Justin Baldoni seems unbothered as his and Blake Lively’s “It Ends With Us” drama rages on.
The actor played at a park Monday with his wife, Emily Baldoni, daughter, Maiya, 9, and son, Maxwell, 7, while vacationing in in Hawaii.
Justin, 40, was all smiles wearing a black tee, a backward baseball cap, green shorts and sneakers during the fun-filled family outing.
The “Jane the Virgin” alum and Emily, also 40, sat on bleachers while chatting and laughing with friends.
Justin also kicked around a soccer ball with his eldest child and hung on a pull-up bar.
The director and his loved ones flew out of Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, where he broke his silence on his and Lively’s lawsuits.
He told TMZ that he was relying on “amazing family, friends and faith” during the drama.
Hours after Justin was photographed enjoying his getaway, his legal team released raw footage of an “It Ends With Us” scene in an attempt to refute Lively’s claims.
The “Gossip Girl” alum, 37, accused her co-star of sexual harassment and a social media smear campaign in a December 2024 complaint and subsequent lawsuit, which he has denied.
Lively’s team slammed the “damning” 10-minute behind-the-scenes video in a statement claiming it “corroborate[d]” her claims.
“Any woman who has been inappropriately touched in the workplace will recognize Ms. Lively’s discomfort,” the actress’s attorneys said Tuesday. “They will recognize her attempts at levity to try to deflect the unwanted touching.”
After Justin’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, teased an upcoming website launch featuring “relevant” correspondence with Lively, she and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, requested a gag order before the director “taint[s] the jury pool.”
Justin, who is also being sued by his former publicist, filed his own legal action against Lively and Reynolds, 48, last week for $400 million.
He has also accused the New York Times of libelous coverage of Lively’s complaint, which the newspaper is standing behind as “meticulous.”
“It Ends With Us” premiered in August 2024, immediately sparking feud speculation when Justin and Lively neglected to pose together on the red carpet.
Many of the duo’s fellow cast members have shown support for Lively, with Brandon Sklenar urging his followers to read her allegations “for the love of god” in December 2024.
Later that month, Jenny Slate issued a social media statement reading, “I commend my friend, I admire her bravery and I stand by her side.”
While Colleen Hoover, who wrote the 2016 book from which the film was adapted, called Lively “honest and kind” in an Instagram Story — but deactivated her account on the social media platform Wednesday.
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