The fact that both actors come off so badly has kept this story red-hot.

It Never Ends with Them

As their frenzied mudslinging intensifies, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni seem to share a single goal: mutually assured destruction

By Stuart Heritage

Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop

First the good news: the ugly public spat between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni over the production of last year’s film It Ends with Us finally has an endpoint. The bad news is that it is over a year away. On January 27, a New York judge said that the omnidirectional flurry of lawsuits would go to trial in March 2026.

There is, of course, a problem with that. Ever since It Ends with Us was released in August, the velocity and aggression of the feud has grown exponentially. What began as a quiet online buzz wondering why the film’s star Lively wasn’t posing at the premiere with her co-star and director Baldoni has erupted into one of the ugliest bouts of mud-slinging witnessed in Hollywood.