Lively and Baldoni both played in the film, “it ends with us”, but had to slide it on the legal front after the actress allegedly sexually harassed during the shooting.

Before their bitter legal battle, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni seemed to be close to each other while the screenshots of their friendly conversations hit the internet.

The Hollywood Power couple asked a judge to reject the trial of $ 400 million in baldoni against them.

According to VarietyLively and Reynolds made the request in a letter written to judge Lewis Liman by their lawyer, Michael Gottlieb, after Limam asked them to send a written opinion to “indicate in a sentence the accused’s intention to make a Request in rejection “.

“The animated parties-Reynolds intend to move to reject the plans of the applicants,” wrote Gottlieb.

The advertising of Lively, Leslie Sloane, who was also appointed defendant of the pursuit of Baldoni, filed a similar opinion on Wednesday.

The lawyers for both parties are expected to face the court on Monday at the first hearing of the case with a preliminary conference.

The conference was postponed from a first date of February 12, with a trial scheduled for March 9, 2026.

The judge also asked that the two parties file a plan allowing a trial on this date.

The star of “Gossip Girl” and her husband face an imminent assignment “to publish all the forms of communication that they shared on Baldoni and his cinematographic adaptation of the successful novel by Colleen Hoover,” IT ends with us “.

The assignment would see them put back any relevant correspondence, including emails, SMS and all other forms of communication that can be deemed appropriate to the case.

They were also struck by a deposition, alongside their publicist Sloane, who will see them to provide hours of testimony and to be questioned by Baldoni lawyers.

However, Lively would have chosen not to follow the request for deposit of the court if Freedman does not receive an order of a gag.

According to VarietyThe Baldoni team wants to deposit as soon as possible. But they told the judge that her lawyers indicated that she would refuse to let Freedman make the deposition, due to “unrecognized statements made by Mr. Freedman”.

“We do not know any situation which would justify the registered part of having the choice in which the lawyer takes his deposition,” wrote Baldoni lawyer Kevin Fritz.

Fritz continued: “The parties to the disputes simply have the right to dictate which of the lawyers of their opponents may or not take their deposit or make another aspect of the case of the opposing party”.

Lively and Reynolds asked the judge to make a gag prescription against Baldoni lawyers, led by Bryan Freedman, for having made “extrajudicial statements”.

Their lawyer, Gottlieb, wrote a letter to the judge demanding an urgent conference to highlight their “growing concerns” of what they have described as an alleged “extrajudicial fault” of Freedman.

He decreased the reports of a new website that the Baldoni camp would have created to “strategically free up the selected documents and communications,” slamming it as a ploy to “influence the procedure and the perception of the public” of the case With “inflammatory content”.

“He also indicated that his priority is to” torpedo the career of Blake Lively For Good “by, among other things, by creating a website to publish documents and strategically selected communications between Ms. Lively and Mr. Baldoni”, writes Gottlieb in the letter.

“The planned website will publish what Mr. Freedman will proclaim selfishness will be exchanges of text, text and electronic mail not published between Live omis of disclosure, including communications that Mr. Freedman and his customers may have Being deleted, “continued Gottlieb.

Lively and Baldoni were apparently friends before their relationship was sour during the filming of “it ends with us”.

THE Daily mail obtained an instantaneous of their conversation, in which the pair seems friendly and almost flirtatious.

In court documents, Baldoni said that his relationship with Lively “approached” the set and that they “often shared stories and photos of their lives, behaved on family diseases and exchanged jokes and memes “.

In one of their text messages, Lively said to Baldoni: “I feel the same thing. It’s such a good feeling of doing work that we are proud of. And to do it together,” adding “he just clicks When we find it. “

“I like the sentimental blah,” replied Baldoni, encouraging Lively to joke: “I never met her.”

He joked: “I also like a-Shole Blake … Don’t worry.”

These texts occurred after Baldoni published 10 minutes of raw sequences of “it ends with us”, presenting a crucial crucial dance scene for the trial of sexual harassment of Lively and a vocal note that he sent him at 2 morning.