Chelsea Handler Weighs In On Blake Lively And Justin Baldoni

Chelsea Handler believes each events are fueling the media frenzy surrounding their ongoing dispute, expressing that their steady back-and-forth within the press isn’t doing them any favors.

“The rationale it’s such a frenzy is that they preserve releasing increasingly stuff,” Handler advised Page Six, referring to Full of life and Baldoni’s public authorized spat.  She admitted that whereas she finds the state of affairs “attention-grabbing,” she needs they might cease including gas to the fireplace. “Cease it! You’re not serving to your self,” she suggested.

Handler additionally took purpose at Baldoni for publicly sharing personal textual content messages between himself and Full of life, likening the state of affairs to an immature schoolyard brawl.

“It’s like you must break up a struggle in a schoolyard playground,” she quipped. “It’s like, ‘Don’t they know to cease?’ Isn’t somebody saying, ‘Cease it!’?”

This is not the primary time Handler has spoken out in regards to the ongoing feud.

“Waking up on daily basis, not understanding what information we’re going to hear that can disappoint or horrify us. So, it’s vital, in instances like these, to have a distraction. And that’s why I need to personally lengthen my gratitude to Justin Baldoni and Blake Full of life,” Handler quipped.

Clearly leaning into the spectacle their authorized battle has change into, she continued, “Thanks for offering us with that distraction. I’m grateful. I feel we’re all grateful, and I feel we’re good. I feel everyone on this room, regardless of whose facet you’re on, we will all agree to simply accept that there’s in all probability not going to be a sequel.”

Rumors of rigidity between Full of life and Baldoni first surfaced final summer season when the “It Ends With Us” co-stars noticeably prevented joint promotional appearances. Then, in December 2024, Full of life filed a sexual harassment criticism in opposition to Baldoni, accusing him of attempting to “destroy” her fame.

A number of weeks later, she formally sued him in New York federal court docket for misplaced wages and emotional misery.

Baldoni has vehemently denied the allegations, countering along with his personal $250 million libel lawsuit in opposition to The New York Occasions, which first reported on Full of life’s criticism, and a further $400 million defamation lawsuit in opposition to Full of life, her husband Ryan Reynolds, and publicist Leslie Sloane, alleging extortion.

In an effort to defend himself, Baldoni launched personal textual content exchanges with Full of life, together with one wherein she allegedly wrote, “If you happen to knew me (in particular person) longer you’d have a way of how flirty and yummy the ball busting will play. It’s my love language. Spicy and playfully daring, by no means with enamel…..”

Blake Full of life’s authorized battle with Justin Baldoni is taking a critical emotional toll, with the actress submitting a brand new criticism reinforcing her claims in opposition to her “It Ends With Us” co-star.

In her newest submitting, Full of life asserts that the ongoing lawsuit has deeply affected her family, significantly her 4 youngsters, who she says have been left “traumatized” by the ordeal. She additionally claims that Reynolds has been struggling “mentally and bodily” because of the extremely publicized dispute.

In keeping with Page Six, Full of life’s criticism, particulars the toll the authorized battle has taken on her dwelling life. She alleges that her youngsters, James, 10, Inez, 8, Betty, 5, and Olin, 2, have been “emotionally uprooted in ways in which have considerably impacted their well-being.”

The criticism additionally describes Reynolds as being “affected mentally, bodily and professionally by his spouse’s and kids’s ache.”

With each lawsuits now consolidated, a trial is tentatively set for March 9, 2026. Regardless of court-offered mediation, neither Full of life nor Baldoni seems keen to settle, with each side calling settlement talks “untimely.”