Blake Lively Gushed Over Jennifer Lopez in Email Asking Ben Affleck for ‘It Ends With Us’ Help

Blake Lively didn’t just ask Ben Affleck for help on It Ends With Us — she made sure to praise his then-wife, Jennifer Lopez, along the way.

Newly unsealed court documents from Lively’s legal battle with It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni, which were obtained by the National Enquirer, contain the actress’ private email to Affleck — dated May 17, 2024 — in which she asks for feedback on her own edit of the film.

In what she described as a “zero pressure ask,” Lively, 38, requested that the Oscar winner, 53, watch a nearly two-hour cut of the movie and offer notes.

“If you have 1:58 of free time at any time in the next few days, would you be willing to watch the movie, and give me any ideas or notes. I will pix it to you. You can literally text me a voice memo so you don’t have to formally write thoughts,” the Gossip Girl alum wrote to the actor, who directed and costarred with her in 2010’s The Town.

She then made it clear she hoped Lopez, 56, would weigh in as well.

“If your wife or kids are around, I’d love their opinion also (fyi it does cover domestic violence so no one is caught off guard). I’m such a fan of Jennifer’s, I’ve told her as much every time I’ve met her, and it would be an honor to have her take,” Lively continued.

Affleck and Lopez married in 2022, though Lopez filed for divorce in August 2024, just months after Lively sent Affleck the email.

Elsewhere in the message, Lively takes repeated jabs at Baldoni, referring to him as a “chaotic clown ‘director’ ” and alleging he had been editing the film since the previous July. She also claimed the production was riddled with “HR issues.”

“The making of doc of this film would be more interesting than the movie could ever be,” Lively added. “It’s like if Wild Wild Country, Fyre Festival and Going Clear had a baby with The Room.”

Lively went on to tell Affleck she ended up “rewriting and restructuring the entire script,” and even “directed” the movie due to Baldoni’s alleged failures. She explained her request for Affleck and Lopez to watch her edit stemmed from being “in a bake off” with Baldoni over competing edits of the film.

She also claimed Baldoni and “everyone he had on the movie is in a cult.”

Lively signed off the email on a warm note, writing, “Sending you all the best always.”

Lively filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni in 2024, and as the case unfolds, the star’s private emails and text messages — including texts with Taylor Swift — continue to surface.