A leaked voice note seemingly hears Justin Baldoni apologize to Blake Lively.

Baldoni and Lively have been embroiled in a legal battle for some weeks now after the Gossip Girl alum sued Baldoni for alleged sexual harassment.

Baldoni, who co-starred in and directed It Ends With Us, has since filed a countersuit and is suing Lively and her A-list husband Ryan Reynolds for a whopping $400 million.

There’s been a lot of back and forth between the celebrities‘ respective legal parties, and now a lengthly voice note allegedly recorded by Baldoni has been leaked online.

Baldoni starred as Ryle Kincaid in It Ends With Us (Sony Pictures Releasing)

In the audio obtained by TMZ and Mail Online, the Jane the Virgin actor is seemingly heard apologizing to Lively and describes himself as a ‘flawed man’.

“I’m really sorry. I for sure fell short and you worked really hard on that,” a man, believed to be Baldoni, says.

“I f****d up. One thing you should know about me is that I will admit and apologise when I fail. I am far from perfect and I’m a very flawed man, as my wife will attest,” the man goes on to chuckle.

Baldoni allegedly admitted that he’d ‘fallen short’ in his text and voice note exchanges with Lively, seemingly adding that he feels like he ‘excels’ in face-to-face interactions instead.

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“All I have to say is I’m really looking forward to spending time together and I think that’s going to go a long way for our chemistry, which I believe is there,” the actor allegedly went on.

“It’s been there from the start so I was so damn excited when you wanted to do this film. I think it does come from us both being so f**king hard working and having a vision and not settling.

“I’m excited to have a creative partner in that with you.”

UNILAD has approached reps for both Lively and Baldoni for comment on the leaked audio.

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni played each other’s love interests in the film (Sony Pictures Releasing)

Amid the ongoing drama, a judge has recently set a date for the pair’s civil trial and is set to take place in New York on March 9, 2026.

Federal judge Lewis J Liman has also moved the initial conference from mid-February to next week and told lawyers to be prepared to address complaints about pretrial publicity and lawyer conduct.

The decision comes after Lively’s legal team accused one of Baldoni’s lawyers of trying to taint potential jurors over lawsuits the actors have filed against each other.

Alleged leaked Justin Baldoni voice note in full

“Hey, Blake. It is two in the morning. Hopefully this does not wake you up. Wow, there’s so much I want to say to you, and I hope that we can FaceTime or see each other in person soon and get to talk more, but I’m just going to send you a few thoughts, and hopefully it’s not going to be more than a few minutes, but that I don’t have the best track record. I don’t think either one of us have the best track record for voice memos

“I want to start with an apology. Man, I… reading the second part of your message, my heart sank, and I’m really sorry. I for sure fell short, and you worked really hard on that, and the way you framed it, and how that made you feel. I just want to say thank you for sharing that with me. That takes a lot of trust and vulnerability. And I just, I feel really grateful that you feel safe enough to tell me that that’s how you feel and share that with me and I’m really sorry.

“I f**ked up, that is a fail on my part. One thing you should know about me is I will admit and apologize when I fail. I am far from perfect. I’m a very flawed man, as my wife will attest and and I’m gonna f**k up, I’m gonna say the wrong thing, I’m gonna put my foot in my mouth. I’m gonna piss you off, probably, but I will always apologize and then find my way back to center. That is one thing I can assure you of, and I’m sorry I made you feel that way. That must have felt terrible, and I will, for sure, do better. That was not my best weekend, and I should have given it more time.

“And damn, right, you got great friends, if that’s how you felt, and they knew that. And we should all have friends like that, aside from the fact that they’re two of the most creative people on the planet. The three of you guys together. It’s unbelievable. Talk about energy, just to force of all three of you.

“But I just wanted you to know that I didn’t need that, because it’s really good and it’s gonna make the movie sing, like you said, and I’m excited to go through the whole movie with you. I’m just excited to spend time with you. I’m excited to be in your sphere and your presence, and for us to share creative juices together. Although that sounds terrible.

“I think you and I have been trying to build a relationship, which I think we’ve done successfully. I mean, here we are talking like this, me into my phone at two in the morning, but largely via text and voice note. I will be honest with you, that is not my biggest strength. I love being with people and being in somebody’s space and being face-to-face, and I feel like that’s where I excel, and definitely fallen short at times in our text and voice note exchanges, because there’s so much to communicate and there’s so much happening.

“All that’s to say, I’m just really looking forward to spending time together, and I think that’s going to really go a long way for our chemistry, which I believe is there and has been there from the start. So I was so damn excited when you wanted to do this film. I felt it in the room when we met. Yeah, I think it does come from the both of us being so f**king hard working and having a vision and not settling. And I’m excited to have a creative partner in that with you. And it’s just really exciting.

“There’s so much more to say. There’s so much I want to say. Oh, and there’s one thing that I do need to say, which is, I am so sorry you have been through what you’ve been through with these other filmmakers and producers or whoever the people were that you worked with. It just pissed me off. I’m just still kind of blown away, that this is the industry that we’re in, that you’ve experienced that as a woman. I know I don’t need to say it, but that’s not at all going to be or will be… hopefully it’s not been the experience with me.

“There’s nothing more exciting to me. I get to work with Blake Lively and have her, all of her, that’s what I want. And so there’s been no hesitancy with me sending you the final draft file. I am totally fine with that. The only reason I didn’t send it today was because I was trying to implement and add your notes into my working draft, which is already like, I’m all over that draft right now.

“So there’s a whole bunch of new stars that are going to be collated pages. I just haven’t had a chance to send it to you, but there’s no hesitancy. I’m happy to send it to you and I’m sorry that that has happened to you before and, and I hope after this experience, there will be a new… I hope it’ll be healing in some way. That’s all I want. I want this movie to be healing. I want this movie to be commercial just like you, and affect people and touch people. And I want to walk you through my whole plan and the work that we’re doing with the domestic violence partner that we found NO MORE and just my vision, and I just, I just know that this can be really, really special, and it’s going to be special, and you’re the secret sauce, and we’re the secret sauce.

“Anyways, I have so much more to say. I’m going to stop rambling, because, Jesus Christ, it’s been six minutes and 30 seconds. I’m sorry, you probably have kids all over you and a baby on your boob, and you’re listening to me ramble at two in the morning. I hope you’re feeling better and give Ryan my love thank you for sending me that, means the world to me, that you trust me with your feelings and your thoughts like that, and I can’t wait to spend more time with you. Okay, I’m done cutting myself off. Good night.”

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ legal team have asked for an ‘appropriate protective order’ following Justin Baldoni’s team’s release of footage from the set of It Ends with Us.

In December 2024, Blake Lively filed a legal complaint against Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment and allegedly taking part in a ‘smear campaign’ against her.

Earlier this month, the A Simple Favor star filed another lawsuit for harassment and retaliation alleging Baldoni engaged in inappropriate behavior on set – including in one scene where their characters perform a slow dance. Baldoni’s legal team has branded Lively’s accusations as ‘categorically false’.

In Lively’s latest suit, she alleges in the slow dance scene within It Ends with Us, Baldoni ‘leaned forward and slowly dragged his lips from her ear and down her neck as he said, “It smells so good”.’

The suit also accuses Baldoni of ‘caressing Lively with his mouth in a way that had nothing to do with their roles’.

Baldoni’s company filed its own suit against Lively last week and on Tuesday (January 21), his legal team publicly released footage from the scene in question.

Baldoni’s team stated alongside the footage: “Both actors are clearly behaving well within the scope of the scene and with mutual respect and professionalism.”

However, Lively’s team slammed the footage as ‘damning’ and ‘an unethical attempt to manipulate the public’.

Lively and Reynolds’ legal team has since delivered a letter to Judge Lewis J Liman in the Southern District of New York seeking an ‘appropriate protective order’.

According to court documents obtained by USA Today, the letter accuses Baldoni and his legal team of a ‘harassing and retaliatory media campaign’ with ‘almost daily media statements and other releases’ to the press.

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni starred alongside one another in It Ends with Us (Sony Pictures Releasing)

The letter follows a cease-and-desist letter which was reportedly sent by Lively and Reynolds’ legal team in December 2024.

It was allegedly sent to Baldoni’s primary attorney Bryan Freedman asking him to stop releasing ‘defamatory and retaliatory statements’ about the Gossip Girl star.

Baldoni and his business associates also received a letter asking them to stop ‘all unlawful conduct toward the Lively-Reynolds parties and their affiliates’.

On Tuesday, Lively and Reynolds’ legal team alleged Freedman has ‘given television interviews, appeared on podcasts, issued inflammatory written statements, and leaked information […] to the Hollywood press and tabloid media’ ‘virtually every day’.

“Those statements not only continue the campaign of retaliation that was the subject of Ms. Lively’s First Cease and Desist, but they contain numerous new false statements about Ms. Lively and others,” they argue.

Baldoni also directed the movie (Sony Pictures Releasing)

Lively and Reynold’s attorneys say they have ‘repeatedly’ tried to ‘caution Freedman federal litigation must be conducted in court and according to the relevant rules of professional conduct’.

They resolved: “His conduct threatens to, and will, materially prejudice both the Lively Case and the Wayfarer Case by tainting the jury pool, because his statements are deliberately aimed at undermining the ‘character, credibility, (and) reputation’ of numerous relevant parties and likewise includes ‘information the lawyer knows or reasonably should know is likely to be inadmissible as evidence in a trial,’ thereby creating a substantial risk of prejudice not just for Ms. Lively, but for numerous other parties in the matters.”

Alongside an ‘appropriate protective order,’ Lively and Reynolds’ legal team subsequently also requested a hearing to ‘address the appropriate conduct of counsel moving forward’.

Bryan Freedman told UNILAD: “Prior to filing her lawsuit in court, Ms. Lively went to The New York Times in an effort to publicly destroy Justin Baldoni. When Mr. Baldoni exercises his right to publicly defend himself by putting forth actual facts and evidence, for Ms. Lively and team this instantly becomes morally and ethically wrong. Ms. Lively wants very different standards to apply to her but fortunately, truth and authenticity apply to everyone and can never be wrong. Looking at the video and the evidence to come, I can understand why Ms. Lively would now, not want this to play out in public.”

UNILAD has contacted representatives for Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni for comment.

Justin Baldoni’s new lawsuit accuses of Ryan Reynolds of ‘berating’ him after he went to visit Blake Lively at their home under the assumption they’d be discussing their movie, It Ends With Us.

Baldoni, who both starred in and directed the 2024 movie, made the allegation in a $250 million lawsuit filed against The New York Times on December 31.

The director’s lawsuit comes after the publisher released an article titled “‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine,” which alleges that Baldoni and nine other plaintiffs constituted libel and false light invasion of privacy.

As part of the suit, an incident which allegedly took place on January 4, 2024 has been brought to light involving Baldoni, other producers of It Ends With Us, and a representative of Sony.

Blake Lively and Baldoni starred in It Ends With Us (Sony Pictures)

This group is said to have been invited to Lively and Reynolds’ home, and they allegedly arrived ‘eager to discuss plans for the next day’s filming [and] prepared with their production materials’.

However, the suit claims that the group was instead ‘blindsided’ by Lively and Reynolds.

The Hollywood couple are said to have presented ‘a list of grievances that were both unanticipated and troubling’.

The lawsuit then claims: “Reynolds launched into a tirade, berating Baldoni in what Baldoni later described as a ‘traumatic’ encounter, stating he had ‘never been spoken to like that in his life’.”

Reynolds allegedly demanded that Baldoni apologize to his wife for actions which have been described in the lawsuit as ‘mischaracterised’ and ‘false’.

Reynolds and Lively are said to have invited Baldoni to their home (Cindy Ord/Getty Images)

“When Baldoni resisted apologizing for what he had not done, Reynolds became further enraged. Everyone, including the producer Lively had asked production to engage and a representative of Sony that was in attendance, left that ‘meeting’ in shock. The producer offered that in his 40-year career he had never seen anyone speak to someone like that,” the lawsuit says.

The claims about Reynolds and Lively form part of Baldoni’s claims that The New York Times ‘cherry-picked’ communications that had taken place between himself and his co-star to ‘mislead’ readers.

The New York Times article had been inspired by Lively’s own lawsuit, in which she accused Baldoni of sexual harrassment and launching a smear campaign against her.

In response to Baldoni’s suit, a New York Times spokesperson told Variety: “The role of an independent news organization is to follow the facts where they lead. Our story was meticulously and responsibly reported. It was based on a review of thousands of pages of original documents, including the text messages and emails that we quote accurately and at length in the article.

“To date, [production company] Wayfarer Studios, Mr. Baldoni, the other subjects of the article and their representatives have not pointed to a single error. We published their full statement in response to the allegations in the article as well. We plan to vigorously defend against the lawsuit.”

LADbible Group has reached out to representatives of Reynolds for comment.

Blake Lively allegedly sent a bizarre Games of Thrones text to Justin Baldoni as he sues her company for $400,000,000.

Baldoni is suing Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, their publicist, PR firm, and friend, Taylor Swift, for $400 million on a raft of claims, sparked by the Gossip Girl star filing her own federal lawsuit accusing him of sexual harassment and ‘trying to destroy her reputation’.

The fall out all took place while Baldoni and Lively co-starred in the romantic drama, It Ends With Us, adapted from Colleen Hoover’s bestselling 2016 novel, which Baldoni also directed.

Baldoni is suing Lively and her team for $400 million (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Vital Voices Global Partnership)

Baldoni’s team branded Lively’s claims as ‘categorically false’ and is now counter suing on claims of civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, as well as prospective economic advantage, negligent interference with prospective economic advantage and intentional interference with contractual relations, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage.

Speculation swirled surrounding Baldoni and Lively’s alleged ‘friction’ on the set of 2024 movie, while Lively also found herself being slammed online during the film’s press tour.

Lively claimed there film set was hostile (Katie Jones/Beauty Inc via Getty Images)

Now, Baldoni claims Lively embodied a Game of Thrones character in alleged text messages while the pair were filming the romantic drama

The director’s 179-page lawsuit, filed on January 16, claims that he was facing Lively’s ‘dragons’, two of of the most influential and wealthy celebrities in the world, who were not afraid to make things very difficult for him’, reports PEOPLE.

As part of this claim, he says Swift and Reynolds pressured him to accept Lively’s tweaks to certain scenes in the script and was ‘summoned’ to a meeting with Reynolds, accompanied by Swift, where they ‘praised’ Lively’s version.

In his complaint, Baldoni claimed he later text Lively that he found her rewrites ‘fun and interesting’, but ‘would have felt that way without Ryan and Taylor’ and added an emoji.

Lively allegedly responded comparing herself to Khaleesi, while her husband and friend are her two ‘dragons’.

Apparently she said her husband was one of her two ‘dragons’ (XNY/Star Max/GC Images)

The alleged message read: “I happen to have a few dragons. For better or worse, but usually for better. Because my dragons also protect those I fight for. So really we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine. [Smiley-face emoji] you will too, I can promise you.”

Bryan Freedman, Baldoni’s lawyer, previously told UNILAD: “This lawsuit is a legal action based on an overwhelming amount of untampered evidence detailing Blake Lively and her team’s duplicitous attempt to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and their respective companies by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored information to the media.”

He continued: “Let’s not forget, Ms. Lively and her team attempted to bulldoze reputations and livelihoods for heinously selfish reasons through their own dangerous manipulation of the media before even taking any actual legal action. We know the truth, and now the public does too. Justin and his team have nothing to hide, documents do not lie.”

UNILAD has reached out to representatives for Wayfarer Studios, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Taylor Swift for comment.