Justin Baldoni Reflects on ‘Intense’ Year in Podcast Taped Before Blake Lively Court Filing

• Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively stay in a steady lawful battle after the starlet filed a declare in opposition to the actor/director, charging him of undesirable sexual advances and a vindictive public defamation of character to “destroy” her credibility
• The allegations got here months after the launch of their film It Ends with Us, and Baldoni reacted by countersuing the starlet
• Although he didn’t go over Lively in his newly-released podcast look, he narrated his “intense” 12 months

Before being taken authorized motion in opposition to by Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni was at present having an “intense” 12 months.

Baldoni made the invention in an episode of the Gent’s Talk Podcast launched on Monday,Feb 10. The set up was recorded in November 2024– a month previous to Lively, 37, submitted a declare versus her It Ends with Us costar and supervisor, 41, charging him of undesirable sexual advances, adhered to by a vindictive public defamation of character to “destroy” her credibility.

“This morning, I sent a text message to my best friend Jamey and the president of my company, Tera, and I told them that I wasn’t in the best place,” Baldoni claimed on the podcast. “I told them that I was exhausted, that I haven’t given myself time to recover or time to heal.”

Jamey Heath is the CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of Wayfarer Studios and Tera Hanks is head of stateof the production company

Baldoni, that moreover guided It Ends with Us, claimed his emotions have been the end result of “an intense year.”

“A lot of material success and a lot of emotional stress was very hard on me and my family. I wear a lot of hats, and I carry a lot because I love what I do,” he claimed, retaining in thoughts that he has “love” for his enterprise.

“I love the people that work for us. I love the movies that we make. I love the impact that we have and yet sometimes it’s easy to, as you said earlier, fall back into our programming and be swept away in the current of self and be kind of overtaken by the wave of success and opportunity,” Baldoni claimed.

He described that after getting up at 4:30 within the early morning along with his “heart racing,” he understood that he was managing “some anxiety” and “not in the best place.”

After monitoring in with himself, Baldoni claimed he was suggested that he required to prioritize his time and “just haven’t given myself the time to heal from this year that I needed.”

He claimed that “in the spirit of vulnerability,” he shared the exact same message along with his aide and a comparable textual content along with his press agent,Jennifer Abel

The star shared that he’s a “work in progress,” that’s “always trying to be radically sincere and authentic to myself” to “have the most impact.”

“And sometimes I can get lost in the same way that everybody gets lost, but healing isn’t linear, and growth isn’t linear, and if you don’t have setbacks and if you don’t have plateaus, then you don’t have the opportunity to group and to push forward,” claimedBaldoni

The podcast’s launch comes in the midst of Baldoni’s recurring lawful battle withLively

On December 21, Lively referred to as Wayfarer, Baldoni, Heath, Abel and others in her declare.

On December 31, Baldoni taken authorized motion in opposition to The New York Times for $250 million, affirming libel, incorrect mild intrusion of private privateness, promissory scams and violation of implied-in-fact settlement, after {the electrical} outlet launched a story entitled “We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine” in regards to the accusations versus him.

A month afterward, Baldoni submitted yet another declare submitting a declare in opposition to Lively, her different half, Ryan Reynolds, their press agent Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s public relations firm Vision PUBLIC RELATIONS,Inc for $400 million, on insurance coverage claims of civil extortion and disparagement, to call just a few insurance coverage claims.

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Baldoni and Lively are arrange for take a look at on March 9, 2026.