Justin Baldoni and wife break silence after 'It Ends With Us' legal battle with Blake Lively

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Set us as preferred Justin Baldoni has broken his silence after reaching a settlement in a lengthy and highly publicized legal dispute with Blake Lively.Baldoni and his wife, Emily Baldoni, presented a united front in an Instagram video the couple shared Wednesday that began, “So we have not spoken publicly for the better part of the last two years, and it’s not because we haven’t had anything to say, because Lord knows we have.” The “It Ends With Us” actor and director said that although they’d wanted to address the debacle that involved dueling lawsuits with Lively, nearly two years of tit-for-tat fodder and culminated in a confidential settlement, “something was telling us not to.” The couple said they prayed about when to make a public statement.

“This feels like the moment,” Emily said.“What does feel important,” she continued, “is that we can genuinely say that we are sitting here today feeling immense gratitude for so many things and so many people and so many things that have happened to us.” “Gratitude has saved us,” Justin added.“I also feel that it’s important as we say that — in that gratitude — it doesn’t negate the injustice and the pain that we have also felt in the last few years, and we’ve had to wrestle with so many things and try to understand so many things,” Emily said.“How could something like this even happen? Let alone disguised as a fight for women.

So much to unpack.And the truth is, reality is, is that there’s been a lot of trauma for us to move through as a family, which also makes it hard to speak.”“We don’t even know this is the right thing to say, but we just know we need to share something,” Justin said.

“What I will say is that there have been so many painful things that have been spoken into existence — ““Untruthful,” Emil...