Justin Baldoni and his wife have broken their silence on their prolonged legal dispute with Blake Lively.
The 42-year-old actor and his wife Emily appeared in an Instagram video on Wednesday in which they appeared to bash the 38-year-old actress, calling her alleged ‘fight for women’ an ‘injustice’ that Baldoni and his family had been subjected to.
Their public update comes amid another development in the case, after Lively sought $8 million from Baldoni to cover legal fees connected to his $400 million defamation lawsuit.
“We haven’t done this in a while,” Baldoni said at the start of the video, laughing softly as his wife nodded in agreement.
He went on to explain that the couple had stayed out of the public conversation for much of the past two years. “It’s not because we haven’t had anything to say, because Lord knows we have,” he said. “But it just felt like every time we went to make a video like this where we wanted to speak, something was telling us not to. It just didn’t feel like the right time.”
Baldoni said they had spent time discussing the decision, reflecting on it and praying over it, before Emily completed his thought: “And this feels like the moment.”
Justin Baldoni and his wife addressed their ongoing legal battle with Blake Lively in an Instagram video shared Wednesday
The 42-year-old actor appeared alongside his wife, Emily, in the video, where the couple seemed to take aim at the 38-year-old actress while referencing her “fight for women” and the “injustice” Baldoni says he has faced; pictured February 11 in NYC
“So here we are,” Justin said, offering a small smile as the couple began to share their side publicly.
‘There is so much to say, and it makes it hard to speak,’ Emily continued. ‘It makes it hard to figure out what is right for us, for this specific moment.’
‘And we’re not gonna say it all,’ Justin added.
‘But what does feel important is that we can genuinely say that we are sitting here today feeling immense gratitude for so many things and so many people and so many things that have happened to us,’ his wife said.
‘Gratitude has saved us,’ Justin concurred.
But Emily steered their video away from their gratitude as she appeared to allude to her husband’s bruising legal battle with Lively.
‘I also feel that it’s important as we say that, in that gratitude, it doesn’t negate the injustice and the pain that we have also felt in the last few years,’ she said while adopting a stern expression.
‘And we’ve had to wrestle with so many things and try to understand things like how could something like this even happen,’ Emily continued. ‘Let alone disguise as a fight for women [sic]. So much to unpack.
Baldoni said he and his wife hadn’t spoken publicly for ‘the better part of the last two years’ because ‘it just felt like every time we went to make a video like this where we wanted to speak, something was telling us not to. It just didn’t feel like the right time’
The couple expressed their ‘immense gratitude’ for the people around them and the blessings they had received, but Emily added they didn’t ‘negate the injustice and the pain that we have also felt in the last few years’
![She appeared to allude to her husband's bruising legal battle with Lively, adding, 'We've had to wrestle with so many things and try to understand things like how could something like this even happen. Let alone disguise as a fight for women [sic]'; Lively is pictured May 19 in NYC](https://i.dailymail.com/1s/2026/07/09/03/109896217-15964089-She_appeared_to_allude_to_her_husband_s_bruising_legal_battle_wi-a-1_1783563082892.jpg)
She appeared to allude to her husband’s bruising legal battle with Lively, adding, ‘We’ve had to wrestle with so many things and try to understand things like how could something like this even happen. Let alone disguise as a fight for women [sic]’; Lively is pictured May 19 in NYC
‘And the truth is – reality is, is that there’s been a lot of trauma for us to move through as a family,’ Emily said, while Justin added, ‘We don’t even know this is the right thing to say, but we just know we need to share something’
‘And the truth is – reality is, is that there’s been a lot of trauma for us to move through as a family,’ she said somberly. ‘Which also makes it hard to speak.’
Baldoni gazed down as he took over.
‘We don’t even know this is the right thing to say, but we just know we need to share something,’ he said.
