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Last summer season, the It Ends With Us forged and crew have been embroiled in a feud, in keeping with a number of studies. It all began when TikTookay customers observed that movie star Blake Lively and her co-star and director, Justin Baldoni, didn’t pose for photos collectively on the August 6, 2024, New York City premiere. Rumors surfaced claiming that the forged distanced themselves from Justin, and gasoline was added to the fireplace when Justin employed a disaster PR supervisor. At the top of 2024, Blake filed a lawsuit in opposition to Justin for alleged sexual harassment on the set of their film. In early 2025, Justin responded by suing each Blake and her husband, Ryan Reynolds.
Hollywood Life is breaking down the timeline between the drama and the authorized battle between Blake and Justin, beneath.
Rumors of Tension Circulate
On August 14, 2024, TMZ reported that there was discomfort between Blake and Justin whereas filming a kissing scene. Insiders informed the outlet that the A Simple Favor actress felt that the director “lingered” too lengthy whereas kissing her on digital camera.
Sources additionally informed the outlet that Blake felt “fat-shamed” by Justin whereas engaged on a scene through which his character, Ryle, lifts her character, Lilly, into the air. Justin reportedly has a historical past of again points, and after he allegedly requested an on-set coach how a lot Blake weighed, she felt that he was fat-shaming her, in keeping with the outlet.
Page Six reported that an eyewitness recalled “stress” seen in Blake on the set of It Ends With Us.
“The stress was so apparent,” the supply informed the outlet. “Once [Blake] was carried out with the scene, she was actually impatient, stated, ‘Am I carried out? Can I am going?’ and as quickly as they stated, ‘Yes,’ there was like a Blake-size gap within the wall [sic]. She was so outta there.”
Fans have been asking whether or not or not Blake and Justin would work on the sequel, It Starts With Us. However, a supply informed Variety on August 27, 2024, that there’s “no world the place these two will work collectively once more.”
“This is uncharted territory, and no one has any thought of what a sequel might appear like,” the insider added.
How Did Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni’s Feud Escalate?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the filmmakers’ working relationship was impacted throughout post-production. The publication reported that two completely different cuts of the movie have been created, inflicting an alleged divide in inventive variations.
As web sleuths have observed, Blake and It Ends With Us guide creator Colleen Hoover don’t comply with Justin on Instagram regardless that he follows them. And the social media exercise isn’t the one space the place the forged’s relationship allegedly went downhill.
PEOPLE reported on August 13, 2024, that the rumored stress with Justin includes the “principal forged” and Colleen.
“All will not be what it appears,” an insider from the set informed the publication. “There is far more to this story. The principal forged and Elisabeth McGowan Colleen Hoover may have nothing to do with him.”
Blake Lively Sues Justin Baldoni
On December 21, 2024, TMZ reported that Blake filed a lawsuit in opposition to Justin for alleged sexual harassment. The lawsuit said that an all-hands-on-deck assembly was held on the set of It Ends With Us to deal with the alleged poisonous work setting. According to the outlet, the assembly addressed the next calls for: no extra displaying nude movies or photographs of different ladies to Blake; no extra feedback about Justin’s alleged earlier “pornography habit; no additional conversations about sexual experiences in entrance of Blake and different individuals; no extra mentions of forged and crew’s genitalia; and no extra inquiries about Blake’s weight.
Another demand that was talked about was “no extra including of intercourse scenes, oral intercourse or on-camera climaxing by BL outdoors the scope of the script BL authorised when signing onto the challenge,” per TMZ.
TMZ additional reported that It Ends With Us flopped on the field workplace as a result of Blake and Justin disagreed on methods to market the movie. According to the outlet, Blake allegedly wished the her character’s resilience to be the main focus, whereas Justin allegedly wished to make the main focus extra severe as a result of the film addresses home violence.
In response to her lawsuit, Justin’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, launched a press release to The Hollywood Reporter, calling Blake’s lawsuit “shameful” that she and her representatives “would make such severe and categorically false accusations in opposition to Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its representatives, as yet one more determined try to ‘repair’ her destructive popularity which was garnered from her personal remarks and actions in the course of the marketing campaign for the movie; interviews and press actions that have been noticed publicly, in actual time and unedited, which allowed for the web to generate their very own views and opinions.”
Justin Baldoni Sues ‘The New York Times’
On December 31, Variety reported that Justin filed a $250 million lawsuit in opposition to The New York Times over its revealed story titled, “We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine.” On behalf of Justin and a number of other different plaintiffs, Bryan filed a criticism alleging that the publication dedicated promissory fraud and breach of implied-in-fact contract.
In response, a NYT spokesperson stated, “The function of an impartial information group is to comply with the information the place they lead. Our story was meticulously and responsibly reported. It was based mostly on a evaluate of hundreds of pages of unique paperwork, together with the textual content messages and emails that we quote precisely and at size within the article. To date, Wayfarer Studios, Mr. Baldoni, the opposite topics of the article and their representatives haven’t pointed to a single error. We revealed their full assertion in response to the allegations within the article as effectively. We plan to vigorously defend in opposition to the lawsuit.”
Justin Baldoni Sues Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds
On January 16, 2025, Baldoni filed a lawsuit in opposition to Lively and Reynolds, accusing them of hijacking It Ends With Us and destroying his popularity with false allegations of sexual harassment. According to Variety, the criticism learn, “This is a case about two of probably the most highly effective stars on the earth deploying their huge energy to steal a whole movie proper out of the arms of its director and manufacturing studio … When Plaintiffs have their day in courtroom, the jury will acknowledge that even probably the most highly effective superstar can not bend the reality to her will.”