Justin Baldoni unveils video Blake Lively claimed was inappropriate

Justin Baldoni has clapped back at Blake Lively’s claims that a producer aligned with him showed her an inappropriate video while working on It End With Us.

In their lawsuit against The New York Times, Justin and producer James Heath attached a still of the video in question, which shows Heath’s wife giving birth.

In her suit, Lively’s lawyer claimed: “To add insult to injury, Mr. Heath approached Ms. Lively and her assistant on set and started playing a video of a fully nude woman with her legs spread apart. Ms. Lively thought he was showing her pornography and stopped him. Mr. Heath explained that the video was his wife giving birth.”

Her lawyer added: “Ms. Lively was alarmed and asked Mr. Heath if his wife knew he was sharing the video, to which he replied ‘She isn’t weird about this stuff,’ as if Ms. Lively was weird for not welcoming it. Ms. Lively and her assistant excused themselves, stunned that Mr. Heath had shown them a nude video.”

In their rebuttal of the Gossip Girl star’s claim, the duo’s lawyer’s wrote: “The Times compounded its journalistic failures by uncritically advancing Lively’s unsubstantiated claims of sexual harassment against Heath and Baldoni. For example, the Article, based on Lively’s [complaint], sensationally alleges that ‘Mr. Heath had shown [Lively] a video of his naked wife,’ with Lively’s [complaint] even labeling the footage as pornography.’ This claim is patently absurd. The video in question was a (non-pornographic) recording of Heath’s wife and baby during a home birth—a deeply personal one with no sexual overtone.”

The lawyer added, “The video was shown to Lively as part of a creative discussion in preparation for a birthing scene in the Film. Heath informed Lively that his wife condoned his displaying the video. Any suggestion that Heath engaged in the exhibition of pornography or inappropriate content is false.”

Justin Baldoni directed and starred in It Ends With Us opposite Blake Lively.