Justin Baldoni is feeling “grateful” amid his authorized battle with Blake Energetic.
On Monday, September 29, the actor, 41, spoke with TMZ outdoors of Los Angeles Worldwide Airport, the place a reporter for the outlet peppered him with questions on his frame of mind.
“I’m really doing fantastic,” Baldoni stated, including that he was “very grateful,” “very optimistic” and feeling “quite a lot of love.”
When the reporter remarked that he appears “to be taking the excessive highway” in his battle in opposition to Energetic, 38, Baldoni replied “that’s what we at all times attempt to do.”
Baldoni’s feedback got here two weeks after he added Alexandra Shapiro to his authorized crew. The felony protection legal professional’s previous purchasers embody Sean “Diddy” Combs and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.
In accordance with paperwork obtained by Us Weekly, Shapiro filed paperwork on September 15 notifying the courtroom that she can be becoming a member of as counsel for Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios.
Baldoni and Energetic’s authorized drama started in December 2024. The actress accused her It Ends With Us costar and director of sexual harassment, making a hostile work setting and coordinating with a disaster PR crew to launch a smear marketing campaign in opposition to her. Baldoni has denied the claims.
The actor countersued Energetic and her husband Ryan Reynolds, accusing the couple of extortion and defamation, however that lawsuit was dismissed in June. Energetic’s lawsuit stays ongoing, and she or he and Baldoni are headed to trial in Could 2026.
A choose has denied Justin Baldoni’s request for an extension to depose Taylor Swift in his federal lawsuit in opposition to Blake Energetic. Per paperwork obtained by Us Weekly on Friday, September 12, United States District Decide Lewis Liman dominated that Baldoni, 41, and his authorized crew had not “demonstrated good trigger for his or her requested extension. The […]
“The courtroom resolution on the movement to dismiss has no impact in any way on the reality that there was no harassment nor any smear marketing campaign, and it doesn’t in any method have an effect on our vigorous protection in opposition to Ms. Energetic’s claims,” a Baldoni lawyer stated in a press release over the summer time. “Discovery is continuing and we’re assured that we are going to prevail in opposition to these factually baseless accusations. As a substitute of revising the prevailing claims, our purchasers might be pursuing further authorized choices which can be accessible to us.”
Energetic was deposed by Baldoni’s attorneys in New York Metropolis in July. Us beforehand reported that Baldoni was current for the deposition.
“We’re very happy with the result of her deposition, and now stay up for deposing Justin Baldoni and every of the codefendants briefly order,” a spokesperson for Energetic stated in a press release to Us on the time. “Deposition testimony is confidential for good cause — it’s proof in a authorized continuing and is topic to objections and evidentiary guidelines. Juries aren’t simply handed deposition transcripts to learn at house, and as a substitute they take heed to testimony that’s offered at trial beneath a choose’s supervision.”
Earlier this month, one other particular person got here ahead in opposition to Baldoni. In accordance with courtroom paperwork considered by Us, the particular person, whose title was redacted, accused him of verbal abuse and claimed that he was not “permitted on set throughout the vast majority of manufacturing because of these experiences.”
That particular person may find yourself serving as a witness in Baldoni and Energetic’s forthcoming trial.
