{"id":1349,"date":"2026-05-08T13:38:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/blake-lively-and-justin-baldonis-legal-battle-isnt-over-yet-as-actress-gets-trolled-by-co-stars-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:38:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:38:03","slug":"blake-lively-and-justin-baldonis-legal-battle-isnt-over-yet-as-actress-gets-trolled-by-co-stars-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/blake-lively-and-justin-baldonis-legal-battle-isnt-over-yet-as-actress-gets-trolled-by-co-stars-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni&#8217;s legal battle isn&#8217;t over yet as actress gets trolled by co-star&#8217;s lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/127254927.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Justin Baldoni\u2019s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, claimed Blake Lively <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/04\/celebrity-news\/blake-lively-and-justin-baldoni-reach-shocking-agreement-in-it-ends-with-us-battle-before-trial\/\">settled her lawsuit<\/a> with her \u201cIt Ends With Us\u201d co-star and director because she was \u201cscared\u201d to testify at trial.<\/p>\n<p>Freedman made the surprising claim as Lively <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/06\/celebrity-news\/blake-lively-justin-baldonis-legal-battle-isnt-over-just-yet-despite-settlement\/\">continues to seek attorneys\u2019 fees and damages<\/a> connected with Baldoni\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/06\/09\/celebrity-news\/judge-tosses-justin-baldonis-400m-lawsuit-against-blake-lively-ryan-reynolds\/\">dismissed $400 million countersuit<\/a> against her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of the reason Blake settled is because she was scared to take the witness stand at trial,\u201d the attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/05\/07\/blake-lively-flamed-by-justin-baldoni-attorney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told TMZ<\/a> on Thursday. \u201cShe did not want to face cross-examination by anyone because that would require her to tell the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Justin Baldoni\u2019s lawyer (pictured here outside court on April 28) said Blake Lively settled her lawsuit with Baldoni because she was \u201cscared\u201d to testify. <span class=\"credit\">Paul Martinka for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Baldoni\u2019s lawyer made the surprising comments to TMZ on Thursday. <span class=\"credit\">Paul Martinka for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>He continued, \u201cBlake lied about telling Sony to destroy the dailies. She lied that she never told\u00a0[\u2018It Ends With Us\u2019 author] Colleen Hoover\u00a0to unfollow Justin Baldoni. In her deposition, Colleen said Blake asked her to unfollow him. And there were more lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Freedman\u2019s comments didn\u2019t end there, because the lawyer went on to slam the 38-year-old actress over the outcome of the pair\u2019s ugly 18-month legal battle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBottom line, Blake filed a claim for $300 million and she ended up with nothing,\u201d he charged. \u201cIf <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/07\/celebrity-news\/blake-lively-celebrates-resounding-victory-after-settling-lawsuit-with-justin-baldoni\/\">this is a resounding victory<\/a>, what does a defeat look like?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cPart of the reason Blake settled is because she was scared to take the witness stand at trial,\u201d Freedman (pictured here with Baldoni outside court on Feb. 12) said. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cBottom line, Blake filed a claim for $300 million and she ended up with nothing,\u201d Freedman added of Lively (seen here leaving court on Feb. 11). \u201cIf this is a resounding victory, what does a defeat look like?\u201d <span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He went on, \u201cIf she\u2019s doing this for survivors of sexual assault and sexual harassment and retaliation, as she says, then why don\u2019t you take the stand at trial and prove it to the world? A trial would have exposed her lies and the entire smear she was talking about in her interviews that she did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Lively\u2019s team told TMZ that they \u201cguess\u201d Baldoni and Freedman are \u201cno longer \u2018ecstatic\u2019 about the settlement.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/08\/celebrity-news\/blake-lively-and-justin-baldonis-legal-battle-isnt-over-yet-as-actress-gets-trolled-by-co-stars-lawyer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Baldoni\u2019s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, claimed Blake Lively settled her lawsuit with her \u201cIt Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/127254927.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}