Brandon Sklenar opens up about backlash over It Ends With Us drama

Brandon Sklenar reflects on the online backlash he faced after speaking out about the controversy surrounding his spending on It Ends With Us, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Sklenar addressed the hate mail directed at him after he posted an Instagram post urging fans to be kind.

“‘You’re a piece of s*** I hope you die,’ “I hope your career ends,” he recalled of the insults hurled at him.

Sklenar spoke about the tensions during a press tour of the film in August 2024, months before Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni and her partners.

He wrote that writer Colleen Hoover and the female characters “represent hope, endurance, and women choosing a better life than themselves,” and warned that insulting them would undermine the film’s message.

After Lively went public with her claims in December 2024, Sklenar shared her complaint on Instagram Stories, urging fans to read it.

“It’s about love. It’s about supporting women. I just want people to remember what it’s about,” he said on the red carpet at the Vanity Fair Oscars in March 2025.

Although his agent advised him to stay away from the Internet, he saw the harsh reaction to live, comparing it to listening to a door full of hundreds of thousands of voices.

Sklenar explained that he never intended to be controversial. “I wasn’t criticizing anyone, but I was like, ‘Can we focus on the behavior of this whole movie and not be so hateful?'” he said.

Sklenar is now in the thriller Home Girl opposite Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney.

Meanwhile, Lively and Baldoni’s trial has been scheduled for May 18, 2026.