Justin Baldoni revealed that he was struggling shortly after the release of “it ends with us”, the film he not only directed, but also played side by side Blake Lively.
Baldoni, 41, admitted that he “was not in the best place” during a recent episode of Podcast “Gent’s Talk”, And remembered that he stood texts for a few narrow people in his life and said he was exhausted after an ‘intense year’.
“I told them that I was exhausted, that I didn’t give myself time to recover, or the time to heal,” Baldoni told host Samir Mourani. “I had one Intense year, A lot of equipment success and lots of emotional stress. It was very difficult for me and my family, and I wear a lot of hats and I wear a lot because I love what I do. ”
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Justin Baldoni struggled after filming “it ends with us”. (Nathan Congleton)
Lively filed a sexual harassment suit in December against Baldoni, his wayfarer studio and former PR representatives. On the same day Lively submitted her suit, Baldoni has one $ 250 million suit Against the New York Times for an article in December about the alleged smear campaign Baldoni tried to run against his co-star.
“I had an intense year, a lot of equipment success and a lot of emotional stress. It was very difficult for me and my family, and I wear a lot of hats and I wear a lot because I love what I do.”
Weeks later Baldoni then mentioned Lively and Reynolds in a separate $ 400 million lawsuit In which he accused the Hollywood force of an attempt to hijack “it ends with us” and create their own story.
In the interview filmed in November 2024, Baldoni explained how much he loved his company and building the brand he helped.
Justin Baldoni said he had filled an “intense year” with “emotional stress”. (Frazer Harrison/Getty images)
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“I sent this text this morning and I just said, I love you both, I just need you to know that I am not in the best place,” he said. ‘I woke up this morning at 4:30. My son had the flu. I don’t feel great. My heart was racing. I notice that I have some fear, and when I check in at myself, I ‘I realized that I did not give myself the time to cure this year I needed, so let’s give our time priority and let us do it Ensure that the things we say to are the things that we really feel will bring to the needle and that can have an impact. “
Lively filed a complaint against Baldoni in December after rumors about a stuffed feud about “it ends with us”. (Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC images)
Baldoni sent a similar SMS message “in the spirit of vulnerability” to his assistant, and also to his press representative, Jennifer Abel.
“I always feel like a cheater.”
“I bring that because you asked me what to know about who I am,” said Baldoni. “Whoever I am is a work in progress, and whoever I am is someone who always tries to be radically sincere and authentic to myself, so that I can be of service in the best possible way and have the most impact. Sometimes I can get Lost in the same way as everyone gets lost, but healing is not linear and growth is not linear and if you have no setbacks, and you have no plateaus, then you do not have the chance to regroup and to move forward. “
Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively played in the film based on the novel by Colleen Hoover. (Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC images)
He added: “So I share that with you because, although I look like I’m all those things, and on paper I am, I am also just like everyone else in the sense that I take more than I can chew, me About Commit.
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Baldoni was adamant to remove the “myth” of “having it all together” and said that he was not only the “man who wrote the books about masculinity, who did the Ted conversations, who seems like he was healed and it all together. ”
“Today, sitting here with you, before we came, I was fearing because I didn’t feel like my full self,” he said. “Yet today I came despite no sleep and I didn’t feel great and all the barriers, because of the work you do and the potential for the work we can do together and what this conversation can have for the man who sits there who may feel there like I feel today. ”
Justin Baldoni has sued Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds for $ 400 million. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Baldoni admitted that he “always tries to listen and understand someone who has a different point of view” for himself.
“I am always willing to have my position adjusted, so I would like to believe that I have enough humility to know that I don’t know,” he said. “I might think I know. I could say it with authority. I might be able to give a data point, I could speak as if I was speaking now and seemed good or just, and yet I am really willing to have changed my position. I always feel a cheater. ”
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