Blake Lively's private voice message to Justin Baldoni emerges as legal fight escalates

Justin Baldoni's legal team included Blake Lively audio recording in court filing amid sexual harassment lawsuit over "It Ends With Us" film set allegations.

"Nothing about these recordings reflect a ‘smoking gun’ in the litigation … " "There is almost certainly more context and this case will very likely make it past the summary judgment stage and proceed to trial, so a jury can make the ultimate determination." "The judge will not make credibility determinations if they see that there's a credibility issue. They will deny the motion and let the jury decide." "Generally, in a he said/she said case, courts rarely grant summary judgments."

In the audio message, Lively said she "selfishly" wanted to push the start of filming "It Ends With Us."

"Hey, I hope you're so well. Just wanted to connect, just to put something on your radar," Lively began her audio message, which was obtained by Fox News Digital. "So, between us, like this is so premature for me to even share this with you. All good, all good stuff. Headline is great, good, great stuff. But I was talking to Ryan, and I was like, I don't know if we should share this, but he was like you guys have such a great trust, you know, filament."