Blake Lively Will Be ‘Subpoenaed’ Over Texts, Emails About Justin Baldoni

Lively initially filed a lawsuit where she accused Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set of the film. However, he denied it and filed a $400 million countersuit where he accused her of using her star power to usurp his film and destroy his career.

Since Blake Lively’s trial, there has been an intense back-and-forth between his camp and Justin Baldoni’s camp, which led to a gag request.

Lively and Reynolds are reportedly “imminently” subpoenaed for all the conversations they shared about Baldoni and his film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, “It Ends With Us.”

As part of the subpoena, Lively and Reynolds will be required to turn over all relevant correspondence, including emails, text messages and all other forms of communication that may be deemed appropriate to the case.

According to the Daily Maila source close to the case revealed that the couple, along with their publicist Leslie Sloane, are also hit with a deposition, which will see them ordered to provide hours of testimony and be questioned by Baldoni’s lawyers.

“Unequivocally, yes, all parties should be aware that they will be assimilated and deposed imminently,” the insider told the outlet.

The “imminent” subpoena is part of an ongoing legal dispute regarding the nature of events that apparently took place on the set of “It Ends With Us” between Lively and Baldoni.

Lively filed a 10-year-old lawsuit against Baldoni, alleging he sexually harassed her on the set of the film, as well as being the mastermind of a “coordinated effort to destroy her reputation.”

Among other things, she also claimed that the actor-director “regularly degraded her” by “finding ways to criticize her giving birth to her fourth child, implying that he “wanted her to lose weight in two weeks” .

However, Baldoni walked away from the allegations and hit Lively and her husband with a $400 million lawsuit. He accused the actress of using her celebrity power to hijack his film and try to tarnish his image.

The dispute between Lively and Baldoni seemed to raise more eyebrows after new images surfaced that seemingly called into question the actress’ sexual harassment allegations.

In her complaint, Lively alleged that Baldoni sexually harassed her while filming a dance scene by dragging his lips down her neck and telling her, “It smells so good.”

In her filing, she insisted that no one heard her say it because the romantic montage was silent and their microphones were turned off.

However, a recent clip released by the Daily Mail showed that Baldoni’s microphone was not turned off and that their conversation somewhat contradicted Lively’s claims.

The tapes showed that both actors were friendly with each other. They even joked about the size of Baldoni’s nose and how they spend time with their spouses.

Around the seven-minute mark, the actor did indeed tell Lively that she smelled good, but that was only in response to her joking about her spray tan.

Although Baldoni made Nuzzle Lively’s neck as part of the romantic scene, he mentioned to her that he probably had his beard on her, and she responded by saying that she had his spray tan on him.

Then he quips, “it smells good,” before the two laugh, and she tells him that the smell actually comes from her body makeup.

After the clip was released, Lively and Reynolds made a shocking legal request.

According to Tmzthe actress asked a judge against Gag Baldoni, led by Bryan Freedman, alleging he made false statements about the affair.

The couple asked the court to issue a protective order to prevent Freedman from engaging in “inappropriate conduct,” including waging an alleged campaign of “media harassment and retaliation” against them.

The couple claims Freedman “violates court rules that prevent an attorney from making statements to the press that are irrelevant to a case and could prejudice a jury.”

They also mentioned the unedited clips released of the instance Baldoni sexually harassed her, saying it “corroborates, to the letter, what Ms. Lively described” in her initial complaint in December.

Sources close to Baldoni expressed frustration over Lively’s request for a gag order, telling the Daily Mail that it is “very unfair” given the fallout he has faced.

According to the sources, Baldoni lost three job opportunities and hundreds of millions of dollars after what they describe as defamatory allegations published by The New York Times.

“All Justin wants to do is post videos and text messages to prove the allegations are false,” the sources said.

They added: “It’s unbelievable that Blake Lively would put a takedown campaign against Justin and then immediately turn around and say she wants a gag order so Justin can’t defend himself.”