Justin Baldoni reflects on “intense” years in podcast taped before Blake Lively Court archiving

• Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively are in an ongoing legal struggle after the actress sued the actor/director, accused him of sexual harassment and a revenge campaign to “destroy” her reputation
• The charges came months after their film was released It ends with us, and baldoni responded with counting the actress
• Although he did not discuss lively in his recently released podcast look, he crowned his “intense” year

Before you were tuned by Blake livelyThe Justin Baldoni already had an “intense” year.

Baldoni made the revelation in a section of Gent’s Talk podcast Was released on Monday 10 February. The installment was filmed in November 2024 – one month before Lively, 37, submitted a trial against her It ends with us Costar and director, 41, accused him of sexual harassment, followed by a revenge campaign for revenge to “destroy” her reputation.

“This morning I sent a text message to my best friend Jamey and the president of my business, Tera, and I told them I was not in the best place,” Baldoni said on the podcast. “I told them that I was exhausted, that I have not given myself time to recover or time to heal.”

Jamey Heath is CEO of Wayfarer Studios and Tera Hanks is president by the production company.

Baldoni, who also directed It ends with ussaid his feelings were the result of “an intense year.”

“Very material success and a lot of emotional stress was very difficult for me and my family. I wear a lot of hats and I have a lot because I love what I do,” he said, noting that he has “love” for his company.

“I love the people who work for us. I love the movies we do. I love the impact we have and yet it is sometimes easy to, as you said before, fall back into our programming and swept away in the stream of yourself and become A little taken over by the wave of success and opportunities, ”Baldoni said.

He explained that after waking up at 4:30 in the morning with his “heart tracing”, he realized that he was dealing with “some anxiety” and “not in the best place.”

After checking in with himself, Baldoni said that he reminded that he needed to prioritize his time and “just didn’t give myself time to heal from this year that I needed.”

He said that “in the spirit of vulnerability” he shared the same message with his assistant and a similar text message with his publicist, Jennifer Abel.

The actor shared that he is an “ongoing work”, which “always tries to be radically sincere and genuine to myself” to “have the most impact.”

“And sometimes I can get lost in the same way that everyone gets lost, but healing is not linear, and growth is not linear, and if you do not have setbacks and if you do not have plateaus, you do not” do not have the opportunity to group And drive forward, ”said Baldoni.

The podcast’s release comes in the middle of Baldoni’s ongoing legal struggle with lively.

On December 21, Lively Wayfares, Baldoni, Heath, Abel and others are called in her trial.

December 31, Baldoni tuning New York Times For $ 250 millionis alleged to damages, false light invasion of integrity, debt fraud and violation of implied contracts, after the outlet published a story entitled “We can bury anyone ‘: inside a Hollywood metry machine“About the charges against him.

A month later, baldoni submitted another lawsuit is the lively, her husband, Ryan ReynoldsTheir publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloanes PR Firm Vision PR, Inc. for $ 400 million, claims civil extortion and slander, among other claims.

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Baldoni and lively are scheduled for trial on March 9, 2026.