Justin Baldoni is breaking his silence after the lengthy legal battle with his It Ends With Us co-star, Blake Lively, came to an end earlier this year.
In a nearly five-minute-long video posted on his Instagram Wednesday evening, Justin, sitting next to his wife, Emily Baldoni, explained his silence and how they’ve been as a family over the last few years since the case that captivated Hollywood first erupted in August 2024.
“We have not spoken publicly for the better part of the last two years, and it’s not because we haven’t had anything to say, because Lord knows we have, but it just felt like every time we went to make a video like this, we wanted to speak, something was telling us not to. It just didn’t feel like the right time,” Baldoni, who directed and starred in the movie about author Colleen Hoover’s book, began.
However, it seems Wednesday finally felt like the right time, more than two months after Justin and Lively reached a settlement weeks before the case about alleged sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us was scheduled for trial. The legal battle ultimately ended with Justin being ordered by the court to pay Lively’s attorneys’ fees, but no additional money for damages.
In the new video, the couple expressed that “gratitude has saved us” over the last two years, but Emily added that the gratitude they feel now also “doesn’t negate the injustice and the pain that we have also felt in the last few years.”
“We’ve had to wrestle with so many things and try to understand so many things, like, how could something like this even happen? Let alone disguised as a fight for women. So much to unpack. And the reality is that there’s been a lot of trauma for us to move through as a family, which also makes it hard to speak,” she continued.
Justin added that there’s “been so many painful things that have been spoken into existence over the last couple years, and that created so much noise, and we didn’t want to add to the noise. We just wanted to let the justice system run its course.” Emily also said that “the truth and the facts have spoken for themselves.”
Later in the Instagram video, the Jane the Virgin alum gave an update for his fans on how they’re currently doing.
“We are healing,” he said. “And if you’ve ever been through something traumatic, you know that healing isn’t linear. It looks different every day. And we have had to rethink for ourselves what is real and what matters. And it’s this. It’s the kids. It’s our family. It’s our friends. It’s our community who’ve been there for us. It’s our faith. I think we’re closer and more devoted and steadfast in our faith than we’ve ever been.”
Justin continued, “Also, this has been on both of our hearts. There were so many of you who, when we didn’t have a voice, were our voice. You had a prayer at the very beginning, which was that you just pray that people would have discernment. And so many of you had discernment and you used your intuition and you trusted that. And you have given your time to fight for us. And thank you does not feel like enough, but we’re here in large part because of so many of you and all of our friends and family. And one thing that we’ve learned is that when God presses the reset button and everything else is stripped away, that that’s when love shows up. And we feel so loved.”
They concluded the video by saying that “there is so much more to say,” but for now, “we are going to focus on continuing the healing and hanging out with our kiddos and enjoying life.”
