The ongoing legal battle between It Ends with Us costars, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni heats up as their movie costar, Jenny Slate called the latter a “fraud”.
According to PEOPLE, a newly unsealed text messages on Tuesday, January 20, revealed the messages of Slate, who played Baldoni's onscreen sister in the 2024 film, from June 2023.
The 43-year-old actress' text to her team read: "i don't want to do anything with Justin, i don't want to talk about him, like ... nothing. And the same goes for Jamey [Heath], who is truly unprofessional (sic)."
Her text futher read: "Justin is truly a false ally and I'm unwilling to do anything that promotes the image that he's crafting as a 'male feminist' ... like ... honestly i have no words to describe what a fraud he is."
According to Slate, she honestly has never ever encountered anything like “this dude”.
For her, filming the movie adaptation based on Colleen Hoover’s novel, "has been a really gross and disturbing shoot.
One of her texts at that time also revealed that she is one of her many who feel “[this] way” and claimed that she and Lively "both complained directly" to the studio.
It’s worth mentioning here that Jenny Slate’s text revelations come ahead of a summary judgment hearing in the ongoing case, scheduled for January 22, 2026.
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's trial is scheduled for March 9, 2026.
