Jameela Jamil Denounces ‘Targeted’ Unredacted Texts That Called Blake Lively a ‘Suicide Bomber’
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 08: Jameela Jamil attends the Nominees Night: An Official Golden Week Event Hosted by The Hollywood Reporter and Spotify at The Lot at Formosa on January 08, 2026 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Jameela Jamil is contesting the recent unsealing of private text messages in which she criticized Blake Lively, following a legal dispute between Lively and her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director, Justin Baldoni.
The texts, revealed in court filings, show Jamil referring to Lively as a “suicide bomber” and a “villain” in an August 2024 exchange with publicist Jennifer Abel, who represented both Jamil and Baldoni at the time. The messages were sent in response to a TikTok video criticizing Lively’s interviews during the film’s press tour, with online commenters arguing that the promotion tone did not align with the movie’s focus on domestic abuse.
After becoming public, Jamil addressed the backlash through Instagram and TikTok videos. She emphasized the texts were unrelated to the lawsuit and highlighted their timing: “It’s really weird that my private text messages from 18 months ago have suddenly been released now. My name has deliberately been unredacted to cause as much trouble as possible for me.”
Jamil clarified she made these comments months before the lawsuit was filed, stating: “Check the dates. There were four months between when I was saying those things and a lawsuit coming to light. I had no idea about any of this stuff, so I was just purely venting to my friend about how I felt about the press rollout for that fcking terrible movie.”
She explained her use of the term “suicide bomber,” noting it described someone who harms their own career through negative interviews: “Me calling her a ‘suicide bomber’ is just a reference to me watching someone use their own terrible answers in interviews to blow up their own career or their own project. I found that both funny and very agitating. And I’m just kidding around in private text messages.”
Jamil also stated the release of the texts felt targeted: “The fact that my name was unredacted, all of it, just felt very targeted and very weird and an attempt to throw me under the bus.”
