Blake Lively's Amended Complaint Claims Justin Baldoni Made Other Women 'Uncomfortable' on Set, Can Corroborate

Mar. 15, 2025

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni at the premiere ofIt Ends with Usin New York City, August 2024.Photo:Gotham/WireImage (2)

Gotham/WireImage (2)

Blake Livelyfiled an amended version of her complaint in theongoing legal battlewithJustin Baldoni.

The 163-page filing landed in New York federal court late on Tuesday, Feb. 18, as the actress, 37, updated her lawsuit, which was originally filed Dec. 31, against herIt Ends With Uscostar Baldoni and others.

According to her lawyers Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb, this version “provides significant additional evidence and corroboration of her original claims” and “includes previously undisclosed communications” involving Lively, Sony, Wayfarer Studios and “numerous other witnesses.”

Hudson and Gottlieb added that the amended complaint “also added a new claim for defamation,” which they allege is “based on the repeated false statements the defendants have made about Ms. Lively since she filed her original complaint, andadds Jed Wallace and his company as defendants.”

Charles Babcock, an attorney for Wallace, said in a statement Feb. 20: ”Jed is disappointed at having being dragged into this lawsuit in New York when Ms. Lively first sued him in Texas, where he lives and his company Street Relations, Inc is based, but dropped the suit before the judge made a ruling. Wherever the case is tried, Mr. Wallace will vigorously contest it."

At one point in the amended complaint, Lively’s lawyers write that Baldoni and the other defandants' “false narrative crumbles under the indisputable truth” that Lively “was not alone in complaining about Mr. Baldoni and raised her concerns contemporaneously as they arose in 2023, not in connection with some imagined power play for control of the film in 2024.”

A spokesperson for Lively says the amended complaint “details the corroboration that backs up Blake’s original sexual harassment and retaliation concerns.” The spokesperson claims it shows that “other women confided in Blake about their discomfort and fear of coming forward, and their concern about the current public vitriol.”

“Her underwhelming amended complaint is filled with unsubstantial hearsay of unnamed persons who are clearly no longer willing to come forward or publicly support her claims,” continued Freedman. “Since documents do not lie and people do, the upcoming depositions of those who initially supported Ms. Lively’s false claims and those who are witnesses to her own behavior will be enlightening. What is truly uncomfortable here is Ms. Lively’s lack of actual evidence.”

Blake Lively in New York City on Feb. 13, 2024; Justin Baldoni on theTodayshow Aug. 8, 2024.Jamie McCarthy/Getty; Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty

Jamie McCarthy/Getty; Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty

On Jan. 31, Baldoni, 41, amended his own countersuit against Lively, Ryan Reynolds, their publicist andThe New York Times, which hepublished on a website for his followers to accesshis court filings.

Lively and Baldoni’s case is currentlyset to go to trial in March 2026. Attorneys for both sides recentlyopted out of mediation.

In the discovery process, Lively’s attorneys last week said theyissued subpoenas for Baldoni’s phone records, which they feel “will expose the people, tactics and methods that have worked to ‘destroy’ and ‘bury’ [Lively’s] reputation and family over the past year.”

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From L: Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.James Devaney/GC Images; Kristina Bumphrey/WWD via Getty; Kevin Mazur/Getty

James Devaney/GC Images; Kristina Bumphrey/WWD via Getty; Kevin Mazur/Getty

In response, Baldoni’s lawyers argued the subpoenas are too wide-ranging and referred tothem as a “massive fishing expedition"that shows her attorneys “are desperately seeking any factual basis for their provably false claims,” adding, “They will find none.”

At a pre-trial hearing earlier in February, U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Limanwarned both parties not to litigate their suits through the mediaand that he could set an earlier trial date if the public relations battle continues.

source: people.com