Justin Baldoni’s Secret Witness Scores Him A Main Win Towards Blake Energetic

The “Gossip Lady” alum accused her director and costar of sexual harassment; in the meantime, he has fired again with a lawsuit of his personal, claiming that she tried to take inventive management of the movie away from him.

With the trial not till March 2026, it’s nonetheless too early to inform who’s going to testify, however one “It Ends With Us” further needs to share his story below oath to assist Baldoni.

Baldoni’s buddy Adam Mondschein is ready to testify below oath with a purpose to defend his buddy from Energetic’s accusations. It must be price noting that he’s not the one buddy and member of the family to look within the movie, as Baldoni’s spouse Emily makes a cameo look as an ultrasound technician, and Energetic’s sister Robyn seems throughout a funeral scene.

Baldoni informed Web page Six that he plans to testify as a result of he was “shocked” by the claims that Energetic made in her lawsuit. “My expertise working together with her could be very completely different than the one she described in her lawsuit,” he mentioned. “Certainly, I used to be shocked to learn her description of the scene.”

He mentioned that the set was “solely skilled” and claims that Energetic “by no means complained or expressed discomfort at any level.”

In her courtroom submitting, Energetic had loads to say a few birthing scene within the movie, by which Mondschein performed her OB-GYN. In her amended grievance, which was filed in February 2025, the birthing scene was “chaotic, crowded, and totally missing in normal business protections for filming nude scenes….”

In line with the submitting, she complains that she “felt pressured right into a compromise that she could be bare from under the chest down” when Baldoni “insisted to Ms. Energetic that ladies give delivery bare.”

Her paperwork additionally declare that Baldoni and producer Jamey Heath “failed to shut the set,” which allowed “non-essential crew to move via whereas Ms. Energetic was partially nude from under the chest down together with her legs unfold extensive in stirrups and solely a small piece of material protecting her genitalia.”

Energetic additionally claimed that she “was not supplied with something with which to cowl herself between takes till after she had made a number of requests.”

Mondschein informed the publication that Energetic was not “partially nude” as she had claimed and insisted that her costume “included a full hospital robe, black shorts and torso-covering prosthetic to make her seem pregnant along with no matter private clothes she selected.”

Nevertheless, Energetic did not simply have a difficulty with the wardrobe. It seems that she additionally had a difficulty with Mondschein himself. The submitting states that she was “alarmed” that Baldoni had employed his “finest buddy” to play her OB-GYN. The courtroom paperwork state that she “felt that the number of Mr. Baldoni’s buddy for this intimate position, by which the actor’s face and fingers had been in shut proximity to her almost nude genitalia for a delivery scene, was invasive and humiliating.”

A supply later informed Individualsjournal that Energetic was “extraordinarily uncomfortable” upon studying “the actor who was putting his face between her legs was the boss’s finest buddy,” including, “However apparently, Baldoni and firm suppose it was completely high-quality to have his finest buddy play that position, out of all of the actors that would have been chosen.”

Nevertheless, Mondstein took offense at her feedback, stating, “Ms. Energetic’s insinuations concerning my {qualifications} are offensive, as my bonafides are simply searchable on-line.” He has beforehand appeared in exhibits like “Citadel” and “Arrested Growth.”

Whereas Baldoni has his buddy by his aspect, Energetic’s camp additionally claims that two different ladies who had been made “uncomfortable” on set are keen to testify.

In her February submitting, her attorneys wrote:

“Ms. Energetic was not alone in complaining about Mr. Baldoni and raised her considerations contemporaneously as they arose in 2023 … Importantly, and opposite to the whole narrative Defendants have invented, Mr. Baldoni acknowledged the complaints in writing on the time. He knew that ladies apart from Ms. Energetic additionally had been uncomfortable and had complained about his habits.”