Originally appeared on E! Online
“It Ends With Us” star Isabela Ferrer is speaking out against Justin Baldoni amid his legal battle with Blake Lively.
In court documents filed Aug. 17 and obtained by E! News, the 24-year-old — who played a younger version of Lively’s character Lily Bloom in the 2024 Colleen Hoover adaptation — accused the director and his associates of acting “inappropriately” towards her after she received a subpoena from Lively’s counsel as part of the legal dispute.
According to Ferrer’s attorneys, the actress reached out to Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios production company to have her legal fees covered in accordance with her movie contract. However, they said Ferrer soon received a response from the company asking her to “relinquish control of her response to the Lively subpoena to Wayfarer” before being granted compensation.
“From that point forward, Baldoni has tried to manipulate, threaten, control and otherwise act inappropriately towards Ms. Ferrer,” her lawyers alleged in court documents, accusing Baldoni of filing a recent motion against Ferrer to “harass” her after she refused to agree with his team’s terms.
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Ferrer’s lawyers alleged in their filing that Baldoni’s motion is “yet another attempt to manipulate the press, to create havoc on a young, up-and-coming and talented actress and to violate this Court’s policies on the publishing of non-party personally identifying information.”
“Ms. Ferrer has already had to resist Baldoni’s inappropriate conduct in connection with her response to the Lively Subpoena,” her attorneys stated in their filing, adding that Ferrer has received “personal threats and hateful statements” from social media users since the filing of Baldoni’s motion against her.
“Unfortunately, the Motion is just the latest in a broader pattern of conduct by Baldoni to bully Ms. Ferrer,” her attorneys argued. “While Ms. Ferrer will faithfully comply with her legal obligations under any subpoena, summons or court order, she obviously will not be intimidated or extorted by any party to otherwise participate in the proceedings.”
E! News has reached out to Baldoni and Lively’s legal teams but hasn’t received comment.
Lively is suing Baldoni for sexual harassment, accusing him of creating a hostile work environment on the set of “It Ends With Us.” While Baldoni has denied the allegations, his countersuit against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds was dismissed in early June after a judge determined that the filmmaker failed to prove the couple had defamed him.
A trial has been set for March 2026.
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