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More accusations are coming out in Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively’s “It Ends With Us” legal war.
In explosive legal documents located on Baldoni’s new website and filed in court, the movie’s director (Baldoni), 41, claims its leading lady (Lively), 37, “often” refused to go to fittings and demanded her character Lily Bloom’s outfits be “re-shopped,” thus resulting in an alleged inflated budget by $430,000.
According to Baldoni’s amended complaint from his $400 million suit, Lively reportedly demanded the “costume department pack up wardrobe and deliver it to her personal residence” in Manhattan instead of traveling to the production office — roughly 15 minutes from her home — resulting in additional expenses.
“Loading the wardrobe department on trucks and delivering the contents to Lively’s home in the middle of congested Manhattan for fittings cost time and money—always in short supply on any major film,” the court docs read.
“Requests of this nature are typically made during contract negotiations; since Lively made no such request at the time, this added expense was not included in the budget. Lively, who had a greater obligation to the studios as an executive producer, paid no heed to budget constraints, let alone to the months of planning that had already been completed.”
The “It Ends With Us” line producer allegedly flagged the reported spending issues surrounding Lively’s wardrobe in a message dated April 25, 2023.
“Wardrobe’s budget for spending is $185k,” the message allegedly read.
The line producer explained that this was not normal, even for big-budget films, especially because the wardrobe team had yet to shop for the movie’s other characters.
“Normally wardrobe overspends and then does tons of returns and ends up in budget. Our Wardrobe team told me they’d spend about $500k and then land back at $185k once returns are done,” the message continued.
“To date they’ve already spent $615K and they need their cashet cards all replenished because they’ve only shopped for Justin and Blake.”
Lively was accused of “ignoring the director’s vision for her character and disposing of the weeks of effort and creativity spent by the wardrobe team on shopping and carefully crafting her wardrobe,” per Baldoni’s legal documents.
The line producer continued to outline their concern, claiming that their team “had to reshop everything for Blake after creative changes” and “it’s a lot of money.”
“I trust them of course but want to keep you all posted as this is way more than I’ve ever seen wardrobe go over budget with the initial spend,” the line producer allegedly wrote. “At this point we have to replenish their cards because they haven’t shopped for the other characters. Just keeping you all posted.”
The alleged paper trail also includes “hundreds of images” that the actress allegedly sent to the film’s costume designer “depicting the style of wardrobe she wanted for her character.”
In one instance, Lively allegedly “insisted that her character ‘had money’ and could afford $5,000 shoes—despite being a fledgling small business owner.”
The court documents also allege that Sony became involved in the wardrobe conversation after paparazzi photos made the rounds showing Lively filming on May 15, 2023, in her new clothing, nothing the images were “widely reported as unflattering.”
The lawsuit claims, “Baldoni received direct criticism from Sony, who voiced serious concerns about the impact of the photos on the Film’s public reception,” adding he allegedly discussed “necessary wardrobe adjustments” with Lively and her team in her trailer.
During the alleged chat, the documents note that Baldoni’s goal was to reassert his role as director and “get her on board with him having approval over her character’s wardrobe.”
However, he claims Lively “grossly misrepresented” their conversation in her complaint.
The Post has reached out to Lively’s lawyer for comment.
Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni in December, accusing him of sexual harassment and orchestrating a public smear campaign against her.
He denied the allegations and filed an explosive $400 million lawsuit against the actress and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, for alleged defamation, civil extortion, false light invasion of privacy and more.
They, too, denied the claims.
Lively and Baldoni’s trial has been scheduled for March 2026.