The next month, Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman said they planned to “release every single text message between the two of them” to attempt to clear his name.
“We want the truth to be out there,” he continued at the time. “We want the documents to be out there. We want people to make their determination based on receipts.”
Shortly after, Baldoni and his production company filed a $400 million countersuit against Lively — as well as her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and her publicist, Leslie Sloane — for defamation, civil extortion, false light invasion of privacy and other allegations.