Justin Baldoni Reveals Explicit Notes Allegedly from an Intimacy Coordinator Meeting He Claims Blake Lively Skipped: Lawsuit

Mar. 15, 2025

Blake Lively; Justin Baldoni.Photo:Gotham/WireImage (2)

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Justin Baldonidisclosed handwritten notes aboutIt Ends With Ussex scenes that he alleges spiraled into the basis for some ofBlake Lively’s sexual harassment complaint.

As part of an exhibit accompanyingBaldoni’s amended complaintfiled Jan. 31, a photo of two pages of the director’s notes allegedly from a meeting with an intimacy coordinator are included.

According to his amended complaint, Baldoni met with the intimacy coordinator in April 2023 to “discuss how to shoot the sex scenes.” In alleged text messages from earlier that month, exhibited in Baldoni’s complaint, Baldoni claims he told Lively he could arrange a time for her to meet with the intimacy coordinator before filming, but she replied, “I feel good. I can meet her when we start :) thank you though!”

Baldoni, 41, was then in the “less than ideal position of having to relay these notes to Lively in her penthouse” since she “declined” the meeting, per his complaint.

The notes featured a frank discussion of ideas for the sex scenes, with explicit lines like “goes down on her” and terms like “orgasm” and “foreplay.” Baldoni’s team writes in the filing, “These notes would later become the basis for Lively’s complaint, in which she states that Baldoni would talk about his own sex life and insert gratuitous scenes with Lively’s character orgasming.”

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in “It Ends With Us”.Nicole Rivelli/Sony Pictures Entertainment

Nicole Rivelli/Sony Pictures Entertainment

Baldoni’s legal team previouslyleaked a 10-minute video from the film’s settaken for a different scene, showing Lively and Baldoni, in and out of character, slow-dancing closely as Baldoni suggested adding kisses, while Lively said the characters should only talk for the sequence.

Aside from improvised kisses, Lively’s complaint alleged that her character’s birth scene was filmed while the set was “chaotic, crowded and utterly lacking in standard industry protections for filming nude scenes.” Baldoni’s amended complaint contended that Lively was covered up for that scene and “this was not in any way a nude or partially nude scene.”

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.Katie Jones/Beauty Inc via Getty; Araya Doheny/Variety via Getty

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BeforeIt Ends With Usresumed filming after the Hollywood industry actors' and writers' strikes ended, there was a meeting to go over on-set protocols. One of Lively’s conditions upon returning was that an intimacy coordinator “must be present at all times when [Lively] is on set.”

Lively is suing Baldoni, his Wayfarer Studios and more, alleging sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear campaign, which he denies. Baldoni countersued Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and more, accusing them of defamation and extortion. Her lawyers called his lawsuit “meritless.”

As they were kept separate during the film’s press tour,both Lively and Baldoni answered questions about intimacy coordinators.

BaldonitoldHarper’s BazaarIndiathat the team “knew from the very beginning that there was no way we could do this movie without intimacy coordinators” and stunt coordinators. “It was so important to have them on set — not just so that we could all feel safe, but because they were also incredible collaborators with wonderful ideas that really elevated the film,” said Baldoni at the time.

Lively, meanwhile,told Digital Spyit was “critical” to have an intimacy coordinator’s involvement on set.

“You coordinate stunts, you coordinate dancing. Itischoreography,” she said at the time. “So to be able to say ‘This is what happens here, here and here’ in a stunt, and ‘This is what happens here, here and here’ in a dance, but ‘Now you guys just go put your bodies together and your mouths and whatever, and action and cut,’ that’s ridiculous. I think that being choreographed is critical for everyone’s safety.”

source: people.com