Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - July 22, 2026


Deadpool Creator's Heartbroken Message !!


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Did Ryan Reynolds do the same treatment to the creator of Deadpool as Blake Lively did to Justin Baldoni for the premiere of It Ends With Us when she sent him down to the basement? These two incidents happened only two weeks apart.

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00:00:00.000 It was meant to embarrass, diminish, defeat.
00:00:05.700 Mostly, I think, embarrass me.
00:00:11.960 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Sashdi Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
00:00:16.580 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
00:00:21.620 Okay, so it's been confirmed.
00:00:24.160 Scarlett Johansson's Ryan Reynolds ex-wife was at Taylor Swift's wedding. Also, did Ryan Reynolds
00:00:32.740 give the same treatment to the creator of Deadpool as Blake Lively gave Justin Baldoni for the
00:00:40.120 premiere of It Ends With Us when she sent him down to the basement? These two incidents happened
00:00:46.320 only two weeks apart. Yeah, let's listen to the audio from Rob Liefeld after he was denied access
00:00:54.700 to the after party of the movie for the character that he created. And there is some interesting
00:01:02.340 news here in the Rebel Wilson case. You might remember that Blake Lively's legal team pointed
00:01:08.740 at rebel wilson as an example of another smear machine in hollywood well that example just took
00:01:17.140 a major hit a judge in australia just ruled that rebel wilson is innocent of defaming the main
00:01:25.080 actress of her movie let's look into what's happening there this is a crazy story anyways
00:01:33.140 please again excuse my appearance. This dye is not going anywhere soon. I am fighting with it
00:01:40.260 every day and my eye is really painful and looks a little weird. So please just look at Oscar or
00:01:47.480 this eye in this episode as well. Okay, so let's get into it. So this Reddit post really caught my
00:01:54.360 attention this morning because this audio from Rob Liefeld, the creator of Deadpool, explains a
00:02:01.980 very similar pattern as what happened to Justin Baldoni. So a little background, Rob Liefeld is
00:02:10.560 the creator of Deadpool. He's been credited in all the movies but he has publicly said several times
00:02:18.780 that he doesn't think that Marvel appreciates the creators enough, that he doesn't get enough
00:02:25.360 credit for all the work he has done. There are no reports that I could find at this time if there
00:02:31.460 were any like specific incidents that happened that made Marvel or Disney or Fox who did the
00:02:38.940 first Deadpool movie that he had any fallout with anyone I could not find any specific incidents of
00:02:45.580 why they would not welcome him at an after party for Deadpool versus Wolverine in 2024. As you know
00:02:53.600 that Deadpool movie premiered just two weeks before it ends with us and as you know Blake
00:03:00.680 lily put Justin Baldoni and his family and all his friends and loved ones in the basements of
00:03:08.120 the premiere of his own movie and as someone already pointed out it is very similar to what
00:03:15.320 happened to Rob Liefeld during the premiere of Deadpool vs Wolverine. This audio that someone
00:03:23.140 posted is from his own podcast and they also added in the audio from the voice memo that Justin
00:03:30.200 Baldoni sent to someone after the premiere explaining how he was put in the basement.
00:03:36.860 Yeah, just listen to this for a minute.
00:03:38.700 Message was sent. You cannot attend the celebration of this film in New York City.
00:03:47.120 It was meant to embarrass, diminish, defeat. Mostly, I think, embarrass me. And
00:03:55.300 that's not how it works that just gives me more fuel i'm like are i i literally was like are you
00:04:01.060 really giving me this story think about this on what you know could have been one of the most
00:04:07.600 beautiful nights of my life career-wise i literally was sent to the basement with my whole all my
00:04:14.940 friends and family for over an hour because uh i i wasn't allowed to be seen she didn't want me
00:04:22.300 anywhere near her or the rest of the cast so they ushered me off the carpet and they sent us down
00:04:28.160 to the basement we were down there together my friends and family the people that love me the
00:04:34.360 most and they start laughing because of the ridiculousness of this whole thing
00:04:40.800 i realized like on a night that was supposed to be so materialistically joyful
00:04:49.420 I was in the basement and my publicist said I just don't understand why Rob and his family is
00:04:57.120 not able to attend this after party celebrating this movie because he created Deadpool and he
00:05:02.260 was just credited at the end of the movie he he has an official credit and she says I'll see what
00:05:08.400 I can do why don't you head on over to the party all of you just make your way over there and I'll
00:05:14.800 meet you there and and and i'm sure we can figure this out and paul said no no no no i can't put my
00:05:20.880 client in an embarrassing situation and i understood what he was saying that that's not
00:05:27.720 going to happen we're going to we're going to stay put and let let's uh i'll wait for you she
00:05:33.640 says well i'm heading over there now so i'll call you and paul has her and she puts her on speaker
00:05:39.260 and the head of disney publicity says uh look i have some tough news uh it's a no rob and his
00:05:46.740 family cannot attend the party and my suggestion for you is to make other plans and have a great
00:05:52.580 night and let me tell you something this lady you know when somebody is giving you news that they
00:05:57.720 don't want to tell you and that they're slightly embarrassed to communicate with you and that they
00:06:01.380 know that they feel in their gut it's not the right and this was one of those times yes why
00:06:07.520 was Rob not invited to the after party? I've been to a lot of premiere after parties. They invite
00:06:15.040 usually like a thousand people at these after parties, especially if it is a big movie premiere
00:06:20.840 like Deadpool versus Wolverine. Of course, there was enough space for the creator of the character
00:06:28.140 to bring his family to this premiere party he was invited to watch the movie and he also appeared on
00:06:38.160 the red carpet but for some reason he was even edited out of the photos from the red carpet
00:06:43.720 why would anyone do that as i said there's no specific incidence of any feud that rob had with
00:06:52.780 marvel. I have to say he never went after Ryan Reynolds but as we learned from watching what
00:06:58.700 happened to Justin Baldoni during the premiere of It Ends With Us we know that Ryan Reynolds
00:07:04.900 works behind the scenes. No one knew how involved he was in shading Justin Baldoni before we
00:07:11.600 actually saw the text messages and emails that he had sent to different people. So to me this
00:07:17.840 obviously looks like something Ryan Reynolds would do. I have no evidence that he's the one
00:07:23.440 behind this, but looking at these two separate cases only two weeks apart, don't you think that
00:07:29.640 is a big possibility? So this story was published in Variety in February of last year, saying that
00:07:37.080 Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld vows to cut ties with Marvel after Deadpool and Wolverine premiere
00:07:43.580 issues i mean one thing is to say that we don't want to work with you anymore but to say that
00:07:49.000 you can't come to the party that is so petty and i just find it really hard to believe again that
00:07:55.960 marvel would do something like that and i say here beyond the credits deadpool and wolverine
00:08:01.740 acknowledge liefield in a key scene in which the titular character battled dozens of deadpool
00:08:07.760 variants in front of a store called Liefeld's Just Feet. It's a nod to a long-running joke about
00:08:16.220 the author's perceived inability to draw feets. So Rob has actually talked about this, how he
00:08:23.020 allowed this joke to be in the movie, where Ryan Reynolds called him up and suggested this joke
00:08:29.880 because he's known for not being able to draw feet very well. Of course, Ryan wanted to mock that
00:08:36.580 because he loves mocking other people but at the time Lee Feld said that he thought that this was
00:08:41.640 a great honor that they would actually mock him in the movie so he was mocked in the movie he was
00:08:47.100 credited at the end credits but he couldn't come to the after party here is a comment on reddit
00:08:52.600 worth noting saying you know by now we're all very familiar with the Reynolds brand of punishment
00:08:58.760 vengeance and rug pull it's somehow both juvenile and childish for goodness sake they even had their 0.65
00:09:07.200 publicist delete photos of rob with talent who does that the same people who orchestrated the
00:09:15.020 mass unfollow of of justin someone else commented rob wanted a created by credit in the movie
00:09:21.340 that's probably the biggest thing ever in reynolds book because he wanted to have the first writing
00:09:26.940 credits and someone else mentioned that they did the same with justin remember all those text
00:09:31.640 messages from blake as well and ryan mentioned as well that what a big eagle justin must have
00:09:38.240 because he wanted a film buy on the movie poster for it ends with us and they said that is the
00:09:44.340 most narcissistic thing ever and i also showed a clip i was trying to find it this morning but i
00:09:49.320 couldn't find it again where ryan reynolds was commenting for sky news on a wrexham sport event
00:09:54.900 when his soccer team was playing and he said oh this is all about teamwork just as when you make
00:10:00.220 a movie if someone just wants to put a film by that is just so selfish because it's a teamwork
00:10:07.900 just like soccer he had to just put that in there so I also feel that that connects the dot in this
00:10:13.880 story with Rob Liefeld I have a theory about both Blake and Ryan that they never come up with any
00:10:21.380 ideas themselves. They just steal other people's ideas and when they get caught in stealing other
00:10:28.000 people's ideas they can't handle it and then they just punish the people that they stole the idea
00:10:34.120 from or punish the people that they stole the work from. Anyways as I mentioned yesterday there
00:10:39.680 was a video on social media from Fantastic Fest where Ryan Reynolds was on a stage this weekend
00:10:45.640 saying that there will be another Deadpool movie. So the Hollywood Reporter picks this up and made
00:10:51.000 a big headline about it, Ryan Reynolds confirms another Deadpool movie. The film would follow
00:10:57.020 the 2024 Deadpool and Wolverine, which became the top-crossing R-rated movie of all time.
00:11:03.600 They're saying here it looks like Ryan Reynolds will put on the Deadpool suit again. And then
00:11:07.920 they said the Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Marvel for comments. No comment back from Marvel.
00:11:14.840 I have a feeling that this is just a stunt as I said yesterday from Ryan Reynolds to get people
00:11:21.220 to get excited about the Deadpool movie again so that they will forget about all this other drama
00:11:25.960 and as someone pointed out on social media you can't say that there is another Deadpool in the
00:11:32.080 works if you have no screenplay if you have no director attached to it no one is attached to
00:11:38.040 this project yet he just threw it out there to divert everyone's attention and I don't believe
00:11:43.040 for a second that Ryan actually run this by Marvel Studios. Anyways, as I said in the beginning of
00:11:50.660 this episode, Scarlett Johansson, Ryan Reynolds' ex-wife, was invited to Taylor Swift's wedding.
00:11:59.920 Another dig at Blake Lively, obviously from Taylor Swift. So, as you know, Ryan was married
00:12:07.100 it to Scarlett Johansson when he met Blake Lively. They didn't start officially dating until he was
00:12:13.980 divorced, but we all know that the two of them met while they were shooting the Green Lantern,
00:12:19.480 and there's so much footage from press junkets going on when they were promoting that awful
00:12:24.440 movie together, and everyone could see what was going on between the two of them. Their official
00:12:29.500 story is that someone set up a date, a double date, and then they were like, oh, we like each
00:12:34.780 other yeah anyways so there are no photos of Scarlett Johansson at this wedding but we know
00:12:43.260 that Taylor Swift's husband Travis Kelsey had Colleen Jost Scarlett Johansson's husband on his
00:12:50.680 podcast not too long ago they were discussing amongst other things what it was like to be with
00:12:56.060 someone that was more famous than them but anyways this information comes from former tennis player
00:13:01.280 Jack Sock so he said here according to Yahoo amongst other things he said I guess it was just
00:13:08.080 one of the hallways they had with the cocktail hour and there it was just because you're kind
00:13:13.620 of shoulder to shoulder with everybody Jessica Alba, Scarlett Johansson, Charlize Theron, Brad
00:13:20.640 Pitt you just like you go down the road and you're standing right here like waiting so yes
00:13:26.800 on top of that as you know the Wayfair parties did a project with Scarlett Johansson her directorial
00:13:34.440 debut Eleanor the Great and we even have audio where Steve Sarowitz the founder and the backer
00:13:42.300 financial backer of Wayfair Studios said this about Scarlett Johansson he described her as
00:13:49.900 classy professional nice smart confident and wonderful in contrast with Blake Lively who is
00:13:56.860 different that's the only bad thing he ever said about Blake Lively she's different so yeah let me
00:14:03.700 know what you think do you think Taylor Swift invited Scarlett Johansson to her wedding just
00:14:08.140 to take another dig at Blake anyway since I went down the rabbit hole on reddit I also found this
00:14:13.480 comment here so just to confirm this person says Ryan Reynolds was once again a no-show for his
00:14:18.960 wife's recent public football outing. He has been absent entirely for every public appearance she
00:14:26.540 has made for months. Are we in agreement that he obviously can't stand her company? No show at her
00:14:33.080 court appearance at the beginning of the year, no show at the Met Gala, no show at the Fendi event.
00:14:38.940 The only time Ryan Reynolds has been photographed with his wife is in a grainy staged pap photo
00:14:44.800 where he looked like a hostage anything that involves publicly being in her company for an
00:14:50.840 extended period of time and he is a no-show this is not normal i don't care many people keep trying
00:14:57.480 to pretend this is normal it is not normal i believe the reason they haven't made a public
00:15:02.140 joint statement like emily and justin is because ryan has refused my theory is that they're no
00:15:07.640 longer together and are waiting till everything has blown over to announce their divorce also
00:15:13.300 looking forward to some kind of stage pap walk Instagram story in response to this post because
00:15:18.800 that would be on form this person says. I agree every time these divorce rumors are resurfacing
00:15:26.400 we get either a stage paparazzi of the two of them or Blake posts some random old selfie of the two
00:15:33.840 of them together. Anyways let's get into this Rebel Wilson case. This case is nuts. I've talked
00:15:40.960 about it three or four times before i went through all the players in this case it is very absurd
00:15:46.600 everything that has happened and i don't really know where the truth lays here but what just
00:15:52.840 happened is very interesting because a judge in australia just ruled that rebel wilson is innocent
00:16:00.740 of defaming the main actress of her movie the deb so in short what happened on this movie which was
00:16:08.280 Rebel Wilson directorial debut, the main actress of the movie, Charlotte McInnes, according to Rebel
00:16:14.320 Wilson, came to her and complained about the producer of the movie, Amanda Ghost, saying that
00:16:20.860 she had been very inappropriate with her, saying that she invited her into the bathtub to warm her
00:16:27.480 after she was really cold. It was a really weird scenario. And then according to Rebel, she came
00:16:32.800 to her and complained about this and Rebel said that it was her duty to speak up about this. Then
00:16:40.040 also behind the scenes there were a lot of little fights about credits, about writer credits on the
00:16:45.580 movie, about money, a lot of tension let's put it that way. Then Charlotte McInnes, this main actress
00:16:51.460 came out and said that I never said that to Rebel Wilson. She made that up. I never said that Amanda
00:16:58.180 the ghost made me feel uncomfortable. Then she sued Rebel Wilson for defamation because Rebel
00:17:04.660 Wilson came out on social media and said that Charlotte McInnes is a liar. Then Charlotte said, 0.84
00:17:12.480 no, Rebel Wilson is the liar. And then Charlotte McInnes said, no, Rebel Wilson is the liar. And 0.98
00:17:17.680 she has defamed me through all of these social media posts that she has made about this case
00:17:23.840 and about me. And now the judge said Rebel Wilson is not guilty of defamation and Charlotte has to
00:17:33.360 pay Rebel Wilson's attorney's fees. Now they're saying here that Charlotte is going to appeal
00:17:41.380 this. So this just happened in Australia. Now there is another lawsuit here in the US and that
00:17:50.020 is in the middle of discovery right now, it doesn't have a trial date. And that lawsuit
00:17:55.540 is the producer, Amanda Ghost, suing Rebel Wilson also for defamation and for orchestrating
00:18:04.100 a smear campaign against her, particularly creating a website to smear her. And on top
00:18:12.040 of that, to make it even more confusing, Amanda Ghost is claiming that Rebel Wilson hired
00:18:18.400 the same team as Justin Baldoni hired. 1.00
00:18:21.720 Reba Wilson hired Melissa Nathan,
00:18:24.060 the crisis PR manager that Justin Baldoni hired,
00:18:27.680 and also Jed Wallace,
00:18:29.980 who Blake Lively accused of being the brain
00:18:33.380 behind this underground smear machine.
00:18:37.360 As I've spoken about here before,
00:18:39.360 the Hollywood Reporter picked all of this up and said,
00:18:42.720 hey, look, there is a big pattern here.
00:18:45.580 There is an underground smear machine
00:18:47.540 going on in hollywood and it's all connected well now it seems like the judge in australia
00:18:54.580 does not agree with that and apparently the lawyer representing charlotte mckinnis
00:19:00.320 is one of australia's highest profile defamation barristers and has won many major media cases
00:19:07.740 so wilson prevailing despite facing such experienced counsel makes the outcome notable
00:19:15.320 There are a lot of things surrounding this case that I find a bit suspicious.
00:19:20.820 If you watch the interview with Rebel Wilson on 60 Minute Australia, you might agree with me.
00:19:28.280 Watching this, it seemed to me that a lot of things that Rebel was saying doesn't really add up.
00:19:34.700 Obviously, I had zero to do with the websites.
00:19:38.740 I don't even know how to create a website.
00:19:41.200 I had nothing to do with what was on it.
00:19:42.880 I read it like a lot of people in the business did but yeah obviously it's categorically false
00:19:49.400 to say that I had anything to do with it. So the publicist in email to a co-worker said so
00:19:56.460 basically Rebel wants one of those sites goes on to say it can be really really harsh Russian 0.85
00:20:03.740 oligarchs and making her a madam basically laugh out loud or lol. So that's the allegation that
00:20:10.040 You asked your publicist to set up one of these.
00:20:12.840 It was that my publicist was a woman who worked for my lawyer at the time.
00:20:19.840 Right.
00:20:20.560 Yeah.
00:20:20.760 So did you or your lawyer do this?
00:20:23.240 No, definitely not.
00:20:24.640 So why is your name linked to it?
00:20:26.560 Why does she say Rebel?
00:20:27.620 I have no idea.
00:20:28.460 I don't know whether those texts are real.
00:20:30.440 Yeah, I guess we're going to learn a lot more when this case goes to trial
00:20:35.340 unless they settle before trial in the U.S.
00:20:39.000 Rebel went out on social media today celebrating this big win and also announcing that her next
00:20:46.260 movie Girl Group is going to premiere at Toronto Film Festival in September so it doesn't look like
00:20:52.880 her career has taken a big hit from any of this but I was reading the comments on this article
00:20:59.040 in the Daily Mail and it seems like people are not really on Rebel Wilson's side here. Yeah there's
00:21:05.380 obviously a lot of sketchy stuff going on here and we'll i'm sure we're gonna find out more
00:21:10.200 when we get to maybe summary judgment in this case here in the u.s and some more evidence is
00:21:17.860 going to get released there was an audio file i have to say that jed wallace sent to someone
00:21:24.480 saying that rebel wilson wanted one of those sites so yeah let me know what you think about
00:21:30.280 this did rebel wilson order a smear website to smear the producer of the movie or not anyways
00:21:39.100 that's it for me today you guys thank you so much for watching and thanks again to oscar he is
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