Justin Baldoni accuses Blake Lively of hypocrisy in ongoing legal battle over 'It Ends With Us'

Justin Baldoni has accused Blake Lively of hypocrisy regarding her control over what the public knows about their ongoing legal battle in a court filing on Tuesday. 

In the legal documents obtained by Fox News Digital, Baldoni, 41, argued that Lively, 37, was contradicting herself by requesting "heightened protections" while publicly discussing the case. 

Lively filed a lawsuit in December, accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment, while Baldoni filed a $400 million lawsuit last month against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, 48, and her publicist Leslie Sloane, accusing them of defamation and extortion.

Baldoni has denied Lively's harassment claims, while Lively, Reynolds, and Sloane have denied Baldoni's accusations.

Baldoni's legal team expressed surprise in Tuesday's filing that Lively requested the court to shield more "material and relevant evidence" from the public, given how actively Lively and her team have made public statements about the case.

Baldoni's lawyers pointed to several factors that they said justified their claim that Lively had deliberately sought media attention regarding the accusations she made against him during the film's production.

Baldoni's team claimed that Lively had leaked information from a "confidential administrative complaint" she filed in late December with the California Civil Rights Department.

They also pointed out that Lively, Reynolds, and their publicists had made a series of "bold statements" to media outlets to try to "rehabilitate her tarnished image," accusing the couple of using their influence to take control of the film's creative direction, according to Baldoni's lawyers.

Baldoni’s legal team noted that Reynolds had even referenced the controversy in a "planned skit" during the widely-watched SNL50 special earlier this month, a moment that received backlash on social media for being tone-deaf.

Baldoni's attorneys argued that Lively's request to limit access to certain materials in the case to only the lawyers was "not warranted." 

They also noted that Lively’s team claimed that designating certain information for lawyers only was necessary due to the "litigation involving claims of sexual harassment in the workplace." 

However, Baldoni’s lawyers countered by pointing out that Lively had already made the details of the alleged harassment public in her 138-page Amended Complaint, which contained almost 500 paragraphs.