1 week Ago By Ellie Hook
Actress Blake Lively has seemingly taken some comfort from Winnie the Pooh to get through her ongoing legal saga with Justin Baldoni . The Gossip Girl star, 37, took to her Instagram Stories on Monday to share a cryptic message that she had written atop an image of flowers on a tree branch covered in water droplets, set to the tune Little April Shower from the 1942 animated movie Bambi. "It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine," she penned , attributing the quote to Winnie the Pooh's Eeyore.
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It began when Blake sued Justin, who was also the director of It Ends With Us, in December 2024, for sexual harassment on the Colleen Hoover adaptation’s set. She also alleged he fabricated a smear campaign against her. The Jane The Virgin star has denied the allegations and filed a countersuit for defamation and extortion against his former co-star, her husband Ryan Reynolds and their publicity team.
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Both cases in Lively v. Wayfarer Studios et al. are scheduled for trial in March 2026.
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