Jenny Slate took aim at Justin Baldoni in a series of text messages, calling her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director a “fraud” and wrote filming the controversial movie was “disturbing.”
Slate — who played Baldoni’s character’s sister in the film — stated in text messages from 2023 that she and co-star Blake Lively both complained to a production executive at Sony about Baldoni’s alleged bad behavior on set, in court docs obtained by TMZ.
“This has really been a disturbing shoot, and I’m one of many who feel this way. … Justin is truly a false ally and I’m unwilling to do anything that promotes the image that he’s crafting as a ‘male feminist’ … like … honestly I have no words to describe what a fraud he is,” she wrote, per the docs.
“I honestly have never ever encountered anything like this dude,” she wrote. “He’s the biggest clown and the most intense narcissist.”
It’s unclear who the text messages were sent to.
In a deposition in September 2025, Slate was also asked about previous text messages she sent her agent at the time. Slate texted that Baldoni and his business partner Jamey Heath “freak me out” and accused them of telling “weird lies,” according to docs obtained by Page Six.
“Justin and Jamey are truly unfit,” the messages read. “I’m not scared or anything, just repulsed and deeply irritated, and I know Blake is experiencing that on a much more serious level.”
In her deposition, Slate also recalled Baldoni allegedly being inappropriate by telling her she...
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