{"id":632229,"date":"2026-05-09T04:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/632229\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T04:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:27:13","slug":"justin-baldoni-suffering-from-emotional-stress-after-blake-lively-legal-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/632229\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni suffering from ’emotional stress’ after Blake Lively legal war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin Baldoni<\/a> is still carrying the emotional weight of his headline-making legal battle with Blake Lively<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The filmmaker, 42, has been suffering from \u201cemotional stress\u201d in the wake of his explosive legal battle with Lively, 38, according to Baldoni\u2019s friend and \u201cIt Ends With Us\u201d co-star Adam Mondschein<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a big burden to carry,\u201d Mondschein, 50, exclusively told Page Six. \u201cIt\u2019s just like the weight and the emotional stress that this puts on him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justin Baldoni is still carrying the emotional weight of his headline-making legal battle with Blake Lively (both pictured above in 2024), according to the filmmaker\u2019s friend, Adam Mondschein. Jose Perez \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

Baldoni (seen above in August 2024) has been suffering from \u201cemotional stress\u201d in the wake of his explosive legal battle with Blake Lively, his friend told Page Six in an exclusive interview. Nathan Congleton\/NBC via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a real person,\u201d the actor added while discussing how the lawsuit allegedly impacted Baldoni and his family. \u201cTo maintain the knowledge that that\u2019s not who you are, that\u2019s exhausting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actor alleged Baldoni\u2019s \u201cheart is broken\u201d and insists he \u201creally cares\u201d and has \u201cintegrity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mondschein \u2014 who played OBGYN Dr. Dunbar in the\u00a0controversial delivery-room scene<\/a>\u00a0in \u201cIt Ends With Us\u201d \u2014\u00a0previously defended Baldoni<\/a> after Lively accused her co-star and director of sexual harassment and fostering a toxic work environment in a bombshell lawsuit filed in December 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lively\u00a0filed the complaint against Baldoni, alleging that he sexually harassed her on the set of their film, which was adapted from the popular Colleen Hoover novel of the same name.<\/p>\n

Baldoni\u2019s friend and \u201cIt Ends With Us co-star Adam Mondschein exclusively spoke with Page Six about how the actor has been holding up following Monday\u2019s settlement. Jennifer Lourie<\/p>\n

Mondschein played OBGYN Dr. Dunbar in the\u00a0controversial delivery-room scene\u00a0in \u201cIt Ends With Us.\u201d Sony Pictures<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe reason he wanted to direct this piece, the reason why he wanted to be in it, to put his heart on it, was because he found the book to be significant,\u201d Mondschein explained, noting that Baldoni had \u201ca great relationship\u201d with the author and wanted to tell \u201cthe best\u201d story.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was going to usher forth her book to a whole new audience, turning it into a movie \u2026 he wanted these conversations \u2026 about domestic violence, the responsibility that men have to have this conversation, not just the victims, not just the women. And so that was his whole drive.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Page Six previously reported, Lively further accused Baldoni of trying to \u201cdestroy\u201d her reputation with a calculated smear campaign, which was detailed in a\u00a0New York Times\u00a0article titled, \u201c\u2018We Can Bury Anyone\u2019: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Less than two weeks later, she filed a formal lawsuit<\/a> against the\u00a0\u201cJane the Virgin\u201d\u00a0alum, accusing him of sexual harassment, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy.<\/p>\n

Mondschein alleged Baldoni\u2019s \u201cheart is broken\u201d amid the \u201cIt Ends With Us\u201d fallout and insists he \u201creally cares\u201d and has \u201cintegrity.\u201d (Baldoni pictured above in pics obtained by Page Six earlier this week.) Derek Shook for Page Six<\/p>\n

Lively and Baldoni (pictured together above in January 2024) made the shocking decision to settle their lengthy court battle on May 4 in what we\u2019re told was a \u201clast-minute deal.\u201d GC Images<\/p>\n

However, Baldoni denied all of Lively\u2019s accusations and filed his own $400 million defamation<\/a> and extortion lawsuit against the actress,\u00a0along with her husband, Ryan Reynolds<\/a>, and their PR team.<\/p>\n

After Baldoni and his co-plaintiffs from Wayfarer Studios failed to meet a deadline to file an amended complaint in their countersuit against Lively, US District Court Judge Lewis J. Liman formally ended the countersuit<\/a> in October 2025.<\/p>\n

More recently, the court dismissed the majority of Lively\u2019s claims<\/a>, including her sexual harassment allegations against Baldoni. Lively and Baldoni then made the shocking decision\u00a0to settle their lengthy court battle\u00a0on May 4 in what we\u2019re told was a \u201clast-minute deal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni is still carrying the emotional weight of his headline-making legal battle with Blake Lively. The filmmaker,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[8678,236,8679,91,2858,2302,88,186,8680,206],"class_list":["post-632229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-blake-lively","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-lawsuits","tag-celebrity-news","tag-court","tag-courts","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-justin-baldoni","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}