{"id":119366,"date":"2025-11-05T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119366\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T14:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:09:10","slug":"justin-baldonis-lawyer-reacts-to-dropping-blake-lively-defamation-lawsuit-explains-missing-deadline-to-refile-it-ends-with-us-justin-baldoni-celebrity-news-and-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119366\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni\u2019s Lawyer Reacts to Dropping Blake Lively Defamation Lawsuit, Explains \u2018Missing Deadline\u2019 to Refile | It Ends with Us, Justin Baldoni | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/justin-baldoni\/\" title=\"Justin Baldoni\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Baldoni<\/a>\u2018s lawyer is speaking out following the latest update in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/it-ends-with-us\/\" title=\"It Ends With Us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">It Ends With Us<\/a> legal battle. <\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old actor and filmmaker\u2019s $400 defamation and extortion lawsuit against co-star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/blake-lively\/\" title=\"Blake Lively\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Lively<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/11\/01\/justin-baldoni-drops-400-million-defamation-lawsuit-against-blake-lively-missed-deadline-to-refile-claims\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officially ended last week<\/a> after failing to meet the deadline to amend the claims and refile. Previously, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/06\/09\/justin-baldonis-it-ends-with-us-lawsuits-against-blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-new-york-times-dismissed-her-lawyer-reacts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">case was dismissed<\/a> by the judge.<\/p>\n<p>Now, his lawyer Bryan Freedman is explaining what actually happened and why they \u201cmissed\u201d the deadline. <\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth regarding this case continuously and completely gets distorted in the media,\u201d he shared in a statement with <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/justin-baldoni-lawyer-fires-back-explains-why-they-chose-not-to-amend-400-lawsuit-against-blake-lively-11843730?taid=690ad078bc2aff0001b271d1&amp;utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&amp;utm_content=new&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/people.com\/justin-baldoni-lawyer-fires-back-explains-why-they-chose-not-to-amend-400-lawsuit-against-blake-lively-11843730?taid=690ad078bc2aff0001b271d1&amp;utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&amp;utm_content=new&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven something as simple as a procedural update has resulted in a total mischaracterization,\u201d he continued. \u201cAt this point, we have to set the record straight: no deadlines were missed. Our clients chose not to amend their complaint to preserve appeal rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the meantime, we are focusing on Ms. Lively\u2019s claims. We remain fully committed to pursuing the truth through every legal and factual avenue available and look forward to our day in court,\u201d Bryan concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Blake\u2018s lawyer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/10\/23\/blake-lively-lawyer-shares-statement-on-justin-baldonis-auto-deleted-text-messages-amid-it-ends-with-us-lawsuit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released a statement <\/a>on Justin\u2018s team\u2019s auto-deleted messages amid the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni\u2018s lawyer is speaking out following the latest update in the It Ends With Us legal battle.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-119366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}