Blake Lively has filed a new complaint against It Ends With Us producer Jamie Heath, demanding that he show her naked wife during her home birth “without her consent or warning at work.”
Lively, 38, accused Heath and his assistant of showing an “inappropriate” home birth video of his wife Natasha. The actress described it as “pornographic”.
Producers and co-star/director Justin Baldoni are said to have shown the video to convey their vision for the birth scene in the film.
In new court documents obtained by the Daily Mail, the actress accused Heath of disobeying an August court order requiring her to produce the video in question.
In a complaint filed on October 30, Lively accused Heath of replacing a three-minute clip that was not shown on set.
Lively asked the judge to force her to turn over all versions of her home birth video within three days of the court’s order, and to bar her from discussing the video in court if she doesn’t do so.
Representatives for Lively and Heath did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.
Mr Heath and Mr Baldoni previously hit back at her claims about the video. In the now-dismissed complaint, they accused the actress of making “outrageous and deliberately false suggestions that she was shown pornographic and naked images of Heath’s wife on set.”
“It is deplorable to label this image, which captures a beautiful moment with a newborn baby, shared with my wife’s consent for the purpose of a film, as a nude photograph, or worse, ‘pornography,'” the suit says.
On Friday, the $400 million defamation and extortion countersuit filed by Baldoni against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds was officially closed by U.S. District Judge Lewis Lehman.
The judge’s final ruling stated that Baldoni and co-plaintiffs at Wayfarer Studios declined to file an amended complaint, according to court documents obtained by Page Six.
However, Mr. Baldoni’s legal team told us that Mr. Baldoni chose not to file an amended complaint because he has the option of continuing to appeal.
Meanwhile, Baldoni remains focused on Lively’s case, which will go to trial in March 2026.
Lively made accusations surrounding the birth scene on “It Ends with Us” in her original complaint and an amended version filed in February, both of which were obtained by Page Six.
She said she was “upset” by many of Baldoni’s actions on set, including “new scenes” that Baldoni chose to include in the film, such as “a violent childbirth scene in which he used a friend as the gynecologist.”
“Ms. Lively felt that the selection of Ms. Baldoni’s friend for this intimate role in the birth scene, where Ms. Baldoni’s face and hands were in close proximity to her nearly naked genitals, was invasive and humiliating,” the complaint further alleges.
However, actor Adam Monshine, who played the doctor in the scene, told Page Six that he never expressed any discomfort during the filming of the scene, calling it “totally professional.”
“In addition to her personal clothing of choice, her costume also included a hospital gown, black shorts, and a prosthetic device that covered her torso to make her appear pregnant,” he claimed.
