{"id":141873,"date":"2025-01-04T03:25:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T03:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/blake-lively-versus-justin-baldonis-version-of-it-ends-with-us\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T03:25:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T03:25:02","slug":"blake-lively-versus-justin-baldonis-version-of-it-ends-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/blake-lively-versus-justin-baldonis-version-of-it-ends-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively Versus Justin Baldoni’s Version of ‘It Ends With Us’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.<\/span> (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images for Michael Kors\/ Photo by Frazer Harrison\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The knives are well and truly out when it comes to Blake Lively<\/strong><\/a> and Justin Baldoni\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> professional relationship.<\/p>\n

Both Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 40, have alleged in their respective legal battles that they each had a hand in creating different cuts of the film at the center of the drama<\/a>, It Ends With Us.<\/em><\/p>\n

In her complaint<\/a>, Lively detailed alleged changes that Baldoni made during the filming of the Colleen Hoover<\/strong> book adaption.<\/p>\n

She claimed that additional \u201cgraphic\u201d scenes were added that weren\u2019t originally present in the script.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tIt Ends With Us director and star Justin Baldoni has filed a lawsuit against The New York Times following its reporting on costar Blake Lively after she sued him for sexual harassment. Baldoni, 40, filed a $250 million lawsuit against Lively, 37, on Tuesday, December 31 in Los Angeles Superior Court, Us Weekly can confirm. [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

One of the alleged graphic scenes described in the complaint was a scene requiring Lively to \u201corgasm on camera\u201d \u2013 a scene that did not appear in the original script.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter Ms. Lively signed onto the movie based on a draft of the script, Mr. Baldoni, without Ms. Lively\u2019s knowledge or consent, personally added graphic content, including a scene in which<\/p>\n

Ms. Lively was to orgasm on-camera,\u201d the complaint read. \u201cWhen Ms. Lively objected to these additions, Mr. Baldoni insisted he had added them because he was making the Film \u2018through the female gaze.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The legal document went on to describe a simultaneous climax scene that Lively claimed Baldoni advocated to include.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough he agreed to remove the scenes, he made a last-ditch attempt to keep one in which the couple orgasm together on their wedding night, which he said was important to him because he and his partner climax simultaneously during intercourse,\u201d the complaint read. \u201cMr. Baldoni then intrusively asked Ms. Lively whether she and her husband climax simultaneously during intercourse, which Ms. Lively found invasive and refused to discuss.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Lively\u2019s complaint, Baldoni also allegedly added a scene involving the younger version of her character Lily (played by Isabela Ferrer<\/strong>) losing her virginity.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Baldoni added a detailed scene to the Film in which the underage version of Ms. Lively\u2019s character, Lily, loses her virginity. In both the book and the script for the film, there was no sex scene; instead, the details about this moment were left to the audience\u2019s imagination.\u201d the complaint read.<\/p>\n

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It continued: \u201cBut Mr. Baldoni, added in considerable details, including both dialogue between Young Lily and her boyfriend (Atlas) about the loss of her virginity, as well as a simulated sex scene in which Mr. Baldoni filmed, and included in his initial cut of the Film, a close up of Young Lily\u2019s face, accompanied by an audible gasp at the moment of penetration. Ms. Lively was informed that when this scene was shot, after Mr. Baldoni called \u201ccut,\u201d he walked over to the actors and said, \u2018I know I\u2019m not supposed to say this, but that was hot,\u201d and, \u201cdid you two practice this before?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Baldoni filed a $250 million lawsuit<\/a> against The New York Times<\/em> on Tuesday, December 31. The actor and director is suing for libel and false light invasion of privacy following The New York Times\u2019<\/em> reporting on costar Lively after she sued him for sexual harassment.<\/p>\n

The director was one of 10 plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which also includes publicists Melissa Nathan<\/strong> and Jennifer Abel<\/strong> as well as It Ends With Us<\/em> producers James Heath<\/strong> and Steve Saraowitz,<\/strong> who began legal proceedings against the media outlet.<\/p>\n

In his complaint, Baldoni claimed two different, competing edits of It Ends With Us<\/em> emerged during production \u2013 one overseen by him and the other commissioned by Lively. Baldoni claimed his version tested significantly higher than Lively\u2019s with focus groups.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tJustin Baldoni\u2019s lawsuit against The New York Times has shed even more light on the apparent creative differences between him and It Ends With Us costar Blake Lively. Baldoni, 40, is suing The Times for $250 million, alleging libel and false light invasion of privacy over the newspaper\u2019s reporting on Lively suing him for sexual [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The same day Baldoni sued The New York Times<\/em>, Lively officially filed a lawsuit<\/a> against Baldoni, Nathan and Abel, along with Wayfarer Studios in the Southern District of New York.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit alleged sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and lost wages. The claims parallel those made in Lively\u2019s complaint filed with the California Civil Rights Department last week.<\/p>\n

Lively spoke out about her legal action via a Saturday, December 21 statement to Us Weekly.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and helps protect others who may be targeted,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A New York Times<\/em> spokesperson told Us Weekly<\/em> in a statement on Tuesday, December 31 that the outlet is planning to \u201cvigorously defend against the lawsuit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe role of an independent news organization is to follow the facts where they lead,\u201d the statement read. \u201cOur story was meticulously and responsibly reported. It was based on a review of thousands of pages of original documents, including the text messages and emails that we quote accurately and at length in the article. Those texts and emails were also the crux of a discrimination claim filed in California by Blake Lively against Justin Baldoni and his associates.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement continued, \u201cTo address some inaccuracies in the lawsuit, when seeking comments from Mr. Baldoni and others who would be mentioned in the article, The Times<\/em> shared the information that we intended to publish, including references to specific text messages and documents, asked them to identify any inaccuracies, provide additional context and speak with our team. Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer and the other subjects chose not to have any conversations with The Times or address any of the specific text messages or documents and instead emailed a joint response, which was published in full. (Also, they sent their response to The Times at 11:16 p.m. ET Dec 20th, not at 2:16 a.m. ET Dec 21st as the complaint says.)\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.<\/span> (Photo by Jose Perez\/Bauer-Griffin\/GC Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In response to Baldoni filing the lawsuit, Lively\u2019s attorney told Us<\/em> on Tuesday, December 31 that the lawsuit was based on an \u201cobviously false premise.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing in this lawsuit changes anything about the claims advanced in Ms. Lively\u2019s California Civil Rights Department Complaint, nor her federal complaint, filed earlier today,\u201d the statement read. \u201cThis lawsuit is based on the obviously false premise that Ms. Lively\u2019s administrative complaint against Wayfarer and others was a ruse based on a choice \u201cnot to file a lawsuit against Baldoni, Wayfarer,\u201d and that \u201clitigation was never her ultimate goal.\u201d\u00a0 As demonstrated by the federal complaint filed by Ms. Lively earlier today, that frame of reference for the Wayfarer lawsuit is false.\u00a0 While we will not litigate this matter in the press, we do encourage people to read Ms. Lively\u2019s complaint in its entirety. We look forward to addressing each and every one of Wayfarer\u2019s allegations in court.\u201d<\/p>\n

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