Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's legal battle over It Ends With Us continues to escalate with a new testimony shedding light on a disturbing allegation involving the film's producer.
According to Us Weekly, Lively, 38, filed new court documents on Thursday, December 4, which included a section of producer Steve Heath's October 8 deposition. The case is now officially headed to trial in March 2026.
During his sworn testimony, Heath acknowledged that he showed Lively a video of his wife giving birth while they were on set.
He explained that the footage depicted his wife in a birthing tub.
In her lawsuit, however, the Gossip Girl alum stated she was blindsided by the video while preparing to film a birthing scene for the movie.
"When the birth scene was filmed, the set was chaotic, crowded and utterly lacking in standard industry protections for filming nude scenes," Lively alleged.
She claimed Heath approached her and her assistant and began "playing a video of a fully nude woman with her legs spread apart."
Lively said she immediately stopped him, believing at first that he was showing her pornography. She recalled feeling "alarmed" and asking Heath “if his wife knew he was sharing the video."
According to Lively, Heath “replied, ‘She isn’t weird about this stuff, "as if [Lively] was weird for not welcoming it."
She said she walked away because she was “stunned” by what she had just seen.
He confirmed that he himself was clothed in the footage and claimed Baldoni had encouraged him to show Lively the "beautiful video."
When asked which portion of the footage Lively actually saw, Heath explained, "Well, the first portion of the video — which, again, she had only seen maybe a half a second of it — is only my wife sitting here, the baby on top. And that’s what she would have seen."
In the since-dismissed countersuit filed by Baldoni and Heath, their attorney pushed back on Lively's account, writing that "Lively continued with an outrageous and knowingly false suggestion that she was shown pornography or naked images of Heath's wife on set."
