While Hoover, 45, has not revealed her reasons for stepping back from social media, her decision to do so just days after Baldoni filed a $400 million lawsuit against Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, has sparked speculation that the two incidents might be connected.

The legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, has intensified, with a New York judge setting a trial date.

Lively sued Baldoni in December for sexual harassment and Baldoni sued Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds for defamation earlier this month

A New York federal judge has set a trial date for March 9, 2026, in the legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.

I’m really sorry, I f*cked up,” Justin Baldoni admitted to his It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively in a 2 a.m. April 2023 voice message after delivering a less than enthusiastic response to a scene rewrite from the deflated Gossip Girl vet.

Baldoni, who directed and co-starred alongside Lively in the film It Ends With Us, called himself a “very flawed man” in the nearly seven-minute audio message.

Taylor Swift seems to be name-dropped in the ongoing legal dispute between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, in which Lively appears to call Swift 'one of her dragons.'

A New York judge set a March 2026 trial date as the public feud between Blake Lively and her It Ends With Us costar and director Justin Baldoni continued to grow and accelerate. The court on Monday also moved an initial conference from mid-February to next week.