Multiple other women involved in the film’s production had serious problems with Justin Baldoni at the time of Blake Lively’s legal struggle against him over purported inappropriate conduct in “It Ends With Us.”
One of the movie’s actors, Jenny Slate, sent texts to Justin and his “truly unprofessional” business partner, Jamey Heath, in 2023, the year the movie began production, according to court documents(via TMZ).
Slate penned, “This has really been a disturbing shoot, and I’m one of many who feel this way, and Blake and I have both complained directly to Ange [production executive Andrea Giannetti] at Sony (and they agree w us btw). Justin is truly a false ally, and I’m unwilling to do anything that promotes the image that he’s crafting as a ‘male feminist’ … like … honestly, I have no words to describe what a fraud he is.”
She added … “I honestly have never ever encountered anything like this dude. He’s the biggest clown and the most intense narcissist.” Slate is reported later in a deposition as saying, “Justin and Jamey freak me out.” Slate was worried about the amount of “crap” Lively had received from Justin and Jamey, based on the deposition transcript, and accused the two guys of fabricating “weird lies.”
When actress Isabela Ferrer was questioned in a deposition about capturing a private moment between two teenagers, she claims Baldoni remarked that it was “hot.” Ferrer stated, “It didn’t feel appropriate in a work environment.” It didn’t feel like a criticism of her behavior, adding that it was “personal” and “out of place.”
Speaking to TMZ about this recently revealed information, Lively’s attorney Sigrid McCawley stated, “In his TED Talk to promote his brand as an advocate for women, Justin Baldoni said we must ‘listen to the women’…even if what they are saying is against you.’ See how he actually reacts in the bombshell new evidence released for the first time, which includes sworn testimony and contemporaneous messages from numerous women who actually worked with him.”
