India, Aug. 5 -- Tensions between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni hit a new peak this week after the A Simple Favor star's lawyers accused Baldoni's legal team of trying to "force" a sealed deposition into the public eye. According to People, the ongoing legal feud stems from disputes tied to the film It Ends With Us, but Monday's court filing pulled focus squarely onto what Lively's team is calling a deliberate attempt to weaponize the media.

In the August 4 motion, Lively's attorneys asked a federal judge to strike a 292-page draft transcript of her recent deposition, which Baldoni's lawyers uploaded to the docket, even though only two pages were cited. "There is no conceivable legal purpose to file the whole transcript," the filing st...