear of coming forward, and their concern about the current public vitriol.”
Baldoni has not yet responded to these latest updates.
The director last amended his countersue on January 31st, publishing his court documents to a website for everyone to see.
The trial is currently set to go to court in March 2026, and Lively’s lawyers have recently issues subpoenas for Baldoni’s phone records, which they feel “will expose the people, tactics and methods that have worked to ‘destroy’ and ‘bury’ [Lively’s] reputation and family over the past year.”
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