Justin Baldoni 'financially devastated' by Blake Lively war after 'losing three jobs and millions of dollars'

Justin Baldoni's outspoken lawyer Bryan Freedman gave immoderate penetration into his existent authorities of caput amid his full-blown ineligible warfare against his It Ends with Us starring woman Blake Lively during a pre-trial league astir gag orders connected Monday.

Freedman told Manhattan US District Judge Lewis J. Liman that his clients - including the troubled 41-year-old's Wayfarer Studios co-founders Jamey Heath and Steve Sarowitz - 'are devastated financially and emotionally.'

'Not to dependable similar a four-year-old warring a four-year-old with "they started it,"' Bryan explained - according to People.

'But successful these kinds of cases, erstwhile idiosyncratic says thing it becomes fact: There's nary mode to combat against it.'

Judge Liman reportedly 'warned some ineligible teams to refrain from making statements to the property that could power a jury' connected Monday up of the March 2026 trial.

Freedman antecedently stated successful a missive to the justice that Wayfarer Studios associates person been 'exiled from polite nine and suffered damages totaling hundreds of millions of dollars' pursuing the merchandise of the 37-year-old Gossip Girl alum's complaint.

Last Wednesday, sources adjacent to Justin told THR that he's 'lost 3 jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars' including a big-screen adaptation of Pac-Man, which had been successful the works since 2022.

However, Baldoni's movie astir the eighties Bandai Namco video crippled 'could hap astatine a aboriginal date' erstwhile 'the particulate settles' astir the scandal.

Wayfarer has a fewer projects already successful the tin including Eleanor the Great, the diagnostic directorial debut of Scarlett Johansson, which TriStar Pictures and Sony Pictures Classics volition merchandise aboriginal this year.

Justin personally served arsenic enforcement shaper connected the June Squibb conveyance helmed by the 40-year-old Oscar-nominated actress, who famously divorced Ryan Reynolds successful 2011 the twelvemonth aft helium co-starred with Blake successful Green Lantern.

Baldoni's autarkic accumulation institution volition besides soon spot the merchandise of Roshan Sethi's queer rom-com A Nice Indian Boy, Rod Lurie's sports play The Senior, and Christopher Leone's paramedic drama Code 3.

And contempt the off-set play and dismal reviews, It Ends with Us inactive managed to amass $351M astatine the planetary container bureau from a $25M-budget - which the Cali-born, Oregon-raised filmmaker indispensable person made a nett on.

The play each began connected December 20 erstwhile Lively (born Brown) filed a ailment with the California Civil Rights Department against Justin for intersexual harassment and retaliation connected the acceptable of the Sony Pictures drama, and revealed her broadside to the New York Times.

Baldoni instantly filed a libel suit for $250M against the New York Times for biased sum of the LA-born blonde's 'vicious smear campaign' and she filed a suit against him and his PR squad connected December 31 for his 'plan to undermine her estimation successful retaliation.'

On January 16, the Jane the Virgin alum filed a 2nd $400M suit against Blake, Reynolds, and their publicist Leslie Sloan for civilian extortion, defamation, and penetration of privacy.

Justin was past publically seen connected January 20 vacationing successful Maui with his woman Emily, their nine-year-old girl Maiya, and seven-year-old lad Maxwell.

Meanwhile, Lively has faced important outrage implicit her attraction of journalists, sarcastically answering questions astir home unit successful the movie, and floral-filled Barbie-style promotion straight tied to her haircare and booze brands.