Blake Lively’s deposition in her case with Justin Baldoni took place on July 31. Lively’s lawyer alleged in a new motion to the judge that Baldoni’s legal team leaked details of the deposition to create misleading narratives about a "face-to-face showdown" between the two.

A new update on the legal battle between Blake Lively and her It Ends with Us co-star Justin Baldoni has unearthed new information from a text chain. The messages exchanged between the editors of the 2024 film hint that Lively had significant control over what sensitive scenes would ultimately make the final cut of the

In June, Judge Lewis J. Liman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed Baldoni's $400 million countersuit against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, the couple's publicist Leslie Sloane, and Sloane's public relations company Vision PR for alleged extortion and defamation.