Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni haunted by scandals prior to 'It Ends With Us' court hearing

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni controversies anterior to moving connected "It Ends With Us" person been called into question now, with the actors engaged successful multimillion dollar lawsuits against each other. 

Lively filed a intersexual harassment suit successful December against Justin Baldoni, his Wayfarer workplace and erstwhile PR reps. The aforesaid time Lively filed her suit, Baldoni filed a $250 cardinal suit against the New York Times for a December nonfiction astir the alleged smear run Baldoni attempted to tally against his co-star.

Weeks later, Baldoni past named Lively and Reynolds successful a abstracted $400 cardinal defamation lawsuit successful which helium accused the Hollywood powerfulness mates of attempting to hijack "It Ends With Us" and make their ain narrative.

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Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively and scandals anterior to "It Ends With Us" ineligible battle (Getty Images)

Baldoni, 41, apologized to Lively successful a six-minute connection seemingly sent aft the brace met to sermon a now-infamous rooftop scene from the movie successful which helium claimed successful ineligible documents that helium felt pressured by Lively's husband, Ryan Reynolds, and her champion friend, Taylor Swift, to usage Lively's rewritten country for the film.

Frenemies

Lively roseate to fame successful the 2000s acknowledgment successful portion to "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" and her starring relation connected "Gossip Girl," wherever she portrayed Upper East Side "it girl" Serena Van Der Woodsen.

The show, which premiered successful 2007 and ran for 5 years connected The CW network, featured an all-star formed of up-and-coming actors, including, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Leighton Meester and Ed Westwick.

Leighton Meester, left, and Blake Lively allegedly didn't get on connected the "Gossip Girl" set. (Marcel Thomas)

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On camera, Lively and Meester were sworn frenemies, and off-camera appeared to beryllium nary antithetic for the actors, too. Lively and Meester reportedly "avoid each different similar the plague" connected set, which near their castmates to "choose sides," according to a New York Magazine portion published successful 2008.

Executive shaper Joshua Safran admitted that Lively and Meester were concern arsenic accustomed connected acceptable without unnecessary pleasantries.

"Blake and Leighton were not friends," Safran told Vanity Fair during the "Gossip Girl" 10-year anniversary. "They were friendly, but they were not friends similar Serena and Blair. Yet the 2nd they’d beryllium connected acceptable together, it’s arsenic if they were."

White wedding

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds said "I do" connected Sept. 9, 2012, successful South Carolina astatine Boone Hall Plantation. The determination successful Mount Pleasant had 9 enslaved cabins and was referred to arsenic "slave street."

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds were joined connected Sept. 9, 2012. (Dia Dipasupil/FilmMagic)

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Nearly 8 years aft their wedding, the mates shared regret for hosting the nuptials connected a plantation.

"We're ashamed that successful the past we've allowed ourselves to beryllium uninformed astir however profoundly rooted systemic racism is," they wrote connected Instagram astatine the time, accompanied by a $20,000 donation to the NAACP. 

"It's thing we'll ever beryllium profoundly and unreservedly atrocious for," Reynolds told "Fast Company" successful 2020. "It's intolerable to reconcile. What we saw astatine the clip was a wedding venue connected Pinterest. What we saw aft was a spot built upon devastating tragedy."

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Buzzing opportunity

Fans criticized Lively for seemingly utilizing the "It Ends With Us" property circuit to marketplace her ain idiosyncratic endeavors. 

Blake Lively promoted a floral enactment and haircare marque during "It Ends With Us." (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

While the movie includes challenging subjects of home unit and affectional abuse, Lively launched her ain haircare line, Blake Brown Beauty, connected Aug. 4, the week "It Ends With Us" was acceptable to premiere theatrically.

Additionally, different concern accidental was blooming for Lively, and she released her Betty Blooms floral arrangements postulation 1 time earlier the movie was released successful US theaters.

'Unhealthy' relationship

Justin Baldoni antecedently admitted helium was introduced to pornography astatine a young property and formed an "unhealthy relationship" with big content.

Justin Baldoni admitted to having a hard narration with pornography. (Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)

"I was introduced to porn erstwhile I was 10 years old. Long earlier I ever, you know, could person an erection oregon adjacent knew however I felt astir anything," helium told Sarah Grynberg connected her "A Life of Greatness" podcast. "We’ve sexualized this thing, truthful of people it becomes fascinating and interesting, and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, boobs.’ And then, you know, hormones commencement raging."

Baldoni admitted helium recovered comfortableness successful porn erstwhile helium was unsocial "or erstwhile I felt abandoned, oregon erstwhile I felt wounded oregon thing similar that, due to the fact that it was a dopamine rush. I didn’t cognize that then. At an aboriginal age, I trained my encephalon to woody with symptom with the dopamine hit."

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While intoxicant oregon drugs were ne'er of involvement to him, porn was thing helium could usage successful an "unhealthy" way.

"And I recovered myself, implicit the people of my life, going backmost to looking astatine images and videos of bare women erstwhile I was feeling needfully atrocious astir myself," helium said. "And I knew that it was an contented for maine erstwhile I would archer myself that I don’t privation to bash that."

Script woes

Baldoni's "It Ends With Us" lawyer, Bryan Freedman, antecedently represented Travis Flores, who accused Baldoni of stealing his movie thought for Baldoni's directorial debut, "Five Feet Apart," which starred Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson.

Justin Baldoni was erstwhile sued for allegedly stealing a publication idea. (Getty Images)

Flores accused Baldoni of speechmaking his script, which was inspired by his ain struggles surviving with cystic fibrosis and centered astir 2 teens with the familial disease. Soon after, Flores allegedly discovered that Baldoni was moving connected a akin communicative done his Wayfarer accumulation banner.

Baldoni ne'er publically spoke retired astir Flores' accusations. Freedman filed to disregard the lawsuit successful 2022, and the lawsuit was settled soon after, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The children's publication writer died successful 2024.

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