Blake Full of life and Justin Baldoni’s court-ordered assembly ended with out a settlement Wednesday, setting the stage for a civil trial in Could.
The pair arrived at a federal courthouse below court docket order. Baldoni was accompanied by his spouse Emily whereas Full of life attended alone. The assembly was set for the actors to achieve an settlement with out having to maneuver ahead with their civil trial, which is scheduled to start out on Could 18.
The authorized dispute dates again to December 2024 when Full of life sued Baldoni, her “This Ends With Us” co-star and director. She accused him of sexual harassment on set, and claimed he retaliated in opposition to her after she spoke up about his alleged habits. As a part of the retaliation, Full of life stated Baldoni and his group launched a smear marketing campaign in opposition to her, which she stated impacted her financially and professionally.
In January 2025, Baldoni hit Full of life again with a $400 million countersuit, accusing her, her husband Ryan Reynolds and others of defamation, extortion and extra. A decide dismissed Baldoni’s pursuit in June 2025, although he nonetheless has the choice to enchantment the choice. In December 2025, Full of life’s group filed a movement to have a decide block Baldoni’s try to dismiss Full of life’s lawsuit in opposition to him and Wayfarer Studios, his manufacturing firm that co-produced the movie.
In November, Baldoni and his authorized group filed a movement asking the court docket to toss out Full of life’s sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuitcalling the actress’ case a “litany of minor grievances” that didn’t show that he and his manufacturing firm really created an “objectively hostile” atmosphere on the set of “It Ends With Us.”
Full of life’s authorized group argued that Baldoni is making an attempt to “keep away from accountability” for his actions by attempting to have her case thrown out as effectively.
“Of their newest effort to keep away from accountability for the hostile atmosphere they created in the course of the manufacturing and advertising and marketing of ‘It Ends With Us,’ Justin Baldoni, (Wayfarer Studios CEO) Jamey Heath, (Wayfarer Studios co-founder) Steve Sarowitz, and their co-defendants ask this Court docket to protect them from trial, and deny Blake Full of life her day in court docket, by throwing the kitchen sink at Full of life’s sexual harassment and retaliation claims,” the movement insisted.
Their Wednesday convention was the primary time Full of life and Baldoni had been in the identical rom because the competitors of principal images for “It With Us.”
