The It Ends with Us co-stars are currently in legal proceedings related to a lawsuit brought by Lively, accusing Baldoni, who also directed the 2024 romance drama, and the film\u2019s producers of sexual harassment and orchestrating a campaign to ruin her reputation. Baldoni has strongly denied Lively\u2019s claims and previously countersued for extortion and defamation, but the $400 million lawsuit was dismissed.<\/a><\/p>\n The two arrived at the courthouse Wednesday for the settlement conference, a standard procedure for a federal civil litigation to determine if the case can be settled outside of court ahead of their May 18 trial date. <\/p>\n Lively, 38, showed up wearing an olive-green suit, with a pale pink collared shirt peeking out, while Baldoni, 42, sported a similar long olive-green wool coat and a pale pink scarf. <\/p>\n The Jane the Virgin actor was seen walking hand in hand with his wife, Emily Baldoni. Lively\u2019s spouse, Ryan Reynolds, did not appear to be in attendance. <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni walked into a New York City courthouse, both wearing olive green jackets with pale pink accents (Reuters) open image in gallery<\/p>\n Wednesday\u2019s settlement conference will determine if they keep their May 18 trial date or if the case will be settled (Reuters)<\/p>\n The pair\u2019s courthouse appearance comes after an attorney for Baldoni asked a federal judge last month to throw out Lively\u2019s lawsuit<\/a>, arguing that her sexual harassment and retaliation case amounts to no more than \u201cpetty slights.\u201d<\/p>\n Lawyers representing Lively rejected that characterization, alleging that Baldoni and other defendants took liberties to foster a sexually charged work environment during production that marginalized women, and later publicly attacked Lively after she raised concerns.<\/p>\n Amid Baldoni and Lively\u2019s legal battle, depositions have brought to light testimonies from the movie\u2019s cast and crew regarding the drama behind the scenes.<\/p>\n Jenny Slate, who starred in the film as Baldoni\u2019s on-screen sister, described the movie\u2019s shoot<\/a> as \u201creally gross and disturbing\u201d in her private texts to Lively. The actor testified that she wrote about Baldoni: \u201cI honestly have never ever encountered anything like this dude. He\u2019s the biggest clown and the most intense narcissist. Lots of lessons learned!\u201d<\/p>\n The testimonies also include Lively\u2019s text exchanges with Taylor Swift <\/a>and emails to Ben Affleck, along with messages to Sony Pictures executives and a private text exchange from August 2024 between Jameela Jamil <\/a>and her publicist Jennifer Abel, who also represented Baldoni. <\/p>\n At the time, Jamil and Abel were apparently responding to a TikTok that criticised Lively\u2019s remarks during the It Ends With Us press tour as not being serious enough, given that the film was about domestic abuse.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s a suicide bomber at this point,\u201d Jamil texted, adding: \u201cI\u2019ve never seen such a bizarre villain act before.\u201d<\/p>\n If this week\u2019s conference does not result in a settlement, the case will go to trial in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-294188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Blake](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/A-pre-trial-settlement-conference-court-case-between-actors-Blake-Lively-and-Justin-Baldoni-in-New-Y.jpeg\")
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