Jenny Slate took aim at Justin Baldoni in a series of text messages, calling her It Ends With Us co-star and director a “fraud” and writing that filming the controversial film was “unsettling”.
Slate, who played Baldoni’s sister in the film, said in a 2023 text message that she and co-star Blake Lively complained to Sony production executives about Baldoni’s alleged misconduct on set, according to court documents obtained by Page Six.
“This is a truly disturbing shoot and I am one of many who feel that way. … Justin is truly a false ally and I want nothing to do to further the ‘male feminist’ image he is creating… I honestly don’t have the words to describe what a fraud he is,” she wrote in a statement.
“Honestly, I have never met anyone like this man,” she wrote. “He’s the biggest clown and the most intense narcissist.”
It’s unclear who the text message, first reported by TMZ, was sent to.
During her deposition in September 2025, Slate was also questioned about past text messages she sent to her agent at the time. According to the documents, Slate texted Baldoni and his business partner Jamie Heath to “surprise me” and accused them of telling “bizarre lies.”
“Justin and Jamie are truly unfit,” the message read. “I’m not scared, I’m just repulsed and extremely frustrated. I know Blake is experiencing it on a much deeper level.”
In his sworn testimony, Mr. Slate also recalled that Mr. Baldoni was said to have inappropriately said that he looked “sexy” in the clothes he was wearing, but that he was okay because his wife was there.
Lively also accused Baldoni of “sexualizing” another actress, Isabella Ferrer, who played Lively’s younger role in the film, on set.
The documents allege that “Baldoni set aside Ferrer’s on-screen love interest, winked at her and encouraged her to ‘get to know him better’, and implied that he should pursue her sexually.”
“Later, after filming their characters’ first sex scene, when both actors were in their underwear, Baldoni commented, ‘I shouldn’t say this, but that was hot,'” the document says.
“Justin Baldoni said in a Ted Talk to promote his brand as an advocate for women that we need to ‘listen to women’…even when what they say is against you,” Lively’s lawyer Sigrid McCauley told Page Six in a statement. See how he really reacts in shocking new evidence released for the first time (including sworn testimony and contemporaneous messages from many women who actually worked with him). ”
“As we head to trial, only Ms. Lively’s claims against the defendants remain,” the statement continued in part. “Newly unsealed evidence shows that Ms. Lively and others’ concerns were being documented in real time as early as spring 2023, and that[Baldoni’s production company]Wayfarer understood them as ‘sexual harassment’ concerns. This evidence also documents how Wayfarer refused to investigate and instead sought to ‘bury’ Ms. Lively and others who spoke out through retaliation.”
Representatives for Baldoni, Slate and Ferrer did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.
Baldoni’s lawyer, Brian Friedman, previously claimed in a statement to Page Six in June 2025 that the allegations against Baldoni were false.
“This lawsuit concerns false accusations of sexual harassment, retaliation, and a non-existent smear campaign, which Ms. Lively’s own team conveniently describes as ‘untraceable’ because they cannot prove what did not occur,” the statement read in part.
Lively, 38, filed a formal lawsuit against Baldoni in December 2024, alleging sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and loss of wages.
Ms. Baldoni, 41, responded with a $400 million countersuit against Ms. Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds. However, that case was later dismissed.
At a hearing scheduled for Jan. 22, the judge will hear arguments on Baldoni’s motion for summary judgment, which seeks to dismiss some or all of Lively’s claims before the case goes to a jury.
