Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are at odds with director Justin Baldoni over access to their private text messages with other celebrities. The dispute centers on whether Baldoni should be granted access to sensitive information that could potentially leak to the public.
Lively, 37, and her husband Reynolds, 48, held a dial-in hearing with Judge Lewis J. Liman to discuss the issue. Lively’s attorney, Meryl Conant Governski, argued that Baldoni’s lawyers should only be allowed access to communications between Lively and Reynolds, not to Baldoni himself.
Governski expressed concerns about irreparable harm if sensitive conversations fell into the wrong hands. The dispute began in January when Lively was mentioned in Baldoni’s complaint against her, Reynolds, their publicist, and PR firm Vision PR.
Judge Liman previously ruled that Lively’s request for Baldoni’s phone records was “overly intrusive” and rejected a similar petition by Lively’s attorneys to grant access to specific sensitive materials. However, both sides have opted out of mediation, indicating that the cases will proceed to trial as scheduled in March 2026.
The issue at hand is whether a narrow category of already non-public information should be accessible only to attorneys or also to the parties involved. Lively’s team claims it needs access to industry-relevant materials to clear their client’s name, while Baldoni’s lawyers argue that they require separate access to sensitive information.
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