Pop Apologists
255:BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART ONE! BLAKE'S COMPLAINT AGAINST JUSTIN & JUSTIN'S LAWSUIT AGAINST NYT
08 Jan 2025
Lauren and Chan are sharing a deep dive on everything we know about the battle between Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni so far. The gals bring everyone up to speed on the drama that surrounded It Ends With Us when the movie was released in August 2024 and the tide of public opinion turning on Blake Lively (1:48). They discuss Blake’s bombshell legal complaint against Justin that dropped just before Christmas 2024, including the specifics of each complaint (6:19). Lauren and Chan dive into the It Ends With Us premier, where Justin and the Wayfarer Studios team were segregated from the rest of the cast (28:42). The gals get into Justin’s hiring of a PR crisis team following the IEWU premier, the massive public backlash against Blake (30:26), and the effects of the smear campaign (33:19). They dive into Justin’s lawsuit against the New York Times(41:23), as well as the allegations that involve Blake (48:57) Finally, Lauren and Chan discuss the points in both Justin and Blake's filings where two things can be true (53:31). Shop Clean Simple Eats protein powder and use code POPAPOLOGISTS for 10% off! Click here to try EarlyBird CBD/THC gummies and use code POP20 for 20% off. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp: Visit BetterHelp.com/popapologists to get 10% off your first month. Visit progressive.com to see if you could save on car insurance. To support the show, consider subscribing on Patreon or on Apple Podcasts, where you can get a bonus episode of Pop Apologists every Friday! Please note this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Just a quick note before we begin this episode, we're going to be discussing domestic violence, sexual harassment, sexual assault. So please just take care when listening. Also, we just want to say we are going over the facts of a huge amount from Blake Lively's complaint and Justin Baldoni's lawsuit. If we misspeak at any moment or misstate any facts, we apologize.
It's a huge amount of material to try to condense into a single episode. We're just doing our best. Love you guys. Thanks.
can i just say i just think there are too many awards i don't think this award needs to exist and maybe everyone's gonna you know put on my pink pussy hat or whatever a man-hating hat but i just think this award we don't need it no we don't need it let's just funnel all that money that went towards you know the steak and chicken at this thing towards survivors of domestic violence or whatever
Well, well, well, the long awaited deep dive of the Blake Lively versus Justin Baldoni drama on the set of It Ends With Us. We have one legal complaint. We have one full lawsuit. So much to get into today. There's 160 plus pages to cover. We have a lot to dig into, everyone. We've been waiting to speak on this till we were fully prepared and I'm excited. I'm excited too.
I've been dying to chat about it with you. Everyone, we're going to try to take this as chronologically as possible to try to make it make sense. And we're going to just really give a comprehensive overview of everything that's going on. So we are also going to try to stick to the facts.
We're going to give, of course, some commentary, but we're going to try not to get sidetracked about Blake Lively's style, for example. I think we've had that conversation. There is one thing I want to talk about with the beanie. Okay. And that's the only thing I'm going to say, and we'll get to it when we get to it, and I'll keep it concise. But anyway, let's get started. Let's get started.
Okay, so everyone, in 2019, a small but burgeoning production company named Wayfair Studios bought the film rights to the massively popular Colin Hoover book, It Ends With Us. Co-founded by Justin Baldoni and Steve Sarowitz and led by the CEO, Jamie Heath, Wayfair claimed to harness the power of storytelling to champion inspirational stories that act as true agents for social change.
A fitting description for the studio, given all that has transpired in the past couple of weeks. Albeit not exactly what we can imagine they had in mind. Right. So everyone, Blake Lively was cast as the protagonist, Lily Bloom, and was given also an executive producer credit. Baldoni took on triple roles as male lead, Ryle Kincaid, the film's director and producer.
It's important to note that even though he was not the bigger name, he was absolutely the boss on this movie and Blake Lively's superior. So production began in May 2023, but as we know, faced significant setbacks due to the writer's guilt strike and later after the SAG after strike, delaying its release until August 2024.
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