Justin Baldoni comments on Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds suit for first time

Justin Baldoni made his first public statement on Friday since filing a $400 million lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.

The It Ends With Us actor and director, 40, was spotted at Los Angeles International Airport with his family where he had a brief exchange with the press.

"Grateful to be with the family, man," he told TMZ of how he's holding up amid the multi-million lawsuit. "We have amazing friends and family. Faith ... faith."

Baldoni is suing Lively, 37, and Reynolds, 48, as well as their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane's PR firm Vision PR, Inc. after his co-star previously sued him and his associates on December 20, 2024, over alleged sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear campaign.

Baldoni, along with producer Jamey Heath, publicist Jennifer Abel, and crisis publicist Melissa Nathan, hit back on Thursday with the $400 million lawsuit, claiming civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, intentional interference with contractual relations, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage, and negligent interference with prospective economic advantage.

Meanwhile, Lively's legal team branded the "latest lawsuit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and its associates" as another chapter in the abuser playbook."

"This is an age-old story: A woman speaks up with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation and the abuser attempts to turn the tables on the victim," the statement continued. "This is what experts call DARVO. Deny. Attack. Reverse Victim Offender."

Baldoni previously filed a $250 million libel suit against the New York Times over an article “‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine,” which was published on December 21, 2024, shortly after Lively's lawsuit.