
The Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively legal dispute has gotten more complicated — again.
Just days after Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds filed to dismiss his $400 million defamation lawsuit, Baldoni has responded by launching a website containing private text messages and documents from their It Ends with Us film controversy.
The actor and director published 'Lawsuit Info' on Friday, alongside an amended court complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. The website, which went live on Saturday afternoon in the US, features two key documents: a comprehensive timeline of events and the formal legal complaint.
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The extensive timeline begins with Baldoni's first contact with author Colleen Hoover in January 2019, and chronicles what Baldoni says is every piece of relevant communication over the course of the film's development, production, and release, charting the lead up to the eventual legal battle. The 168-page timeline also includes previously unseen messages between the parties, including private texts alleged to be from both Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds.
The newly released messages reveal just how dramatically their relationships shifted during the film's production. What began with enthusiastic texts from both Lively and Reynolds — including Reynolds gushing about Baldoni being 'dynamic' and Lively playfully discussing her approach to dialogue — eventually soured into the bitter multi-million dollar legal dispute.