In a private email to Matt Damon, his producer wife Luciana Damon, and Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds wrote the It Ends With Us film was “one of the all-time zingers on and off set. One day, we’ll make a movie about the movie.”
The message was one of many buried in previously sealed court documents, made public in a dump so mammoth in volume that, more than a week later, new revelations and reactions continue to emerge daily.
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Taylor Swift’s private text messages to Lively, revealing the true toll of Lively’s legal battle against It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni on their friendship, were only a fraction of what was unsealed by a US court ahead of a summary judgment hearing.
In December 2024, Lively filed a complaint accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment and running a smear campaign against her. Baldoni denied all accusations against him, and filed a countersuit against Lively. His case was dismissed in June. The trial of Lively’s lawsuit is set for May.
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This week, Reynolds (Lively’s husband) addressed the mortifying reality of his private correspondence becoming public by court order. A spokesperson for Reynolds told Puck News in an article published on Tuesday: “Yes, Ryan got involved – what husband wouldn’t support his wife and the mother of his children?
“He saw his wife fighting daily to stand up against sexual harassment in a private and respectful way, only to face retaliation for doing so.
“If anything, Ryan feels like he wasn’t angry enough. He passionately believes in and will stand up for the basic right to a safe workplace free of harassment and retaliation for his wife and others. Then, now and always.”
Reynolds isn’t the only high-profiler to address the latest document dump. Here’s what to know about the celebrities embroiled in the It Ends With Us case.
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Baldoni and Jameela Jamil share publicist Jennifer Abel. That’s who the British actress and activist was texting, according to an eight-page exchange dated August 2024, buried in 181 pages of court documents unsealed on January 20 and obtained by TMZ.
The Good Place star and Abel were reacting to a TikTok video, centred on Lively’s alleged “tone-deaf” promotion of It Ends With Us.
At the time, Lively was facing backlash for spruiking her haircare line and seemingly encouraging floral-clad women to watch the film in cinemas for a girls’ night out, rather than centring the film’s serious theme of domestic violence, as Baldoni was doing in his interviews.
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“I want to officially incorporate nightmare c— and demon c— into my vocabulary; UNBELIEVABLE; She’s doing this to herself,” Abel wrote to Jamil regarding Lively.
Jamil, who also said in the text exchange that she had “never seen such a bizarre villain act before”, responded: “[Lively’s] a suicide bomber at this point.”
Two days after the messages were made public, Jamil took to Instagram – where her profile reads “feminist-in-progress” – to clarify, without referencing Lively or Baldoni specifically, her belief that being a feminist does not prevent having personal differences with other women.
By January 24, she had also made an eight-minute TikTok video claiming her name was unredacted “deliberately” to “cause as much trouble as possible for me even though these text messages have nothing to do with the case”.
She also noted her messages were sent four months before Lively filed her sexual harassment complaint against Baldoni.
“I had no idea about any of this stuff, so I was just purely venting to my friend about how I felt about the press rollout for that f—ing terrible movie,” Jamil added.
In a later Substack essay, she said, “the epic fallout of this outrageous, and entirely pointless invasion of privacy” included enduring death threats.
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Reynolds’ friend and Deadpool & Wolverine co-star Hugh Jackman’s name has also been thrown around.
Court documents filed by Baldoni’s legal team, obtained by People in November, alleged Jackman and Swift were present during a meeting between Baldoni and Reynolds at Reynolds and Lively’s New York penthouse.
