Blake Lively asks court to stop ‘retaliatory media campaign’ by Justin Baldoni’s lawyer

Blake Lively’s ineligible squad is asking a tribunal to halt Justin Baldoni’s lawyer from engaging successful a “harassing and retaliatory media campaign” against the histrion and hubby Ryan Reynolds, amid Lively and Baldoni’s dueling lawsuits.

Lawyers for the “Gossip Girl” alum filed a missive connected Tuesday requesting the tribunal enactment the kibosh connected lawyer Bryan Freedman’s “improper conduct,” TMZ reports.

The Lively-Reynolds campy assertion Freedman’s caller remarks to the property are false, irrelevant and harassing, and hazard prejudicing the jury. The missive points successful peculiar to Freedman’s merchandise Tuesday of unedited footage from “It Ends With Us.”

The astir 10-minute, behind-the-scenes footage shows 3 takes of Lively, 37, and 40-year-old Baldoni filming a dilatory creation from 1 of the aboriginal scenes of their characters’ passionate-turned-abusive romance.

Lively cited the country successful her December 2024 complaint, which accused Baldoni of intersexual harassment connected the set, followed by a retaliatory smear campaign. She formally sued the “Jane the Virgin” alum connected Dec. 31, the aforesaid time helium filed a $250 cardinal suit against The New York Times for an allegedly libelous deep-dive into Lively’s allegations.

While releasing the footage was seemingly an effort to refute immoderate of Lively’s claims, her lawyers said successful a connection to People that it serves to corroborate what she antecedently said successful her suit astir the scene.

They assertion that each of the intimacy portrayed onscreen “was improvised by Mr. Baldoni with nary beforehand treatment oregon consent, and nary intimacy coordinator present.” Baldoni’s camp, meanwhile, says the footage shows helium and Lively were nonrecreational and truthful clears his name.

Last week, Baldoni sued Lively, Reynolds and Lively’s publicist, Leslie Sloan, for defamation and an alleged smear run against him. He besides accused Lively of trying to instrumentality implicit originative power of the film, which helium directed and she co-produced.