In the Blake Lively legal battle with Justin Baldoni, a reporter whose text message was used in Baldoni's countersuit has come forward to clarify that Lively's publicist Leslie Sloane never told him the actress was "sexually assaulted,

The ongoing legal dispute between "It Ends With Us" co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni escalated Tuesday over Lively's decision to withdraw claims of emotional distress from her lawsuit.

The move comes after Baldoni's attorneys requested Lively's therapy notes and medical records in discovery and said the actress "cannot have it both ways."Blake Lively has dropped two of the claims she leveled against her It Ends With Us costar and director,