{"id":92794,"date":"2026-05-08T01:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/blake-lively-details-ryan-reynolds-justin-baldoni-discussion\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:15:18","slug":"blake-lively-details-ryan-reynolds-justin-baldoni-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/blake-lively-details-ryan-reynolds-justin-baldoni-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively Details Ryan Reynolds, Justin Baldoni Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Blake Lively<\/strong> detailed a conversation involving <strong>Ryan Reynolds<\/strong> and <strong>Justin Baldoni<\/strong> in a deposition released ahead of the pair\u2019s <em>It Ends With Us<\/em> settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Lively recalled in her January deposition that Baldoni visited her office to discuss script revisions in April 2023, which is when she brought up that she was \u201caware\u201d of an \u201cupsetting\u201d conversation he had about her weight. Lively told Baldoni that the discussion \u201cfelt invasive and inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the actress, Reynolds \u201cbriefly\u201d joined in on the conversation, as he was also working in the office at the time. She recalled<strong> Hugh Jackman<\/strong> stopping by and shaking Baldoni\u2019s hand before leaving with Reynolds.<\/p>\n<p>Despite previous claims that <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> witnessed the conversation as well, Lively clarified in her deposition that \u201cno one but Baldoni, myself and Reynolds was anywhere in our office\u201d during the discussion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/How-Taylor-Swift-Was-Pulled-Into-Blake-Lively-s-Justin-Baldoni-Legal-Drama-Everything-We-Know-Split-Template-Updated.jpg?crop=0px%2C12px%2C1998px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/How-Taylor-Swift-Was-Pulled-Into-Blake-Lively-s-Justin-Baldoni-Legal-Drama-Everything-We-Know-Split-Template-Updated.jpg?crop=0px%2C12px%2C1998px%2C1131px&amp;resize=200%2C113&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/How-Taylor-Swift-Was-Pulled-Into-Blake-Lively-s-Justin-Baldoni-Legal-Drama-Everything-We-Know-Split-Template-Updated.jpg?crop=0px%2C12px%2C1998px%2C1131px&amp;resize=300%2C169&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/How-Taylor-Swift-Was-Pulled-Into-Blake-Lively-s-Justin-Baldoni-Legal-Drama-Everything-We-Know-Split-Template-Updated.jpg?crop=0px%2C12px%2C1998px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/How-Taylor-Swift-Was-Pulled-Into-Blake-Lively-s-Justin-Baldoni-Legal-Drama-Everything-We-Know-Split-Template-Updated.jpg?crop=0px%2C12px%2C1998px%2C1131px&amp;resize=600%2C338&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/How-Taylor-Swift-Was-Pulled-Into-Blake-Lively-s-Justin-Baldoni-Legal-Drama-Everything-We-Know-Split-Template-Updated.jpg?crop=0px%2C12px%2C1998px%2C1131px&amp;resize=800%2C450&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/How-Taylor-Swift-Was-Pulled-Into-Blake-Lively-s-Justin-Baldoni-Legal-Drama-Everything-We-Know-Split-Template-Updated.jpg?crop=0px%2C12px%2C1998px%2C1131px&amp;resize=900%2C506&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/How-Taylor-Swift-Was-Pulled-Into-Blake-Lively-s-Justin-Baldoni-Legal-Drama-Everything-We-Know-Split-Template-Updated.jpg?crop=0px%2C12px%2C1998px%2C1131px&amp;resize=1000%2C563&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/How-Taylor-Swift-Was-Pulled-Into-Blake-Lively-s-Justin-Baldoni-Legal-Drama-Everything-We-Know-Split-Template-Updated.jpg?crop=0px%2C12px%2C1998px%2C1131px&amp;resize=1200%2C675&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/How-Taylor-Swift-Was-Pulled-Into-Blake-Lively-s-Justin-Baldoni-Legal-Drama-Everything-We-Know-Split-Template-Updated.jpg?crop=0px%2C12px%2C1998px%2C1131px&amp;resize=1600%2C900&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/How-Taylor-Swift-Was-Pulled-Into-Blake-Lively-s-Justin-Baldoni-Legal-Drama-Everything-We-Know-Split-Template-Updated.jpg?crop=0px%2C12px%2C1998px%2C1131px&amp;resize=1800%2C1012&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/How-Taylor-Swift-Was-Pulled-Into-Blake-Lively-s-Justin-Baldoni-Legal-Drama-Everything-We-Know-Split-Template-Updated.jpg?crop=0px%2C12px%2C1998px%2C1131px&amp;resize=1920%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"How Taylor Swift Was Pulled Into Blake Lively s Justin Baldoni Legal Drama Everything We Know Split Template Updated\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">How Taylor Swift Was Pulled Into Blake Lively&#8217;s Justin Baldoni Legal Drama<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tBlake Lively\u2018s ongoing legal drama with Justin Baldoni took an unexpected turn by pulling in Taylor Swift. After costarring in It Ends With Us together, Lively sued Baldoni in December 2024 accusing her costar and director of of sexual harassment and orchestrating an alleged smear campaign. In her filing, Lively claimed that Baldoni named Swift [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nearly two years after the pair\u2019s legal battle began, a settlement was reached before their scheduled trial date in May.<\/p>\n<p>Lively sued Baldoni for sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and lost wages in December 2024. Baldoni has denied all of Lively\u2019s allegations \u2014 and countersued in January, though his suit was later dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>As part of her lawsuit, Lively alleged that Baldoni found \u201cback-channel ways of criticizing her body and weight\u201d while filming <em>It Ends With Us<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLively was humiliated to learn that Mr. Baldoni secretly called her fitness trainer without her knowledge or permission, and implied that he wanted her to lose weight in two weeks,\u201d the actress\u2019s attorneys alleged in her lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Baldoni\u2019s lawyers later countered that he\u2019d only reached out to Lively\u2019s trainer because he\u2019d have to lift her in an <em>It Ends With Us<\/em> scene \u2014 and he was allegedly worried about aggravating a longstanding back injury.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4179089\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:84%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4179089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2211941178-Taylor-Swift-Allegedly-Witnessed-Ryan-Reynolds-Confront-Justin-Baldoni-Blake-Lively-e1764281438382.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"GettyImages-2211941178 Taylor Swift Allegedly Witnessed Ryan Reynolds Confront Justin Baldoni Blake Lively.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2211941178-Taylor-Swift-Allegedly-Witnessed-Ryan-Reynolds-Confront-Justin-Baldoni-Blake-Lively-e1764281438382.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2211941178-Taylor-Swift-Allegedly-Witnessed-Ryan-Reynolds-Confront-Justin-Baldoni-Blake-Lively-e1764281438382.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2211941178-Taylor-Swift-Allegedly-Witnessed-Ryan-Reynolds-Confront-Justin-Baldoni-Blake-Lively-e1764281438382.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2211941178-Taylor-Swift-Allegedly-Witnessed-Ryan-Reynolds-Confront-Justin-Baldoni-Blake-Lively-e1764281438382.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2211941178-Taylor-Swift-Allegedly-Witnessed-Ryan-Reynolds-Confront-Justin-Baldoni-Blake-Lively-e1764281438382.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2211941178-Taylor-Swift-Allegedly-Witnessed-Ryan-Reynolds-Confront-Justin-Baldoni-Blake-Lively-e1764281438382.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2211941178-Taylor-Swift-Allegedly-Witnessed-Ryan-Reynolds-Confront-Justin-Baldoni-Blake-Lively-e1764281438382.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2211941178-Taylor-Swift-Allegedly-Witnessed-Ryan-Reynolds-Confront-Justin-Baldoni-Blake-Lively-e1764281438382.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2211941178-Taylor-Swift-Allegedly-Witnessed-Ryan-Reynolds-Confront-Justin-Baldoni-Blake-Lively-e1764281438382.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2211941178-Taylor-Swift-Allegedly-Witnessed-Ryan-Reynolds-Confront-Justin-Baldoni-Blake-Lively-e1764281438382.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2211941178-Taylor-Swift-Allegedly-Witnessed-Ryan-Reynolds-Confront-Justin-Baldoni-Blake-Lively-e1764281438382.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2211941178-Taylor-Swift-Allegedly-Witnessed-Ryan-Reynolds-Confront-Justin-Baldoni-Blake-Lively-e1764281438382.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2211941178-Taylor-Swift-Allegedly-Witnessed-Ryan-Reynolds-Confront-Justin-Baldoni-Blake-Lively-e1764281438382.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2211941178-Taylor-Swift-Allegedly-Witnessed-Ryan-Reynolds-Confront-Justin-Baldoni-Blake-Lively-e1764281438382.jpg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2211941178-Taylor-Swift-Allegedly-Witnessed-Ryan-Reynolds-Confront-Justin-Baldoni-Blake-Lively-e1764281438382.jpg?w=1920&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds in April 2025<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images for TIME<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, Swift has repeatedly tried to distance herself from the case. Baldoni\u2019s lawyers previously released a text message from the filmmaker to Lively, which referenced Swift in connection with <em>It Ends With Us<\/em>\u2019 infamous rooftop scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas working on rooftop scene today, I really love what you did. It really does hep [sic] a lot,\u201d he purportedly wrote. \u201cMakes it so much more fun and interesting. (And I would have felt that way without Ryan and Taylor). You really are a talent across the board. Really excited nd [sic] grateful to do this together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Swift was formally subpoenaed by Baldoni\u2019s attorneys, her spokesperson insisted the singer \u201cnever set foot on the set of\u201d <em>It Ends With Us<\/em>, nor did she make \u201ccasting or creative decisions,\u201d beyond allowing her song \u201cMy Tears Ricochet\u201d to be used in the film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe did not score the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film,\u201d her rep told <em>Us<\/em> in May 2025. \u201cShe did not even see <em>It Ends With Us<\/em> until weeks after its public release, and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Her spokesperson added, \u201cGiven that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift\u2019s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the discovery process of Lively\u2019s suit, Judge <strong>Lewis J. Liman<\/strong> struck down Team Baldoni\u2019s attempt to depose Swift because it would fall outside the timeline allotted.<\/p>\n<p><em>Us<\/em> learned in November 2025 that both Swift and Jackman were on a list of names submitted by Lively\u2019s lawyers for potential testimony at trial. <strong>Emily Blunt<\/strong>, <strong>Scooter Braun<\/strong> and <strong>Gigi Hadid<\/strong> were also named as people \u201clikely to have discoverable information\u201d about the <em>It Ends With Us<\/em> dispute.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Lively detailed a conversation involving Ryan Reynolds and Justin Baldoni in a deposition released ahead of the pair\u2019s It Ends With Us settlement. Lively recalled in her January deposition that Baldoni visited her office to discuss script revisions in April 2023, which is when she brought up that she was \u201caware\u201d of an \u201cupsetting\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Blake-Lively-Ryan-Reynolds-GettyImages-2200070620.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}