A recently surfaced video appears to show Justin Baldoni making a joke about “missing sexual harassment training” while on the set of It Ends With Us.
In the video, which was reported by The Daily Mail on Monday, November 17, Baldoni, 41, allegedly made the comment while getting ready to film a bar scene for the 2024 romantic drama that he both directed and acted in. Sources say Baldoni was standing at a table speaking with co-stars Blake Lively and Jenny Slate, but their faces are not visible in the video.
Baldoni reportedly looked at Lively, 38, and said “sexy.” Then, turning to Slate, 43, he allegedly remarked, “Sorry, I missed the sexual harassment training,” and rolled his eyes.
According to The Daily Mail, the video was submitted in court by Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios as part of his legal dispute with Lively. The outlet reported that the actor-director’s legal representatives called the comment to Lively “entirely unremarkable” and stated that she was wearing a fleece onesie in the recording. The legal team also claimed that Lively responded, “All good,” during the exchange, and that Baldoni’s “facial expression was neutral and not ogling or suggestive.”
Regarding his comment to Slate, Baldoni’s attorneys described it as an apology and “inappropriate.”
Us Weekly has contacted representatives for both Baldoni and Lively for their comments.
It Ends With Us, which is based on Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel of the same name, is about the abusive relationship between Ryle and Lily, played by Baldoni and Lively (who also served as an executive producer).
Lively later accused Baldoni of sexual harassment, creating a hostile work environment, and trying to damage her reputation in a lawsuit filed in December 2024. He denied the allegations and filed a defamation suit against Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds. The couple denied the accusations, and the case was dismissed in May.
As Us previously reported, Baldoni’s team claimed that Lively improvised a kiss that was not in the script during a deleted scene from the movie. His lawyers claimed that Lively “oversaw a scene she herself added to the script, in which her character kissed Baldoni’s character in every take” even though it was not in the original script.
Lively has not commented on the claims; Us reached out for comment.
In the past, her team alleged that Baldoni had improvised additional romantic scenes.
“Justin Baldoni and his lawyer may be hoping that this latest action will overshadow the damaging evidence against him, but the video itself is very telling. Every frame of the released footage confirms, exactly, what Ms. Lively stated in Paragraph 48 of her Complaint,” Lively’s attorneys said in a statement to Us in January, referring to footage of the stars on set. “The video shows Mr. Baldoni repeatedly moving closer to Ms. Lively, trying to kiss her, kissing her forehead, rubbing his face and mouth against her neck, flicking her lip with his thumb, caressing her, commenting on how good she smells, and speaking to her out of character.”
The statement continued, “Mr. Baldoni improvised all of this without any prior discussion or consent, and without an intimacy coordinator present. Mr. Baldoni was not only Ms. Lively’s costar, but also the director, the head of [the] studio, and Ms. Lively’s boss. Any woman who has been touched inappropriately at work will recognize Ms. Lively’s discomfort.”
Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, later refuted the allegations.
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