Judd Apatow takes aim at Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni’s legal battle

• Judd Apatow took a sharp approach while hosting the DGA Awards.
• He targeted several 2024 films and ongoing Hollywood controversies.
• He also took aim at the legal battle surrounding Blake Lively.

Judd Apatow took a sharp comedic approach while hosting the 77th Annual Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards on Feb. 8, targeting several 2024 films and ongoing Hollywood controversies—including the legal battle surrounding Blake Lively.

“I loved Wicked. I saw it four times in the first four days,” Apatow joked. “It was the highest-grossing movie musical of all time. Do you know that? Usually to make that much money, you have to sue Blake Lively.”

Lively, 37, has been involved in multiple lawsuits after filing a sexual harassment complaint against It Ends with Us co-star Justin Baldoni in December 2024. Baldoni, 41, responded with a $400 million defamation suit against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, and their publicist Leslie Sloane. Meanwhile, publicist Jed Wallace also sued Lively after she accused him of aiding a smear campaign.

Lively’s legal team responded, “Another day, another state, another nine-figure lawsuit seeking to sue Ms. Lively ‘into oblivion’ for speaking out against sexual harassment and retaliation.”

Apatow also addressed politics, joking, “We all have to decide if we’re going to fight Trump or bend the knee.” He later quipped, “I just started microdosing meth. My new pronouns are, we are f——.”

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