{"id":375162,"date":"2026-04-04T19:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/375162\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:16:10","slug":"blake-lively-to-keep-fighting-as-most-of-justin-baldoni-case-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/375162\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively to Keep Fighting as Most of Justin Baldoni Case Dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBlake Lively<\/a> is speaking out after a judge dismissed the majority of her case<\/a> against It Ends With Us<\/a> director and co-star Justin Baldoni<\/a> and his production company Wayfarer Studios.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Thursday, U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman dismissed most claims in Lively\u2019s lawsuit over alleged sexual harassment on the It Ends With Us set, significantly narrowing the scope of the case as it proceeds to a May trial. Liman\u2019s decision drops Lively\u2019s claims of harassment, defamation and conspiracy, meaning the trial will now center on alleged breach of contract and retaliation by Wayfarer and aiding and abetting retaliation by the PR firm working for Baldoni.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Lively is vowing to keep \u201cfighting\u201d and views the decision as still allowing \u201cthe heart of [her] case\u201d to proceed.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI will never stop doing my part in fighting to expose the systems and people who seek to harm, shame, silence and retaliate against victims,\u201d she wrote in a statement posted to her Instagram Stories on Friday. <\/p>\n

\n\tShe wrote, earlier in the statement, \u201cI\u2019m grateful for the Court\u2019s ruling which allows the heart of my case to be presented to a jury next month, and for the ability to finally tell my story in full at trial, for my own sake, but also for those who don\u2019t have the same opportunity to\u2026 many of whom I have known and loved deeply in my life, and the countless I\u2019ll never know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added, \u201cThe last thing I wanted in my life was a lawsuit, but I brought this case because of the pervasive RETALIATION I faced, and continue to, for privately and professionally asking for a safe working environment for myself and others. I hope the Court\u2019s decision shows others that, as unfathomably painful as it is, you can speak up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd Lively, who\u2019s set to testify in the trial, feels grateful for the opportunity to present her side of the story and even included a possible reference to alleged texts she sent to husband Ryan Reynolds and friend Taylor Swift comparing herself to Game of Thrones character Khaleesi and Reynolds and Swift her dragons, revealed as part of Baldoni\u2019s January 2025 defamation and extortion countersuit, which was dismissed in June of last year.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI know it\u2019s a privilege to be able to stand up. I will not waste it,\u201d Lively wrote, followed by a dragon emoji.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI couldn\u2019t begin to stand up if not for the countless who\u2019ve gone before me \u2014 and the masses who are still around us all \u2014 creating laws, social change, sparking conversations, rallying, working privately and publicly, risking and sometimes losing everything for the safety of others in all spaces. Some whose names we know, most we don\u2019t,\u201d she added. \u201cThank you. All of you \u2026 Your support keeps me going.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd she encouraged her fans not to \u201cbe distracted by the digital soap opera,\u201d maintaining, \u201cThe physical pain from digital violence is very real. It is abuse. And it\u2019s everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy claims won\u2019t be the first or last time you\u2019ll see examples of the extreme dangers of retaliation and digital warfare,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe also shared screenshots of key excerpts from Liman\u2019s Thursday ruling.<\/p>\n

\n\tLively claimed in her lawsuit that Baldoni orchestrated a retaliatory campaign in the press and on social media after she went public with her sexual harassment claims.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe court found that while Baldoni was entitled to protect his reputation, some of what he was alleged to have done could serve as an attack on Lively\u2019s reputation, including key messaging in Baldoni\u2019s PR campaign that she had a \u201cless than favorable reputation in the industry span[ning] decades.\u201d There\u2019s also evidence that could lead a jury to conclude that Wayfarer planned more aggressive moves designed to hurt her career, according to the ruling.<\/p>\n

\n\tLively\u2019s lawyer Sigrid McCawley in a statement on Thursday said he case has \u201calways been and will remain focused on the devastating retaliation and the extraordinary steps the defendants took to destroy Blake Lively\u2019s reputation because she stood up for safety on the set.\u201d She added, \u201cFor Blake Lively, the greatest measure of justice is that the people and the playbook behind these coordinated digital attacks have been exposed and are already being held accountable by other women they\u2019ve targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBaldoni\u2019s lawyers, Alexandra Shapiro and Jonathan Bach, meanwhile stressed that the judge\u2019s decision left a \u201csignificantly narrowed case.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLively\u2019s agency WME also spoke out in support of the actress on Friday.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn an industry that too often asks women to absorb the damage and stay quiet, Blake Lively chose to stand up for herself, her castmates, and those without the ability to fight back,\u201d the agency said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cShe has met this moment with courage, moral clarity, and extraordinary determination.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd the agency highlighted how she \u201chelped expose the devastating harm caused by covert digital takedown campaigns designed to intimidate, discredit, and drown out the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blake Lively is speaking out after a judge dismissed the majority of her case against It Ends With…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3164,458,146,85,46,64534,3165],"class_list":{"0":"post-375162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-blake-lively","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-it-ends-with-us","14":"tag-justin-baldoni"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}