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When I moved to Hoboken about a dozen years

ago, it just struck me just how friendly and

how small town it felt. So what you see behind

me here is the actual location for Lily Bloom's

flower shop in the film It Ends With Us.

A scout reached out to me and said that they were

interested in seeing if it would work for

an upcoming film. So I was going through the

contract and I was showing it to my wife,

and when she read the title It Ends With Us, she froze.

She said that this was one of her favorite authors. In fact, she reached over,

she grabbed one of her books, and she pulled

it off the shelf. She's like, "This is it.

" Blake, can you turn this way? Justin, right here?

The movie came out in the summer of 2024.

Social media noticed that Blake Lively and Justin

Balzoni were not doing any press together. For a movie where they are the co-leads...

It Ends With Us. It Ends With Us.

It Ends With Us. It Ends With Us. It Ends With Us is about

domestic violence, but the message of the film has

been clouded because of the scandal around its stars.

She claims that there was sexual harassment on set.

Maybe this guy isn't the guy that you think he is. And then big jaw drop moment.

He claims civil extortion, defamation, and that all of this

really is about her wanting to have control of the movie.

Is Blake Lively a victim? That is the question.

This is like the most high-school fight that people

with millions of dollars can have with each other.

The longer this goes on, the more reputational damage they will suffer.

All of this is still he said, she said.

"This isn't just a fluffy celebrity feud.

The actual story is, I think, a lot darker.

" In August 2016, romance novel It Ends With Us hit the shelves.

"It Ends With Us is about a character called Lily Bloom.

While it has got the romance and love

aspect to it, it very intricately covers this

subject of domestic abuse. But it wasn't until

it arrived on BookTok, which is a subset of TikTok, that it really got picked up.

I am a Colleen Hoover huge fan. I've read all of her books.

Every single one, probably once or twice.

They're pretty easy, quick reads. It Ends With Us came out on BookTok.

And it was a fast hit. It went viral.

The author of It Ends With Us, Colleen Hoover, has

a large social media following. And not just large,

but highly engaged.

I've read eight Colleen Hoover books so far.

I just need to tell you about this book that I read by Colleen Hoover.

I finally got my hands on this book.

On TikTok, certain books go viral.

And Colleen Hoover's novels became incredibly popular on there.

In particular, It Ends With Us.

A woman got verbally and physically abused and made it out on the other end.

The domestic violence aspect of it is something that really caught people's eyes,

because it does it in a way that is complex and nuanced.

So it covered the serious topic,

while still doing it in a way that felt engaging and accessible.

The book caught the eye of film producers. The rights were bought by Wayfarer Studios,

which was owned by actor and director Justin Baldoni.

I knew of Justin Baldoni. He was this very sensitive man.

And I don't say that as a pejorative.

I think being a sensitive man is a great thing.

He's kind of made a name for himself outside of acting.

And it really positions his mission, being somebody who debunks toxic masculinity.

And he started a podcast, Man Enough Podcast.

In 2019, when Justin acquired the rights from

Colleen Hoover, it was really aligned with his brand.

January of 2023, news came out that Blake Lively is going to be starring in the big

film adaptation of the successful novel It Ends With Us.

Colleen Hoover enthusiastically announced the casting on social media.

Hi, guys. Colleen Hoover here. We have a cast.

Our Lily is going to be played by Blake Lively.

Blake Lively, y'all. It's just my dream Lily.

I think there was so much anticipation for this

film because it had grown this really organic

fan base from booktok. Casford Ends With Us

has officially been announced and I am unwell.

Lily Bloom is going to be played by none other than Blake Lively. What?

Bringing Blake Lively aboard was a suggestion from the studio. And Justin saw

the value in bringing on this actress with name recognition.

Blake Lively has a persona in the public eye of being fun and fashionable.

Blake Lively kind of built this brand around her appearance and beauty and fashion.

She was always on the red carpet showing off amazing dresses.

She was more like kind of an it girl than a big actress.

She's also known as being Taylor Swift's best friend.

And yeah, of course, she's married to Ryan Reynolds.

So everybody wants to be like her.

Blake Lively was very much loved. She's in one of Hollywood's biggest power couples.

So this casting, as well as the love for the book

and for Colleen Hoover, it just made the absolute perfect combination.

Contracts were signed, scripts written, and production

began on the movie It Ends With Us in May 2023.

Hoboken being such a small town, word travels fast.

When the first day of shooting arrived, people

were lining the streets to catch a glimpse of,

you know, Hollywood in our small town.

My first impressions of Justin were that he was

utmost professional. At the conclusion of rap,

Justin invited me over and he embraced me.

He raised his hands up and I raised mine to mirror

him and we celebrated the conclusion of filming.

It was just a very special moment to share.

It Ends With Us premieres in New York on the 6th of August, 2024.

But on the red carpet, what should have been

a celebration of the cast and crew's success is overshadowed. Justin, right here.

Things felt like they were off at the premiere.

Social media noticed that Blake Lively and

Justin Baldoni were not doing any press together.

What is going on with Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni?

Have you heard anything about the rift happening behind the scenes?

Clearly something is going on.

For a movie where they are the co-leads, that is highly unusual.

When you turn this way, Blake.

People picked up that the cast wasn't following

Justin Baldoni on social media and they weren't

taking pictures together. The public thought there was a problem on set.

The internet loves drama and the internet went wild for this one.

Justin Baldoni was sent to the basement.

He said, "I wasn't allowed to be seen. She didn't want me anywhere near

her or the rest of the cast, so they ushered me

off the carpet and sent us down to the basement.

" There are people in every corner of Twitter, TikTok, Instagram.

They picked up on every single little thing before the media did.

During the entire promotion of this film, Blake Lively

hasn't been seen with Justin, the main actor and director.

But of course fans are theorizing as fans do.

And boom, you have a feud. There was serious beef between Baldoni and Lively.

There are countless feuds in Hollywood between actors, between directors and stars.

It's very rare at a premiere for them not to,

you know, at least look like they're buddy-buddy.

But the slick marketing and the critical acclaim

makes "It Ends With Us" a box office hit.

But the story of the rift between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni won't go away.

Blake Lively was getting a lot of negative feedback on social media.

Oh, look at me in flowers, Lily Blue.

There were so many strange memes right after and videos

about Blake kind of being difficult to work with.

She was really flippant with her initial response.

One of the things she said was bring your friends,

wear your florals to a film about domestic violence.

And "It Ends With Us" is in theaters now.

So grab your friends, wear your florals and head out to see it.

It kind of put a spotlight on her not taking it as seriously.

And that's what really caused a lot of people to pile onto her.

Ooh, grab your close friends and wear your cotton dress.

I want the movie theater to feel like one big dance party with your girls.

I mean, what's a more fun song to dance to than My Tears Ricochet?

I don't necessarily think anyone deserves the

kind of hate that she's had to deal with though.

But on the 20th of December, 2024, Blake Lively drops a bombshell legal complaint.

The real life Hollywood drama between Justin

Baldoni and Blake Lively deepened today.

She's accused him of sexual harassment, allegations his lawyers strenuously deny.

I think where this gets lost in the weeds is the

treating of this as just kind of a fluffy celebrity feud.

The actual story is, I think, a lot darker and a lot more complex than that.

Lively releases an 80 page lawsuit filled with dozens

of sexual harassment allegations against Baldoni.

These are a few key allegations that she has levied at him.

Throughout filming, Mr. Baldoni invaded Miss Lively's

privacy by entering her makeup trailer uninvited

while she was undressed, including when she was breastfeeding her infant child.

Mr. Baldoni also routinely degraded Miss Lively by finding

back-channel ways of criticizing her body and weight.

Mr. Baldoni engaged in other behaviors that were shocking and emotionally distressing.

Mr. Baldoni ignored well-established industry protocols in

filming intimate scenes and exploited the lack of controls on set.

In a film like this, there are a lot of intimate scenes.

There's kissing scenes, there's sex scenes,

there's child birthing scenes. And Blake alleged that on

some of those scenes, there was no intimacy coordinator.

I'm Mia Schachter. I'm an intimacy coordinator for TV, film and theater.

The role of intimacy coordinator is still relatively new in TV and film.

And there are certain standards and protocols that

we adhere to shooting simulated sex and nude scenes,

doing our best to help the director achieve their

vision while staying within the actor's comfort.

We talk to the director about what it is that they want to see.

We go through the script scene by scene,

we're looking for any instances of simulated sex or nudity

or anything in that realm, you know, all the way to kissing.

Lively also takes issue with some of the

conversations Baldoni would allegedly have with

her and other members of the cast and career.

Mr. Baldoni would often reference pornography to

Miss Lively and on the first day of production,

Mr. Baldoni described past sexual relationships to Miss Lively.

Mr. Baldoni objectified Miss Lively and other women by

commenting on or criticizing their bodies as sex objects.

One of the allegations Blake's made is that Justin

Baldoni asked her if her and Ryan have climaxed together.

Which even just saying for me feels, I'm going to say

icky because I wouldn't even ask my closest friends that.

Blake Lively alleges that Justin asked her if

she and her husband orgasm at the same time.

I'm thinking about like who in my life I would

feel that that was an appropriate question to get.

Um, probably not at work. Probably only from someone who I've known

for a long time and trust a lot. And I talk about sex for a living.

A film set is not your typical workplace. It's long hours

with people who you're probably meeting for the first time.

There's a little bit of like summer camp energy.

People get close really fast and bond.

From reading their text messages, I do get the sense that at one point there

was like genuine affection between them and what felt like a friendship.

And then there's these lines that we're not supposed to cross, but now

you're working with your friends and it does get very, very blurry.

Some people are saying that Blake should have complained about

what she's alleging during filming, and actually she did.

Between May and September 2023, a writer's strike brought Hollywood

to a standstill, including the filming of It Ends With Us.

There's this long pause in production during the writer's strike. And when they go back to

start recording, before doing so, Blake Lively says, I don't want these things to happen again.

She came back with a list of demands, we'll call them.

No more discussions to Blake Lively about personal experiences

with sex, including as it relates to spouses or others.

No biting or sucking of lip without Blake Lively consent.

There was actually a signed agreement between Wayfarer Studios and Blake Lively.

So many of these items seem like things you would never want to

do to another employee, regardless of where your workplace is.

You can see that based on also Sony's reaction.

The Sony employee says, of course, agree to them.

The detail and the scale of the allegations against Justin Baldoni shocked the world.

His talent agency, WME, which also represents Lively

and Reynolds, drops the actor from their books.

It did make some sense as to why we hadn't seen Justin

and Blake together during the press tour at all.

Because why would she be with someone who made her feel so uncomfortable?

Something that was upsetting to me is that this is one of the

few very popular movies that deals with domestic violence.

It's the core plot point. To have these allegations saying actually one of the major creative

forces behind this was actually engaging in misogynistic content himself, it's pretty upsetting.

What made these allegations so shocking was that Justin Baldoni has a podcast where he talks

about how men can be allies to women and how men can be better in their relationships to women.

My reaction was, oh, what? Like, I thought this guy was for women. He's saying he's

supportive of a really sensitive topic, in particular to women, domestic violence.

domestic violence. If you know the film and you've been following along

and read the book. How could he do this? I mean, how could he do this?

Several of the key players involved in the making of It Ends With Us, Colleen Hoover to one

of the lead actors in it, Brandon Sklenor, have all come out publicly supporting Blake Lively.

Brandon Sklenor shared a post directing people to read her

complaint, including a little heart emoji and tagging Blake Lively.

I saw social media sentiment shift more in flavor of Blake than it had been certainly.

You know, if you read the complaint, I think she had very valid reasons

why she wouldn't want to show up to work in an environment like that.

She's not doing this because it's fun or it's going to get her anything. She's doing this probably

because she has daughters at home and feels the need to stand up for what she went through.

But sexual harassment isn't the only allegation made by Blake Lively.

Lively claims Baldoni waged an internet smear campaign against her.

An accusation echoed in an explosive article by The New York Times.

Literally a day after The New York Times rolls out the big headline.

The New York Times article was a huge bombshell.

It had so much detailed information.

And The New York Times is read by a lot of people and

is so highly respected that people paid attention.

At the heart of the alleged smear campaign is PR specialist Melissa Nathan.

When the film was about to come out, Justin Baldoni hired a PR

called Melissa Nathan, who is very well known within Hollywood.

She represented Johnny Depp during his defamation case with Amber Heard.

Blake alleges that she was behind this huge smear campaign against her.

She includes in her complaint text exchange between Melissa

Nathan and Justin Baldoni's PR person, Jennifer Abel.

The texts include comments like this:

"We can't write it down to him. We can't write 'We will destroy her.'

He has to look at it as an information document for us to be armed with. That's all.

Imagine if a document saying all the things that he wants ends up in the wrong hands."

The texts themselves were very damning because it did make it seem

like they orchestrated this campaign to try and take Blake Lively down.

It seems to imply retribution because of her sexual harassment claims.

He seemed to be worried that all of the sexual harassment claims that Blake

Lively had made was going to come out and he felt the need to get ahead of it.

It's also alleged that Justin Baldoni's team used bots to artificially

inflate and manipulate social media content against Blake Lively.

My name is Christopher Guzzi. I'm the founder and CEO of Bots Sentinel.

We're an analytics firm that focuses on missing disinformation online.

We look for key things. The messaging that's being put out

there, you know, these attacks, are they similar in nature?

Are we seeing the repeat?

So, in this case, there was "cancel Blake Lively hashtag on X.

" If you're my firm, you're looking at that hashtag and then

looking at the accounts that are pushing that hashtag.

Blake Lively and her team will more than likely have hired a firm to look into this.

And I do believe they will find accounts

that were created specifically to target her.

Who's behind that is the question.

I believe there's evidence that something did occur.

It's pretty insane to see the PR string pulling getting exposed

because that's something that's always been behind the curtain.

Something that you don't really see but you understand is happening.

The core of what Blake is alleging is that she experienced sexual harassment.

She reported sexual harassment and then was retaliated against.

That you can be one of the most wealthy and successful people in your industry and still

face alleged retaliation for speaking up and making allegations of sexual misconduct.

I think is extremely alarming.

If she is claiming all of these things and so much of it happened

on the film set, I thought, wow, wow, I feel so bad for her.

But the accusations of sexual harassment and orchestrating

a smear campaign are vehemently denied by Justin Baldoni.

He instructs his own lawyers.

He didn't take it lying down.

He then sued the New York Times for defamation.

He came out so strongly against the New York Times.

Not only did he trust you them for $250 million, which is this like ridiculously high fee,

but even suing a paper for defamation is extremely difficult when you are a public figure.

Under U.S. defamation law, Justin Baldoni has the

burden to prove that the New York Times knowingly lied.

You have to prove malice.

I don't think he actually thinks he's going to win.

Really, it was more of a PR strategy.

All of a sudden you see Justin is going after the New York Times.

I believe that was probably advised because building up his own

text receipts, his own behind-the-scenes footage, his own narrative.

That takes time to dig up.

A quick defense is let's go after the journalist or the outlet that did me dirty.

That's a quick way to get it out in the public and from there you start to build public

interest in why is he doing that instead of what the article is actually portraying.

According to Baldoni, the New York Times edited conversations and didn't give

us full context and they didn't give him and his lawyers enough time to respond.

In his lawsuit, they included texts and emails between Justin Baldoni

and Melissa Nathan to show they were not planting stories in the media.

But it's not the New York Times job to give all sides of the story.

You might not like that certain news outlets give only liberal perspectives

or conservative perspectives, but that doesn't open them up to liability.

The New York Times has accused Baldoni of trying to drag the paper

into its feud of Lively and has asked the court to dismiss the case.

"I believe victims should be believed. However, is Blake Lively a victim?

That is the question. Many believe she's not the victim. She's the perpetrator.

" Two weeks after Baldoni sues the New York Times for

defamation, he launches a suit against Blake Lively herself.

On January 16th, Justin countersues Blake for $400 million.

I mean, this is a big jaw-drop moment.

The numbers that Justin Baldoni is suing the New

York Times, $250 million, Blake Lively, $400 million.

These are shock numbers. These are there to gain attention.

Even if he were to win in court, he's not going to win anything near that.

Justin Baldoni hired lawyer Brian Friedman, who is very well-known

within Hollywood as kind of being the attack dog for the underdog.

This guy is ferocious. He has spoken to the media non-stop.

Brian Friedman launches a website filled with 168 pages

of what he says is evidence of what really happened.

Hundreds of pages of legal allegations, text

messages, photos. You have the timeline of events.

So much information has been put out into the public.

Justin Baldoni is suing her for defamation.

He's saying that she made a false sexual harassment claim.

He countered her point by point, saying she claimed

this, but in reality, here's what truly happened.

A lot of the concrete moments within the sexual

misconduct allegations are actually fairly uncontested.

What's contested is the context surrounding them.

One of the examples he gives is that Blake Lively herself

invited him into the trailer while she was breastfeeding.

Lively herself invited Baldoni into her trailer

to work on lines while she pumped breast milk.

Lively regularly breastfed in front of Baldoni while they had meetings.

He also says neither the alleged sexual harassment nor the

accompanying smear campaign against Lively ever existed.

Blake Lively is accusing Justin Baldoni of asking her trainer for her weight.

So she said that that was fat shaming. He said it's because he has

a back problem and there was a scene where he needed to lift her.

The allegation that Justin Baldoni had asked Blake whether

her and Ryan climaxed together, this is what Justin said.

Lively references in her complaint instances that were shockingly

mischaracterized and in no way inappropriate or unprofessional.

All of this is he said, she said. Justin Baldoni, you know,

his argument isn't really that those items didn't happen.

He just is saying that there's a different perspective.

Did they actually create a hostile work environment

or was it all consensual? That's really the question.

One of the slam dunks the Baldoni's team suggests is, well, we

had an intimacy coordinator and you didn't want to meet with her.

Justin says, contrary to Lively's knowingly false claims, it was Lively

who refused to meet with the intimacy coordinator to plan out their scenes.

I don't think that's necessarily that uncommon to be like,

well, I'll just wait until, you know, the shoot starts.

I haven't seen the assertion that she never met with

the intimacy coordinator, which would be very different.

In my experience, when an actor says, I don't need to meet the intimacy

coordinator until we're shooting, as much as it, you know, hinders my process,

it does typically indicate that they trust their scene partner.

And those texts made me think that at one point she did feel a lot of trust with him.

Among the many allegations made by Blake Lively is that

Justin Baldoni improvised sexual contact without her consent.

The key example given by Lively is a slow motion dancing scene.

Blake Lively alleged that he would do unapproved movements

and, and contact and kissing and smelling her neck.

This is what Justin said.

Any suggestion that this scene was filmed in any manner other than pure

professionalism by Baldoni is unequivocally countered with actual evidence.

Her allegation of sexual harassment is a documented unknowingly fabricated lie.

So what did Justin Baldoni do?

His lawyer released 10 plus minutes of unedited footage that let

the public see and decide for themselves what they were looking at.

Justin Baldoni released the footage to try

and make the case that he did nothing wrong.

that, in fact, her claims about his impromptu kissing was inaccurate and dishonest.

For a lot of people it did seemingly vindicate him.

Blake's team then comes in and says, "Oh no, this is

exactly what we're talking about. She's uncomfortable.

Her body language is alluding to the fact that she's not really into this scene.

" His team seemed to be accusing Blake of trying to direct

that scene and like undermine his creative vision.

I don't see that.

I see an actress trying not to kiss her co-worker and instead of

saying, "I don't want to do that," she's making other suggestions.

We'll just do like a-our lips are right next to each other.

Yeah, gotcha.

But I think I should start talking.

Okay.

Do you know what I mean?

Yeah.

Which is actually pretty considerate because I think it could be humiliating for

everyone there to see Blake Lively tell Justin Baldoni, "Stop trying to kiss me.

" Social media is divided on whose side the video helps.

Justin Baldoni was clearly in character and Blake

Lively maybe did not understand method acting.

It doesn't seem super inappropriate to me.

To me that looks like a woman who is extremely uncomfortable.

There are very obvious cues that she was uncomfortable.

All right, cut.

I think we got plenty.

Yes.

Both sides think it's great for them.

So when this goes to trial, that video will for sure be shown in front of a jury

and you'll hear two completely different perspectives on what that video is.

But Justin Baldoni doesn't just refute Blake Lively's claims.

He accuses Lively of taking over his film.

Justin Baldoni says in his counterclaim that almost immediately

Lively began inserting herself into the production process.

Basically he's saying, her saying that she needed creative control over the project and

threatening to walk out if she didn't get that creative control amounted to extortion.

The key example provided by Baldoni's legal team is a

controversial rewrite of one of the film's most pivotal moments.

There is a core scene in the movie. It's when Ryle and

Lily meet for the first time. It takes place on a rooftop.

For sure because my dad died on Monday. So yeah, that's actually why I

came up here to have a good cry and hopefully meet a wealthy neurosurgeon.

Sorry.

Blake Lively in an interview on the red carpet gave it up as an exclusive

to this reporter that Ryan Reynolds had written the rooftop scene.

There was an alleged meeting between Justin and Blake's

side to discuss this rewrite of the rooftop scene.

But it wasn't just Blake and Justin who were there.

She had Ryan Reynolds and Taylor Swift, her best friend and her husband.

Justin has alleged that he was essentially strong-armed into accepting

the script changes by Ryan Reynolds, by Taylor Swift as well.

Baldoni has included a series of text messages from Lively.

His legal team claims they are evidence of a veiled threat.

Most of us reacted very strongly to the text message that Blake had sent to Justin

Baldoni, explaining that she's Khaleesi from Game of Thrones and she has dragons.

It wasn't in the message who her dragons were, but everyone kind of

knew that it was Ryan Reynolds and Taylor Swift she was referring to.

So by saying that, it was like a nicely put little threat, I would say.

Justin Baldoni eventually accepted Lively and Reynolds' changes to the script.

Baldoni sent Lively a voice note to apologize

for his initial reaction to the meeting.

Hey Blake, it is 2:00 in the morning. Hopefully this does not wake you up.

So Justin Baldoni releases this voicemail that he leaves 2:00 AM to

Blake Lively, apologizing for evidently this earlier interaction.

And I'm really sorry. I for sure fell short. And I'm really sorry.

I f***ed up. That is a fail on my part.

He's apologetic. He's trying to, you know, express sympathy.

You know, he's admitting some level of fault.

We should all have friends like that, aside from the fact

that they're two of the most creative people on the planet.

The three of you guys together, it's unbelievable.

Talk about energy, just to force all three of you.

Baldoni releases the clip as part of his defense to

show he was willing to address Lively's concerns.

For some, he's vindicated.

He is so concerned for her well-being. He is so apologetic.

For others, it's backfired.

You were Ryan and you were listening to that. You would also be like...

Get away from my woman.

I don't know. Getting a voice note like that, and

it's not even just the content of the voice note.

It's the way he's talking. It's quite like low and raspy.

I hope you're feeling better, and give Ryan my love.

Thank you for sending me that.

It means the world to me that you trust me

with your feelings and your thoughts like that.

And I can't wait to spend more time with you.

It's 2:00 a.m. in the morning. There are definitely

people who thought it was a little creepy.

There's others who say, "Hey, she texted him right before.

This was a justified voice call.

" As a lawyer, I think, why release something that does? It is a little

questionable of whether or not that's appropriate in a workplace.

I think what I mainly got from the message was that

he was really desperately trying to please Blake.

I think he was afraid of her at that point because

she had already threatened him with her dragons.

It's interesting because his lawsuit was really

all about how there was this power imbalance.

He had to agree to everything she said. But that was also

why he wanted her in this movie because she brought her fame.

She brought her star power. She brought her husband, Ryan Reynolds.

They were going to walk on the red carpet. Justin Baldoni knew all this.

But what Baldoni perhaps did not anticipate

was Lively's involvement in editing the movie.

She had her own cut of the film made. And she got her friend

Taylor Swift to let them use one of her songs in the film.

Baldoni is claiming that Blake Lively was threatening to

derail the production, was threatening to walk off set.

According to the email communications that I saw, she was refusing to approve this.

She was delaying that. She was being highly unprofessional, many would say.

Apparently, it was the Blake Lively cut of

the film that we ended up seeing in theaters.

I believe that Sony, the film's distributor and major

financer, they were scared, in my opinion, of Blake Lively.

The bigger star tends to get backed because at the end of the day, the studio wants

this to make a lot of money and the bigger star is going to draw a bigger audience.

She took complete editorial control of the film. That's not a crime.

Who's to say that Baldoni's version was inherently better?

Blake Lively's complaint is all about that she was sexually harassed.

And a lot of the conversation that you see out there is really more about

how she wanted too much control over the set, which is separate, legally.

I find it interesting that Blake is both framed as this incredibly powerful person who, you know, can use Taylor Swift and everyone

in her arsenal to do whatever she wants, but also she needs to rely on manipulating sexual harassment in order to get her way.

It's interesting that those two things exist.

In February 2025, a New York federal judge rules

that Lively versus Baldoni will go to court.

Social media goes wild.

A trial date has been set for Blake Lively

and Justin Baldoni to battle it out in court.

We now have a date, but it is not until March of 2026.

I've seen people saying, "Oh, I can't believe

the trial's not until 2026. I can't wait.

" In there is the assumption that this is all entertainment.

March of 2026.

Really?

2026?

I want that judge dismissed and waterboarded immediately.

There are just hundreds of pages of legal documents here that have been filed.

The amount of texts and photos and information out

there is almost unprecedented for a civil lawsuit.

Blake Lively has promised to bring forward two more women from "It Ends With Us" who say that Justin Baldoni

mistreated her and mistreated them on set and if that comes to fruition, that would be a big deal for the case.

I think it's important to realize that all of the stuff we're seeing so

far, none of this is actually evidence that's been presented in court.

I think in any of these cases, there's always a case of he said, she said, because

we're not on the inside. We're just looking at what they're presenting to us.

In my professional opinion, Blake Lively has a stronger case because all of Justin Baldoni's

arguments about fame and control don't really refute her claim of sexual harassment.

Those allegations, the improvising of the kissing, talking about pornography, regardless of

where your workplace is, those seem to be pretty strong basis for a claim of sexual harassment.

The pair seem intransigent, set to take this all the way to trial.

This will be a jury trial, which means that it's dependent on how 12 jurors view

this case, even though technically they're not supposed to influence a jury.

Both sides absolutely want to get their perspective out,

not only for their case at hand, but for public opinion.

From a PR standpoint, both of them are going to have

a hard time getting the mud off of their reputation.

They're both going to have to do some work.

I believe for Blake, she needs to be vulnerable.

She needs to have a moment where she's a mom of four.

We want to be connected to her and empathize like

what woman hasn't been uncomfortable in a workplace.

That's a common situation and we want to support her.

For Justin, you know, he has this platform of debunking toxic masculinity.

He needs to also, hey, tail between my legs here, guys.

I could have done better.

That's a relatable moment.

The saddest thing about this is the message of this movie is taking

second place to this conversation about what happened on set.

The biggest loss here is this incredible film that so many people were really

excited about and a topic that really needs to be addressed in Hollywood.

At this point, this is basically like the unraveling of a family feud.

In terms of winners and losers, there really are no winners.

It's all losers.

The bigger loser here is victims of domestic violence.

This movie was about domestic violence and nobody's talking about domestic violence.

The other sad thing is that there is an allegation

of sexual harassment on a domestic violence set.

And the whole public seems to have decided whether or not that's

true long before the evidence has even been introduced a trial.

That's true.

That's true.

That's true.