Justin Baldoni and his wife, Emily Baldoni, broke their silence for the first time in nearly two years on Wednesday, July 8, addressing the actor’s ongoing legal battle with It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively in a joint Instagram video.
The video comes weeks after a federal judge ruled that Lively is entitled to attorneys’ fees from Justin and his production company, Wayfarer Studios, with the actress seeking more than $8 million.
“We have not spoken publicly for the better part of the last two years, and it’s not because we haven’t had anything to say,” Justin said at the start of the nearly five-minute clip. “Because lord knows we have, but it just felt like every time we went to make a video like this where we wanted to speak, something was telling us not to.”
Emily said that while they remain grateful for their family and community, it does not erase what they went through. She described struggling to make sense of the situation, calling it something that had been touted as a fight for women.
“We’ve had to wrestle with so many things and try to understand so many things, like how could something like this even happen? Let alone disguise as a fight for women. So much to unpack,” Emily continued.
She added, “The truth is, reality is, there’s been a lot of trauma for us to move through as a family, which also makes it hard to speak.”
Justin echoed that hesitation, “We don’t even know if this is the right thing to say. We just know we need to share something.”
The dispute traces back to December 2024, when Lively filed a complaint with the California Civil Rights Department, accusing Justin of sexual harassment on the set of It Ends with Us, the 2024 film adaptation of Colleen Hoover‘s novel that Justin also directed.
She further accused Justin and Wayfarer Studios of orchestrating a smear campaign against her, allegations the studio and Justin have denied.
In April, a federal judge dismissed much of Lively’s case, including her sexual harassment claims, but allowed a retaliation claim against Justin’s public relations teams to move forward.
The two sides settled on the underlying dispute in May, and a separate defamation lawsuit that Wayfarer Studios had filed against Lively was dismissed in June 2025.
Reflecting on the past two years, Justin said the family is still working through the emotional aftermath of the public fallout.
“We are healing,” he said. “And if you’ve ever been through something traumatic, you know that healing isn’t linear. It looks different every day. We have had to rethink for ourselves what is real and what matters.”