Kelly says she fought subpoenas in Lively-Baldoni case, Lively denies

Megyn Kelly said Thursday that lawyers for Blake Lively attempted to subpoena her and her production team as part of Lively's ongoing lawsuit against director and costar Justin Baldoni, but Lively's representatives deny serving a subpoena on Kelly and court filings show at least one third party that supports content creators was targeted in discovery. Kelly said the dispute has been resolved in her favor for now, and the competing accounts illustrate how contentious pretrial discovery has become in the high‑profile case.

On her SiriusXM podcast, Kelly said she and her team were among more than a dozen journalists and online creators targeted by subpoenas seeking "confidential and proprietary materials" used to report on the lawsuits stemming from the making of It Ends With Us. Kelly said Lively's lawyers were apparently operating on the theory that unfavorable coverage had been orchestrated by Baldoni's camp and that Kelly and others had been complicit. Kelly described the demand as an intrusion into newsgathering, saying, "We fought her subpoena and won" and that her team turned over "not one document, not one record, not one communication."

A spokesperson for Lively pushed...