Blake Full of life deposition has been postponed amid her ongoing authorized battle towards Justin Baldoni, Us Weekly can verify.
In keeping with paperwork obtained by Us on Wednesday, July 16, Full of life's deposition — which was set to soak up New York Metropolis on Thursday, July 17 — has been postponed till July 31. The pushback was agreed upon by each groups after social media guru Jed Wallace was dismissed from the case earlier on Wednedsay because of jurisdictional causes.
As a result of Wallace was dismissed with out prejudice, Full of life has till July 30 to refile. Full of life and Baldoni's camps want time to look over the grievance which may doubtlessly alter the deposition.
A spokesperson for Full of life informed Us in a press release, “Ms. Full of life respects the Court docket's choice, which has nothing to do with the deserves of her allegations about Mr. Wallace's position within the smear marketing campaign and relates solely to the procedural query of whether or not he's topic to jurisdiction in New York or elsewhere. We presently are evaluating our quite a few choices for holding Mr. Wallace accountable for the pivotal position he served within the retaliatory effort that Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer Events paid him at the least tens of 1000's of {dollars} a month to carry out.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Baldoni's crew for remark.
Baldoni's authorized crew beforehand claimed that Full of life was trying to make use of her “superstar standing” to dictate and management the deposition.
“Full of life is a plaintiff who has hurled severe allegations of misconduct towards the Wayfarer Events,” a letter obtained by Leisure Weekly learn. “Like all defendants, the Wayfarer Events are entitled to depose Full of life to develop proof essential to their protection. They're additionally entitled to decide on the placement of the deposition, which they did.”
Full of life and Baldoni's authorized forwards and backwards started in December 2024, when the actress sued her former It Ends With Us costar and director. The lawsuit accused Baldoni, 41, of sexual harassment, making a hostile work atmosphere and orchestrating an alleged smear marketing campaign towards her.
Baldoni vehemently denied the allegations. He subsequently countersued Full of life, her husband Ryan Reynolds and publicist Leslie Sloane and accused the group of civil extortion and defamation. All events denied the allegations. Choose Lewis J. Liman dismissed Baldoni's lawsuit towards Full of life, Reynolds and Sloane in June.
“At present's opinion is a complete victory and an entire vindication for Blake Full of life, together with people who Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer Events dragged into their retaliatory lawsuit, together with Ryan Reynolds, Leslie Sloane and The New York Occasions,” Full of life's legal professionals mentioned in a press release to Us on the time. “As we have now mentioned from day one, this ‘$400 million' lawsuit was a sham, and the Court docket noticed proper by way of it. We sit up for the subsequent spherical, which is in search of attorneys' charges, treble damages and punitive damages towards Baldoni, Sarowitz, Nathan, and the opposite Wayfarer Events who perpetrated this abusive litigation.”
Justin Baldoni isn't backing down from his authorized battle with It Ends With Us costar Blake Full of life after his lawsuit towards her and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, was dismissed. “Ms. Full of life and her crew's predictable declaration of victory is fake, so allow us to be clear concerning the newest ruling,” Baldoni's legal professional Bryan Freedman informed Us […]
Whereas Full of life bought the authorized win on the time, the choose acknowledged that Baldoni may amend his lawsuit and gave him a deadline of June 23. The actor opted to not revise the submitting.
“The Court docket's choice on the movement to dismiss has no impact in anyway on the reality that there was no harassment nor any smear marketing campaign, and it doesn't in any manner have an effect on our vigorous protection towards Ms. Full of life's claims,” Baldoni's lawyer, Bryan Freedman, mentioned in a June assertion to Folks. “Discovery is continuing and we're assured that we'll prevail towards these factually baseless accusations. As a substitute of revising the prevailing claims, our shoppers might be pursuing extra authorized choices which are accessible to us.”
Full of life's authorized battle towards Baldoni is much from over. A trial is scheduled for March 2026.
