Justin Baldoni made a dark confession in a resurfaced interview amidst allegations that co-star Blake Lively has made about him.
The actors starred in It Ends With Us over the summer but the release was altered by rumors that there was drama between them.
The novel by Colleen Hoover was released in 2016 with the film hitting the silver screen in August. However, fans were quick to notice that the pair did little to no press together.
Now, Lively has filed a lawsuit claiming that her co-star attempted to start a smear campaign against her, claiming that his actions have caused ‘severe emotional distress’ for herself and her family.
Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, shared that the lawsuit is full of ‘categorically false accusations’.
It alleged that a meeting was held with her husband, Ryan Reynolds in attendance, while things were in production to talk about the 37-year-olds demands for working on the film. Some of which included: “No more showing nude videos or images of women to Blake, no more mention of Baldoni’s alleged previous ‘p**nography addiction,’ no more discussions about sexual conquests in front of Blake and others, no further mentions of cast and crew’s g**italia, no more inquiries about Blake’s weight, and no further mention of Blake’s dead father.”
She also allegedly demanded that Baldoni did not add more ‘sex scenes, or*l sex or on camera clim*xing’ to the film.
Sony Pictures approved this request, according to the complaint.
Lively also accused her co-star of ‘social manipulation’ and starting a campaign with the intent to ‘destroy’ her reputation.
Freedman shared a statement: “It is shameful that Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations against Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its representatives, as yet another desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation which was garnered from her own remarks and actions during the campaign for the film; interviews and press activities that were observed publicly, in real time and unedited, which allowed for the internet to generate their own views and opinions.”
“Wayfarer Studios made the decision to proactively hire a crisis manager prior to the marketing campaign of the film, to work alongside their own representative with Jonesworks employed by Stephanie Jones, due to the multiple demands and threats made by Ms. Lively during production which included her threatening to not showing up to set, threatening to not promote the film, ultimately leading to its demise during release, if her demands were not met. It was also discovered that Ms. Lively enlisted her own representative, Leslie Sloan with Vision PR, who also represents Mr. Reynolds, to plant negative and completely fabricated and false stories with media, even prior to any marketing had commenced for the film, which was another reason why Wayfarer Studios made the decision to hire a crisis professional to commence internal scenario planning in the case they needed to address.”
Lively shared a statement: “I hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and helps protect others who may be targeted.”
Now, a resurfaced video clip has been circulating social media where Baldoni admitted to having an “unhealthy” relationship with p*rn.
Speaking on on a July 2021 episode of Sarah Grynberg’s “A Life of Greatness” podcast, he said: “I was introduced to p*rn when I was 10 years old. Long before I ever, you know, could have an erection or even knew how I felt about anything,”
“It was, you know, like any young boy who sees boobs for the first time, it’s exciting because our culture has shielded them from us because they’re sexualized. It’s cultural,”.
“You go to places like Africa and different tribes … and the breast is the breast. We’ve sexualized this thing, so, of course, it becomes fascinating and interesting and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, boobs.’ And then, you know, hormones start raging.”
He admitted that he used adult content and “sought refuge” when he felt lonely, abandoned or hurt and because it was a “dopamine rush.”
“I trained my brain to deal with pain with the dopamine hit. … But it doesn’t mean that I’m not using something in an unhealthy way,” he said.
“And I found myself, over the course of my life, going back to looking at images and videos of naked women when I was feeling necessarily bad about myself,”.
“And I knew that it was an issue for me when I would tell myself that I don’t want to do that.”
