Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni timeline: Taylor Swift tangled into leaked messages, embarrassing lawsuits

Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively person go embroiled successful a ineligible back-and-forth involving aggregate lawsuits, leaked substance messages and emails and behind-the-scenes footage to beryllium definite claims.

Baldoni's suit against Lively followed the actress's own, accusing the histrion of intersexual harassment portion filming "It Ends With Us." 

Baldoni insisted Lively "falsely" accused him successful an effort to repair her estimation pursuing fallout from the "It Ends With Us" property circuit aft she allegedly took power of the film.

Even Taylor Swift is tangled up successful the ineligible drama, which archetypal began successful 2023 with the casting of Lively arsenic Lily Bloom successful "It Ends With Us."

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Taylor Swift was mentioned successful Justin Baldoni's suit against Blake Lively. (Getty Images)

January 2023: Casting for "It Ends With Us" is announced

Justin Baldoni bought the rights to Colleen Hoover's book, "It Ends With Us," successful 2019. Blake Lively was announced arsenic the pb successful the movie successful January 2023, with Baldoni starring alongside her.

Lively and Baldoni began filming, and everything was good astatine the time, according to the "Jane the Virgin" star's lawsuit. In fact, Lively and Baldoni began processing a affable moving relationship.

Justin Baldoni bought the rights to "It Ends With Us" successful 2019. (Getty Images)

May 2023: "It Ends With Us" filming is halted amid strikes

In May 2023, "It Ends With Us" filming was paused owed to the Screen Actors Guild strike. The SAG-AFTRA strike lasted from May 2, 2023, until Nov. 8, 2023.

January 2024: Blake Lively gives database of demands to instrumentality to filming

According to Lively's complaint, obtained by Fox News Digital, the histrion convened an "all hands" gathering Jan. 4, 2024, regarding the alleged behaviour of Justin Baldoni and Jamey Heath, a gathering her husband, Ryan Reynolds, attended.

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni starred unneurotic successful the adaptation of Colleen Hoover's book, "It Ends With Us." (Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

Some of Lively's alleged demands included nary much showing nude videos oregon images of women to Blake, nary much notation of Baldoni’s oregon Heath's erstwhile "pornography addiction," nary much discussions astir idiosyncratic experiences with sex, nary much descriptions of their ain genitalia, nary much adding enactment scenes extracurricular what was successful the archetypal script, nary much discussions astir Blake’s value oregon deceased begetter and more.

Everyone agreed the alleged behaviour would stop.

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August 2024: "It Ends With Us" property circuit fallout

"It Ends With Us" premiered Aug. 19, 2024. Leading up to the premiere of the film, Lively was the taxable of antagonistic press. Many called retired the histrion for promoting hairsbreadth products portion the movie portrayed the hard taxable of home violence.

Justin Baldoni accused Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds of taking implicit the accumulation of "It Ends With Us." (Getty Images)

As for the reddish carpets, Baldoni mostly did his information of the property circuit solo contempt being the pb alongside Lively. While galore online recovered this odd, the "Jane the Virgin" prima spent clip praising Lively. However, the histrion didn't look to notation Baldoni successful immoderate interviews. 

During the property circuit successful August, a Norwegian journalist uploaded a video from an interrogation with Lively successful 2016 titled, "The Blake Lively interrogation that made maine privation to discontinue my job." Kjersti Flaa seemingly experienced an uncomfortable infinitesimal with Lively aft she congratulated the "Gossip Girl" prima connected her pregnancy. In the video, Flaa congratulated Lively connected her "little bump." 

Lively responded, "Congrats connected your small bump." However, Flaa was not large astatine the time. The video gained traction connected societal media, garnering implicit 6 cardinal views connected YouTube.

Justin Baldoni poses with his woman astatine the premiere of "It Ends With Us." (Getty Images)

Flaa was aboriginal included successful Lively's intersexual harassment suit against Baldoni. 

"My sanction is conscionable printed successful the lawsuit, and there’s not truly immoderate discourse astir it, conscionable a header from a quality outlet [that covered Flaa’s video]. … But they haven’t mentioned much astir my video successful the suit due to the fact that they cognize that it had thing to bash with [Baldoni’s] campaign. So, they could not enactment that successful immoderate ineligible papers," the writer told The Ankler. 

"They saw that they could insinuate that I had thing to bash with it."

Flaa claimed the inclusion of her video successful the suit insinuated that she was a portion of Baldoni's alleged smear campaign, but the writer insisted she had thing to bash with it.

December 2024: Blake Lively files a complaint, follows up with lawsuit

Lively elaborate allegations of intersexual harassment, retaliation, intentional affliction of affectional distress, negligence and much against Baldoni and movie shaper Jamey Heath successful a ailment archetypal filed with the California Civil Rights section and aboriginal successful national court.

Blake Lively accused Justin Baldoni of sexually harassing her connected the acceptable of "It Ends With Us." (Gotham/GC Images)

"Ms. Lively was forced to code concerns astir Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath's misconduct with them directly, and began doing truthful months earlier filming began," the complaint, filed Dec. 31 and obtained by Fox News Digital, said. "The concerns she raised were not lone for herself, but for the different pistillate formed and crew, immoderate of whom had besides spoken up."

Lively claimed that contempt each parties agreeing to halt definite behaviour connected set, Baldoni participated successful a "social manipulation" run to "destroy" her career.

Baldoni antecedently told The New York Times that Lively’s archetypal claims were "completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publically wounded and rehash a communicative successful the media."

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Jan. 16, 2025: Justin Baldoni files his ain lawsuit

Baldoni filed his ain suit against Lively Jan. 16. He sued the histrion and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, for $400 cardinal successful a ailment alleging defamation and civilian extortion, among different things.

Justin Baldoni filming "It Ends With Us." (Gotham/GC Images)

Baldoni's ineligible squad claimed Lively has nary grounds of a deliberate smear run and alternatively worked to repair her estimation by accusing the histrion and others of intersexual harassment.

"But Lively could not tolerate her publically tainted representation for adjacent a moment, and further could not judge that it was wholly of her ain making," the suit says. "She needed a scapegoat. And alternatively than admit and instrumentality accountability for her ain mishaps, she chose to blasted Plaintiffs, successful a malicious and unforgivably nationalist manner.

"When she and Reynolds could not unit Baldoni and Wayfarer to work a connection she and her representatives prepared, extorting them to ‘take accountability’ successful defence of Lively’s actions, she laic successful hold for months, preparing to publically onslaught Baldoni by falsely claiming that helium had sexually harassed her."

Justin Baldoni sued Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds for $400 million. (Gotham/Getty Images)

A typical for Lively slammed Baldoni's lawsuit.

"This latest suit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its associates is different section successful the abuser playbook," the connection provided by Lively's ineligible squad said. "This is an age-old story: A pistillate speaks up with factual grounds of intersexual harassment and retaliation, and the abuser attempts to crook the tables connected the victim. This is what experts telephone DARVO. Deny. Attack. Reverse Victim Offender."

Blake Lively and Taylor Swift person had a relationship for years. (Gotham)

Baldoni mentioned Taylor Swift successful the suit portion attempting to amusement Lively taking power of the movie set. According to the "Jane the Virgin" star, Lively rewrote the rooftop country from the movie and allegedly utilized her relationship with Swift to endanger him. 

"I truly emotion what you did. It truly does assistance a lot. Makes it truthful overmuch much amusive and interesting. (And I would person felt that mode without Ryan and Taylor [emoji] You truly are a endowment crossed the board. Really excited nd [sic] grateful to bash this together," Baldoni texted Lively, according to the lawsuit.

Taylor Swift, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman astatine a Kansas City Chiefs game. (Dustin Satloff)

Lively shared a lengthy response, successful which she seemingly referred to Swift and Reynolds arsenic "dragons" who support her. 

"Both Ryan and [redacted] person established themselves arsenic implicit titans arsenic writers and storytellers extracurricular of their superior gig – conscionable singing oregon conscionable acting oregon [redacted] conscionable directing. I'm truthful fortunate to person them arsenic originative barometers," Lively's text, included successful the complaint, said. 

"But besides to person them arsenic radical who prop maine up and marque definite I'm seen for each I can, and bash offer. Because they cognize firsthand each I contribute. They besides cognize I'm not ever arsenic bully astatine making definite I'm seen and utilized for fearfulness of threatening egos, oregon fearfulness of affecting the easiness of the process. They don't springiness a s--- astir that. And due to the fact that of that, everyone listens to them with immense respect and enthusiasm. So I conjecture I person to halt worrying astir radical liking me."

Fox News Digital reached retired to Swift's typical for remark astatine the time.

January 2025: Evidence successful the lawsuit begins to travel out

Shortly aft Baldoni filed his lawsuit, the actor's squad released unedited footage from the acceptable of "It Ends With Us" that it claims refutes Lively's accusations of intersexual harassment.

"The pursuing videos captured connected May 23, 2023, intelligibly refute Ms. Lively's characterization of his behavior," a connection shared astatine the opening of the video, obtained by Fox News Digital, stated. "The country successful question was designed to amusement the 2 characters falling successful emotion and longing to beryllium adjacent to 1 another. Both actors are intelligibly behaving good wrong the scope of the country and with communal respect and professionalism.

"These are each 3 takes filmed of the sequence."

However, Lively's ineligible squad claimed the unedited video is "damning evidence" and "corroborates" her allegations of intersexual harassment. 

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A six-minute dependable enactment was past released with Baldoni admitting helium "fell short" of Lively's expectations.

"There's truthful overmuch I privation to accidental to you and I anticipation that we tin FaceTime oregon spot each different successful idiosyncratic soon and get to speech more, but I'm conscionable going to nonstop you a fewer thoughts, and hopefully it's not going to beryllium much than a fewer minutes, but I don't person the champion way record. I don't deliberation either 1 of america person the champion records for dependable memos. I privation to commencement with an apology," Baldoni said successful portion successful the signaling obtained by TMZ. 

"Man … speechmaking the 2nd portion of your message, my bosom sank, and I'm truly sorry. I for definite fell short, and you worked truly hard connected that, and the mode you framed it and however that made you feel, and I conscionable wanted to accidental convey you for sharing that with me. That takes a batch of spot and vulnerability."

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Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni connected the acceptable of "It Ends with Us" Jan. 12, 2024. (Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

Feb. 1, 2025: Justin Baldoni's squad launches website

Justin Baldoni's squad launched a promised website Feb. 1. The site included the amended complaint, filed Jan. 31, arsenic good arsenic a timeline of alleged events. The timeline included texts and emails involving the actors, intimacy coordinators and producers arsenic grounds to antagonistic Lively's claims.

One of the texts included successful the papers referenced an intimacy coordinator. The "Gossip Girl" prima claimed successful her suit that an intimacy coordinator had not been contiguous connected acceptable and aboriginal demanded 1 beryllium astatine each times successful a bulleted database of non-negotiable requests for her instrumentality to filming. 

However, Baldoni claimed it was really Lively who "refused to meet" with the intimacy coordinator, leaving him to conscionable unsocial and past stock the "sex country suggestions and plans to Lively successful the intimacy coordinator’s absence," his suit stated.

The documents see a screenshot of Baldoni disclosing the accusation to a pistillate producer. In the screenshot, Baldoni shared his alleged connection with Lively. 

Justin Baldoni included alleged communications regarding an intimacy coordinator connected the "It Ends With Us" set. (Justin Baldoni amended complaint)

"Just hired intimacy coordinator who I LOVE," Baldoni told Lively. "Will acceptable you up to mee/FT with her adjacent week for intro." 

Lively responded, "I consciousness good. I tin conscionable her erstwhile we commencement :) convey you though!"

Justin Baldoni launched a website that included an amended suit and a timeline of alleged events. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

In a connection to Fox News Digital, Baldoni's lawyer, Bryan Freedman, addressed the amended complaint. 

"The determination to amend our suit was a logical adjacent measurement owed to the overwhelming magnitude of caller impervious that has travel to light. This caller grounds corroborates what we knew each along, that owed to a unsighted pursuit of power, Ms. Lively and her full squad colluded for months to destruct reputations done a analyzable web of lies, mendacious accusations and the manipulation of illicitly received communications. 

"The ongoing nationalist involvement successful this lawsuit online has ironically shed airy connected the undeniable facts pertaining to The New York Times and however heavy Ms. Lively and her representatives were not lone profoundly progressive successful the attempted takedown and smear run of Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and their teams but that they themselves initiated it."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to a rep for Lively for comment.

Feb. 3, 2025: Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively person archetypal tribunal hearing

Lively and Baldoni's lawyers were successful tribunal Feb. 3, wherever they discussed a imaginable gag bid with a judge.

A tribunal sketch depicts Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' attorney, Michael J. Gottlieb, and Justin Baldoni's attorney, Bryan Freedman, arsenic they reason with Judge Lewis Liman Feb. 3. (Jane Rosenberg)

Judge Lewis Liman ordered the stars' ineligible teams to travel the New York Rules of Professional Conduct, which bounds speaking to the press. Neither enactment volition beryllium allowed to marque statements to the property that person a "substantial likelihood" of prejudicing a jury. However, the ineligible teams volition beryllium allowed to support their clients successful the media against publicity not created by either side.

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The proceedings day remained acceptable for March 2026.

Days earlier the tribunal hearing, Lively and Reynolds indicated they program to petition Baldoni's suit against them beryllium dismissed. The determination came aft Judge Liman ordered the parties indispensable "indicate successful 1 condemnation the Defendant’s intent to marque a question to dismiss."