Justin Baldoni is finally breaking his silence after filing a $400 million defamation lawsuit against his It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds.
The 40-year-old actor chatted briefly with cameramen when he was seen walking into LAX airport in Los Angeles early Friday morning in a clip obtained by TMZ.
Baldoni was accompanied at the airport by his family, including wife Emily, daughter Maiya, nine, and son Maxwell, seven.
The actor is suing Lively and Reynolds, as well as Lively’s publicist Leslie Soane, for alleged defamation, as well as civil extortion and invasion of privacy by false light, among other allegations.
It follows an earlier $250 million lawsuit he filed against the New York Times for its reporting on Lively’s own federal lawsuit accusing him of sexual harassment and orchestrating a smear campaign against her.
Baldoni, dressed casually in a black hoodie and matching New York Yankees cap, said he was “grateful to be with family” after riding an escalator.
Justin Baldoni is finally breaking his silence after filing a $400 million defamation lawsuit against his It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds. He was seen with his family at LAX airport in Los Angeles early Friday morning, according to TMZ; seen on December 4th in Beverly Hills
When asked how he would get through the “difficult time” he was going through, Baldoni said he would lean on his “incredible friends and family.”
He concluded by adding that his “faith” was essential to overcoming his current conflict with Lively and Reynolds.
On Thursday, Baldoni escalated his legal war of words when he filed a $400 million lawsuit against Lively, Reynolds and her publicist, accusing them of conspiring to destroy his reputation with sexual harassment allegations Lively had previously made.
In court documents obtained by DailyMail.com, Baldoni accused Lively of hijacking the filming of her romantic drama It Ends With Us, which he directed.
He also accused her and her husband, the Deadpool star, of ruining their experience at the film’s premiere by forcing him and his family to wait in a basement waiting area, surrounded by crowded food stalls and guards. security to make sure she didn’t see him in the theater.

In court documents obtained by DailyMail.com, Baldoni accused Lively of hijacking the filming of It Ends With Us, which he directed, and ruining her premiere experience by forcing her family to wait in a basement so she wouldn’t. see ; seen in August in New York

At the airport, Baldoni said he was “grateful to be with the family.” He said he would get through this “difficult time” by leaning on his “incredible friends, family and faith”; seen in December 2023 in New York