Justin Baldoni claims Blake Full of life ‘arrange lure’ with intercourse scene in unseen texts
Newly unsealed texts present claims from Justin Baldoni that he informed somebody Blake Full of life was ‘setting me up for a lure’ over filming intimate scenes in It Ends With Us.
Baldoni directed the romance movie based mostly on a guide of the identical identify and co-starred with Full of life because the lead characters, however their time collectively has led to a significant authorized battle.
Full of life filed a lawsuit in December 2024 alleging that Baldoni had sexually harassed her and subsequently launched a smear marketing campaign, he denied the allegations from Full of life and countersued her as he claimed she and her husband Ryan Reynolds had hijacked manufacturing of It Ends With Us.
He additionally accused Full of life of contributing to a New York Instances article which he known as a ‘duplicitous try and destroy him’, she denied it being such.
Baldoni’s countersuit was dismissed by a choose in June 2025 and although his workforce was given time to attraction towards the choice they didn’t achieve this and his lawsuits seem to have ended.
Full of life’s lawsuit towards him remains to be ongoing with the subsequent listening to scheduled for 22 January and a trial date presently pencilled in for 18 Might.
Now, Folks reports that newly unsealed texts present Baldoni had claimed in messages that he thought Full of life was ‘setting me up for a lure’ which he despatched on 30 December 2023 to his former agent Danny Greenberg.
Within the messages, Baldoni wrote that he was having a ‘actually, actually dangerous week’ and claimed that Full of life had requested a non-public assembly at her house and alleged that there had been a dispute over filming intimate scenes for It Ends With Us.
Baldoni claimed Full of life ‘refused’ to make use of a physique double for intercourse scenes and alleged that she was trying to ‘lure’ him, he additionally wrote that Full of life was insisting he use a physique double.
He described the state of affairs as a ‘large clusterf**ok’ and complained that Full of life was attempting to maintain each actors absolutely clothed throughout a romantic second, with him writing: “If the guide, it is simply ridiculous.”
Claiming that he was giving Full of life ’95 p.c of what she desires for peace’, he known as her ‘an actress who’s rewriting the author and director’.
5 days after these messages had been despatched there was an ‘all palms’ assembly that includes Baldoni, Full of life, Reynolds and studio representatives to debate protections Full of life had requested earlier than manufacturing on the film resumed.
These protections had already been agreed to in writing in November 2023 and Folks experiences they had been supposed to handle Full of life’s considerations about security on set.
Folks quotes a ‘supply near Full of life’ who informed them: “These messages had been despatched solely after Blake had specified by element the quite a few ways in which Baldoni and Heath had created a hostile work atmosphere on the set, after they agreed to greater than a dozen ‘protections’ for the protection of the forged and crew, and simply days forward of the January 4 assembly at which these protections could be mentioned earlier than filming resumed.”
This supply went on to say the unsealed textual content messages ‘underscores Baldoni’s retaliatory intent’.
They added: “It displays his non-public anger over the identical safeguards that he had stated in public had been each ‘cheap’ and ‘important,’ and which he later admitted in his deposition had been cheap, together with his resentment for having to point out as much as an ‘all palms’ assembly he had additionally agreed to.”
LADbible has contacted Full of life and Baldoni’s representatives for remark.
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