{"id":37634,"date":"2025-08-01T07:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T07:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/37634\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T07:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T07:31:10","slug":"justin-baldoni-comes-face-to-face-with-blake-lively-for-her-deposition-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/37634\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni comes face-to-face with Blake Lively for her deposition: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Justin Baldoni<\/a> has chosen to attend Blake Lively\u2019s deposition<\/a> in person, according to reports.<\/p>\n

Lively, 37, is being questioned by Baldoni\u2019s lawyers at her attorneys\u2019 office in New York today as part of their ongoing legal battle stemming from their time working together on the film It Ends With Us<\/a>. <\/p>\n

TMZ<\/a> reports that Baldoni is personally in attendance. Lively\u2019s testimony, which may be sealed, was privately held with just the legal teams for each party in attendance, as well as a court reporter and videographer, according to ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Baldoni and Lively are involved in several legal actions related to her claim that she was sexually harassed by the director during production of the film, <\/a>and his claim that she and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, attempted to destroy his career.<\/a><\/p>\n

Baldoni was suing Lively<\/a>, Reynolds, their publicist, and The New York Times <\/a>for defamation. In the lawsuit, Baldoni alleged that they tried to destroy his career using false allegations. However, a judge threw out both lawsuits in June<\/a>, ruling that Lively\u2019s accusations of sexual harassment were legally protected.<\/p>\n

\"BlakeBlake Lively and Justin Baldoni are involved in an ongoing lawsuit (Associated Press)<\/p>\n

The Independent has reached out to legal representatives of each party for comment.<\/p>\n

Justin Baldoni\u2019s lawyers had previously suggested that Lively should give her deposition at Madison Square Garden in a pay-per-view event.<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking to People<\/a> in May, Baldoni\u2019s attorney, Bryan Freedman, said: \u201cSince Ms. Lively is open to testifying, let\u2019s make it count.<\/p>\n

\u201cHold the deposition at MSG, sell tickets or stream it, and donate every dollar to organizations helping victims of domestic abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Freedman has confirmed that Baldoni will take the stand to testify at the trial, which is scheduled for March 2026. Cameras will not be allowed inside the courtroom.<\/p>\n

Lively\u2019s attorney, Mike Gottlieb, also confirmed in February that his client will testify. In response to that news, Freedman said: \u201cShe has been testifying since the moment she auditioned for this part. And if she is suddenly now willing to sit for a deposition, I am available. How does tomorrow morning work for her?\u201d<\/p>\n

In an additional statement to The Independent at the time, Freedman claimed that Lively had intentionally used her celebrity contacts to leverage public opinion in her favor, and pushed back at her husband Ryan Reynolds\u2019 attempts to extricate himself from the legal action.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough obviously uncomfortable for the Lively parties, the truth is not a distraction. The truth has been clearly shown through unedited receipts, documents and real life footage. More to come,\u201d said Freedman.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cBlake was the one who brought her high profile friends into this situation without concern for their own personal or public backlash. As the truth shows, she used her Dragons to manipulate Justin at every turn.<\/p>\n

\u201cRyan\u2019s involvement is very well documented and we continue to discover more intentional misconduct. Was Disney actually complicit in Ryan using shareholder revenues to further a personal grudge? I would be surprised to learn that this type of corporate waste would not lead to much more exposure for those that have been complicit in affecting shareholder revenue.\u201d<\/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":37635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-37634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}