Blake Lively has achieved a significant victory in her ongoing sexual harassment case. The “Gossip Girl” actress, 38, is embroiled in a legal battle against Jamey Heath, the producer of “It Ends With Us,” regarding a troubling encounter on set.

A federal judge has now mandated that Heath hand over all footage from his wife Natasha’s home birth, a move prompted by Lively’s claims that he played the video for her without prior warning. This revelation was confirmed by the Daily Mail.

The directive came in the form of a six-page memorandum and order, issued by Judge Lewis J. Liman on Monday in the Southern District of New York. The judge’s ruling requires Heath to deliver the birth video within a three-day timeframe.

Lively’s lawsuit details an incident where Heath allegedly approached her and her assistant on set, subsequently playing a video that initially appeared to be explicit material. However, Heath later clarified that the footage was of his wife during childbirth, according to Lively’s complaint.

In response to these accusations, Heath has firmly denied showing Lively any such birth footage. He contends that the only video he shared was one taken after the birth, featuring himself, his wife, and their newborn child.

Heath denies showing Lively birth footage and insists he only showed a post-birth video of himself, his wife and their newborn baby.

Blake Lively just won a major step in her heated sexual harassment lawsuit

The Daily Mail can confirm that a federal judge ordered It Ends With Us producer Jamey Heath to turn over all footage of his wife Natasha’s home-birth, which the Gossip Girl star, 38, claims he once played for her on set without warning; Baldoni and Heath are pictured in August 2024

In the ruling, Judge Liman wrote that Lively had sought an order directing Heath to produce ‘all video footage depicting the birth video, including but not limited to all versions that show the delivery.’

Heath opposed turning over anything beyond the short post-birth clip he admits showing her.

But the court disagreed with him.

Because Lively alleges she was shown birth footage, and Heath claims she was not, the judge found that the full footage may contain evidence that supports Lively’s account and directly contradicts Heath’s.

‘Because the Court’s order encompassed more than the video Heath claims he showed Lively, the additional footage should have been produced,’ Judge Liman wrote.

The court also emphasized that Lively’s request covers any documents or communications ‘relating to, referring to, describing, evidencing, or constituting’ the allegations – which includes the birth footage itself.

According to filings, Lively alleges Heath approached her and her assistant on set and began playing a video of a naked woman on screen.

Lively says she immediately stopped him because she thought he was showing her pornography.

In the explosive six-page memorandum and order, filed Monday in the Southern District of New York, Judge Lewis J. Liman ruled that Heath must produce the birth video within three days; seen in August 2024

The decision comes after Lively moved to sanction Heath for failing to hand over the footage she says is central to her lawsuit (pictured in It Ends With Us)

Heath then claimed it was footage of his wife giving birth.

The Wayfarer Parties, Heath, Wayfarer Studios, Justin Baldoni and others, responded by accusing Lively of making an ‘outrageous and knowingly false suggestion’ that she was shown pornography or naked images of Heath’s wife during filming.

Lively, however, maintains that what she saw was a birth video – or at minimum something that began with explicit medical imagery she found deeply inappropriate.

Judge Liman acknowledged that the videos are ‘extremely sensitive and deeply personal’ and fall under strict confidentiality protections. The footage will not become public and is protected by an existing protective order.

However, sensitivity alone was not enough to shield it from the discovery process.

The ruling concludes with a firm deadline: ‘Heath shall produce the footage within three days of this Order.’

Lively has accused Heath of approaching her on set before allegedly playing a clip of ‘a fully nude woman with her legs spread apart,’ which Lively said she initially believed was pornography; seen in April 2025

The judge formally granted the motion in part and denied it in part, siding with Lively on the key issue: she is entitled to see all versions of the video.

The Clerk of Court was directed to close the motion.

Lively first made the allegation in early filings tied to her lawsuit over the handling of material she claims was used for It Ends With Us without her consent. 

The dispute over the birth video has become one of the most bizarre and hotly contested elements of the case.

Heath was deposed earlier this year and, according to filings, eventually acknowledged the existence of multiple videos related to his wife’s birth – prompting Lively to seek the court’s intervention to ensure the entire set of footage was produced.

With Heath now ordered to turn over everything, Lively’s legal team is expected to review the footage to determine whether it supports her account that the material shown to her on set was graphic birth imagery – not a tame post-birth family moment, as Heath claims.

In the ruling, Judge Liman wrote that Lively had sought an order directing Heath to produce ‘all video footage depicting the birth video, including but not limited to all versions that show the delivery’

Lively launched a bombshell lawsuit against Baldoni, 41, his production company Wayfarer Studios, and others last December, alleging sexual harassment, retaliatory conduct, and intentional infliction of emotional stress during filming of the movie based on the Colleen Hoover novel.

Heath, the movie’s producer and Wayfarer Studios’ chief executive, was among several Baldoni collaborators named in Lively’s December 20 complaint. All of the defendants deny the allegations against them.

In the now-dismissed Wayfarer Studios complaint, Baldoni and Heath said Lively had ‘continued with an outrageous and knowingly false suggestion that she was shown pornography or naked images of Heath’s wife on set.’

They said her claim ‘knowingly and maliciously misrepresents an instance when in connection with the birthing scene, Heath, at the director’s request, attempted to show Lively a video that demonstrated the director’s vision for the scene.’

It Ends with Us, directed by Baldoni, was a surprise hit when it arrived in theaters in 2024

It went on that the video ‘which ultimately was not shown to Lively…is by all accounts beautiful’.

They insisted that although Lively had said she wanted to see the footage after she had eaten, what she was shown was ‘the first image at the start of the video, which shows Heath’s wife, himself, and their baby after his wife gave birth at home’.

‘To characterize this image that captures such a beautiful moment with their newborn baby, shared with the consent of his wife for purposes of the Film, as a naked photo, or worse, “porn,” is deplorable,’ the complaint added.

Lively claimed Heath approached them and ‘started playing a video of a fully nude woman with her legs spread apart.

‘Ms Lively thought he was showing her pornography and stopped him. Mr Heath explained that the video was his wife giving birth,’ the complaint states.

It earned $148 million at the domestic box office and $350 million globally – but whatever goodwill the film garnered has since been overshadowed by the allegations made by its stars; pictured last year

‘Ms Lively was alarmed and asked Mr Heath if his wife knew he was sharing the video, to which he replied, “She isn’t weird about this stuff”, as if Ms Lively was weird for not welcoming it.

‘Ms Lively and her assistant excused themselves, stunned that Mr Heath had shown them a nude video.’

Her lawyers pointed out that in Baldoni’s now-dismissed counter-suit, the Wayfarer defendants said Heath showed Lively the video of his child’s home birth at Baldoni’s direction it demonstrated his ‘vision’ for the birthing scene Lively’s character Lily Bloom features in at the end of the movie.

In the legal saga between the former co-stars, Baldoni, who denies Lively’s allegations, fired back against her sexual harassment suit with his own defamation complaint against her, her actor husband Ryan Reynolds and her publicist Leslie Sloane. 

He launched a $400million suit against the New York Times, accusing the paper of defaming him with its bombshell expose reporting Lively’s claims of sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us – which he denies.

His counterattack was subsequently dismissed in June – leaving Baldoni to face Lively’s sexual harassment lawsuit as the only case still standing.

It comes as his claims against Lively, Reynolds and The Times have seemingly been thrown out by the judge, according to new court papers reported by the Daily Mail last month.

The storyline of the film centered around a toxic relationship between Lily Bloom (played by Lively) and Ryle Kincaid (Baldoni); seen in June 2025

The filings obtained by the Daily Mail show a final judgment has been entered, apparently concluding the Baldoni’s lawsuits against the three parties in the district court.

The 41-year-old actor and director had been given a window to respond after a judge dismissed his case in June but he did not file an amended complaint by the deadline.

US District Court Judge Lewis Liman revealed in court on Friday that he had ‘contacted all parties on October 17 to warn them that he’d be entering a final judgment to conclude the case’.

It Ends With Us earned $148million at the domestic box office, and $350million globally – but whatever goodwill the film garnered has since been overshadowed by the allegations made by its stars.

The motion picture, which also starred Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj, Brandon Sklenar and Kevin McKidd, was based on the 2016 novel by Colleen Hoover.

The storyline of the film centered around a toxic relationship between Lily Bloom (played by Lively) and Ryle Kincaid (Baldoni).

The Daily Mail has reached out to Lively and Baldoni’s representatives for comment.