Justin Baldoni previously admitted to having an ‘unhealthy’ relationship with porn in a resurfaced interview amid Blake Lively’s sexual harassment complaint against him. In an over three-year old interview, Baldoni opened up about being introduced to porn at an early age and having since built an ‘unhealthy relationship’ with it.
“I was introduced to porn when I was 10 years old. Long before I ever, you know, could have an erection or even knew how I felt about anything,” he said on Sarah Grynberg’s “ A Life of Greatness’ podcast in July 2021. “It was, you know, like any young boy who sees boobs for the first time, it’s exciting because our culture has shielded them from us because they’re sexualized. It’s cultural.”
Baldoni went on to reveal that he ‘sought refuge’ with porn when he felt alone, abandoned or hurt and because it was a ‘dopamine rush.’ “I trained my brain to deal with pain with the dopamine hit. But it doesn’t mean that I’m not using something in an unhealthy way,’ the Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity author reflected.
In his unsettling admission, the 40-year-old Hollywood star admitted that he would often fall back on “images and videos of naked women when I was feeling necessarily bad about myself.” Drawing parallels between how the American side of showbiz has essentially ‘sexualized’ the female anatomy compared to other cultures and communities, he continued, “You go to places like Africa and different tribes… and the breast is the breast.”
The It Ends With Us actor’s comments pertaining his porn addiction “over the course of (his) life from this year-old interview have found life again in the wake of the Gossip Girl’s alum’s allegations of Baldoni’s allegedly inappropriate mannerism, harboring a toxic workplace environment.
Documents filed on Friday, December 20, state that after an “all-hands” meeting involving AS Simple Favor actress’ husband, Ryan Reynolds, Baldoni was purportedly warned not to show “nude videos or images of women’ to his co-star. He was allegedly also urged to stop parading his “Porn addiction” and to no longer make remarks about “cast and crew’s genitalia” among other disgusting conversations surrounding sex scenes and more.
The lawsuit entangling the It Ends With Us star cast comes months after the film’s premier in August 2024, which set off the initial rumors of an alleged feud between the leading duo. Lively and Baldoni have since not been spotted together in any promotion video, interview or even their own movie premiere.
