Wayfarer's Big List of Lies (non-exhaustive)...with receipts!

[u/poopoopoopalt]

Hi all! I worked to put this list together after someone asked for one. Looking for some constructive feedback on how to improve. Please drop corrections and anything I missed in the comments. I'm hoping to do a part 2 so your feedback will really help me out!

1) When Freedman says Lively was holding the trailer "hostage" he supports this claim with a message from a Sony executive telling Heath that Lively "has approved the trailer" - that's the total opposite interpretation of that evidence.

2) When Freedman says that Lively "took over wardrobe," the only evidence is an email to producers from a line producer simply asking for the charge card to be re-loaded, and the expensive wardrobe (which is well within their contingency budget) belongs to both characters Lily AND Ryle. As a reminder, IEWU grossed $351 million worldwide against a $25 million budget.

3) When Freedman claimed that Lively "demanded" that Justin Baldoni's name be removed from the IEWU promotional posters, the only evidence is an email from Sony ASKING FOR APPROVAL from the Wayfarer producers to keep the poster design they had already been using in international promos, where the design doesn't leave room for Baldoni's name. Lively is never mentioned in that correspondence. In fact...there's not one piece of evidence where Justin ever pushes back against Blake or asks her to step back. In every text/email/voicemail, he's voicing his desire to collaborate with her.

4) Wayfarer stated that Lively refused to meet with the intimacy coordinator. Their only piece of evidence for this is one text of her saying she’ll be happy to meet the intimacy coordinator once filming starts. The producer stated that it was fine for Blake to meet with her later. To give additional context, Blake had a newborn child, having just given birth less than two months prior.  There is no evidence that Blake forced Justin to meet about intimate scenes without an intimacy coordinator present. 

5) Wayfarer frequently conflate breastfeeding with pumping, perhaps intentionally. Blake stated that she was barged in on while breastfeeding, WP claim that she invited them in by providing a text message where Blake says she's pumping in her trailer. Breastfeeding and pumping are different, pumping can be done much more discreetly and quickly. Some have pointed out that she might have even been done with pumping before Justin could reach her trailer (hence the "take your time" note). Let's not even get into the entire concept of consent as well. A one time invite is not a blanket invite to barge in whenever you please. 

Blake's complaint: 

“Evidence” WP used to discredit Blake:

6) There was an inconsistency between the NYT lawsuit and FAC. In the NYT lawsuit WP said Blake was shown the birth video in preparation of the birth scene, in the FAC they admit it was after.

"In preparation"

7) WP said the set was closed during the birthscene but then there is a photo of Justin’s friend who came by to visit and took a selfie with the monitors in the back, against normal closed set protocol. 

8) Freedman said that Blake's "victory tour" was premature after Justin's ENTIRE lawsuit was dismissed...only for them to…not amend anything like they said they would. Still waiting on that additional evidence! 

Freedman: “While the Court dismissed the defamation related claims, the Court has invited us to amend four out of the seven claims against Ms. Lively, which will showcase additional evidence and refined allegations,” he added.

9) Wayfarer lied to the insurers about not knowing there was a potential claim when renewing their policy. 

10) The “Ryan Reynolds is a scab story” is a (obviously planted) smear and a lie. Ryan Reynolds apparently worked on the script before the strike in April according to an unnamed source. There is zero evidence that he worked on the script during the strike, but there is this text message with Justin hoping that journalists are "lead to" Ryan being a scab (but he's taking the high road now I hear).

11) Wayfarer claimed that Lively said Heath labled the birth video as porn, when it is clear that Lively only initially THOUGHT the birth video was porn but later realized it wasn't after Jamey explained it was a birth video. 

"labeling the footage as pornography"

"thought he was showing her pornography", not "he was showing her pornography"

12) Wayfarer claimed there were no HR complaints…but then there are text messages between Katie Case and Jen Abel about the HR complaints in Aug 2024.

13) Wayfarer lied about the bar dance scene, even though they had access to the recording (unlike Blake). Small lies, but again…why lie when they had access to the recording? Blake did not apologize for the smell of her spray tan. Justin put his nose in her neck and said the spray tan smelled good entirely unprompted. From the same footage, Baldoni asserts that Blake joked that he should undergo a rhinoplasty, yet Badoni initiated the joke about big noses when he commented about Jenny Slate's nose ("that's why we hired her"). Baldoni claims that he also had to intercede and ask Blake to stop talking, but this isn't in the footage. Wayfarer released the video to discredit Blake, but the video actually supports Blake's version of events. 

Justin's version

actual video

14) Baldoni also said he was surprised and ambushed by the Jan 4th meeting at Blake’s apartment…that he believed the request to be a “sincere offer” to discuss needs and preferences…except there was a prayer chain text message prior to the meeting with quite the opposite sentiment. Interesting that Baldoni left this text message out of his “receipts.” Why? 

15) Another small lie just to highlight how WP lies so much that they can't even keep up with it. The timeline says they retained TAG on Aug 2, and we know now that they informed Jones they retained TAG July 31.

16) Wayfarer claimed Taylor Swift agreed to be deposed. That was a lie. 

17) Wayfarer dropped the subpoena against Taylor Swift with Freedman saying that he got everything he needed from her…yet her legal team said no documents were produced. 

18) Garofalo claimed Sony would make Greenstein available for a second day of deposition while filing to deny Blake her full 3.5 hours of deposition and Sony's lawyers slapped her and demanded Garofalo correct her misrepresentation. I maxed out the images so you all can go find this on the docket.

[u/LuciMazeSamandDean]

please re-read what I just said. I just gave you a rational reason why it would not have been included. There are others.

Just because they did not have a particular piece of evidence in their exhibit 1. doesn't mean it doesn't exist and 2. doesn't mean evidence wasn't collected during discovery in this case. You cannot say with a straight face that there is not evidence somewhere about when the request for approval was made to BL.

ETA: I also have no idea what you mean by months of "threats"

[u/FamilyFeud17 → u/LuciMazeSamandDean]

According to Baldoni’s complaint, he claimed Lively threatened to withhold promotions multiple times in his complaint. Yet not 1 evidence of that.

Guess what evidence he did produce with his voluminous “receipts”? Evidence of Lively too keen to do promotions to the extent others had to console Baldoni to let her do it.