{"id":417809,"date":"2026-05-08T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/417809\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:23:08","slug":"justin-baldonis-lawyer-criticises-blake-lively-after-pair-settle-it-ends-with-us-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/417809\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni\u2019s lawyer criticises Blake Lively after pair settle It Ends With Us lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
Baldoni, 42, who played Lively\u2019s on-screen love interest in the movie, and his Wayfarer Studios production company subsequently countersued the actor and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, accusing the Hollywood couple of defamation and extortion.<\/p>\n
Blake Lively accused Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment; he countersued for defamation and extortion. Photos \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
Freedman claimed \u201cshe ended up with nothing\u201d and questioned her motivations.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIf she\u2019s doing this for survivors of sexual assault and sexual harassment and retaliation as she says, then why don\u2019t you take the stand at trial and prove it to the world?<\/p>\n
\u201cA trial would have exposed her lies and the entire smear she was talking about in her interviews that she did.\u201d<\/p>\n
In response to his comments, Lively\u2019s legal team said: \u201cI guess he\u2019s no longer \u2018ecstatic\u2019 about the settlement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Freedman had previously insisted that while he couldn\u2019t \u201ctalk about the terms of the settlement\u201d, his client is \u201cecstatic\u201d.<\/p>\n
Lively and Baldoni issued a joint statement through their representatives this week confirming they had reached an undisclosed settlement.<\/p>\n
The statement read: \u201cThe end product \u2013 the movie It Ends With Us \u2013 is a source of pride to all of us who worked to bring it to life.<\/p>\n
\u201cRaising awareness, and making a meaningful impact in the lives of domestic violence survivors \u2013 and all survivors \u2013 is a goal that we stand behind. We acknowledge the process presented challenges and recognise concerns raised by Ms Lively deserved to be heard.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe remain firmly committed to workplaces free of improprieties and unproductive environments. It is our sincere hope that this brings closure and allows all involved to move forward constructively and in peace, including a respectful environment online.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baldoni, 42, who played Lively\u2019s on-screen love interest in the movie, and his Wayfarer Studios production company subsequently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[74,214757,54174,430,23552,12864,4726,156,702,17468,7324,20053,85776,111,139,69,13792,23853,51177,138326,54,3040,102],"class_list":["post-417809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-after","tag-baldonis","tag-blake","tag-celebrities","tag-claimed","tag-criticises","tag-ends","tag-entertainment","tag-it","tag-justin","tag-lawsuit","tag-lawyer","tag-lively","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pair","tag-scared","tag-settle","tag-testify","tag-trial","tag-us","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417809","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=417809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}