It Ends With Us actress Isabela Ferrer accuses Justin Baldoni of harassment over subpoena
Isabela Ferrer, who played the young Lily Bloom in the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us, is alleging that director and star Justin Baldoni has harassed her with legal tactics related to a dispute with fellow lead Blake Lively.
According to filings, Ferrer was drawn into the ongoing dispute as part of a complaint Lively filed against Baldoni last December.
In that complaint, Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and of waging a retaliatory public smear campaign, which Baldoni and his representatives have denied.
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By continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.As part of that case, Lively subpoenaed Ferrer in February 2025, requesting communications relevant to Lively’s complaint against Baldoni. Ferrer complied and provided communications related to Lively’s subpoena.
Justin Baldoni issued his own subpoena to Isabela Ferrer in August, 2025, requesting similar communications that overlapped with Lively’s subpoena.
Baldoni claims Ferrer was unreachable and unresponsive.
Ferrer’s lawyers responded by accusing Baldoni of using “bad faith tactics” and filing the motion primarily “with the aim of harassing” Ferrer.
Ferrer is asking the court to deny Baldoni’s motion and to sanction him, claiming his subpoena overlaps unnecessarily with Lively’s and is meant to exert pressure.
Ferrer also invoked an indemnity clause in her acting contract requiring Wayfarer Studios (Baldoni’s company) to pay her legal fees related to LIvely’s subpoena , but claims this has not been honoured.
“It Ends, LLC has not honored its obligations,” Ferrer’s legal team clains.
They allege that Wayfarer Studios agreed to indemnify the actress on the condition that she “confirm that she will ‘surrender control’” of her response, “not actually allowing Ms Ferrer to provide the documents that reveal the true facts.”
Her legal team say Baldoni’s subpoena are “transparent efforts to exert pressure on Ms Ferrer.”
Her team also claims Baldoni’s team publicised home addresses that may belong to Ferrer, asserting, “this sort of conduct from Baldoni is not new.”
Ferrer’s motion states that the studio’s delay in finalising indemnity is “a transparent attempt to put financial pressure on” her, leaving her in a precarious position as she sought reasonable extensions from Lively’s lawyers until the matter was settled.
The off-screen drama comes against the backdrop of earlier lawsuits involving Baldoni, who in a separate, since-dismissed $400million countersuit had accused Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, of telling Ferrer to “shun” him, supposedly to foster the impression that he’d committed wrongdoing.
Around the film’s premiere, Ferrer and other It Ends With Us cast members unfollowed Baldoni on social media and were notably absent from promotional events with him.
A spokesperson for Baldoni has not yet commented on the new filings, while both cases in Lively vs Wayfarer Studios et al. are set to go to trial in March 2026.
