00:00And the truth is, reality is, is that there's been a lot of trauma for us to move through as
00:05a family, which also makes it hard to speak.
00:11And we don't even know if this is the right thing to say, but we just know we need to
00:17share something.
00:18Less than a week after breaking his nearly two-year silence on the Blake Lively It Ends With Us legal
00:23saga,
00:24Justin Baldoni's taking this thing back to court, kind of, challenging Lively's request for his company Wayfarer Studios to pick
00:32up the tab on her $8 million legal bill.
00:35Gratitude has saved us.
00:37It has. And I also feel that it's important as we say that, in that gratitude, it doesn't negate the
00:47injustice and the pain that we have also felt in the last few years.
00:52Like, how could something like this even happen? Um, let alone disguise as a fight for women.
01:00Lively sued Baldoni for alleged sexual harassment, retaliation, and orchestrating a smear campaign against her in 2024, following the release
01:08of their Colleen Hoover adaptation.
01:10I thought we were friends.
01:11We are friends.
01:15Oh.
01:16The two came to an undisclosed settlement this May, just weeks before they were set to head to trial, and
01:22about a month after a judge dismissed 10 of Lively's 13 claims against her co-star slash director.
01:29Now, that same judge ruled the actress could seek fees from Baldoni's company after their settlement, but he's fighting back,
01:37alleging Lively's bill is excessive, suggesting her legal team was overstaffed throughout the battle.
01:42He wants the judge to deny the request in its entirety, or significantly cut the $8 million price tag.
01:48Who and what we stand up for matters.
01:52This was about standing up and exposing these systems, not allowing it to happen in the future.
01:57This is the latest chess move between the former co-stars.
02:00She's yet to comment publicly on the ordeal, while he and wife Emily had this to say last week.
02:06So, we have not spoken publicly for the better part of the last two years, and it's not because we
02:14haven't had anything to say, because Lord knows we have, but it just felt like every time we went to
02:21make a video like this, something was telling us not to.
02:24It just didn't feel like the right time.
02:26And there is so much more to say, and that time will come.
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