Amid his ongoing legal battle with Blake Lively, It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni has shared his alleged handwritten notes from a meeting with an intimacy coordinator for the film.
The notes from Baldoni, 41, were shared via a website with the URL “thelawsuitinfo.com” which Us Weekly confirmed went live on Saturday, February 1. Last month, the director promised the now-live website would support his allegations against Lively. Two documents were uploaded to Baldoni’s website titled “Amended Complaint” and “Timeline of Relevant Events” and are available to download.
The timeline claims that Baldoni met with an intimacy coordinator on April 21, 2023, to go over how they would shoot the sex scenes for the movie. Both the timeline and the amended complaint note that it was “important to [Baldoni] that the intimacy coordinator be a woman to help craft sex scenes that would speak to the book’s mostly female audience — i.e., be written from the ‘female gaze.’”
Us has reached out to reps for both Baldoni and Lively for comment.
The document includes an image of Baldoni’s handwritten notes from the meeting, which he claimed were shared with Lively during one of their “script-writing meetings” at her residence in New York.
“These notes would later become the basis for Lively’s Complaint, in which she states that Baldoni would talk about his own sex life and insert gratuitous scenes with Lively’s character orgasming,” the document alleged. “As seen in the notes, these mentions come directly from the intimacy coordinator’s notes — ‘goes down on her,’ ‘orgasm,’ ‘foreplay,’ ‘The clit test.’”
The document continued, “Ideally, these conversations would have taken place directly between Lively and the intimacy coordinator directly, as Baldoni had requested. However, Lively declined to meet with her, leaving Baldoni in the less than ideal position of having to relay these notes to Lively in her penthouse.”
Lively, 37, officially filed a lawsuit against Baldoni on December 31, 2024, Us previously confirmed, wherein she accused the director of sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and lost wages.
Baldoni has denied the allegations, going so far as to file his own lawsuit against Lively, her publicist Leslie Sloan, and Lively’s husband Ryan Reynolds. In his lawsuit, where he is seeking $400 million in damages, he accused the trio of civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy and more. In his lawsuit, Baldoni claimed Lively had never met with an intimacy coordinator while filming It Ends With Us.
Lively denies the allegations.
Last month, Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman released footage from the set of the film, obtained by Us, in an attempt to disprove Lively’s claims that Baldoni was behaving inappropriately while filming a slow dance montage.
Freedman said in a statement to Us after the footage was released in January: “Us received this video from legal counsel, Bryan Freedman who has gone on record numerous times and told the public that Justin Baldoni and team has nothing to hide and this video, once more proves this. Justin and team have the right to defend themselves with the truth and this is what we will be continuing to show with the upcoming website containing all correspondence as well as relevant videos that directly quash her claims.”
Lively’s lawyers, however, retaliated with a statement to Us: “Justin Baldoni and his lawyer may hope that this latest stunt will get ahead of the damaging evidence against him, but the video itself is damning. Every frame of the released footage corroborates, to the letter, what Ms. Lively described in Paragraph 48 of her Complaint.”
The statement continued, “Every moment of this was improvised by Mr. Baldoni with no discussion or consent in advance and no intimacy coordinator present.”
“Mr. Baldoni was not only Ms. Lively’s costar, but the director, the head of [the] studio and Ms. Lively’s boss,” Lively’s attorneys continued. “The video shows Ms. Lively leaning away and repeatedly asking for the characters to just talk. Any woman who has been inappropriately touched in the workplace will recognize Ms. Lively’s discomfort. They will recognize her attempts at levity to try to deflect the unwanted touching. No woman should have to take defensive measures to avoid being touched by their
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