Blake Lively's 2024 communications with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and his wife Lucy Damon were unsealed in Lively's ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni and his "It Ends With Us" producing partners.
Within the hundreds of exhibits that were unsealed Jan. 20, are alleged texts and emails from May 2024, which Baldoni's defense attorneys previously filed as exhibits in the New York civil case. In them, Lively laments about her challenges with the film, which Baldoni directed and starred in opposite Lively, and asks the Hollywood A-listers to watch and critique the version of "It Ends With Us" that she'd cut together.
USA TODAY has reached out to reps for Affleck and Damon for comment.
In an apparent group chat with the Damons, Lively's husband, Ryan Reynolds, accepted the couple's offer to watch the film, adding it was "such a zero pressure ask." He also called the project "one of the all time zingers on and off set. One day, we'll make a movie about the movie."
Lively seconded in "adding more zeroes to the pressure" and went on to unveil her complaints about Baldoni, telling the Damons that "this movie nearly killed me. The director/costar/producer/financier/head of the studio (yes all one person) had zero experience."
