Truth about Blake's sex scenes with Justin Baldoni: Handwritten notes from an intimacy co-ordinator meeting - and a damning claim that Lively couldn't separate acting from real life

The list of Blake Lively's grievances against Justin Baldoni is a long one, but the most damning of all is her claim that he sexually harassed her while filming It Ends With Us with unwanted kissing, talking about his sex life and trying to insert gratuitous raunchy scenes into the script. After Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni in January, he quickly filed a $400million countersuit against Blake, her husband Ryan Reynolds and their publicist Leslie Sloane over claims of civil extortion, defamation and invasion of privacy and has launched a website, thelawsuitinfo.com, outlining his version of events.

Amongst the pages of documents, emails and text messages is an intriguing set of handwritten notes made by Baldoni during his meeting with the film's intimacy co-ordinator which may well prove to be the key to the whole case. Lively has painted a picture whereby there was no intimacy co-ordinator involved in the production until she demanded one; Baldoni introduced unwanted kissing in intimate scenes, and he spoke to her about his own sex life.

However, his timeline appears to show that there was in fact an intimacy co-ordinator engaged from the outset, who Lively declined to meet until filming began. This ultimately resulted in Baldoni, who was also the director, having to convey the intimacy co-ordinator's notes to Lively himself. Her depiction of his adding graphic scenes to the film, Baldoni insists, was simply him filling her in on what had been discussed, such as her character 'orgasming' - and, damningly, he claims that Lively seemed unable to discern between a professional conversation about acting out sex scenes and being sexually harassed.

Baldoni allegedly met with the intimacy coordinator on April 21 and made handwritten notes during the meeting (pictured), which he claimed were shared with Lively. Lively claimed in her lawsuit against Baldoni that he sexually harassed her by adding unwanted kisses into romantic scenes. April 5, 2023 - Lively declines to meet the intimacy coordinator before filming starts. Texts sent by Baldoni to his co-star prior to shooting the movie appear to show that Lively declined to meet the intimacy coordinator before filming started.

Baldoni, who served as director and starred as Ryle Kincaid - the partner of Lively's character Lily Bloom - hired the coordinator on April 5, 2023, and tried to set up a meeting or call between her and his co-star. He sent Lively a message to say: 'Just hired intimacy coordinator who I LOVE. Will set you up to meet/FT with her next week for intro.'. However, Lively responded to decline his invitation, saying: 'I feel good. I can meet her when we start :) thank you though!'.

Baldoni then raised the issue with an unnamed female producer, who gave him the go-ahead to meet the coordinator without Lively and report back to her on the guidance given. Baldoni's text read: 'Just wanted to tell you about this - seems she doesn't want to meet intimacy coordinator until we start which may mess up the workflow, but I can still meet with her of course.'. The producer responded: 'That's fine if she doesn't want to meet her now. You'll just have to walk her through what you and [intimacy coordinator] are thinking.'.

Baldoni's complaint alleged that because of Lively's rejection of the meeting, 'many sex scenes were not written with simultaneous collaboration and input from both Lively and the intimacy coordinator, as Baldoni had long intended'. 'In the end, Lively rejected all of the intimacy coordinator's proposals to rewrite the scenes herself,' the complaint added. Lively also stands accused of 'falsely' suggesting that there was no intimacy coordinator on set, despite one being engaged by Wayfarer six weeks before production started.

It Ends With Us had to cease filming in June 2023 due to the writers' strike. Lively filed a complaint to the California Civil Rights Department and followed it up with a federal court lawsuit, in which she has made allegations of sexual harassment against Baldoni. Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni are pictured while filming It Ends With Us in New Jersey. According to her lawsuit, Lively's lawyer sent an email to Wayfarer Studios lawyers in November 2023, containing a list of 17 provisions she requested to be fulfilled before she resumed filming or she would take legal action.

Amongst those provisions was the request that an intimacy coordinator during scenes featuring both Lively and Baldoni and that no unwanted touching or sexual comments would be made without consent. Baldoni has argued that this seems to 'suggest' that no intimacy co-ordinator had been present during the first leg of filming, despite the fact one had been hired right from the offset. April 21, 2023 - Baldoni meets with the intimacy coordinator and later feeds back 'orgasm' notes to Lively.