Blake Full of life’s attorneys are accusing Justin Baldoni and his legal team of misconduct as their ongoing legal battle continues.
In keeping with court documents obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, October 23, Full of life’s legal team alleged Baldoni, 41, and other defendants “have hid the ball at every turn in the invention process, either failing to supply documents or improperly cloaking them within the attorney-client privilege.”
“Now that the dust has settled, and fact discovery and depositions have closed, two things are clear,” Full of life’s team stated of their filing. “There’s substantial evidence that the retaliatory campaign was, in truth, implemented as planned.”
Full of life’s team also alleged that the defendants “destroyed and/or did not preserve or produce additional material and highly relevant evidence, the absence of which they intend to attempt to unjustly exploit of their favor.”
With their latest filing, Full of life’s team is asking the court to sanction Baldoni’s team by stopping them from telling a jury that they didn’t execute an alleged retaliatory campaign. One other hope from Full of life’s side is that a judge informs the jury that Baldoni’s side allegedly destroyed and did not preserve evidence, and that the jury may assume that the evidence would have been harmful for his or her case.
Us Weekly has reached out to Baldoni and Full of life’s legal teams for added comment.
While Full of life’s team has questioned where communications through Signal and voice memos are, Baldoni and other defendants didn’t receive a litigation hold until December 2024.
A source also revealed to Us that Baldoni’s team was not using signal messages in August of 2024, which is the time Full of life’s team alleges that Baldoni and his team “anticipated litigation.”
Blake Full of life and Justin Baldoni Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images
Full of life, 38, and Baldoni’s legal drama began in December 2024, when the actress accused her It Ends With Us costar and director of sexual harassment, making a hostile work environment and purposefully making a smear campaign against her. (Baldoni has consistently denied all of the allegations.)
Full of life’s lawsuit included “hundreds of pages of text messages and emails” that the Gossip Girl alum obtained through a subpoena. The actress’ team alleged that a publicist working with the studio and Baldoni allegedly wrote to a crisis management expert, “He desires to feel like she could be buried.”
“This plan went well beyond standard crisis PR,” the docs stated.
Baldoni strongly denied the allegations and countersued Full of life. In June, a judge dismissed his lawsuit against the actress.
“The Court’s decision on the motion to dismiss has no effect in anyway on the reality that there was no harassment nor any smear campaign, and it doesn’t in any way affect our vigorous defense against Ms. Full of life’s claims,” Baldoni’s attorney said in an announcement to Us on the time. “Discovery is proceeding and we’re confident that we are going to prevail against these factually baseless accusations. As an alternative of revising the prevailing claims, our clients will probably be pursuing additional legal options which might be available to us.”
Blake Full of life suffered a small setback in court after a judge denied her effort to acquire communications sent by Justin Baldoni’s legal team to content creators or the press about her, Us Weekly can confirm. On Monday, August 4, a Latest York federal judge ruled on the motion filed by Baldoni’s lawyer’s firm Liner Freedman […]
In a separate conversation with podcast host Matthew Belloni, Baldoni’s attorney also claimed his client didn’t want negative attention directed at Full of life.
“Justin wasn’t completely satisfied about anything that will be negative about Blake, concerning the movie, about him or anything, Bryan Freedman said on a March episode of “The Town” podcast. “This wasn’t nearly him or simply about her, this was concerning the project they were working on together.”
Full of life’s case against Baldoni is tentatively scheduled to go to trial in March 2026.