Actress Blake Lively and director Justin Baldoni are continuing their public feud over their hit film

it ends with us, with both sides filing lawsuits. But even more than a legal battle, this has become an all-out

PR war with leaked texts, calls, and film footage, as well as allegations of sexual harassment and spousal jealousy.

The first trial date is set for March of 26.

In this episode, Daily Wire Culture Reporter Megan Basham speaks with award-winning journalist,

author, and Daily Mail columnist Maureen Callahan to get insight into a drama only Hollywood could produce.

Thanks so much for joining us, Maureen. You know, for those of us who are maybe just catching

up with this story a little bit on the later side, I'm wondering if you can give us something of a

10,000 foot summary of this scandal?

Sure. So about a month ago, the New York Times ran a blockbuster, I think 4,000-word piece

in which Blake Lively was alleging her writer-director co-star, forgive me, I'm not sure if he was

the writer, Justin Baldoni,

on their film, It Ends with Us, had subjected her to almost ritualistic sexual harassment

and that she suffered so greatly. It was a concerted effort in which he involved multiple people to not only harass

her while filming, but then once the movie was about to be released, orchestrated an online

smear campaign against her. A couple of weeks later, Baldoni's lawyer, Brian Friedman,

filed a countersuit in which he alleged that the text messages obtained by the New York Times had been selectively edited.

And they sort of threw open their document dump, which seemed to absolve Justin of many of the things that Lively has been claiming.

Nonetheless, these two are now locked in a bitter, bitter, expensive lawsuit.

Baldoni's countersuing Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, for $400 million,

which is, I believe, what he thinks their estimated

net worth is. And the trial is tentatively set for March 2026. So before we get to some of the

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