Justin Baldoni Breaks Silence on ‘It Ends With Us’ Legal Battle With Blake Lively: “So Many Painful Things”

, Digital carly_thomas_ Follow View All July 8, 2026 7:58pm Justin Baldoni John Nacion/Variety/ Justin Baldoni is breaking his silence after the lengthy legal battle with his It Ends With Us co-star, Blake Lively, came to an end earlier this year. It just didn’t feel like the right time,” Baldoni, who directed and starred in the movie about author Colleen Hoover’s book, began. However, it seems Wednesday finally felt like the right time, more than two months after Justin and Lively reached a settlement weeks before the case about alleged sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us was scheduled for trial. The legal battle ultimately ended with Justin being ordered ’s attorneys’ fees, but no additional money for damages. In the new video, the couple expressed that “gratitude has saved us” over the last two years, but Emily added that the gratitude they feel now also “doesn’t negate the injustice and the pain that we have also felt in the last few years.” “We’ve had to wrestle with so many things and try to understand so many things, like, how could something like this even happen? Let alone disguised as a fight for women. And the reality is that there’s been a lot of trauma for us to move through as a family, which also makes it hard to speak,” she continued. Justin added that there’s “been so many painful things that have been spoken into existence over the last couple years, and that created so much noise, and we didn’t want to add to the noise. We just wanted to let the justice system run its course.” Emily also said that “the truth and the facts have spoken for themselves.” Later in the Instagram video, the Jane the Virgin alum gave an update for his fans on how they’re currently doing. “We are healing,” he said. “And if you’ve ever been through something traumatic, you know that healing isn’t linear. It looks different every day. And we have had to rethink for ourselves what is real and what matters. It’s our community who’ve been there for us. I think we’re closer and more devoted and steadfast in our faith than we’ve ever been.” Justin continued, “Also, this has been on both of our hearts. There were so many of you who, when we didn’t have a voice, were our voice.