{"id":779509,"date":"2026-05-07T11:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/779509\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:23:22","slug":"justin-baldoni-feels-ecstatic-over-blake-lively-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/779509\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni Feels \u2018Ecstatic\u2019 Over Blake Lively Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7134c449edeee8057c6589e436e0b7368c-justin-baldoni.rsquare.w330.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" alt=\"Celebrity Sightings In New York City - February 11, 2026\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  Photo: XNY\/Star Max\/GC Images\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmousdfju000i0ikt2adatr2m@published\" data-word-count=\"108\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/justin-baldoni-blake-lively-hollywood-feud-taylor-swift-ryan-reynolds.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Baldoni<\/a> is feeling good after he and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/justin-baldoni-blake-lively-lawsuit-settlement-what-we-know.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Lively<\/a> were able to settle their lawsuits. In other news, water is wet, and <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7009691\/it-ends-with-us-costumes-blake-lively\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a million patterns<\/a> are found on Lily Bloom in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/it-ends-with-us-review-youve-seen-this-movie-before.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">It Ends With Us<\/a>. Of course, he\u2019s happy; the two narrowly avoided an incredibly stressful summer. Baldoni\u2019s lawyer, Bryan Freeman, told <a href=\"https:\/\/extratv.com\/2026\/05\/05\/justin-baldoni-s-lawyer-speaks-out-after-blake-lively-settlement-exclusive\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Extra<\/a> how the director felt after the settlement. \u201cI can\u2019t talk about the terms of the settlement, but what I can tell you is that he is ecstatic, that both Jamie and Justin are ecstatic at the results of this and the settlement itself, they are very pleased with where this ended up,\u201d he shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmouucz9n001h3b7cnxpewvtv@published\" data-word-count=\"100\">After a year-long legal battle, Baldoni and Lively settled out of court on May 4, avoiding a trial that was set to begin on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/04\/nx-s1-5810970\/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-settle-trial-it-ends-with-us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 18<\/a>. \u201cThe end product \u2014 the movie\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/it-ends-with-us-review-youve-seen-this-movie-before.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">It Ends With\u00a0Us<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 is a source of pride to all of us who worked to bring it to life,\u201d the settlement statement said. \u201cRaising awareness, and\u00a0making a meaningful impact in the lives of domestic violence survivors \u2014 and all survivors \u2014 is a goal that we stand behind.\u201d Freeman did not share who came to the table first, but said Baldoni says the settlement feels like a \u201clogical ending.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>          Sign up for the Vulture Daily<\/p>\n<p>An entertainment newsletter for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n<p>        Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n<p class=\"expanded-terms \" aria-hidden=\"true\">By submitting your email, you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/terms\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/privacy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Notice<\/a> and to receive email correspondence from us.<\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: XNY\/Star Max\/GC Images Justin Baldoni is feeling good after he and Blake Lively were able to settle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":779510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[45511,171,34615,336,50,61024,338,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-779509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-blake-lively","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-justin-baldoni","11":"tag-lawsuits","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-settlements","14":"tag-the-law","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}