The ongoing legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni is taking yet another turn, with Blake Lively’s legal team saying that two other actresses are willing to testify against Baldoni.
What did Blake Lively’s legal team recently say?
In an amended complaint filed on Tuesday (via The Hollywood Reporter), Lively’s legal team says that two actresses in addition to Lively are prepared to add their testimony regarding alleged uncomfortable experiences they had with Baldoni while on the set of It Ends With Us.
No actresses are named in the suit, nor are any quotes or texts regarding the issue, so it’s unclear just what they’ll be testifying. However, THR reports that the two women in question are actresses Jenny Slate and Isabela Ferrer, both of whom starred in the film alongside Lively.
“Importantly, however, these victim-witnesses have given Ms. Lively permission to share their communications in the Amended Complaint as they are laid out, and they will testify and produce documents in the discovery process,” said a spokesperson for Lively.
“Ms. Lively has filed an amended complaint today that provides significant additional evidence and corroboration of her original claims. That evidence includes previously undisclosed communications involving Ms. Lively, representatives of Sony and Wayfarer, and numerous other witnesses,” her lawyers Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb said in a statement. “The complaint includes significant contemporaneous evidence that Ms. Lively was not alone in raising allegations of on-set misconduct more than a year before the film was edited; as well as evidence detailing the threats, harassment, and intimidation of not just Ms. Lively, but numerous innocent bystanders that have followed defendants’ retaliatory campaign.”
In a statement, Lively’s lawyers, Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb, say the amended complaint includes even more evidence, as well as additional texts from Lively from May 2023 that indicate an uncomfortable on-set environment.
“I was gonna invite you to set tomorrow. These people. Whoa … It’s like HR nuts today. The both of them. I wasn’t expecting that turn. I mean it’s been present but today I came home and cried,” said Lively in the texts.
Lively’s texts also see the actress refer to Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios partner Jamey Heath as “creeps . . . Like keep your hormones to yourselves. This is not mine. I don’t want it. I don’t want you [sic] gaze or words or tongue or videos of your naked wife. Yeah. It’s shocking. Clowns.”
(Source: The Hollywood Reporter)
