Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blake's driver testified that Baldoni talked about being forced and forcing himself onto women in the car. When they arrived at the production office, he let everyone out except Blake and insisted they run background check or something on this guy, and was shocked to learn this was the producer.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304.1230.28.pdf
(pgs 7-9)

Yeah, no, this guy did her no favors. He had no idea they were shooting a movie about domestic violence, which is the context for some of the conversations they were having in the car. I found his testimony hurt more than helped her, but I get it. they were desperate and they needed people.

[Anonymous]

Ryan Reynolds, calling the 2 Sony executives, “Todd and ange are f-ing textbook, ineffectual elderly people”

But he’s so nice! He’s Hollywood’s nice guy, father of four!

[Anonymous]

Also looks like Blake’s cut tested much lower on every element that they were scoring than Justin’s. Amazing that she got it released. She had ultimate power on the film.

Her email to Ben affleck is hilarious and cringe. Ryan and her love to just blatantly and shamelessly kiss a—.

Meanwhile Ryan writes that embarrassing and effusive text to justin in preproduction all while stabbing him in the back and trying to get him fired from the movie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also looks like Blake’s cut tested much lower on every element that they were scoring than Justin’s. Amazing that she got it released. She had ultimate power on the film.

Her email to Ben affleck is hilarious and cringe. Ryan and her love to just blatantly and shamelessly kiss a—.

Meanwhile Ryan writes that embarrassing and effusive text to justin in preproduction all while stabbing him in the back and trying to get him fired from the movie.

I used to think working in Hollywood sounded so glamorous. The older I get, the more I realize what an inauthentic cesspool it is, full of liars, narcissists, and pedophiles. I know, I know, I was really naive for far too long.

[Anonymous]

Mainstream media either catching up, or just knowing that the clicks about Taylor are too good, but don’t seem to be on Blake’s side any more.

Leslie Sloan is having a bad day guys.

[Anonymous]

From Colleen Hoover’s deposition:

Why did you Unfollow Justin before the premiere?

Colleen: “Because Blake told me too.”

[Anonymous]

What is just surprising to me which I guess it shouldn’t be was that Blake Ryan and Taylor were just mean girling on Justin starting in January. That was before any complaints of fat shaming (Blake was still pregnant at the time), well before she tried to get her rooftop scene in, before any production had started. She had signed on December 31, so maybe they had met once?

The text Blake was going on to her friend about how pathetic justins Instagram post was in January (I assume this is the one where he was exercising and she commented on it making it look like they were friends) for example… Just why…it all just seems so petty and mean. She was going to be on a set with him for like a month? And just bashing him and mocking him behind his back to other grown adults?

Ryan texting and emailing studio heads and heads of agencies over this $6 million movie his wife is doing. It’s all so pathetic.

I know Hollywood is all surface and filled with small people, but this is actually hard to see unfolding. I kind of don’t want to peak behind the curtain anymore.

[Anonymous]

At some point, I have to get to work, but this document dump is insane. There’s a text exchange with Colleen and one of her friends named Taryn. From June 2024. Well before any retaliation or smear campaign mind you.

Colleen is trashing Justin’s engagement video. Keep in mind the engagement video is well over a decade old as he’s been with his wife for many years and they have two children who are tweens at this point.

She and her friend are just s&@t talking the video and making fun of it. Then Colleen says, “we’ll use it as inspiration for when Blake and I do it starts with us”

Proof positive that in June 2024 the plan was to take the rights from the sequel from Justin and have Blake and Colleen do it.

It seems a lot of the hating on Justin had nothing to do with the actual movie set and just his posts on Instagram and his personality. Which is fine we don’t all have to like each other. But again these are adults just bullying and picking apart dumb things that have nothing to do with their job.

[Anonymous]

Blake also started the rumor that Justin said to Brandon “I have to tell you something. You can’t say anything around here anymore or you’ll get canceled”. Word got around set (to Jenny) that Justin had said that. Justin denied it in his depo. Now texts show that came from Blake.

In a text to Brandon, Blake says something like “I overheard him say to you,I have to tell you something, you can’t say anything around here anymore or you’ll get canceled”. Brandon, clearly not wanting to contradict Blake says “I vaguely remember that. I don’t even know if he ever even said what” or something like that.

[Anonymous]

Blake’s case is a train wreck. Her supposed corroboration from other women is all nonsense. Isabella is mad JB told her to lick the cookie dough in the kitchen scene, which is in the book. Jenny is mad b/c they paid for her apt security deposit. The canceled line from Brandon was a lie. Where’s the hostile work environment?

Ange Giannetti said she saw Jamie’s video and it was fine, clearly just a misunderstanding on Blake’s part. Said Blake complained a lot about a lot of things, including Justin being too sensitive, but nothing that constituted harassment.

Meanwhile Blake is calling Justin a clown and a doofus before they ever step foot on set. And in her PGA letter she makes it clear she wanted to be the producer from the start but wasn’t given the opportunity. The pga letter imo lays out the motive for most of her behavior. She had to undermine Justin to get what she wanted, so she found an issue with every little thing he did. He could not win short of rolling over.

[Anonymous]

PP again. Also sexual harassment has to be subjective AND objective so the fact Ange didn’t see an issue with Jamie’s video favors Justin in terms of the reasonable person standard—would a reasonable person find this to be offensive.

[Anonymous]

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/blake-lively-jenny-slate-justin-baldoni-it-ends-with-us-1236635932/

Slate, who plays Lively’s best friend in the film, testified that Baldoni called Lively “hot” and “sexy.” Slate said that she flagged the inappropriate comments, which Baldoni did not appreciate. On another occasion, Baldoni told Slate that she looked “sexy” in what she was wearing.

“I assumed there was an understanding of — ‘We’re not doing this anymore,'” Slate testified. “It’s not appropriate anymore. It never was appropriate, but it’s not appropriate in a workplace.”

Slate also sent text messages stating that Baldoni was a “narcissist” and a “fraud” for cultivating a feminist persona.

“Justin is truly a false ally and I’m unwilling to do anything that promotes the image that he’s crafting as a ‘male feminist’ … like … honestly i have no words to describe what a fraud he is,” she wrote. “I honestly have never ever encountered anything like this dude. He’s the biggest clown and the most intense narcissist.”

Ferrer, who played the 16-year-old version of Lively’s character, testified that Baldoni made an inappropriate remark while directing the scene in which her character loses her virginity.

“I’m not supposed to say this, but that was hot,” Baldoni said, according to her testimony.

Ferrer testified that the remark was out of place.

“It didn’t feel appropriate in a work environment, and given that it was not necessarily like a note of any kind to do with my acting,” she said. “It felt out of place and strange to hear about a scene, especially a scene that is meant to be a PG scene about two young teenagers having a very like innocent experience intimately.”

In her own testimony, Lively said she was concerned that Baldoni had added several “gratuitous” sexual scenes to the film.

Sounds like multiple people thought he was a creepy chaotic clown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At some point, I have to get to work, but this document dump is insane. There’s a text exchange with Colleen and one of her friends named Taryn. From June 2024. Well before any retaliation or smear campaign mind you.

Colleen is trashing Justin’s engagement video. Keep in mind the engagement video is well over a decade old as he’s been with his wife for many years and they have two children who are tweens at this point.

She and her friend are just s&@t talking the video and making fun of it. Then Colleen says, “we’ll use it as inspiration for when Blake and I do it starts with us”

Proof positive that in June 2024 the plan was to take the rights from the sequel from Justin and have Blake and Colleen do it.

It seems a lot of the hating on Justin had nothing to do with the actual movie set and just his posts on Instagram and his personality. Which is fine we don’t all have to like each other. But again these are adults just bullying and picking apart dumb things that have nothing to do with their job.

I see that another way.

In June 2024, Colleen had quite a bit of experience with Justin professionally. She had been working with him in some capacity for two years. It seems to me that she withheld judgment on his personality for a loooooong time, but that after Justin and Jamey took her to that dinner where they trashed Blake to her (at this point Colleen had only met Blake one time, very briefly, and had no real opinion of her one way or the other), she'd finally just had it with his behavior.

A huge problem for Justin here is that he held himself out to all these women as an ally and male feminist -- Christy Hall, Colleen Hoover, Blake, Jenny Slate, Liz Plank, Alex Saks, Isabele Ferrer. And each of them discovered in their interactions with him that he is not that. He's a misogynist. He talks over women, he yells at women, he can't take criticism from women. He wants the benefit of the doubt at all times, that he's a "good guy" but when some of these women would tell him "look, I don't like this behavior" his response was to become vindictive, to pout, and to play the victim. He does it over and over.

A lot of this was that he was just bad at this job. He gave himself this huge role -- star/director/producer. It would be a lot for even a very experienced director (which he was not), or someone who had played a lead role in a lot of major films (which he had not), or someone with a ton of producing credits (which he did not have). And he failed at it. And when he failed, he blamed all the women around him for his OWN failure, and those women correctly viewed that as him being misogynist ahole.

I say all this still not really sure that Blake can prove SH or retaliation. I don't know. There's some evidence but a lot of it is mitigated. She truly might not have a case here, and yes a ton of embarrassing stuff has come out about her that makes me not very sympathetic to her and very likely might have ended her career.

But is Justin Baldoni a victim? OMG NO. I am not even a little surprised this man wound up getting sued, and I actually think if it had not happened don this movie, it would have happened on a subsequent project. You cannot walk around claiming to be a male feminist while talking to and treating women this way. He should be absolutely humiliated for this and I'm glad that all this information about him has come out and destroyed his stupid "Man Enough" empire, which we can now see was total BS. He absolutely was trying to use the mantle of feminism and allyship to cover up for being a shitty dude who, oh by the way, is not even particularly skilled or talented. No sympathy for this man. None. These dudes are awful and I am sincerely glad I've never had the displeasure of working for or with them. No thank you.

I can't take anyone who defends Justin and his behavior seriously, not after reading all this evidence and these depositions. He's awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blake’s case is a train wreck. Her supposed corroboration from other women is all nonsense. Isabella is mad JB told her to lick the cookie dough in the kitchen scene, which is in the book. Jenny is mad b/c they paid for her apt security deposit. The canceled line from Brandon was a lie. Where’s the hostile work environment?

Ange Giannetti said she saw Jamie’s video and it was fine, clearly just a misunderstanding on Blake’s part. Said Blake complained a lot about a lot of things, including Justin being too sensitive, but nothing that constituted harassment.

Meanwhile Blake is calling Justin a clown and a doofus before they ever step foot on set. And in her PGA letter she makes it clear she wanted to be the producer from the start but wasn’t given the opportunity. The pga letter imo lays out the motive for most of her behavior. She had to undermine Justin to get what she wanted, so she found an issue with every little thing he did. He could not win short of rolling over.

Don’t forget in the PGA letter Blake
points out that she pressured Columbia to get them an “introducing” credit for Isabel - one of only six times they’ve ever done that so there was a little quid pro quo for Isabel. And remind you, they had never met on the set. I still haven’t seen Isabel‘s complaint about him. I still have only seen the text of her gushing about what comfortable and safe set it was.

People keep chiming me in that Isabel had complaints, but what were they? Seriously can anyone point to where Isabel complained about something on set?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At some point, I have to get to work, but this document dump is insane. There’s a text exchange with Colleen and one of her friends named Taryn. From June 2024. Well before any retaliation or smear campaign mind you.

Colleen is trashing Justin’s engagement video. Keep in mind the engagement video is well over a decade old as he’s been with his wife for many years and they have two children who are tweens at this point.

She and her friend are just s&@t talking the video and making fun of it. Then Colleen says, “we’ll use it as inspiration for when Blake and I do it starts with us”

Proof positive that in June 2024 the plan was to take the rights from the sequel from Justin and have Blake and Colleen do it.

It seems a lot of the hating on Justin had nothing to do with the actual movie set and just his posts on Instagram and his personality. Which is fine we don’t all have to like each other. But again these are adults just bullying and picking apart dumb things that have nothing to do with their job.

I see that another way.

In June 2024, Colleen had quite a bit of experience with Justin professionally. She had been working with him in some capacity for two years. It seems to me that she withheld judgment on his personality for a loooooong time, but that after Justin and Jamey took her to that dinner where they trashed Blake to her (at this point Colleen had only met Blake one time, very briefly, and had no real opinion of her one way or the other), she'd finally just had it with his behavior.

A huge problem for Justin here is that he held himself out to all these women as an ally and male feminist -- Christy Hall, Colleen Hoover, Blake, Jenny Slate, Liz Plank, Alex Saks, Isabele Ferrer. And each of them discovered in their interactions with him that he is not that. He's a misogynist. He talks over women, he yells at women, he can't take criticism from women. He wants the benefit of the doubt at all times, that he's a "good guy" but when some of these women would tell him "look, I don't like this behavior" his response was to become vindictive, to pout, and to play the victim. He does it over and over.

A lot of this was that he was just bad at this job. He gave himself this huge role -- star/director/producer. It would be a lot for even a very experienced director (which he was not), or someone who had played a lead role in a lot of major films (which he had not), or someone with a ton of producing credits (which he did not have). And he failed at it. And when he failed, he blamed all the women around him for his OWN failure, and those women correctly viewed that as him being misogynist ahole.

I say all this still not really sure that Blake can prove SH or retaliation. I don't know. There's some evidence but a lot of it is mitigated. She truly might not have a case here, and yes a ton of embarrassing stuff has come out about her that makes me not very sympathetic to her and very likely might have ended her career.

But is Justin Baldoni a victim? OMG NO. I am not even a little surprised this man wound up getting sued, and I actually think if it had not happened don this movie, it would have happened on a subsequent project. You cannot walk around claiming to be a male feminist while talking to and treating women this way. He should be absolutely humiliated for this and I'm glad that all this information about him has come out and destroyed his stupid "Man Enough" empire, which we can now see was total BS. He absolutely was trying to use the mantle of feminism and allyship to cover up for being a shitty dude who, oh by the way, is not even particularly skilled or talented. No sympathy for this man. None. These dudes are awful and I am sincerely glad I've never had the displeasure of working for or with them. No thank you.

I can't take anyone who defends Justin and his behavior seriously, not after reading all this evidence and these depositions. He's awful.

If you have a problem with Justin using the words hot and sexy (when Blake’s wearing a fleece onesie/watch the video) then surely you have an issue with Blake telling Brandon sklenar she’s a pimp and to get into a corner and put on a short skirt. The hypocrisy of Blake fans is wild.

The only discrimination case here is Justin against Blake for repeatedly calling his religion a cult.