The plot thickens in the ongoing legal battle between former co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Bardoni.
In an amended complaint filed Tuesday in federal court in New York and reviewed by USA Today, Lively’s lawyers say two additional actresses involved in the film “It Ending Us” are WayFarer’s presidents Baldoni and Jamey He claims he is ready to testify against Heath. The studio that produced the film.
The 95-page filing is based on Lively’s previous sexual harassment claims, but is woven into the accounts from additional female cast members who are also allegedly offensive on the set.
While stopping to attach screenshots of messages, the complaints have been made between the vibrant and her fellow actress who have announced Bardoni’s inappropriate behavior and his suspicious tendency to make unwanted sexual comments. refers to the interaction of
“You can’t speak sexually while talking about a character, not personality,” he allegedly wrote a message to another female cast member. Bardoni is said to have called both women “sexy” in their clothes during a scripted exchange that was not part of the shoot.
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In a statement shared with USA Today on Wednesday, Baldoni’s lawyer wrote:
“Our clients have this issue and take these issues very seriously despite the jokes made publicly by the plaintiff and her husband.”
The “joke” reference appears to hint at a recent bit in the “SNL 50” anniversary special.
The vibrant Bardoni, where feuds were rumoured long before any star took formal legal action — has since the actress filed her original complaint with California’s Civil Rights Division in December , was locked up in a cycle of war claims and legal applications.
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In the December complaint, not only did Bardoni sexually harass her on set, but he was unaware of her saying that he was irrelevant to her, and a highly tuned online smear campaign claimed they had hired a critical public relations company to implement the
The news has further exacerbated an already tense situation for audiences eager to adapt Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel.
The alleged Smear Campaign was also mentioned by an unknown actress in a newly revised complaint.
As domestic violence-centered vibrancy and other cast members promoted the film, they emphasized it as a story of hope rather than darkness, as outlined in the film’s original marketing plan. Meanwhile, Bardoni broke the story to discuss the heavier themes of the film, which the live movement team characterizes as preemptive damage control.
“He shifted focus from the women’s victory message and instead exploited women’s trauma,” the revised complaint alleges, and how both actresses will deal with the social media “onscapism” I worked vibrantly to ask. method.
The actress remains unknown, but the film’s female cast members include Jenny Slate, Amy Morton, Isabella Feller and Robin S. Walker.
The revised complaint also adds that Texas-based contractor Jed Wallace allegedly contributed to the online smear campaign as defendant in the lawsuit.
“Mr. Lively filed an amended complaint today that provides significant additional evidence and support for her original claim,” Lively lawyers Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb said in a statement to USA Today I’ve said that. “The complaint includes important contemporary evidence that Lively wasn’t just about bringing onset misconduct allegations more than a year before the film was edited.”
Hudson and Gottlieb referenced new “witnesses” and “innocent bystanders” that cited previously invisible emails and text messages as evidence, increasing the validity of Lively’s claims.
The new complaint targeted Wayfarer co-founder and co-chairman Steve Sarowitz. The filing said in August that Sarowitz told an eyewitness that if Lively or Reynolds crossed the line, “protects studios that protected studios like Israel from Hamas. There were 39,000 bodies. At a minimum, There is no. So that’s how it is.”
Bardoni then sued both Vibrant and Reynolds, imposing his own set of allegations of abuse on set and taking legal action against the New York Times.
The two are heading to the trial of one of Bardoni suits in March 2026.
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In addition to the new witnesses identified, the new complaints take a closer look at Lively’s emotional state in the fallout.
The filing invokes “emotional influences” on her and her “vibrant “extreme” that affects her family, including her husband and four children. . ”
“Mr. Reynolds is also mentally, physically and professionally affected by the pain of his wife and children,” he continues. He married Reynolds in a vibrant marriage in 2012, sharing James, 9, Inez, 8, Betty, 5, and Orin, 2.
“But at the worst, according to the filing, it has an impact on young children who are traumatized and emotionally uprooted in ways that have effectively affected their well-being.”