Blake Lively Calls Out Justin Baldoni’s New Move Aimed At Taylor Swift

In a brand new submitting, the actress argued that her “It Ends With Us” co-star waited too lengthy to make this transfer, noting that he failed to take action inside the earlier months and that the alleged timing of the deposition falls after the shut of discovery.

Justin Baldoni and Blake Full of life are at the moment embroiled in a sexual harassment lawsuit, which Full of life filed towards Baldoni following their work collectively on the movie.

Lower than 24 hours after Justin Baldoni’s group filed paperwork claiming Taylor Swift had agreed to take a seat for a deposition, Blake Full of life fired again with a response, urging the courtroom to grant the actor any extra time to depose the singer.

In her personal submitting on September 12, Full of life’s authorized group argued that Baldoni had delayed too lengthy in looking for the deposition, stating that “discovery has been ongoing for greater than six months.”

They additional claimed Baldoni’s legal professionals didn’t attain out to Swift’s representatives till earlier this week, and even when she had agreed, the proposed dates of October 20–25 fall outdoors the courtroom’s discovery deadline.

“At any level over the previous six months, [Baldoni’s team] might have observed a deposition, served a subpoena, and negotiated an agreeable time and place for this deposition. However they didn’t,” learn the submitting, per Us Weekly.

It additional learn, “Now,  lengthy after dates and places for all different get together and third-party witnesses have been negotiated and agreed to [they have] come to this Court docket and demand the correct to take this deposition — and this deposition alone — greater than three weeks after the shut of reality discovery and ten days after the events are resulting from trade knowledgeable studies.”

In her submitting, Full of life additionally blasted Baldoni, arguing that his push for a deposition at this stage confirmed a “lack of diligence” and a disregard for Swift’s “privateness and schedule.”

She additional claimed that the actor meant to make use of the deposition to create a “media spectacle on this matter,” seemingly referencing how Baldoni and his group dragged Swift into the lawsuit by repeatedly mentioning her in courtroom paperwork and issuing a subpoena to depose her months earlier than however later withdrawing it.

“Such a exhibiting could be anticipated for any deposition occurring after the shut of discovery, particularly so for a 3rd get together, however is much more related for this third get together, whom [Baldoni’s team] have persistently sought to make use of to generate a media spectacle on this matter,” the submitting additionally learn.

Swift’s lawyer has since slammed the declare from Baldoni’s camp that she has agreed to be deposed in his ongoing authorized feud along with her former pal, Full of life.

In keeping with the Daily Mail, the lawyer famous that the singer will solely take part if compelled by regulation to take action, stressing that she has no “materials function” within the former co-stars’ courtroom case.

A letter from Swift’s authorized group learn partially: “Additional, my shopper didn’t comply with a deposition, but when she is compelled right into a deposition, we suggested (after first listening to in regards to the deposition simply three days in the past) that her schedule would accommodate the time required through the week of October 20 if the events had been capable of work out their disputes.”

Forward of the trial in Could 2026, Baldoni’s protection has been struggling some losses, with one of many newest being a decide’s determination to chop Full of life’s deposition from the courtroom docket, per Deadline.

“The Wayfarer Events’ attachment of all the, practically 300-page deposition—after citing solely two pages of it within the Letter—served no correct litigation goal and as an alternative seems to have been meant to burden Full of life (and in consequence, the Court docket) and to ask public hypothesis and scandal,” mentioned Choose Lewis Liman, refrencing Baldoni and his fellow defendants that make up the Wayfarer Events.

Liman had made the order in response to Full of life’s movement to maintain her deposition sealed, by which he additionally claimed that the Wayfarer Events failed to point out all the deposition was related to their case, nor might they.

He added, The conclusion is inescapable that the Wayfarer Events filed gratuitous quantities of irrelevant pages in order that, if Full of life moved for continued sealing of the irrelevant pages, the Wayfarer Events might then use Full of life’s response for their very own public-relations functions.”