NEW YORK — Blake Lively made the 2025 Time100 list amid the actress’ enduring legal battle with her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star, Justin Baldoni, who she has accused of sexual harassment on set and a retaliatory smear campaign.

Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill praised the “Gossip Girl” alum, 37, as “a serious person” and “a risk taker” in the Titans category of TIME’s Most Influential People of 2025 issue.

“I don’t know the Blake Lively of the red carpet. Or the Met Gala. I never watched ‘Gossip Girl,” writes Ifill. “The Blake Lively I know is a philanthropist and a student of our country’s most intractable problems. … She’s a risk taker. And she’s committed to moving this country forward. For her children. And for mine.”

Ifill pointed to Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds contributing to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in 2019.

“The [celebrities] I have remained in relationship with are those who, like Blake, really did their homework,” said Ifill, who commended Lively’s “curiosity, and her sincere work to understand the conditions that shape this country.

“I remember an early conversation in which she expressed frustration that so much of our nation’s history was not part of the instruction she had received as a student. Her commitment to filling those gaps — and becoming the most fully informed and prepared citizen — is what I appreciate most about her,” said Ifill.

Lively and Reynolds, both of whom are named in Baldoni’s $400 million defamation lawsuit, tied the knot in 2012 at a former South Carolina plantation. The site, according to NBC News, has nine slave cabins, known as “Slave Street.”

The “Deadpool” star, 48, said in 2020 that the couple was “deeply and unreservedly sorry” for marrying at “a place built upon devastating tragedy.”

In the intervening years, Lively allegedly falsely claimed to have some Cherokee ancestry so she could take part in a 2017 L’Oreal campaign highlighting diversity.

Lively in late December filed a civil rights complaint, followed by a lawsuit, accusing Baldoni, 41, of sexual harassment on the set of “It Ends With Us” and engaging a PR firm to execute a smear campaign online.

The following month, Baldoni filed his blockbuster lawsuit against Lively, Reynolds and Lively’s publicist Leslie Sloane, accusing them of defamation and civil extortion. All have filed to dismiss or be dismissed from the lawsuit.

The case is scheduled to go to trial next March.

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