New court documents have revealed fresh insight into the confrontation between Ryan Reynolds and It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni, with Taylor Swift and Hugh Jackman allegedly in the room when the exchange unfolded.
The details appear in a newly unsealed exhibit from the high-profile legal battle between Lively and Baldoni. The document contains a timeline compiled by Wayfarer Studios co-founder Jamey Heath’s team and sent to Baldoni’s publicist in July 2024.
According to that record, the pivotal meeting took place on April 25, 2023, inside Reynolds and Lively’s New York City penthouse. During the encounter, Reynolds allegedly “unloaded” on Baldoni, stating “how horrible it was” for a man to question a woman’s weight.
The document further claims that Baldoni “was fat shaming Blake,” and that the confrontation left him “completely embarrassed and apologised and even shared some tears.”
The same recap states that Taylor Swift and Hugh Jackman “were also present in the apt at the time” of the confrontation.
Lively filed suit against Baldoni and multiple other parties connected to the film in December 2024, alleging sexual harassment and retaliation. Baldoni has denied all allegations, and the case is currently scheduled to proceed to trial in March 2026.
Both Swift and Jackman are listed by Lively’s legal team as potential witnesses. Jackman made a visible show of support for Lively at the New York premiere of It Ends With Us on August 9, 2024, where he posed alongside the actress and Reynolds.
He later appeared with Lively on the cover of Vogue’s September 2024 issue.
Swift’s involvement in the wider saga has been the subject of repeated speculation. In May, Baldoni’s attorneys attempted to subpoena the singer, prompting a strongly worded response from her team.
“Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film, she did not even see It Ends With Us until weeks after its public release, and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history,” her representative said in a statement.
“The connection Taylor had to this film was permitting the use of one song, ‘My Tears Ricochet,’ ” the rep added, alleging that her name was being leveraged “to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.”
At the centre of the legal dispute are competing accounts of how Baldoni addressed Lively’s weight during production.
In her amended complaint, Lively’s legal team alleged he was “finding back-channel ways of criticising her body and weight,” and claimed she “was humiliated to learn that Mr. Baldoni secretly called her fitness trainer without her knowledge or permission, and implied that he wanted her to lose weight in two weeks.”
Baldoni’s now-dismissed $400 million countersuit offered a different explanation. His attorneys asserted that he contacted Lively’s trainer “to ask what Lively weighed so that he could train his back muscles in preparation for a lift scene,” arguing the inquiry was made to “avoid injury” given his history of chronic back issues.
Author Colleen Hoover has weighed in on the controversy engulfing the It Ends With Us film adaptation, calling the highly publicised conflict between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni “unfortunate” and “disappointing.”
“It feels like a circus,” Hoover recently told ELLE.
“When there are real people involved, with real feelings and emotions. This actually truly has impacted some of the actors’ careers in huge ways. And I just find it all around sad.”
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