- Justin Baldoni and Blake Vigorous are in an ongoing authorized battle after the actress sued the actor/director, accusing him of sexual harassment and a retaliatory public smear marketing campaign to “destroy” her repute
- The accusations got here months after the discharge of their movie It Ends with Us, and Baldoni responded by countersuing the actress
- Though he didn’t focus on Vigorous in his newly-released podcast look, he chronicled his “intense” 12 months
Earlier than being sued by Blake Vigorous, Justin Baldoni was already having an “intense” 12 months.
Baldoni made the revelation in an episode of the Gent’s Talk Podcast launched on Monday, Feb. 10. The installment was filmed in November 2024 — a month earlier than Vigorous, 37, filed a lawsuit towards her It Ends with Us costar and director, 41, accusing him of sexual harassment, adopted by a retaliatory public smear marketing campaign to “destroy” her repute.
“This morning, I despatched a textual content message to my greatest buddy Jamey and the president of my firm, Tera, and I informed them that I wasn’t in the most effective place,” Baldoni stated on the podcast. “I informed them that I used to be exhausted, that I have never given myself time to recuperate or time to heal.”
Jamey Heath is the CEO of Wayfarer Studios and Tera Hanks is president of the production company.
Baldoni, who additionally directed It Ends with Us, stated his feelings had been the results of “an intense 12 months.”
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“Quite a lot of materials success and numerous emotional stress was very exhausting on me and my household. I put on numerous hats, and I carry rather a lot as a result of I really like what I do,” he stated, noting that he has “love” for his firm.
“I really like the folks that work for us. I really like the films that we make. I really like the affect that we now have and but generally it is easy to, as you stated earlier, fall again into our programming and be swept away within the present of self and be sort of overtaken by the wave of success and alternative,” Baldoni stated.
He defined that after waking up at 4:30 within the morning together with his “coronary heart racing,” he realized that he was coping with “some nervousness” and “not in the most effective place.”
After checking in with himself, Baldoni stated he was reminded that he wanted to prioritize his time and “simply have not given myself the time to heal from this 12 months that I wanted.”
He stated that “within the spirit of vulnerability,” he shared the identical message together with his assistant and an identical textual content message together with his publicist, Jennifer Abel.
The actor shared that he’s a “work in progress,” who’s “all the time making an attempt to be radically honest and genuine to myself” to “have essentially the most affect.”
“And generally I can get misplaced in the identical method that everyone will get misplaced, however therapeutic is not linear, and progress is not linear, and if you do not have setbacks and if you do not have plateaus, then you do not have the chance to group and to push ahead,” stated Baldoni.
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The podcast’s launch comes amid Baldoni’s ongoing authorized battle with Vigorous.
On December 21, Vigorous named Wayfarer, Baldoni, Heath, Abel and others in her lawsuit.
On December 31, Baldoni sued The New York Occasions for $250 million, alleging libel, false gentle invasion of privateness, promissory fraud and breach of implied-in-fact contract, after the outlet revealed a narrative titled “We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine” concerning the allegations towards him.
A month later, Baldoni filed one other lawsuit suing Vigorous, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s PR agency Imaginative and prescient PR, Inc. for $400 million, on claims of civil extortion and defamation, amongst different claims.
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Baldoni and Vigorous are scheduled for trial on March 9, 2026.
