Blake Vigorous and Jenny Slate’s non-public messages at the moment are getting into the highlight, they usually paint a far darker image of what the “It Ends With Us” set allegedly felt like behind the scenes. In newly unsealed texts tied to Vigorous’s lawsuit towards director and co-star Justin Baldoni, the actresses seem to recount moments they are saying crossed skilled traces, together with Vigorous’s declare that he referred to as her “sizzling,” adopted by “okay horny,” and a separate trade the place Justin Baldoni allegedly chimed in on a dialog about Britney Spears in a approach that left them unsettled.

The messages surfaced as a part of Vigorous’s 2024 lawsuit, by which she accuses Baldoni of sexual harassment, retaliatory conduct, and intentional infliction of emotional misery, claims the director denies. Vigorous filed her lawsuit in December 2024, accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment, retaliatory conduct, and intentional infliction of emotional misery, together with claims of physique shaming and makes an attempt to wreck her status. Her go well with additionally named a number of of Baldoni’s collaborators, together with his firm Wayfarer Studios, the studio’s CEO and monetary backers, and PR personnel.

Baldoni beforehand sought $250 million in damages from The New York Occasions over a report he mentioned was defamatory, later including it to a $400 million go well with filed in January 2025. His lawsuit named Vigorous, her husband Ryan Reynolds, and her publicist Leslie Sloane, although the case was dismissed in June. All events have denied the allegations towards them.

Within the court docket paperwork obtained by the Every day Mail, Slate, who described the shoot as “actually gross and disturbing” in different texts, tells Vigorous about what she calls Baldoni’s “unprofessional habits” and the “bizarre stuff he pulled” through the first half of filming.

“I imply, even him recording our dialog on his telephone with out asking us first,” Vigorous chimed in.

She then referred to as it “alarming habits,” recalling, “You had been standing there for the factor he mentioned to me when he mentioned I look sizzling. I mentioned that’s not what I’m going for, and he mentioned ‘okay horny.’ Then he made a joke, requested if he crossed a line, and I mentioned sure – he should’ve missed the sexual harassment assembly.”

The texts then flip to a different alleged trade by which Vigorous and Slate specific admiration for Spears earlier than Baldoni reportedly makes a disturbing remark concerning the singer.

“After which later if you mentioned you used to stare at Britney Spears’ midsection for hours (earlier than you completed and mentioned what an athlete she was and the way outstanding she appeared as a younger woman) he jumped in and mentioned ‘identical’ and giggled, however then eye rolled after we simply checked out him,” Vigorous texted.

Slate replied, “Sure, precisely. These are two excellent examples, the primary one an instance of a complete overstep and undesirable remark, the second is such an incredible instance of how now I simply really feel inclined to close down [because] I do not wish to invite some other feedback from him, it is simply gross and silly.”

Because the texts made the rounds on-line, Every day Mail readers didn’t precisely reply with sympathy. As a substitute, many slammed the trade as petty, immature, and wildly unworthy of a courtroom battle.

“OMG what highschool drama IS this? I am unable to consider it is a lawsuit. I pity the jury and choose. Nicely, anybody within the courtroom, actually,” one commenter raged, whereas one other wrote, “That is getting foolish and silly. What are they in highschool? Tens of millions of males have made remarks about Britney Spears.”