Holly Wainwright

It is front and center in the plot.

The movie got made and the movie was a huge hit, proving Claire Stevens wrong.

is lily bloom that's all i need to say against a modest production budget of 25 million it grossed around 351 million dollars huge movie right but before the hit part happened it obvious it was obvious that things were falling apart behind the scenes everything had gone very very wrong we're not going to take you through because again i know claire stevens has a powerpoint on this somewhere you

You went very deep at the time.

You were a great source of info.

And there was this press tour that was like separate red carpets and warring factions and all this stuff.

And then in December 2024, Lively sued Baldoni, accusing him of harassment, sexual misconduct, and a smear campaign on the set of their movie.

She claimed that Baldoni conspired with publicists to preemptively destroy her reputation, hence the dodgy press tour, after she privately accused him of sexually harassing her on the movie set.

There were a lot of damning texts released.

All hell broke loose.

Then Baldoni countersued.

He basically alleged that Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, always wanted to take over this movie.

The control of the script, the edit, all the things that they had it in for him and they used their very famous friends to intimidate and harass him.

And so here we are.

Suddenly...

Just weeks before this mess was all going to go to court, all these cases have been disappeared.

Wait, it hadn't even gone to court yet?

Some things had been dropped, not dropped.

Things had gradually been dropped.

So first of all, Baldoni's case against Lively got dropped.