Judge in 'It Ends With Us' case warns Lively's and Baldoni's lawyers about public comments
The judge presiding over the legal feud between “It Ends With Us” co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni held off on restricting what the lawyers can say about the case publicly.
The judge presiding over the legal feud between “It Ends With Us” co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni held off on restricting what the lawyers can say about the case publicly, but he might move up the trial date if the war of words between the actors’ representatives drags on.
U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman issued the warning Monday at a pretrial hearing in New York City — the first time lawyers on both sides of the legal dispute met face to face in a courtroom. Lively and Baldoni were not present. The trial is set to begin in March 2026.
“You’ve got a lot in front of the court that gives, I think, the public plenty to feast upon,” Liman told the lawyers.
Lively has accused Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set of the movie and then working with others to smear her in the media. Baldoni, in response, sued Lively and her husband, “Deadpool” actor Ryan Reynolds, alleging defamation.
Lively and Reynolds’ legal team asked the judge in a letter last month for a gag order for Baldoni’s attorney Bryan Freedman, accusing Baldoni’s legal team of continuing its “harassing and retaliatory media campaign” against Lively with “almost daily media statements or other releases to the press."
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