Justin Baldoni, the director of It Ends With Us, has revealed handwritten notes from a meeting with an intimacy coordinator, further escalating his ongoing legal battle with actress Blake Lively.
The documents, posted on a newly launched website called thelawsuitinfo.com, were made available on Saturday, February 1, 2025, and aim to shed light on the accusations that have been made.
In a statement last month, Baldoni suggested that the documents, including the handwritten notes and other filings, would help support his case against Lively’s allegations. The website offers downloadable documents, including the Amended Complaint and a Timeline of Relevant Events, which outline the ongoing legal conflict.
The timeline reveals that on April 21, 2023, Baldoni met with the intimacy coordinator to discuss the film’s intimate scenes. According to the notes, Baldoni felt it was essential for the coordinator to be a woman to ensure the scenes were crafted with the perspective of the “female gaze”, which he believed would resonate with the film’s predominantly female audience. Both the timeline and the complaint stress that this approach was central to the project’s authenticity.
Included on the website is a snapshot of Baldoni’s handwritten meeting notes, which he claims were shared with Lively during a scriptwriting session at her New York home. These notes, according to Baldoni’s documents, later became the foundation for Lively’s lawsuit. The document alleges that Lively filed a complaint, claiming that Baldoni inserted graphic references to his own sex life and suggested explicit scenes involving Lively’s character.
The notes contained controversial terms, including phrases like “goes down on her,” “orgasm,” “f*ay,”** and “The ct test.”** Baldoni’s document asserts that, ideally, Lively should have communicated directly with the intimacy coordinator, as he had requested, but that Lively had declined to do so. This led Baldoni to relay the sensitive information to her himself, which he claims was an uncomfortable position to be in.
Lively filed a lawsuit on December 31, 2024, accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, emotional distress, and other offenses. In response, Baldoni filed a countersuit, claiming civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, and seeking $400 million in damages. Baldoni denies the allegations and asserts that Lively never met with the intimacy coordinator during filming. Lively, however, has firmly denied Baldoni’s version of events.
