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Justin Baldoni Responds to Blake Lively's Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit | TMZ Live
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4/4/2025
Justin Baldoni is clapping back at Blake Lively's attempt to get his lawsuit against her tossed out of court, while once again accusing her of trying to destroy his career, according to new court documents.
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Justin Valdoni and Blake Lively. Can we say good night and good luck to this story?
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We we can't because remember they they do have a trial date set for next March or next February
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Wait an entire year
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If it ends up going that far, but there were new filings in this case
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And basically this was all about this was Justin's
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Response to Blake's motion to dismiss remember she and Ryan Reynolds have both filed
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Motions to be dismissed from
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Justin's lawsuit and
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Justin is as you would expect opposing it on the grounds that it is
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His First Amendment right to drag her into court and defend himself
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He said his attorney Brian Friedman told us miss lively and her circle of Hollywood elites cannot prevent my clients from exercising
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their
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Constitutional right to petition the court to clear their names from her false and harmful claims
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So you have him invoking the Constitution saying that this is his First Amendment right to do this
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And therefore you cannot throw this case out. Well, I
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Think Blake Lively's attorneys were licking their chops when they saw Brian Friedman referenced the Constitution
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They said that's right
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Justin Baldoni believes that the First Amendment rights of victims of sexual assault and harassment to speak out
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Should give way to the rights of perpetrators to sue their victims quote into oblivion. Okay, which was something that
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That had been said by Justin's producing partner
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Yeah, it's remarkable there's a lot of ink spilled in these court documents between the lawyers
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But really it's just a vessel for the the two lawyers to get out and spar in public in this way
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And one touting the First Amendment the other saying how dare you silence victims?
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I'm a victim raised a sexual harassment claim and you're trying to silence me how ironic it's really just a war of words
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The the lawsuit is such a sideshow at this point. It's just an opportunity for Brian Friedman to tell his side again
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Can either one of them really work effectively while this is all going on?
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Because if they were she have a project I mean would they be able to promote it would they be able to talk I mean
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I don't know things that Blake is
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working and it has been the sequel to
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Simple Favor and
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She has you know promoting it has been a challenge. Obviously. She doesn't want to get a bunch of questions about this, right?
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So you're right. It does make it difficult to promote something else
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Justin is not working and says that he's essentially been pushed out of Hollywood because remember he got dropped by his agency, right?
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Which was the same agency as Ryan Reynolds, so he feels like this is the campaign to shut him down
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Which is why he is pushing
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non-stop to get this kid thing in the court and he might have a little bit more success in coming back because he has his
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Own production company because he's his own director because he's written a lot of stuff himself
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He may have some power in creating stuff for himself that other actors
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Then he's got to get people to finance him right and to find and bring on the team
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The harder Blake Lively tries to revive her career the worse it backfires on her
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She needs to stop playing a victim. She's not a victim
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You can't just clear your name after trying to destroy an innocent man
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We all want just justice for Justin Baldoni
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And we want the director's cut
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We want to see his cut from the movie and in my opinion
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Amber Heard could come back to the States because she beat her out of this. So so were you a Justin Baldoni fan before this?
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No, I didn't even
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I never even read the book until like later. I when I saw the movie and this all came out
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And then I researched it was all on tik-tok and I couldn't believe it like
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He was like he was he's such a good man. You could tell and
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The way they they treat he the way she treat not only her but her husband Ryan
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That was ridiculous and he's innocent and I think both of their careers are over and they're just trying to
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Well, I think that is definitely hyperbole to say that Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds careers are over
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Far from that, but you're right. It does seem on tik-tok. Justin Baldoni's winning problem is tik-tok is not a court of law
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Yeah
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but she brings up
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Amber Heard and Johnny Depp and so much of that played out on tik-tok too which drove a lot of the interest in the whole
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thing
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