The messages also show Lively saying of Baldoni: “Despite his repeated disturbing behaviour and acts, I still feel bad for him.
“To be reminded multiple times daily that he’s smearing me for… asking him not to sexually or emotionally harass me? For making his movie better? For calling in all the favours to turn out all the biggest musicians and entertainers to contribute to making his movie better? For leading a marketing campaign for free?”
She continued: “I literally don’t know a single thing I’ve done that he can smear me about. Ryan [Reynolds] says [Baldoni] should be writing me apology and thank you letters every day. And instead he chooses to make a monster outta me.
“But what’s my crime. I’ve only ever stayed focused on the work and given him every opportunity to make it better. And he just keeps behaving like a rabid pig.”
The messages also appear to show Lively texted Baldoni’s former The Man Enough Podcast co-host, Liz Plank in May 2023, and told her that “today I came home and cried” following an “SOS set visit”.
Plank responded by saying that she “thought maybe things had gotten better”, and that it was “astounding they have gotten away with so much”. It is unclear who “they” refers to.
The documents note that Plank recalled working on Baldoni’s set as “truly one of the worst days of [her] life”.
Later that year, Lively also sent texts to actress and co-star Jenny Slate, and said she was “dreading” going back to set and “getting hits of the experience in really upsetting ways”.
In her deposition, Slate also alleged misconduct on the set of the film, with court documents revealing that she had made complaints against Baldoni and producer Jamey Heath during the course of filming It Ends With Us.