Blake Lively is speaking out about what she’s going through.
The “Another Simple Favor” star made an appearance on the May 1 episode of “Late Night With Seth Meyers” and spoke about the highs and lows she’d experienced.
Host Seth Meyers first mentioned to Lively that he was “not totally informed” about the details of what she said was an “intense” year.
“I’m thrilled you’re not doing ‘Weekend Update’ right now, because you’d be totally informed,” Lively joked.
Meyers followed with a prompt to see what Lively was willing to share. “But were I to ask you about it I’d imagine you’re in a situation where you can’t say much,” he said.
Lively characterized using her “voice” as a fight to “make the world safer for women in girls.”
“What I can say without going too into it is that this year has been full of the highest highs and the lowest lows of my life. I see so many women around afraid to speak, afraid to share their experiences. Fear is by design. It’s what keeps us silent,” she said.
“I acknowledge that many people don’t have the opportunity to speak,” Lively continued. “I feel fortunate that I have been able to. It’s the women who have had the ability to use their voice that have kept me strong and have helped me in my fight to make the world safer for women and girls. It’s a pretty simple thing,” she said.
Following her comments, Lively received a round of applause from the audience.
It should be noted that Lively or Meyers made no specific mention of her legal case involving Justin Baldoni and their film “It Ends With Us.”
Back in January, a New York judge announced that both Lively and Baldoni’s lawsuits against each other would be addressed in a trial set for March 9, 2026.
Lively starred and produced “It Ends With Us,” while Baldoni directed and co-starred. The film premiered in August 2024, yet before its release, people began speculating that there was tension between the cast.
By December 2024, Lively filed a sexual harassment complaint against Baldoni, with her attorneys stating that, in multiple incidents, Baldoni harassed Lively on set and crossed boundaries during intimate scenes, according to an administrative complaint filed Dec. 20, 2024 and obtained by TODAY.com.
Attorneys for Baldoni denied the accusations at the time.
On Dec. 31, Baldoni sued the New York Times for libel, seeking $250 million in damages, over the newspaper’s coverage of Lively’s accusations of sexual harassment and being the target of a smear campaign.
Also on Dec. 31, Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, his production company Wayfarer Studios, producer Jamey Heath, Baldoni’s publicist Jennifer Abel, crisis publicist Melissa Nathan and others connected to Baldoni and “It Ends With Us,” in which her legal team argued she had been a victim of sexual harassment and a smear campaign, according to court documents obtained by NBC News.
In response, in January 2025, Baldoni sued Lively, accusing her, her husband Ryan Reynolds, publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s PR firm of defamation and other contractual claims.
In a statement to NBC News in Jan. 16, 2025, Lively’s legal team said the lawsuit was “another chapter in the abuser playbook,” denying the allegations.
Baldoni and his team would go on to create a website about the lawsuit against Lively, filled with their complaint and alleged emails and texts from those involved in the creation of “It Ends With Us.” Lively’s
By February, the judge overseeing their trial didn’t restrict what their attorneys could say publicly but he did issue a warning about public comments, according to NBC News. Later that month, Lively amended her original complaint, alleging that other women had complained about Baldoni’s misconduct, as well as added a new claim for defamation.
Attorneys for Baldoni did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News about Lively’s amended complaint at the time.
