"Thank you for providing us with that distraction," Chelsea Handler joked of the ongoing legal battle Chelsea Handler cracked jokes about Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s ongoing It Ends With Us legal battle at the 2025 Critics Choice Awards.

Without saying the actual words ‘Donald Trump’, Critics Choice Awards host Chelsea Handler fired up her monologue with jokes where Golden Globe host Nikki Glaser feared to go: Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. “Thank you for providing us with distraction,” Handler said to the duo who aren’t here today, “We’re all grateful and I thnk we’re good.”

Lively, who filed a lawsuit against Baldoni in December, has accused the director of sexual harassment and retaliation on the set of the 2024 film.