Lively appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers – her first TV interview since the lawsuit and Baldoni’s countersuit – on Friday to promote her new film Another Simple Favour.
Lively, 37, joked that she was “thrilled” Meyers was “not as totally informed” about the lawsuits as others because he no longer hosts Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update.
She went on to say that the months since she sued Baldoni had been “full of the highest highs and the lowest lows of my life”.
“I see so many women around, afraid to speak – especially right now – afraid to share their experiences. And fear is by design. It’s what keeps us silent. But I also acknowledge that many people don’t have the opportunity to speak. So I do feel fortunate that I’ve been able to,” Lively said.
“It’s the women who have had the ability to use this voice that’s kept me strong and helped me in my belief and my fight for the world to be safer for women and girls.”
She said her four children had been her “lifeline”.
Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively star in It Ends with Us, but the actors are now locked in a bitter legal battle.
“No matter what day I’m having, I have to be Disneyland for them.”
