A Timeline Of Their Feud

Sony’s It Ends With Us tailored Colleen Hoover’s highly effective story about home violence and a resilient girl, however drama between stars Blake Full of life and Justin Baldoni behind the scenes and afterwards has lingered past the movie’s launch in theaters. Arriving to the large display final August and later heading to streaming on Netflix in December 2024, the Justin-Baldoni-directed movie drew many moviegoers, although some didn’t notice what the story was absolutely about.

Tensions primarily lie between the movie’s costars — Full of life, who portrays most important character Lily Bloom, and Baldoni, who additionally stars as Ryle, the abusive husband of Lily, along with directing the movie with a script from Christy Corridor. Throughout press for the movie, it grew to become clear that Baldoni and Full of life have been sustaining distance from one another, and even on the pink carpet on the New York premiere, they didn’t take images collectively.

Late in 2024, revelations happened by means of a nixed SNL internet hosting marketing campaign for Full of life, a disappointing Blake Brown Magnificence product launch for the actress, lawsuits and extra. For an entire timeline of moments, giant and small, that make up the feud that bloomed between the celebrities, their publicists, legal professionals and extra, observe alongside beneath — and we can be updating:

Dec. 20, 2024 – Blake Full of life Accuses Justin Baldoni of Sexual Harrassment & “Astroturfing”

Months after the movie’s awkward premiere and weeks after the movie went to Netflix for streaming, a brand new spherical of explosive proof got here out that one thing undoubtedly went down between the 2 stars. Full of life accused Baldoni and his manufacturing firm Wayfarer Studios in addition to others behind the movie of sexually harassing her and in addition strategizing to “destroy her repute.”

Full of life filed a 10-claim criticism with the California Civil Rights Division, detailing a “hostile work enviornment’ in addition to the alleged “Astroturfing” marketing campaign.

“Mr. Baldoni and his Wayfarer associates launched into a complicated press and digital plan in retaliation for Ms. Full of life exercising her legally-protected proper to talk up about their misconduct on the set, with the extra goal of intimidating her and anybody else from revealing in public what truly occurred,” the 80-page criticism, filled with seemingly damning textual content messages between Baldoni and disaster communications specialist Melissa Nathan and her firm, The Company Group PR LLC (TAG) declared.

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The criticism additionally described Full of life and her staff being topic to “nude movies or pictures of girls, together with producer’s spouse,” mentions of Baldoni’s or fellow producer Jamey Heath’s “earlier ‘pornography habit,’” discussions “about private experiences with intercourse,” a “description of their very own genitalia” and “private, bodily touching of, or sexual feedback.” The submitting, which was a prelude to a lawsuit, additionally comprises inquiries by Baldoni to Full of life’s coach “with out her data or consent to reveal her weight.” It additionally alleges Baldoni and/or others added “intercourse scenes, oral intercourse, or on-camera climaxing by [Lively] exterior the scope of the script.”

Dec. 21 Penalties for Baldoni

WME swiftly dropped Baldoni following the bombshell accusations. Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman referred to as the allegations “fully false.” This was Dec. 21, the identical day the New York Instances posted its in-depth “We Can Bury Anybody: Inside a Hollywood Smear Marketing campaign” expose.

Two days later, Liz Plank — co-host of Baldoni’s podcast “Man Sufficient” — stop the mission to distance herself from the Jane the Virgin vet. Plank posted on Instagram about her departure, however she didn’t title Baldoni or point out the allegations towards him.

Dec. 21-23: Help for Full of life

Gwyneth Paltrow, Amy Schumer, Paul Feig, Kaitlin Olson and Amber Heard voiced assist for Full of life, denouncing the marketing campaign towards her.

After the movie arrived in theaters in early August 2024, Full of life’s costar Brandon Sklenar, who performs Lily Bloom’s different love curiosity within the movie Atlas Corrigan, initially backed Full of life when rumors began to swirl about what could possibly be happening behind the scenes.

“I wished to take a minute and tackle all these things swirling on-line,” Sklenar wrote in an announcement posted on Instagram. “Colleen and the ladies of this forged stand for hope, perseverance, and for ladies selecting a greater life for themselves. Vilifying the ladies who put a lot of their coronary heart and soul into making this movie as a result of they imagine so strongly in its message appears counterproductive and detracts from what this movie is about.”

RELATED: Blake Full of life Thanks ‘It Ends With Us’ Writer Colleen Hoover For Altering Her Life “For Good”

Many members of the superstar group have additionally since launch statements supporting Blake Full of life, from Hoover’s further phrases of reward and knowledge to Full of life’s The Sisterhood of the Touring Pants costars and extra.

Sklenar and Jenny Slate additionally expressed concern for Full of life following the reignition of the drama, with Sklenar urging individuals to learn her criticism and Slate calling the state of affairs “darkish, disturbing and wholly threatening.”

Sony, the studio that distributed the movie, condemned “any reputational assaults” on Full of life, supporting the actress, whose lower of the movie was proven over Baldoni’s.

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Dec. 24 – The Lawsuits

Justin Baldoni and his publicists obtained a defamation swimsuit on Christmas Eve 2024 from the Wayfarer Studios co-founder and former PR firm Jonesworks, and its proprietor Stephanie Jones. The submitting additionally names Wayfarer Studios and publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel for not solely defamation but in addition breach of contract.

Nathan was employed by Baldoni following the movie’s arrival in theaters. She and disaster PR guru Matthew Hiltzik labored with Johnny Depp in the course of the Pirates star’s profitable $50 million defamation motion towards ex-wife Amber Heard and the 2022 trial.

“Defendants Abel and Nathan secretly conspired for months to publicly and privately assault Jones and Jonesworks, to breach a number of contracts and induce contractual breaches, and to steal shoppers and enterprise prospects,” declares an eight-claim criticism filed by the Quinn Emanuel represented PR boss this Christmas Eve.

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Full of life then formally sued Baldoni and his PR crew on the final day of 2024 for unspecified damages.

“As specified by this Criticism, the Baldoni-Wayfarer-led public assault of Ms. Full of life was the meant results of a fastidiously crafted, coordinated, and resourced retaliatory scheme to silence her, and others, from talking out concerning the hostile surroundings that Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath created,” the 13-claim criticism states of the Jane the Virgin vet and his Wayfarer CEO Jamey Heath.

Dec. 31 – Baldoni Sues NYT for $250 Million

Baldoni and his publicists sued The New York Instances for his or her story about Full of life’s claims of sexual harassment.

The 87-page libel criticism was filed in LA Superior Court docket simply hours earlier than the top of 2024, accusing NYT journalists of being in league with Full of life with a prolonged December 21 article that “cherry-picked and altered communications stripped of crucial context and intentionally spliced to mislead.”

The four-claim submitting from Baldoni, Melissa Nathan, Jennifer Abel and others asserts “the Instances’ complicity arises from its obvious endorsement of the prison alteration of those textual content messages by Full of life.”

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Lawyer Bryan Freedman’s swimsuit goes after Full of life’s publicist Leslie Sloane for her previous associations with Harvey Weinstein, and it mentions Ryan Reynolds’ stern assertion to Baldoni and Wayfarer studios in an all-hands Jan. 4 assembly in addition to extra moments.

Full of life’s crew rapidly responded to the swimsuit, denouncing the techniques behind it. On Feb. 3, Freedman informed a NYC federal court docket the NYT swimsuit can be dropped and the Grey Girl added as a defendant to Baldoni’s bigger lawsuit.

Jan. 7 – Full of life’s Attorneys Accuse Baldoni’s Staff of “Blame The Sufferer” Ways

Full of life’s authorized crew doubled down on their swimsuit by outlining “extra assaults” of the actress by Baldoni by means of the media.

“This isn’t a ‘feud’ arising from ‘artistic variations; or a ‘he stated/she stated’ state of affairs,” Full of life’s Manatt, Phelps & Phillips attorneys and Willkie Farr & Gallagher legal professionals stated. “As alleged in Ms. Full of life’s criticism, and as we’ll show in litigation, Wayfarer and its associates engaged in illegal, retaliatory astroturfing towards Ms. Full of life for merely making an attempt to guard herself and others on a movie set. And their response to the lawsuit has been to launch extra assaults towards Ms. Full of life since her submitting.”

These statements have been made hours after Baldoni’s most important legal professional Bryan Freedman appeared on NewsNation taking swings on the New York Instances.

Jan. 7 – Freedman Says ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Character Nicepool Was Based mostly on Baldoni

Bryan Freedman accused Ryan Reynolds of constructing enjoyable of Baldoni with the Deadpool & Wolverine character Nicepool, which followers have speculated references Baldoni’s obvious pseudo-nice man persona. This was additionally stated on The Megyn Kelly Present.

“What I make of that, is that in case your spouse is sexually harassed, you don’t make enjoyable of Justin Baldoni,” stated Freedman. “There’s no query it pertains to Justin. I imply, anyone that watched that hair bun — if any person is critically sexually harassed, you don’t make enjoyable of it. It’s a severe problem.”

Jan. 8 – Baldoni’s Voice Message About Basement Viewing of IEWU Premiere Launched

Bryan Freeman, Baldoni’s legal professional, additionally performed a voice message on The Megyn Kelly Present from Baldoni complaining about being despatched to the basement in the course of the It Ends With Us premiere in New York Metropolis.

Freedman stated within the interview that he deliberate to place “each single textual content message, each single doc” within the public area. Freedman has repped Kelly up to now. Deadline has been unable to independently confirm or date the voice message.

Jan. 14 – Baldoni Letter to Disney About Deadpool & Wolverine Surfaces

Baldoni despatched a letter to Disney CEO Bob Iger and Marvel boss Kevin Feige Jan. 7 asking them to “protect proof” foreseeing potential “graduation of litigation” towards star within the pink swimsuit Ryan Reynolds in addition to Full of life.

The five-page correspondence from Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman needs no rock, smartphone, contract, “Blackberry gadgets,” paperwork, or floppy disk left unturned. The paperwork additionally asks for “all paperwork and communications regarding complaints of sexual or different harassment asserted towards Ryan Reynolds by any individual.”

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Jan. 16 – Baldoni Instantly Sues Full of life and Reynolds for $400 Million

Baldoni’s criticism filed Jan. 16 calls for $400,000,000 from Reynolds and Full of life citing defamation, extortion and extra.

“It is a case about two of probably the most highly effective stars on the earth deploying their monumental energy to steal a whole movie proper out of the palms of its director and manufacturing studio,” the 179-page submitting from Freedman and NYC’s Meister Seelig & Fein PLLC says of Reynolds and Full of life. “Then, when Full of life and Reynolds’ efforts did not win them the acclaim they believed they so well-deserved, they turned their fury on their chosen scapegoat. Tolerating a 12 months and a half of their habits whereas remaining well mannered {and professional} at each flip supplied Badoni and Wayfarer no safety.”

Simply hours after the large swimsuit was filed, Full of life and her authorized crew responded, describing the motion as “one other chapter within the abuser playbook.”

“That is an age-old story: A girl speaks up with concrete proof of sexual harassment and retaliation and the abuser makes an attempt to show the tables on the sufferer,” stated Full of life’s Manatt, Phelps & Phillips attorneys and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. “That is what specialists name DARVO. Deny. Assault. Reverse Sufferer Offender.” 

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Jan. 21 – Baldoni Releases BTS Footage from IEWU Movie

Baldoni dropped behind-the-scenes footage from Could 23, 2023 manufacturing on the film to refute Full of life’s sexual harassment claims.

The clip covers the gradual dance scene between Full of life’s character and Baldoni’s, which the Gossip Woman actress cited as one in every of a number of uncomfortable moments she skilled throughout manufacturing on the movie.

“Each actors are clearly behaving effectively inside the scope of the scene and with mutual respect and professionalism,” reads a title card added by Baldoni’s facet.

Full of life and her crew referred to as the transfer a “stunt” and emphasised that it backs up her complaints.

Jan. 24 – Full of life And Reynolds Double Down on Gag Order Request

“Requiring counsel to heed the moral guidelines that bind them shouldn’t be a gag order; it’s a mechanism that might make sure the proceedings on this Court docket should not prejudiced by counsel’s conduct exterior of the courtroom,” legal professional Esra Hudson argued for the couple in a letter to Decide Lewis J. Liman relating to Baldoni, his most important lawyer Bryan Freedman, Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios and others.

The gag order can be for “extrajudicial statements.”

Jan. 27 – One other Voice Message Surfaces, A Trial Looms

“I’m actually sorry, I f*cked up,” Justin Baldoni informed Full of life in a 2 a.m. voice message in April 2023 following his response to a rewritten scene on the movie. The scene itself, dialogue between Full of life’s Lily Bloom and Baldoni’s Ryle Kincaid, was in reality, rewritten by Reynolds, which Full of life revealed throughout press to advertise the movie.

“I’ll admit and apologize once I fail,” the Jane the Virgin alum added within the six-minute message, speaking concerning the rooftop sequence. “I’m a really flawed man, as my spouse will attest.”

A federal choose had, at the moment, chosen March 9, 2026 because the trial begin date for the bitter showdown between the pair of actors.

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Jan. 30 – A Preliminary Listening to Is Set For Early February

A consolidation of a few of the fits is wanting doable as a February 12 pretrial convention was moved up by Decide Liman to February 3. This listening to had Full of life and Reynolds groups working to get Baldoni’s $400 million swimsuit dismissed, which has since occurred.

Full of life, Reynolds and their authorized groups additionally referred to as for disciplinary motion for Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman for his “extrajudicial statements” made within the media towards the Gossip Woman actress. Decide Liman consolidated Baldoni’s $400 million motion and Full of life’s New Yr’s Eve lawsuit towards the Jane the Virgin actor. Not lengthy after, Baldoni’s supporting lawyer Kevin Fritz wrote to the court docket concerning the objection to a deposition, or Freedman taking to Full of life underneath oath.

“Counsel for Ms. Full of life has made clear that Ms. Full of life doesn’t need Mr. Freedman to be the legal professional who takes her deposition,” Fritz stated. “We’re unaware of any state of affairs that might warrant the deposed get together to have a alternative during which legal professional takes her deposition. Events to litigation merely don’t have the suitable to dictate which of their opponents’ attorneys could or could not take their deposition or carry out some other facet of the opposing get together’s case.”

Feb. 1 – Staff Baldoni Establishes Web site

After threatening to launch a web based archive of all of the proof on Baldoni’s facet, the 5 Toes Aside director’s authorized crew went by means of with the motion. The location comprises the primary amended criticism filed by Baldoni’s crew Friday Jan. 31 in the January 16 $400 million defamation and extortion swimsuit towards Full of life and Ryan Reynolds. There’s additionally a timeline of textual content messages, emails and extra communication across the occasions within the It Ends With Us manufacturing and press saga.

The documentation begins Jan. 1, 2019 with an e-mail to Colleen Hoover, who government produced the movie, about her ebook on which the film is predicated. It ends Jan. 29, 2024 inspecting the NYT expose article.

Feb. 3 – Trial Begin Date of March 2026 Threatened To Transfer Up

On the preliminary court docket listening to on Feb. 3, a federal choose threatened to maneuver the March 2026 begin date of the trial between the IEWU costars up if the matter continued to be “litigated within the press”.

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Decide Liman imposed the Empire State rule on each events, that means that neither facet within the complicated battle is to say something within the press that might affect a possible jury. Such has already been occurring with feedback from each side.

Feb. 4 – A Texas Exit For Full of life’s Staff Regardless of SXSW

Although Full of life is headed to Austin, Texas for the 2025 SXSW Movie Competition subsequent month for the premiere of One other Easy Favor, her legal professionals received’t be finishing up any litigation within the Lone Star state. Nearly two weeks in the past, Full of life’s authorized crew had filed paperwork there in Hays County “to take a pre-suit deposition of Jed Wallace,” however the request was pulled by Austin agency Haynes Boone LLP. A “discover of non-suit/dismissal” was positioned within the Texas court docket docket Feb. 4 over speaking to Wallace, Road Relations disaster administration boss. The deposition would have questioned Wallace about what he did and didn’t do in an alleged on-line smear marketing campaign final 12 months towards Full of life. 

Wallace, who has described himself as a “employed gun” may show vital within the trial, which is at present scheduled to happen beginning March 9, 2026 in New York Metropolis.

Deadline will proceed to replace this piece as extra information comes out across the tense state of affairs.

Feb. 5 – Jed Wallace Information $7 Million Defamation Go well with Towards Blake Full of life And Staff

Architect of the alleged smear marketing campaign geared toward Full of life Jed Wallace launched a $7 million defamation swimsuit towards the A Easy Favor actress. The lawyer for the self-described “human disaster” navigator admitted Wednesday that the motion is in response to Wallace’s possible addition to the It Ends With Us actress’ ongoing authorized battles with Justin Baldoni, his firm, his backers and his publicists.

Feb. 12 – Blake Full of life & Ryen Reynolds Subpoena AT&T, T-Cellular and Verizon

Full of life and her husband despatched out a number of subpoenas to cell carriers AT&T, T-Cellular and Verizon in addition to alleged social media manipulator Jed Wallace on a hunt for actual “receipts.”

“Ms. Full of life has initiated discovery that can expose the individuals, techniques, and strategies which have labored to ‘destroy’ and ‘bury’ her repute and household over the previous 12 months,” attorneys Esra Hudson and Michael Gottlieb stated Wednesday. “Subpoenas went out to the entities beneath,” the duo added of the telecoms, Walace, AOL, and Cloudflare, Inc. “We’ll now obtain all the “receipts” that, unsurprisingly, are nowhere to be discovered on Mr. Freedman’s web site, and like Ms. Full of life, these ‘receipts’ can have their day in court docket.”

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Feb. 18 – Blake Full of life Alleges Different Girls Made Uncomfortable by Baldoni on IEWU Manufacturing

Blake Full of life’s legal professionals filed an amended criticism towards Justin Baldoni citing that the It Ends With Us star and director made different ladies uncomfortable on set.

In a criticism 48 pages longer than the New Yr’s Eve criticism Full of life first filed, there are a minimum of two different ladies cited who allegedly suffered from the actions of Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios CEO Jamey Heath. The people’ names are overlooked of the doc for now.

This modification got here simply days after the couple attended the SNL50 anniversary three-hour particular, the place Reynolds alluded to their spotlighted authorized affairs briefly when Tina Fey and Amy Poehler requested how he was doing.

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Feb. 19 – Blake Full of life & Ryan Reynolds’ PR Chief Needs Out Of Authorized Battle with Baldoni

Blake Full of life and Ryan Reynolds‘ publicist Leslie Sloane needs herself and her firm Imaginative and prescient PR dropped from the continuing feud between the superstar couple and the IEWU director.

“The Wayfarer Events dragged Leslie Sloane and Imaginative and prescient PR, Inc. into the moment litigation as a smoke and mirrors train to distract from their very own sexual harassment and systematic retaliation,” asserts an accompanying memo to a movement to dismiss Sloane and Imaginative and prescient PR from the most recent model of Baldoni’s $400 million defamation and extortion lawsuit filed as we speak in federal court docket.

Feb. 25 – Blake Full of life Accuses Justin Baldoni Of “Disregard & Disrespect” For Sexual Harassment Victims

Full of life’s legal professionals informed Decide Lewis J. Liman Tuesday in a letter that in reality “the travels of the mischaracterization embraced by the Opposition by means of this manufactured echo chamber, by itself, offers ample justification for a Protecting Order that establishes sufficient protections for third-party privateness pursuits.”

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These third-parties could embody, however should not restricted to, a minimum of two different ladies that Full of life stated in her February 18 first amended criticism have been made “uncomfortable” by Baldoni’s conduct in the course of the making of the movie primarily based on Colleen Hoover’s home violence-themed novel. Whereas the duo’s names have been absent from the FAC, the paperwork assert the ladies intend to be witnesses within the trial, set for March 29, 2026, in New York Metropolis federal court docket. Full of life’s facet needs to restrict who can have a look at what from the case to legal professionals solely as increasingly proof and different materials is collected.

Feb. 28 – Blake Full of life Hires Disaster PR Vet Nick Shapiro; Comes Out Victorious With Telecom Subpoenas

A federal choose partially denied a movement by the Bryan Freedman-repped Baldoni, his Wayfarer Studios, CEO, financier and publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel to squash subpoenas that Full of life’s legal professionals wished to serve on AT&T, T-Cellular, Verizon and others.

“The Subpoenas should be quashed to the extent they search the cellphone information of the Wayfarer Events,” dominated Decide Lewis J. Liman. His combined ruling the final Friday of Feb. offered a silver lining for Full of life, although.

“Full of life’s criticism already identifies many people who allegedly participated in a destructive media marketing campaign,” he stated. “She is permitted to make use of the instruments of discovery to determine the contact info or phone numbers for these people.” 

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Feb. 28 – Blake Full of life Agrees The New York Instances Ought to Exit Justin Baldoni’s Authorized Battle

“The Wayfarer Events’ FAC tells a one-sided story that has garnered loads of headlines,” the New York Instances declared in a submitting Feb. 28 asking to be faraway from Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit. “However The Instances doesn’t belong on this dispute.”