Throughout mentioned gathering, Reynolds allegedly accused Baldoni of fat-shaming Energetic, leaving the director “emotionally paralyzed.”

Blale Energetic sued Justin Baldoni in December 2024 for sexual harassment, and Baldoni hit again at his former co-star with a not too long ago dismissed $400 million lawsuit.

Courtroom paperwork, a part of Blake Energetic’s ongoing authorized motion, reveal that Swift, 35, and Jackman, 57, have been current throughout a tense April 25, 2023, confrontation at Reynolds and Energetic’s New York Metropolis penthouse.

Based on Individuals Journal, the filings, which embrace a timeline despatched by Wayfarer Studios co-founder Jamey Heath’s staff to Justin Baldoni’s publicist in July 2024, element Reynolds allegedly confronting Baldoni about questions he requested concerning Energetic’s weight on the set of “It Ends With Us.”

Reynolds reportedly accused Baldoni of “fat-shaming” Energetic, leaving Baldoni embarrassed, apologetic, and reportedly in tears.

Baldoni claims Reynolds confronted him angrily, saying, “How dare you f-cking ask about my spouse’s weight? What’s unsuitable with you?”

His attorneys added that the encounter left him feeling compelled to apologize repeatedly. In a separate January 2024 assembly, Reynolds was described as “indignant, stern, and impassioned,” although not aggressively berating Baldoni, in keeping with his lawyer.

The filings additionally allege that Baldoni used “back-channel methods of criticizing [Lively’s] physique and weight” throughout filming, together with contacting her private coach to recommend she ought to drop some pounds inside two weeks.

Baldoni’s attorneys defended this, saying he requested about “what Energetic weighed in order that he may prepare his again muscle groups in preparation for a elevate scene,” citing his historical past of lifelong again accidents.

The January 2024 texts, despatched by Baldoni to actor Rainn Wilson, additional describe the encounter at Reynolds and Energetic’s condominium.

Baldoni mentioned he felt “emotionally paralyzed” in the course of the assembly, which was triggered by Energetic’s issues, and recounted that Reynolds “was speaking to me like a five-year-old and scolding me,” including that he was advised that he and Jamey Heath have been “not who we claimed to be” and that their podcast made individuals really feel unsafe.

He mirrored, “It is onerous to really feel a lot of what they imagine about me is fake as a result of they’re so satisfied that it is actual. … I used to be emotionally paralyzed, which is one thing I have never skilled in years.”

The paperwork come months after Energetic filed a lawsuit towards Baldoni and others, alleging sexual harassment and retaliation.

Baldoni has since denied the claims, with their trial set for March 2026, and Swift and Jackman named as potential witnesses.

Jackman has publicly supported Energetic, attending the New York premiere of “It Ends With Us” on August 9, 2024, posing alongside her and Reynolds, and showing with the “Gossip Woman” actress on Vogue’s September 2024 cowl.

In the meantime, Swift’s involvement has been clarified repeatedly as being restricted to the licensing of one in every of her songs. She additionally made no crimson carpet appearances alongside Energetic to assist promote the movie.

Swift’s staff emphasised she had no position within the movie’s manufacturing, casting, modifying, or inventive selections, and she or he solely licensed one tune, “My Tears Ricochet.”

Her spokesperson careworn that the popstar “by no means noticed an edit or made any notes on the movie, she didn’t even see ‘It Ends With Us’ till weeks after its public launch.”

Additionally they criticized makes an attempt to hyperlink her to the controversy, and emphasised that her title has been used “to attract public curiosity by creating tabloid clickbait as a substitute of specializing in the details of the case.”