Count John Mulaney among the many who are curious about how Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively’s legal battle will end.
Mulaney, 42, referenced the ongoing drama in a comic bit on the Wednesday, May 21 edition of Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney.
Actor Peter Gallagher made a cameo as Mulaney’s future self, joking, “John, I came here from the year 2055 to warn you not to fight those three 14-year-old boys. Things get very, very bad for us when that happens.”
“Oh no, do I fall off the wagon?” Mulaney wondered, to which Gallagher, 69, replies, “A few times.”
“Wait, you’re from the future,” the Netflix host continued. “What happens in that Justin Baldoni case?”
“I don’t remember,” said Gallagher, prompting Mulaney to complain, “But you’re from the future.”
Gallagher said that “doesn’t mean that I remember everything.”
“Well, did Blake really tell Taylor, ‘Hey, you gotta stick up for me?’” Mulaney asked.
“You’re asking me too much,” Gallagher said. “I can’t recall conversations that I wasn’t present for.”
“That’s fair. It’s not like my memory was gonna get better with age, especially with all the cocaine we did in our 20s and 30s,” Mulaney said, to which Gallagher added: “And our 50s.”
Baldoni, 41, and Lively, 37, have been at odds since December 2024, when Lively sued her It Ends With Us costar and director and accused him of sexual harassment and orchestrating a smear campaign against her.
Baldoni denied the allegations and subsequently filed his own lawsuit against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and her publicist Leslie Sloane. In the $400 million lawsuit, Baldoni accused the couple of civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy and more. Lively and Reynolds have denied the allegations. (A trial is scheduled for March 9, 2026.)
As the back and forth continues, Taylor Swift was dragged into the fight after she was subpoenaed earlier this month.
“Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film,” Swift’s rep shared in a statement to Us Weekly on May 9. “She did not even see It Ends With Us until weeks after its public release, and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history.”
The statement continued: “The connection Taylor had to this film was permitting the use of one song, ‘My Tears Ricochet.’ Given that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift’s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.”
With Swift’s name coming up in reference to the lawsuit, fans have wondered what that means for the singer’s friendship with Lively. (Swift is the godmother to three of Lively and Reynolds’ four kids: James, Inez, Betty and Olin.)
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