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Move over, Abby Lee Miller.
Blake Lively referred to her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and best friend, Taylor Swift, as her “Dance Moms level stage moms” in her alleged text messages to Justin Baldoni while making their movie “It Ends with Us,” Baldoni claims in his new $400 million lawsuit.
While Lively, 37, reportedly made a “Game of Thrones” reference about the trio in an alleged text to Baldoni, 40, she also referred to the popular Lifetime reality show that followed the Abby Lee Dance Company in Pittsburgh.
“They are embarrassingly effusive,” she allegedly messaged Baldoni about her husband and bestie, adding she was the “luckiest m—–f—er on the planet” to have them as her “most trusted partners.”
According to the lawsuit, Lively added, “I think they wanted you and me to see how they felt about [the rewrites] because they’ve been by my side for far too many experiences where I’ve been overlooked.”
In another alleged text message to Baldoni — who served as the movie’s director and played Ryle Kincaid opposite Lively — she called herself Khaleesi from “Game of Thrones” and referred to Reynolds and Swift as “my dragons,” per the filing.
“If you ever get around to watching Game of Thrones, you’ll appreciate that I’m Khaleesi, and like her, I happen to have a few dragons. For better or worse, but usually for better. Because my dragons also protect those I fight for. So really we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine. you will too, I can promise you,” another one of Lively’s alleged texts read.
Baldoni filed a lawsuit against Lively, Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s p.r. firm Vision PR, Inc. in the Southern District of New York on Thursday, claiming he was “facing Lively’s ‘dragons,’ two of the most influential and wealthy celebrities in the world, who were not afraid to make things very difficult for him” while making “It Ends With Us.”
Lively’s alleged text messages were included in the filing to support Baldoni’s claim that Reynolds and Swift allegedly pressured him into approving one of Lively rewrites for the film.
The alleged text exchange between Baldoni and Lively included a conversation about changes to the iconic rooftop scene in the flick.
He allegedly told her that he “really love(d) what (she) did,” that her changes “[made] it so much more fun and interesting” and that he “would have felt that way without Ryan and Taylor.”
Lively allegedly responded that she wants him to “win,” adding that Reynolds and Swift are “absolute titans” and she’s “so lucky to have them as creative barometers.”
Baldoni’s attorneys argue that their client “felt obliged to text Lively to say that he had liked her pages and hadn’t needed Reynolds and her megacelebrity friend to pressure him.”
The Post reached out to reps for Lively, Reynolds, their publicist and a rep for Swift.
Baldoni is suing on claims of civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, intentional interference with contractual relations, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage and negligent interference with prospective economic advantage, according to the 179-page complaint obtained by The Post.
His lawsuit comes after Lively sued him and his associates in December, making claims of sexual harassment and accusing him of orchestrating a retaliatory smear campaign against her.
His lawyers denied the claims in the latest filing, alleging that Lively was “so close and comfortable” with Baldoni that she “freely breast-fed in front of him during meetings.”
In Lively’s December complaint, the “Gossip Girl” alum claimed that Baldoni’s alleged behavior while making “It Ends With Us” and during its promotion caused her “grief, fear, trauma and extreme anxiety.”
She also claimed his alleged smear campaign caused her family “severe emotional distress” and was harmful to her business and career.
Baldoni’s attorney denied Lively’s allegations, telling the Post, “It is shameful that Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations against Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its representatives, as yet another desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation.”
This isn’t the only legal war Baldoni is facing.
He also sued the New York Times for $250 million on Dec. 31 for libel in response to an article with the headline “‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine.”
He claimed the newspaper used “‘cherry-picked’ and altered communications stripped of necessary context and deliberately spliced to mislead” readers about Lively’s gripes against him.
A spokesperson for the Times told the Post, “The role of an independent news organization is to follow the facts where they lead. Our story was meticulously and responsibly reported. It was based on a review of thousands of pages of original documents, including the text messages and emails that we quote accurately and at length in the article. To date, Wayfarer Studios, Mr. Baldoni, the other subjects of the article and their representatives have not pointed to a single error. We published their full statement in response to the allegations in the article as well.
“We plan to vigorously defend against the lawsuit.”