Blake Lively objects to being deposed by Justin Baldoni's attorney Bryan Freedman in his $400M defamation suit

Blake Lively wants Justin Baldoni's almighty personage lawyer Bryan Freedman barred from taking her deposition, DailyMail.com tin reveal. 

The actress's lawyers person told their counterparts representing Baldoni and his accumulation institution Wayfarer that they entity to seasoned litigator Freedman conducting the under-oath grilling.

The daze request is revealed successful a caller missive from Baldoni's squad to the New York justice overseeing the It Ends with Us co-stars' $400million defamation suit.

They accidental the 37-year-old Gossip Girl alum and woman of Hollywood megastar Ryan Reynolds, 48, has nary close to dictate who questions her.

'During a league of the parties' counsel connected January 30, 2025, counsel for the Wayfarer Parties requested the earliest imaginable deposition of Blake Lively,' Baldoni's lawyer Kevin Fritz wrote to Judge Lewis Liman.

'Counsel for Ms. Lively and Ryan Reynolds stated their objection to the Wayfarer Parties' pb counsel conducting the deposition of Blake Lively.

'Specifically, the Lively Parties' counsel indicated that they entity to Bryan J. Freedman personally, taking Ms. Lively's deposition, based upon unspecified statements made by Mr. Freedman.

'When asked to elaborate connected the grounds for their objection, counsel for the Lively Parties declined to bash so.'

Lively and Reynolds person antecedently asked the tribunal to slap a protective order connected Freedman – whose erstwhile clients see Tucker Carlson, Julia Roberts, and Megyn Kelly - to halt him making 'harassing and retaliatory' comments to the media.

Signaling Baldoni's absorption to Lively's request, Fritz adds: 'We are unaware of immoderate concern that would warrant the deposed enactment to person a prime successful which lawyer takes her deposition.

'Parties to litigation simply bash not person the close to dictate which of their opponents' attorneys whitethorn oregon whitethorn not instrumentality their deposition.'

Both the gag bid and this latest spat volition beryllium connected the docket astatine a February 3 pretrial league successful New York national court.

Lively and Baldoni, 40, gelled beautifully connected surface for the 2024 adaptation of Colleen Hoover's acclaimed caller exploring home unit and affectional abuse.

It became a astonishment deed astatine the container office, grossing $351million connected a fund of $25million.

But dueling lawsuits person since revealed however relations soured arsenic Lively allegedly fought Baldoni for greater creator power portion feeling progressively uncomfortable during their intimate scenes.

Lively was the archetypal to sue, alleging that Baldoni entered her trailer portion she was topless, showed her graphic video of his woman giving commencement and spot and sucked connected her lips during an improvised kissing scene.

She further accused him of conspiring to smear her reputation, citing a substance connection from Baldoni's publicist Melissa Nathan which read: 'We tin hide anyone.'

Her intersexual harassment claims made planetary headlines acknowledgment to the near-simultaneous work of the New York Times' story, which stretched to 4,000 words and quoted heavy from the ailment filed with the California Civil Rights Department, which typically stay confidential.

Baldoni sued the Times, claiming it failed to vet Lively's intersexual harassment and retaliation allegations and 'relied astir wholly connected Lively's unverified and self-serving narrative, lifting it astir verbatim portion disregarding an abundance of grounds that contradicted her claims.'

The paper plans to 'vigorously support against the lawsuit,' per its spokesman.

Next, Baldoni countersued Lively and Reynolds, turning the communicative connected its caput by claiming it was their squad doing the smearing and asking for $400million successful damages.

He accused her of twisting the meaning of his texts and emails and moving successful tandem with Leslie Sloane, a almighty Hollywood publicist, to works damaging stories astir him successful the media.

It was each a ploy, Baldoni argued, to rebuild Lively's estimation aft she came successful for disapproval for being prickly and hard successful interviews and promotional events.

Any antagonistic publicity surrounding his blonde starring woman had arisen 'organically', his suit contends.

The feud took yet different explosive twist erstwhile DailyMail.com published antecedently unseen earthy video footage of Baldoni and Lively filming a romanticist creation country arsenic their characters Lily Bloom and Ryle Kincaid.

Lively's suit alleges that Baldoni 'leaned guardant and dilatory dragged his lips from her receptor and down her cervix arsenic helium said, it smells truthful good' during the interaction.

In the footage obtained by DailyMail.com the brace are seen engaging successful what appears to beryllium playful but nonrecreational banter betwixt takes.

In the pivotal moment, Baldoni asks Lively if he's 'getting beard' connected her. 'I'm astir apt getting spray tan connected you' she replies. That prompts Baldoni to accidental 'it smells good' earlier they some laugh.

Freedman flagged the footage arsenic impervious that his lawsuit behaved appropriately and had 'nothing to hide'.

He's besides vowed to station each of the co-stars' communications online truthful the nationalist tin justice for themselves precisely who was smearing who.

Lively countered that the footage obtained by DailyMail.com confirmed her claims of harassment.