:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(724x331:726x333)/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-010725-2-549648a2b29044469f1e59766b2d51bd.jpg?w=696&resize=696,0&ssl=1 "Justin Baldoni Reflects on ‘Intense’ Year in Podcast Taped Before Blake Lively Court Filing")
- Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively remain in a continuous lawful fight after the starlet filed a claim against the actor/director, charging him of unwanted sexual advances and a vindictive public defamation of character to “destroy” her credibility
- The allegations came months after the launch of their movie It Ends with Us, and Baldoni reacted by countersuing the starlet
- Although he did not go over Lively in his newly-released podcast look, he narrated his “intense” year
Before being taken legal action against by Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni was currently having an “intense” year.
Baldoni made the discovery in an episode of the Gent’s Talk Podcast launched on Monday,Feb 10. The installation was recorded in November 2024– a month prior to Lively, 37, submitted a claim versus her It Ends with Us costar and supervisor, 41, charging him of unwanted sexual advances, adhered to by a vindictive public defamation of character to “destroy” her credibility.
“This morning, I sent a text message to my best friend Jamey and the president of my company, Tera, and I told them that I wasn’t in the best place,” Baldoni claimed on the podcast. “I told them that I was exhausted, that I haven’t given myself time to recover or time to heal.”
Jamey Heath is the CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of Wayfarer Studios and Tera Hanks is head of stateof the production company
Baldoni, that additionally guided It Ends with Us, claimed his feelings were the outcome of “an intense year.”
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“A lot of material success and a lot of emotional stress was very hard on me and my family. I wear a lot of hats, and I carry a lot because I love what I do,” he claimed, keeping in mind that he has “love” for his business.
“I love the people that work for us. I love the movies that we make. I love the impact that we have and yet sometimes it’s easy to, as you said earlier, fall back into our programming and be swept away in the current of self and be kind of overtaken by the wave of success and opportunity,” Baldoni claimed.
He described that after getting up at 4:30 in the early morning with his “heart racing,” he understood that he was managing “some anxiety” and “not in the best place.”
After monitoring in with himself, Baldoni claimed he was advised that he required to prioritize his time and “just haven’t given myself the time to heal from this year that I needed.”
He claimed that “in the spirit of vulnerability,” he shared the very same message with his aide and a comparable text with his press agent,Jennifer Abel
The star shared that he is a “work in progress,” that is “always trying to be radically sincere and authentic to myself” to “have the most impact.”
“And sometimes I can get lost in the same way that everybody gets lost, but healing isn’t linear, and growth isn’t linear, and if you don’t have setbacks and if you don’t have plateaus, then you don’t have the opportunity to group and to push forward,” claimedBaldoni
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The podcast’s launch comes in the middle of Baldoni’s recurring lawful fight withLively
On December 21, Lively called Wayfarer, Baldoni, Heath, Abel and others in her claim.
On December 31, Baldoni taken legal action against The New York Times for $250 million, affirming libel, incorrect light intrusion of personal privacy, promissory scams and violation of implied-in-fact agreement, after the electrical outlet released a tale entitled “We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine” concerning the accusations versus him.
A month later on, Baldoni submitted one more claim filing a claim against Lively, her other half, Ryan Reynolds, their press agent Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s public relations company Vision PUBLIC RELATIONS,Inc for $400 million, on insurance claims of civil extortion and disparagement, to name a few insurance claims.
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Baldoni and Lively are set up for test on March 9, 2026.
