Blake Lively Says 2 Unnamed Female Costars Who Spoke Up About Justin Baldoni's Alleged Behavior 'Will Testify'

Blake Lively's latest court documents in her ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni claim two of her female costars on It Ends with Us have agreed to testify to their own experiences with Baldoni's alleged behavior on set.

Lively, 37, filed an amended complaint against Baldoni, 40, in New York federal court late on Tuesday, Feb. 18. Her legal team chose not to name certain witnesses in order to "protect innocent bystanders rather than exposing them to further harm" amid the "dangerous climate of threats, harassment and intimidation" surrounding the case, the complaint reads. However, the witnesses gave Lively "permission to share the substance of their communications," they say, and agreed "they will testify and produce responsive documents in the discovery process."

According to the amended complaint, Lively and other women on the movie's set documented their experiences with Baldoni's alleged behavior as early as May 2023, while the film was still in production. The complaint states that Lively first "reported her concerns regarding unwelcome and inappropriate behavior" by Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios co-chief Jamey Heath to a Sony executive on May 26, 2023. It also alleges that "another female cast member reported her own concerns regarding Mr. Baldoni's unwelcome behavior" to that same Sony executive and another producer.

The amended complaint also claims that Baldoni responded to that unnamed female cast member "in writing, acknowledging that he was aware of her concerns, and that adjustments would be made" on June 1, 2023, and that by June 8, 2023, that same female cast member went to Lively herself to share her concerns.

"Later, another female cast member confided to Ms. Lively that she too felt uncomfortable on set," the amended complaint reads. "All of this occurred, and was documented in writing, almost one year before the editing of the Film began."

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Baldoni’s attorney Bryan Freedman said in a statement Feb. 19, "Our clients have been transparent in providing receipts, real-time documents and video showing a completely different story than what has been manipulated and cherry-picked to the media. Our clients have taken this matter and these issues very seriously notwithstanding the jokes made publicly by the plaintiff and her husband.”

“Her underwhelming amended complaint is filled with unsubstantial hearsay of unnamed persons who are clearly no longer willing to come forward or publicly support her claims,” he added. “Since documents do not lie and people do, the upcoming depositions of those who initially supported Ms. Lively’s false claims and those who are witnesses to her own behavior will be enlightening. What is truly uncomfortable here is Ms. Lively’s lack of actual evidence." 

Lively's amended complaint comes as an update to her original December 2024 lawsuit against Baldoni and others involved in It Ends With Us. As her lawyers Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb said in a statement, the new version "provides significant additional evidence and corroboration of her original claims" and "includes previously undisclosed communications" involving Lively, Sony, Wayfarer Studios and "numerous other witnesses."

The complaint also claims that a female cast member on It Ends With Us wrote to Lively as late as Aug. 14, 2024 — days after the film released in theaters — to ask Lively "whether she knew if Sony could help her address the cyber bullying she was experiencing, which was getting nastier and more difficult to cope with by the day."

Lively and Baldoni are currently set to go to trial in civil court on March 9, 2026. Attorneys for both sides most recently indicated in a Feb. 13 letter filed in New York federal court on Feb. 13 that engaging in settlement talks at this stage would prove "inappropriate" and "premature."

Baldoni previously amended his own countersuit against Lively, Ryan Reynolds and their publicist, which he published on a website for his followers to access his court filings, on Jan. 31.