Blake Lively is offering a glimpse into the little things that help bring her peace.
“I found these @emilylexstudio watercolor books in a little story this summer and fell in love,” Lively, 38, wrote via her Instagram Stories on Wednesday, September 17. “They’re cheaper and more peaceful than most coping mechanisms and are so rewarding to complete.”
She added, “You can take as much or as little time as you like, and you can make the painting your own. They give you a template with a black and white sketch drawing to paint over, as well as a reference pic to the late. Love these so much. Highly recommend.”
Blake Lively has recently been involved in a lengthy and ongoing legal battle with her It Ends With Us director and costar, Justin Baldoni. Lively named Baldoni, 41, in a December 2024 lawsuit, accusing him of sexual harassment, fostering a hostile work environment and trying to destroy her reputation via a calculated smear campaign. Baldoni vehemently denied every claim.
“Blake is very stressed, upset, and just wants all of this to be done,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly in February, adding that Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, is “more confident that the truth will prevail in court” and is “consoling” the Gossip Girl alum throughout the process.
Lively and Reynolds, 48, have been married since 2012 and share four children. Reynolds was later named in Baldoni’s countersuit, in which he accused the married couple of defamation. Both Lively and Reynolds denied the allegations before a judge dismissed the filing overall.
Lively gave her deposition in July, and her friend Taylor Swift could be deposed next month. (Baldoni claimed that Swift, 35, was involved in Lively’s alleged takeover of the film, while the pop star slammed the accusations and has since reportedly distanced herself from Lively.)
“In this latest effort, [Baldoni and his team] assert — though, notably, without evidence — that [Swift] has supposedly ‘agreed’ to sit for a deposition sometime between October 20-25 (some three weeks after the close of fact discovery in this matter),” Lively’s team wrote in court documents obtained by Us earlier this month. “[Baldoni and his team’s] lack of diligence, and disrespect for [Swift’s] privacy and schedule, is astounding. Discovery has been ongoing for more than six months, and [Swift] is someone whose calendar should be presumed to be packed with professional obligations for months in advance. At any point over the past six months, [Baldoni’s team] could have noticed a deposition, served a subpoena, and negotiated an agreeable time and place for this deposition. But they did not.”
Swift’s team, meanwhile, denied in a letter to the judge that the Life of a Showgirl artist “agreed” to appear in court.
“Further, my client did not agree to a deposition, but if she is forced into a deposition, we advised (after first hearing about the deposition just three days ago) that her schedule would accommodate the time required during the week of October 20 if the parties were able to work out their disputes,” Swift’s attorney wrote. “We take no role in those disputes.”