{"id":169769,"date":"2025-05-22T04:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T04:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/justin-baldoni-blake-lively-legal-case-has-john-mulaney-curious\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T04:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T04:02:24","slug":"justin-baldoni-blake-lively-legal-case-has-john-mulaney-curious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/justin-baldoni-blake-lively-legal-case-has-john-mulaney-curious\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively Legal Case Has John Mulaney Curious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Count <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/john-mulaney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>John Mulaney<\/strong><\/a> among the many who are curious about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/justin-baldoni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Justin Baldoni<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/blake-lively\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Blake Lively<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s legal battle will end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mulaney, 42, referenced the ongoing drama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jlxyNya1hzY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a comic bit<\/a> on the Wednesday, May 21 edition of <i>Everybody\u2019s Live With John Mulaney<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Actor <strong>Peter Gallagher<\/strong> made a cameo as Mulaney\u2019s future self, joking, \u201cJohn, I came here from the year 2055 to warn you not to fight those three 14-year-old boys. Things get very, very bad for us when that happens.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOh no, do I fall off the wagon?\u201d Mulaney wondered, to which Gallagher, 69, replies, \u201cA few times.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/taylor-swifts-rep-reacts-to-singer-being-subpoenaed-in-blake-lively-and-justin-baldoni-lawsuit\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/taylor-swifts-rep-reacts-to-singer-being-subpoenaed-in-blake-lively-and-justin-baldoni-lawsuit\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Taylor Swift Subpoenaed in Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Lawsuit<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tTaylor Swift has been subpoenaed in Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni\u2019s ongoing legal battle, but a representative for the singer has slammed the lawyers for involving her client. \u201cTaylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWait, you\u2019re from the future,\u201d the Netflix host continued. \u201cWhat happens in that Justin Baldoni case?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI don\u2019t remember,\u201d said Gallagher, prompting Mulaney to complain, \u201cBut you\u2019re from the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gallagher said that \u201cdoesn\u2019t mean that I remember everything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWell, did Blake really tell Taylor, \u2018Hey, you gotta stick up for me?&#8217;\u201d Mulaney asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/how-taylor-swift-was-caught-in-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-lawsuitpage\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/How-Taylor-Swift-Was-Pulled-Into-Blake-Lively-s-Justin-Baldoni-Legal-Drama-Everything-We-Know-Split-Template-Updated.jpg?crop=0px%2C12px%2C1998px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"How Taylor Swift Was Pulled Into Blake Lively s Justin Baldoni Legal Drama Everything We Know Split Template Updated\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/How-Taylor-Swift-Was-Pulled-Into-Blake-Lively-s-Justin-Baldoni-Legal-Drama-Everything-We-Know-Split-Template-Updated.jpg?quality=40&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/how-taylor-swift-was-caught-in-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-lawsuitpage\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">How Taylor Swift Was Pulled Into Blake Lively&#8217;s Justin Baldoni Legal Drama<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tBlake Lively\u2018s ongoing legal drama with Justin Baldoni took an unexpected turn by pulling in Taylor Swift. After costarring in It Ends With Us together, Lively sued Baldoni in December 2024 accusing her costar and director of of sexual harassment and orchestrating an alleged smear campaign. In her filing, Lively claimed that Baldoni named Swift [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cYou\u2019re asking me too much,\u201d Gallagher said. \u201cI can\u2019t recall conversations that I wasn\u2019t present for.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThat\u2019s fair. It\u2019s not like my memory was gonna get better with age, especially with all the cocaine we did in our 20s and 30s,\u201d Mulaney said, to which Gallagher added: \u201cAnd our 50s.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0Baldoni, 41, and Lively, 37, have been at odds since December 2024, when Lively sued her <i>It Ends With Us <\/i>costar and director and accused him of sexual harassment and orchestrating a smear campaign against her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Baldoni denied the allegations and subsequently filed his own lawsuit against Lively, her husband <strong>Ryan Reynolds<\/strong> and her publicist <strong>Leslie Sloane<\/strong>. In the $400 million lawsuit, Baldoni accused the couple of civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy and more. Lively and Reynolds have denied the allegations. (A trial is scheduled for March 9, 2026.)<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/blake-livelys-legal-team-demands-justin-baldonis-financial-records\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-1925904668-Blake-lively-Justin-Baldoni-e1746929573907.jpg?crop=40px%2C0px%2C1322px%2C747px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni on 'It Ends With Us' set\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-1925904668-Blake-lively-Justin-Baldoni-e1746929573907.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/blake-livelys-legal-team-demands-justin-baldonis-financial-records\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Blake Lively\u2019s Lawyers Seeking Justin Baldoni\u2019s Financial Records<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tBlake Lively\u2019s attorneys are reportedly seeking access to Justin Baldoni\u2019s financial records in the latest chapter of their lengthy legal battle. TMZ reports that Lively\u2019s legal team are asking Baldoni and his company Wayfarer Studios to prove they lost the $400 million they are seeking in their defamation lawsuit against the It Ends With Us [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As the back and forth continues, <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> <\/span>was dragged into the fight after she was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/taylor-swifts-rep-reacts-to-singer-being-subpoenaed-in-blake-lively-and-justin-baldoni-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">subpoenaed earlier this month<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cTaylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film,\u201d Swift\u2019s rep shared in a statement to <i>Us Weekly <\/i>on May 9. \u201cShe did not even see It Ends With Us until weeks after its public release, and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The statement continued: \u201cThe connection Taylor had to this film was permitting the use of one song, \u2018My Tears Ricochet.\u2019 Given that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift\u2019s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/justin-baldoni-blake-lively-clash-over-taylor-swift-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">Swift\u2019s name coming up<\/span><\/a> in reference to the lawsuit, fans have wondered what that means for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/taylor-swifts-friendship-with-blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-pics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">singer\u2019s friendship with Lively<\/span><\/a>. (Swift is the godmother to three of Lively and Reynolds\u2019 four kids: James, Inez, Betty and Olin.)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/justin-baldoni-blake-lively-legal-case-has-john-mulaney-curious\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Count John Mulaney among the many who are curious about how Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively\u2019s legal battle will end. Mulaney, 42, referenced the ongoing drama in a comic bit on the Wednesday, May 21 edition of Everybody\u2019s Live With John Mulaney.\u00a0 Actor Peter Gallagher made a cameo as Mulaney\u2019s future self, joking, \u201cJohn, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}