Justin Baldoni once sprung Blake Lively beauty, according to a recently released voice memo.
“Hey Blake, I hope the fitting was very successful, thanks for sending me these photos,” Baldoni, 42, told Lively, 38, in the message obtained by TMZ Monday, February 2. “It was really cool. I was at the department heads meeting and waiting for them to load up and I legit got chills when I saw it. You look beautiful. This is going to work so well.”
According to TMZ, the voice memo was sent before It ends with us began filming in 2023. Baldoni, who was Lively’s co-star and director on the film, appeared to discuss the Gossip Girl alum suits.
Us every week has contacted Baldoni and Lively for comment.
The memo is the court’s latest unsealed exhibit and comes just days after Us Weekly obtained a separate memo from Lively in which she spoke affectionately to Baldoni while explaining how overwhelmed she felt returning to work and filming back-to-back projects after giving birth to her fourth baby. (Lively shares daughters James, 11, Inez, 9, and Betty, 6, and son Olin, 2, with her husband Ryan Reynolds.)
“Hey. I hope you’re doing so well. I just wanted to check in just to put something on your radar. So, just between us. It’s so premature for me to share this with you. Everything’s fine, everything’s fine. The title is great, well, great,” Lively began the message, which was sent in February 2023 during pre-production. “But I was talking to Ryan [Reynolds] and I was like, “I don’t know if I should share this,” but he was like, “You have such great confidence, you know.” Inform him.’
She continued, “Just the idea of going back to work every day right away and also the idea of, you know, preparing for our movie and wanting to train every day and all that while being on set every day. I’m like, ‘What did I do?’ [that movie] before it was because I gave them my word and I wouldn’t go back on it and I felt like I had to make it work. But having a week off in between is a lot. It’s a lot.
Lively explained that she was “panicking” as the “reality” of filming got closer, admitting that she really just wanted to “focus” on It ends with us.
“Obviously there are selfish reasons why I’m telling you this,” she joked. “If by any chance you’re like, ‘Oh my God, if I could go two weeks early, that would be really awesome,’ then that’s amazing. And if that’s what it is, then that’s what it is.”
She added, “Selfishly, what I’d like about this is that Ryan and I have also been very stressed about spending a month apart. None of that is your problem. That’s why I’m talking to you as a friend at this point more than anything, but the idea of spending the entire month of June apart is a lot. The most we’ve ever done is less than two weeks.”
At the end of her voice note, Lively concluded, “It’s so nice talking to you. Not talking to you is so sad. That’s my social interaction these days, just talking in voice memos. OK, I hope you’re well. Send my love to your family who don’t know me. Take care, goodbye.”
The two costars’ voice memos were sent nearly a year before Lively sued Baldoni for sexual harassment and trying to ruin her reputation. Baldoni denied all allegations against him and countersued Lively, but the lawsuit was dismissed in June 2025. Lively’s trial is still ongoing and both men are scheduled to go to trial in May.
The voice memos are just a small piece of recent unsealed documents that contain thousands of emails, text messages, depositions and more relating to the case. Reynolds, 49, Taylor Swift, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate And It ends with us author Colleen Hoover are just a few mentioned or presented in the documentation.
