Justin Baldoni’s Secret Witness Scores Him A Main Win In opposition to 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 artistic 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” additional needs to share his story underneath oath to help Baldoni.

Baldoni’s pal Adam Mondschein is ready to testify underneath oath so as to defend his pal from Energetic’s accusations. It must be value noting that he’s not the one pal and member of the family to seem 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 along with her may be very completely different than the one she described in her lawsuit,” he stated. “Certainly, I used to be shocked to learn her description of the scene.”

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

In her courtroom submitting, Energetic had so much to say a couple of birthing scene within the movie, through which Mondschein performed her OB-GYN. In her amended criticism, which was filed in February 2025, the birthing scene was “chaotic, crowded, and completely missing in normal business protections for filming nude scenes….”

In response to 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 beginning bare.”

Her paperwork additionally declare that Baldoni and producer Jamey Heath “failed to shut the set,” which allowed “non-essential crew to go by whereas Ms. Energetic was partially nude from under the chest down along with her legs unfold broad 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 “greatest pal” to play her OB-GYN. The courtroom paperwork state that she “felt that the choice of Mr. Baldoni’s pal for this intimate position, through which the actor’s face and palms had been in shut proximity to her almost nude genitalia for a beginning scene, was invasive and humiliating.”

A supply later informed Folksjournal that Energetic was “extraordinarily uncomfortable” upon studying “the actor who was inserting his face between her legs was the boss’s greatest pal,” including, “However apparently, Baldoni and firm suppose it was completely nice to have his greatest pal 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 relating to my {qualifications} are offensive, as my bonafides are simply searchable on-line.” He has beforehand appeared in reveals like “Fortress” and “Arrested Growth.”

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

In her February submitting, her legal professionals wrote:

“Ms. Energetic was not alone in complaining about Mr. Baldoni and raised her issues contemporaneously as they arose in 2023 … Importantly, and opposite to your complete 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 conduct.”