Justin Baldoni is feeling “grateful” amid his authorized battle with Blake Vigorous.
On Monday, September 29, the actor, 41, spoke with TMZ exterior of Los Angeles Worldwide Airport, the place a reporter for the outlet peppered him with questions on his mind-set.
“I’m really doing fantastic,” Baldoni mentioned, including that he was “very grateful,” “very constructive” and feeling “numerous love.”
When the reporter remarked that he appears “to be taking the excessive highway” in his struggle towards Vigorous, 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 group. The prison protection lawyer’s previous purchasers embrace 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 Vigorous’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 group to launch a smear marketing campaign towards her. Baldoni has denied the claims.
The actor countersued Vigorous and her husband Ryan Reynolds, accusing the couple of extortion and defamation, however that lawsuit was dismissed in June. Vigorous’s lawsuit stays ongoing, and he or she and Baldoni are headed to trial in Might 2026.
A decide has denied Justin Baldoni’s request for an extension to depose Taylor Swift in his federal lawsuit towards Blake Vigorous. Per paperwork obtained by Us Weekly on Friday, September 12, United States District Decide Lewis Liman dominated that Baldoni, 41, and his authorized group 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 respect 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 towards Ms. Vigorous’s claims,” a Baldoni lawyer mentioned in an announcement over the summer season. “Discovery is continuing and we’re assured that we’ll prevail towards these factually baseless accusations. As an alternative of revising the present claims, our purchasers will probably be pursuing extra authorized choices which are obtainable to us.”
Vigorous 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 look ahead to deposing Justin Baldoni and every of the codefendants in brief order,” a spokesperson for Vigorous mentioned in an announcement to Us on the time. “Deposition testimony is confidential for good purpose — 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 dwelling, and as a substitute they take heed to testimony that’s offered at trial underneath a decide’s supervision.”
Earlier this month, one other particular person got here ahead towards Baldoni. In accordance with courtroom paperwork considered by Us, the particular person, whose identify was redacted, accused him of verbal abuse and claimed that he was not “permitted on set throughout the vast majority of manufacturing on account of these experiences.”
That particular person might find yourself serving as a witness in Baldoni and Vigorous’s forthcoming trial.
