Blake Lively Seeks Justin Baldoni’s Phone Records

Blake Lively is seeking Justin Baldoni‘s phone records in a move to prove that her It Ends With Us director and co-star orchestrated a smear campaign against her.

The actress accused Baldoni of on-set harassment and leading an effort to “silence” her and “eviscerate” her credibility. Baldoni denied the allegations and not only countersued Lively for defamation but also filed a separate libel complaint against The New York Times for a story it ran about Lively’s original allegations.

On Wednesday, Lively’s legal team sent out a series of subpoenas to cell carriers AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. “Phone records belonging to all of the individual defendants will expose the full web of individuals who were involved in the smear campaign against Ms. Lively,” a spokesperson for the actress said in a statement. “Such records will provide critical and irrefutable evidence not only about who, but also about when, where, and how their retaliation plan came together and operated.”

Baldoni’s attorney Bryan Freedman claimed that it was “extraordinary” what Lively’s team was seeking. “They are asking for every single call, text, data log, and even real-time location information for the past 2.5 years, regardless of the sender, recipient, or subject matter,” said Freedman in statement. “This massive fishing expedition demonstrates that they are desperately seeking any factual basis for their provably false claims. They will find none.”

A subpoena was also sent to internet providers Cloudflare and AOL, and crisis consultant Jed Wallace. The consultant is accused of working with Baldoni to create a “weaponized a digital army” on social media platforms that both attacked her and defended Baldoni amid the It Ends With Us rumors and fallout. Wallace denied the claims and sued Lively for defamation. An attorney for Wallace did not immediately return a request for comment.

Lively’s spokesperson claimed that in private messages, Baldoni’s team “bragged that thanks to Jed’s work they saw a shift in the narrative to putting a spotlight on Blake and laughed at how sad it was that people so easily want to hate on a woman.”

The spokesperson added, “We look forward to investigating more about Jed Wallace’s entire business model and what else he was doing to distract from the very real sexual harassment and retaliation claims made by Ms. Lively.”

“We will now receive all of the ‘receipts’ that, unsurprisingly, are nowhere to be found on Mr. Freedman’s website, and like Ms. Lively, those ‘receipts’ will have their day in court,” Lively’s attorneys Mike Gottlieb and Esra Hudson said in a statement.