I think people are missing the point. The claim in the suit is very specific, paragraph 41 lays it out:
“Commencing in or about April 2019, and continuing thereafter, Kanarek planned and conspired to unlawfully and tortiously blackmail, intimidate, torment, antagonize, distress, and otherwise injury(sic) Barisone for the purpose of destroying Barisone, Barisone’s business, Barisone’s personal relationships, Barisone’s mental and emotional states, and Barisone’s physical wellbeing.”
Paragraph 42 then connects the above stated actions to the creation of the recordings. The claim is for damages arising from, in other words, what the recordings were used for and at trial Kanarek openly testified that the goal of her action(s) was to ruin Barisone. Thus, the SOL, in my opinion, does not apply, because it was upon testimony at trial that the defendant was affirmed in his belief that the goals of her actions were nefarious by the plaintiff’s own admission.
For example, the use of those recordings (or transcripts thereof) in a SafeSport complaint knowingly intended to harm the defendant’s business may not have been known to defendant at the time of filing.
But even so, there is ample case law that favors amending the complaint over some kind of statute of limitations. You can amend a complaint even after it’s been decided and gone for appeal.