00:00:00.000Wow, this is pretty explosive. Are Blake Lively's attorneys terrified of her suing them for malpractice now?
00:00:10.800Hi and welcome to Blossom Talk. I'm Sasti Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller, and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
00:00:19.280Okay, so Mark Garagos, a famous attorney here in Hollywood, went on Megyn Kelly yesterday.
00:00:25.360And he said that Blake Lively's attorneys got so criticized by the judge when he dismissed 10 out of her 13 claims that Blake would have a reason to sue them for malpractice.
00:04:58.600you can't sue your lawyer for legal malpractice.
00:05:01.280So what this was, was a very sophisticated legal strategy to insulate the big firm from getting sued for the tens of millions of dollars for what could have been argued was the, if you read Judge Lyman's order, missteps by her lawyers.
00:05:23.020So what he's saying to Megyn Kelly here is that Blake's attorneys jumped into private mediation with the Wayfair parties to come up with this settlement agreement.
00:05:34.140And when you do a private mediation, it protects you from being sued by your own client for
00:05:41.820malpractice because what goes on in that mediation cannot be used in court or is very difficult
00:05:49.140to get that information out because it's very confidential.
00:05:53.580So if she were to sue them, it would be much more difficult for her.
00:05:58.540Another reason, of course, for Blake to sue her lawyers is because then she could just
00:06:03.080blame everything on them, saying that they didn't tell me all these things. They told me that I could
00:06:08.420win this case and they did certain things that wasn't very smart. And that ended up with me
00:06:13.720losing 10 out of these 13 claims. And then they got me to settle this way, which I didn't really
00:06:19.680agree on, but they kind of put me in a position where I believe them. And as Garagos also points
00:06:25.300out here, those attorney's fees she's seeking, that's just going to be covered by insurance
00:06:30.500anyway. So it's not a big deal. It's just a way for her attorneys to say, hey, we can do this so
00:06:36.020it looks like you actually won. So this is how her attorneys are trying to save their asses because
00:06:41.860now they're ridiculed all over the internet. And Megyn Kelly was also showing clips in this
00:06:49.060interview with these attorneys from the interview that Matt Bologna did with Michael Gottlieb,
00:06:54.580Blake's attorney that Magnus and I spoke about on Sunday, where he says so many things to try
00:07:00.840and make it look like Blake Lively is a winner. And the journalist is basically mocking him
00:07:06.820throughout this whole thing. And Mike Gottlieb basically looks like an idiot. It's interesting
00:07:10.980how Blake's other main attorney, Ezra Hudson, hasn't come out and done any interviews. She has
00:07:17.300her name behind some of the statements that's in the press, but she has not shown her face in any
00:07:23.120interviews. So it's going to be interesting to see if Blake is trying to save herself by suing
00:07:29.460her attorneys. And as Garrigo said here, this is going to make it more difficult for her. And I
00:07:34.900don't know enough about law to actually see if this is a real risk or not, or if that is why her
00:07:40.900attorneys acted the way they did here. But I think this would be an interesting opening for Blake
00:07:46.540to try and blame someone else for her major defeat.
00:07:50.700So someone pointed me to Manat Phelps and Phillips' LinkedIn page.
00:07:55.800And here, this is interesting, with a picture of Ezra Hudson.
00:07:59.420They posted this, saying a Manat team led by Ezra Hudson
00:08:04.380secured a favorable settlement for Blake Lively in her case
00:08:09.040against Justin Baldoni and Wayfair Studios.
00:08:11.860This marks another critical, important step in Ms. Lively's lawsuit
00:08:16.040in Ms. Lively's pursuit of justice after raising concerns about inappropriate behavior during
00:08:22.180production of It Ends With Us and the subsequent retaliation campaign levied against her.
00:08:29.020Isn't that insane? They're saying that they negotiated a favorable settlement for Blake?
00:08:34.920She just dropped everything and got zero dollars. How is that favorable for her? If this is what
00:08:41.640winning looks like? I wonder what losing looks like. And they also added a quote from Ezra Hudson
00:08:46.700in here saying, from day one, Blake Lively's mission was clear. Expose and hold accountable
00:08:52.780those who weaponize smear campaigns and retaliatory lawsuits to intimidate and silence survivors.
00:08:59.940That mission continues. Well, well, well, we're going to see what happens now. It's so fascinating
00:09:05.620to me how they keep pushing this as a big win when every single lawyer that's been interviewed
00:09:11.860about this case said that they couldn't have lost any worse than they actually did. It couldn't have
00:09:18.440been a bigger defeat for Blake. And here they are on their own LinkedIn page saying they're so proud
00:09:24.020of winning. And this is another thing that I found on their LinkedIn page posted three weeks ago,
00:09:29.980where they're saying congratulations to Manat's Esra Hudson
00:09:33.880for being recognized by The Hollywood Reporter
00:09:36.920as one of the most powerful lawyers in 2026.
00:13:44.500They also mentioned in this article that Ryan Reynolds' project Mayday that he's doing with Apple has been pushed several times.
00:13:51.200And now it's going to come out in September.
00:13:53.480and also the fact that Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool is basically never going to have his own movie.
00:14:00.460He's just going to appear as a character in other Marvel movies and that is huge.
00:14:05.520The studio is too scared to actually bet on Ryan selling another Deadpool movie.
00:14:11.900Anyways, talking about Ryan here, let's get into his latest post when he was monetizing on his dead father.
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00:15:56.060Okay, so Ryan Reynolds is posting on Instagram every single day.
00:16:00.480It's all about this new sailing team that he bought with Hugh Jackman and about Rex and the soccer team that he also owns.
00:16:06.700and in between he's also pushing some other products and trying to sell things to his audience
00:16:11.720and in between that he might do a little story making sure that people knows that he is still
00:16:16.900married to Blake but he really doesn't care that much because if he did he would actually put a
00:16:21.620picture of her on his Instagram grid. When you scroll down Ryan Reynolds Instagram there's not
00:16:26.480one single photo of his wife. Anyways this post caught my attention today because this is Ryan
00:16:33.700Reynolds, sponsored by a pharmaceutical company called Acadia, trying to sell products to people
00:16:41.400who have family members suffering from Parkinson's. So now he's sitting talking about his beloved
00:16:47.200dad and the relationship he had to him and how it was so hard for the entire family when they
00:16:53.360realized that he was hallucinating and losing his mind, which is a part of Parkinson's. And
00:16:59.640And Ryanair is pretending that he had some kind of relationship with his father.
00:17:29.640this is Ryan Reynolds getting paid to promote a pharmaceutical company and using his dead father
00:17:34.960to do so. So here it says in People magazine, Ryan Reynolds opens up about healing letter he wrote
00:17:41.300his dad before his death. Grateful I sent that. So that's how close he was to his dad. He sent him
00:17:48.180a letter before he died. He didn't go to visit him. He sent him a letter. He's been talking about his
00:17:54.560that in a lot of interviews by the way always portraying him as a person that he was scared of
00:18:00.320and because of him he's been traumatized and he's been suffering with anxiety and all that he was a
00:18:05.660very strict father and here in this interview he said it was very easy for me to die enough the
00:18:10.600idea that my father and I do not see eye to eye on anything and that an actual relationship with him
00:18:17.140is impossible as I'm older now I look back at it and I think of it more as that was my unwillingness
00:18:23.460at the time to meet him where he was. He continues to say, I think I could have done better at not
00:18:29.560resting on the storyline that I established between he and I and that I could have maybe
00:18:34.300been there with him towards the end and I wasn't. He and I just drifted apart and that's something
00:18:40.200I'll live with forever. He wasn't there when his father died. He wasn't even there and now he is
00:18:48.020promoting this pharmaceutical company, pretending that he had a close relationship with his own
00:18:53.740father, selling us this idea. I don't know. What do you guys think about that? Also, another thing
00:18:59.720I was thinking about yesterday, which is quite interesting. Why have we not seen any text
00:19:06.440messages between Blake and Ryan to confirm how Blake Lively was feeling when she was on the
00:19:13.500set of It Ends With Us. They could have used that as their own evidence saying hey this is a message
00:19:18.980that Blake sent her own husband saying that she felt unsafe on the set of It Ends With Us saying
00:19:25.380that she felt that she was S-aged by Justin. No such text messages exist. If you are a woman and
00:19:32.780you feel unsafe at work wouldn't you text your husband about that? We know that Justin Baldoni
00:19:39.020and the Wayfair parties didn't have access to the communication between Blake and Ryan because
00:19:43.280that is protected speech between spouses but Blake could herself have used text messages between her
00:19:49.780and her husband to prove that she was actually S-aged and none of that exists. Another example
00:19:56.540of what a sham lawsuit this whole thing was. Okay so I have another message from my insider.
00:20:01.940Yesterday I told them what do you think about this? For me it's been really hard to figure out
00:20:07.960where all this rage from Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively came from, especially the rage from Ryan
00:20:14.800Reynolds. How, why was he so furious and angry with Justin Baldoni? You don't just get that kind
00:20:21.880of anger towards someone unless there's something really serious underneath. So this person told me
00:20:28.820this. Ryan is a mess of insecurities clearly and he basically admits this. He's talked about this
00:20:35.800in a lot of interviews as well, that he needs a lot of validation and he's insecure and all that
00:20:40.160stuff. And as you know now, Blake Lively is very shy, as you said on the Met Gala in that interview.
00:20:45.660Anyways, then Ryan got unexpectedly wealthy and he's not equipped to handle that because money
00:20:51.500doesn't solve personal issues. Blake saw her husband get super powerful and her supposed
00:20:56.960best friend, Taylor, get super powerful. And Blake didn't have either of those capabilities.
00:21:03.400abilities. She was just a normal actress trying to get parts, no ability to write or create or
00:21:09.680produce. So that must have driven her crazy. And she has said she needs to take authorships to
00:21:16.760feel fulfilled, so she can't just accept her average level abilities. Good point. So there
00:21:23.160is some desperation there, and who knows how dysfunctional that household really is. True.
00:21:28.680But yes, I don't know. But maybe some deep jealousy as well, they're saying. Justin is a lot. He's very earnest. He's big. He's very muscular. All that. He has charisma that can come across as too much to some people. I do know that Blake likes men. And Blake likes power. And Blake really, really likes having power over men.
00:21:50.540And from the beginning, she never allowed herself to be true, honest friends with Justin.
00:21:54.980He was trying, but she was mocking him from the start.
00:22:34.360And yes, that's what might have alarmed Ryan.
00:22:38.520There are so many layers of ickiness and unprofessional behavior on her part,
00:22:42.740but Ryan seeing their chemistry on screen might have bothered him.
00:22:46.760And then Justin not instantly liking the scene that Ryan wrote, that Blake implied that she wrote, you know, the rooftop scene, that clearly enraged Ryan early.
00:22:57.760So all of it combined, perhaps, we'll never know the whole story, but this is definitely people absolutely being their worst.