What Happened Between Justin Baldoni & Ryan Reynolds? He Allegedly ‘Berated’ Him in Front of Blake Lively & the It Ends With Us Producers

January 2024: Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds invite Justin Baldoni & crew to their New York City home

In Baldoni’s lawsuit, Baldoni alleges that when the couple invited him and the It Ends With Us crew to their penthouse just days before filming on January 4, 2023. They were “blindsided” when they presented a list of grievances that were both unanticipated and troubling. Reynolds launched into a tirade, berating Baldoni in what Baldoni later described as a “traumatic” encounter, stating he had “never been spoken to like that in his life.”

When Reynolds became further enraged, everyone, including the producer Lively had asked production to engage and a representative of Sony that was in attendance, left that “meeting” in shock. The producer offered that in his 40-year career he had never seen anyone speak to someone like that in a meeting.

July 2024: Ryan Reynolds allegedly told Justin Baldoni’s talent agency to drop him

In his lawsuit, Baldoni claims that he received word that, during the premiere of Reynold’s movie Deadpool & Wolverine, Reynolds approached Baldoni’s agent at William Morris Endeavor and demanded that the agent “drop” Baldoni.

December 21, 2024: Blake Lively files complaint against Wayfarer Studios & Justin Baldoni

In a lawsuit revealed by The New York Times, Lively filed in her complaint that Baldoni and producer Jamey Heath had repeatedly violated physical boundaries and made sexual and other inappropriate comments to her. Wayfarer Studios agreed to Lively’s needs to provide a full-time intimacy coordinator, bring in an outside producer, and put other safeguards on set. The men also signed a contract to not retaliate against the actress. The lawsuit claimed Baldoni and Heath hired a PR Crisis management and campaigned to ruin Lively’s reputation.

December 21, 2024: Justin Baldoni is dropped by WME

Deadline reported that Baldoni was dropped by WME leadership due, at least in part, to Blake Lively’s sexual harassment and retaliation complaint.

December 31, 2024: Justin Baldoni Sues The New York Times

In response to Blake Lively’s complaint about a smear campaign following the premiere of It Ends With Us, Baldoni and his team offered evidence of missing texts that were omitted from the Gossip Girl star’s CDR.

The complaint obtained by Variety claims that the Times reporters overlooked text messages indicating that Lively’s team may have been waging its own PR war against Baldoni. The lawsuit claimed, “The [Times] article also deliberately ignores that Lively’s publicist, Leslie Sloane (“Sloane”), of Vision PR, once backed by Harvey Weinstein, seeded stories critical of Baldoni, including that Baldoni was a sexual predator, ahead of the film’s release.”

January 1, 2025: WME Agency denies dropping Justin Baldoni because of Ryan Reynolds

In a statement to People, WME said that Justin Baldoni’s dropping was unrelated to Ryan Reynold’s alleged involvement. “In Baldoni’s filing there is a claim that Reynolds pressured Baldoni’s agent at the Deadpool & Wolverine premiere. This is not true,” the agency said on Wednesday, Jan. 1. “Baldoni’s former representative was not at the Deadpool & Wolverine premiere nor was there any pressure from Reynolds or Lively at any time to drop Baldoni as a client.”

January 2, 2024: A source claims Ryan Reynolds never screamed at Justin Baldoni

A source told TMZ that Ryan Reynolds was not screaming at or berating Justin Baldoni. The source noted that he was “angry and stern,” adding Reynolds spoke in an “impassioned” way.

January 2, 2024: Justin Baldoni will sue Blake Lively

In an appearance on NBC News, Baldoni’s attorney Bryan Freedman told reporters that he is planning to sue Blake Lively, “Absolutely … yes.”

“We plan to release every single text messages between the two of them,” Freedman told NBC News. “We want the truth to be out there. We want the documents to be out there. We want people to make their determination based on receipts.”