Blake Lively has submitted an amended complaint in her ongoing legal dispute with Justin Baldoni. The 163-page document was filed in a New York federal court on Tuesday, February 18.
This updated lawsuit, which Lively initially filed on December 31, targets her It Ends With Us co-star Baldoni along with others.
Her attorneys, Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb, stated that this new version “provides significant additional evidence and corroboration of her original claims” and “includes previously undisclosed communications” involving Lively, Sony, Wayfarer Studios, and “numerous other witnesses.”
The lawyers also mentioned that the amended complaint introduces a new defamation claim, which they assert is “based on the repeated false statements the defendants have made about Ms. Lively since she filed her original complaint,” adding Jed Wallace and his company as defendants. (Wallace is separately suing Lively and has denied any involvement in a smear campaign.)
In one section of the amended complaint, Lively’s legal team argues that Baldoni and the other defendants’ “false narrative crumbles under the indisputable truth” that Lively “was not alone in complaining about Mr. Baldoni and raised her concerns contemporaneously as they arose in 2023, not in connection with some imagined power play for control of the film in 2024.”
A spokesperson for Lively stated that the amended complaint “details the corroboration that backs up Blake’s original sexual harassment and retaliation concerns.”
The spokesperson emphasized that it reveals “other women confided in Blake about their discomfort and fear of coming forward, as well as their concern about the current public vitriol.”
On January 31, Baldoni, 41, also amended his countersuit against Lively, Ryan Reynolds, their publicist, and The New York Times, making it accessible on a website for his followers to view his court filings.
The case between Lively and Baldoni is currently scheduled for trial in March 2026. Attorneys for both parties have recently decided to forgo mediation.
During the discovery process, Lively’s attorneys announced last week that they issued subpoenas for Baldoni’s phone records, believing these records “will expose the people, tactics, and methods that have worked to ‘destroy’ and ‘bury’ [Lively’s] reputation and family over the past year.”
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