The drama between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively has reached unprecedented levels of pettiness, with Baldoni launching an entire website complete with a 168-page document of ‘evidence.’. The document is a fascinating read, complete with thousands of words of commentary and hundreds of screenshots of emails and text messages relevant to the ongoing case. Lively and Baldoni worked together last year filming the movie adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel It Ends With Us, but have since been on opposing sides of what will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the more dramatic feuds in Hollywood history.

A Simple Favor actress Lively, 37, first accused Baldoni, 41, of ‘repeated sexual harassment‘ and a media smear campaign against her in a legal complaint in December, with Baldoni quickly denying the allegations. Baldoni’s legal team then filed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit, suing both Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, as well as publicist Leslie Sloane and her PR firm, Vision PR Inc. Most recently, lawyers representing Baldoni and Lively appeared in court for a pretrial meeting at federal court in Manhattan, New York on Monday.

The hearing was reportedly quite explosive, with both sides getting heated and hurling accusations. Lively’s attorney, Michael Gottlieb, accused Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, of making ‘inflammatory extrajudicial comments’ about Lively’s ‘character and motives’ during various media appearances. In response, Mr Freedman’s rebuttal included accusing Lively’s team of a ‘gag order’ against them to try to stop media contact, when, according to Freedman, Baldoni was the one who suffered harm to his reputation.

The BBC reports that Freedman said: ‘My client is devastated financially and emotionally.’. Shortly before the hearing, Baldoni published a website Entitled Lawsuit Info, which features two PDFs. One is his ‘Amended Complaint,’ which Baldoni and five other plaintiffs – including his production company, Wayfarer Studios – filed in response to Lively on January 16. The other is a 168-page ‘Timeline of Relevant Events,’ which recalls Baldoni’s version of happenings leading up to and following production on It Ends With Us, beginning with his first email exchange with Hoover in January 2019.

He says the timeline aims to ‘[provide] a summarised account of the sequence of key events’ and is ‘intended to be read in conjunction’ with his complaint. In case you don’t have the free time required to pick through all 168 pages of the document yourself, here are some highlights. The majority of the text messages included in the document are between Lively and Baldoni. Mostly, the texts seem to depict a positive, even affectionate, relationship between the two actors.

There are a number of cringeworthy interactions, including when Lively says the ‘ball busting’ in the movie will be ‘flirty and yummy.’. She continues: ‘It’s my love language. Spicy and playfully bold, never with teeth.’. In another screenshot, Lively asks about when shots of her body will be included in the film, seeming to worry about her weight. Baldoni notes in the PDF document that Lively claimed Baldoni repeatedly tried to ‘shame her for her body and weight,’ which he is seemingly trying to disprove with these text exchanges.

In the PDF, the notes include one that reads: ‘February 17, 2023: Lively shares her concerns with Baldoni about having her body ready for. the forthcoming sex scenes their characters would shoot, asking, “What’s the chance we can do body scenes at the end of the schedule?” Baldoni tries to reassure Lively that she doesn’t need to stress about her body and emphasizes his determination to work collaboratively with her to.

ensure her comfort.’. At another point, Lively thanks Baldoni for his support and jokes about her weight loss mission when he suggests she must feel ‘1000 pounds lighter.’. Baldoni also messaged Lively to find a time for her to meet with an intimacy coordinator he hired. The timeline explains these screenshots: ‘April 21, 2023: Baldoni meets with the intimacy coordinator to discuss how to shoot the sex scenes. It was important to him that the intimacy coordinator be a woman to help craft sex scenes that would speak to the book’s mostly female audience—i.e., be written from the “female gaze.” His notes from this meeting are pictured below and were later shared with Lively during one of their script-writing meetings at her New York apartment.

‘These notes would later become the basis for Lively’s Complaint, in which she states that Baldoni would talk about his own sex life and insert gratuitous scenes with Lively’s character orgasming. As seen in the notes, these mentions come directly from the intimacy coordinator’s notes— “goes down on her,” “orgasm,” “foreplay,” “The clit test.”. ‘Ideally, these conversations would have taken place directly between Lively and the intimacy coordinator directly, as Baldoni had requested; however, Lively declined to meet with her, leaving Baldoni in the less than ideal position of having to relay these notes to.