Justin and Emily Baldoni break their silence on the Blake Lively battle in a joint Instagram video

Justin Baldoni went quiet in early 2025 and stayed that way. On July 8 he and his wife, actress Emily Baldoni, ended the silence with a video posted to both of their Instagram accounts. It is their first public comment on the Blake Lively fight in almost two years, and true to the genre, it is soft-lit, calm, and very careful about what it does not say.

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The clip is short on specifics and long on feelings. Justin says the two of them kept meaning to record something and kept backing off. "Every time we went to make a video like this, we wanted to speak, something was telling us not to," he says, per Today's transcript. He keeps circling back to gratitude: "gratitude has saved us," and, a little later, "we are healing."

Emily does the heavier lifting. She is careful to say the gratitude is real, then just as careful to say it does not erase the last few years.

"It doesn't negate the injustice and the pain that we have also felt."

She goes one step further on how she has tried to make sense of it: "we've had to wrestle with so many things and try to understand so many things, like how could something like this even happen, let alone disguised as a fight for women." That is the closest either of them comes to relitigating anything, and they clearly know it. When Emily says "there is so much more to say," Justin answers "we will say it," then puts a pin in it: "for now we are going to focus on continuing the healing and hanging out with our kiddos and enjoying life."

So, a teaser. No court, no names past their own, no receipts. Just a promise that the receipts are coming, eventually, maybe.

What they are talking around

Here is the part the video skips. Lively sued Baldoni in December 2024, accusing him of sexual harassment on the set of the 2024 film "It Ends With Us" and of running a retaliatory PR campaign against her. Baldoni denied all of it and countersued for defamation and extortion. A judge threw out his countersuit last year, ruling that Lively's claims were protected by litigation privilege, and in May the two sides settled what was left of the case about two weeks before it was due to go to trial.

Settling did not make the bill go away. U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman turned down Lively's request for punitive damages but ruled that she is entitled to her attorneys' fees under California's Civil Code Section 47.1, a 2023 law aimed at defamation suits used to punish people who report harassment. Lively is asking for $8,035,040.88, which she breaks down as $7,495,526.87 in fees and $539,514.01 in costs, and Baldoni and his company Wayfarer Studios had until July 13 to argue the figure down. So when the Baldonis talk about "injustice," that is the backdrop: a case they settled, and a fee ruling that did not go their way.

None of which is in the video, because of course it is not. This is the "we are healing" cut. The legal cut airs later, apparently, whenever they decide the timing is right.