Justin Baldoni ADMITS To Having ‘Unhealthy’ Relationship With Adult Film In Resurfaced Interview Amid Blake Lively Lawsuit

Justin Baldoni was open about his “unhealthy” relationship with porn years before it allegedly became an issue on a movie set.

As we’ve been following, the filmmaker’s It Ends with Us co-star Blake Lively launched a lawsuit accusing Justin of sexual harassment and of orchestrating a smear campaign to ruin her reputation months after the film’s controversial press tour. Specifically, the lawsuit claims the IEWU working conditions got so hostile that a meeting had to take place where Blake laid down some ground rules. According to the suit, she asked to no longer be shown nude videos or pictures of women, for Justin to stop mentioning his alleged previous “pornography addiction,” discussing his sexual conquests in front of her or anyone else, bringing up the cast and crew’s genitalia, asking about her weight, and talking about her late father.

Wild, wild stuff. And far from baseless — at the very least the bit about Justin’s “pornography addiction” — because he literally talked about it just three years ago!

During a July 2021 episode of Sarah Grynberg’s A Life of Greatness podcast, the Jane the Virgin alum opened up about becoming addicted to porn at a young age:

“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 continued:

“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. You go to places like Africa and different tribes … and the breast is the breast. We’ve sexualized this thing, so, of course, it becomes fascinating and interesting and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, boobs.’ And then, you know, hormones start raging.”

And his young hormones raging eventually turned into a feeling he depended on anytime he felt “hurt” in life:

“[I] sought refuge [in porn] when I felt alone, or when I felt abandoned, or when I felt hurt or something like that, because it was a dopamine rush — I didn’t know that then. At an early age, I trained my brain to deal with pain with the dopamine hit.”

He added at the time that he didn’t drink alcohol or do drugs, but that porn in many ways became his “unhealthy” vice. Yet for being so aware of that, it doesn’t sound like he did much to work through it… At least according to Blake’s lawsuit! Justin added at the time:

“And I found myself, over the course of my life, going back to looking at images and videos of naked women when I was feeling necessarily bad about myself. And I knew that it was an issue for me when I would tell myself that I don’t want to do that.”

Yeesh. You can listen to his full interview (below):

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