Justin Baldoni and his wife, Emily Baldoni, found solace of their shared faith following their lengthy legal drama.
“We’re healing, and should you’ve ever been through something traumatic, you already know that healing isn’t linear,” Justin, 42, said in a Wednesday, July 8, social media video, making his first comments since his lawsuit with Blake Vigorous was settled. “It looks different day by day, and we now have needed to rethink for ourselves what’s real and what matters and it’s this, it’s our family, it’s our friends, it’s our community [who] have been there for us, it’s our faith.”
Justin and Emily, 41, are practicing members of Baha’i, a faith founded within the nineteenth century that focuses on the unity of humanity and the elimination of prejudice.
“I believe we’re closer and more devoted and steadfast in our faith than we’ve ever been,” Justin added, noting that wife had prayed for fans’ “discernment” and support. “There have been so a lot of you who, once we didn’t have a voice, were our voice. … So a lot of you had discernment and also you used your intuition and also you trusted that, and you’ve given your time to fight for us.”
He continued, “Thanks doesn’t feel like enough, but we’re here largely due to so a lot of you and all of our family and friends.”
In late 2023, Justin’s It Ends With Us costar Vigorous, 38, accused him of sexual harassment, fostering a hostile work environment and attempting to destroy her status. Justin vehemently denied the allegations and filed a defamation suit against Vigorous, which was ultimately dismissed.
A judge ultimately ruled in May to dismiss a majority of Vigorous’s claims before the remaining charges were settled weeks before a trial was scheduled to start.
Throughout the legal back-and-forth, Justin and Emily opted against speaking publicly.
Justin Baldoni celebrated his forty first birthday together with his family by his side amid ongoing legal drama. “Blissful birthday, my love,” the actor’s wife, Emily Baldoni, wrote via Instagram on Friday, January 24. “Celebrating the person, husband and father that you simply are. I’d select you repeatedly.” Emily, 40, also uploaded a photograph of the […]
“We’ve got not spoken publicly for the higher a part of the last two years and it’s not because we haven’t had anything to say,” the director said in his Wednesday upload. “Lord knows we now have, but it surely just felt like each time we went to make a video like this where we desired to speak, something was telling us to not. It just doesn’t feel like the fitting time. We were talking about it and feeling into it and praying about it.”
While not discussing the fallout from the case, Emily acknowledged that the couple had “a lot to unpack” after Justin faced multiple allegations of misconduct.
“It’s vital as we are saying that, in that gratitude, it doesn’t negate the injustice and the pain that we now have also felt in the previous few years,” Emily stated. “We’ve needed to wrestle with so many things and take a look at to grasp so many things, like, ‘How could something like this even occur?’ Let alone disguise[d] as a fight for ladies. … The reality is that there’s been a whole lot of trauma for us to maneuver through as a family, which also makes it hard to talk. The reality and the facts have spoken for themselves, and here we’re.”