Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - May 14, 2026


GHOSTED BY ALL HER CO-STARS !!

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Kjersti Flaa
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Ryan Reynolds Blake Lively Justin Baldoni Ezra Hudson Mark Garagos Wayfair Megan Kelly Michael Gottlieb Brandon Sklenar Deadpool Puck Steve Sarawitz Blake Lylee Isabella Ferrer Colleen Hoover Brian Friedman Jennifer Abel Mike Gottlieb Ricky Gervais Judith Lieber and 11 more
Now we Know What HAPPENED !! TRUTH IS COMING OUT !!

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Blake Lively's lawyers are terrified of her suing them for malpractice after the judge dismissed 10 out of her 13 claims against them. Also, all of Blake's co-stars have now deleted her from their social media accounts. Is Ryan Reynolds monetizing on his dead father again?

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00:00:00 Wow, this is pretty explosive. Are Blake Lively's attorneys terrified of her suing them for malpractice now?
00:00:10 Hi 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 Okay, so Mark Garagos, a famous attorney here in Hollywood, went on Megyn Kelly yesterday.
00:00:25 And 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.
00:00:40 This is a very fascinating twist. 0.73
00:00:42 As soon as her case was gutted, she had a monstrous legal malpractice action against her lawyers.
00:00:49 Also, someone sent me the LinkedIn page of Monat, where Ezra Hudson, one of Blake Lively's main attorneys,
00:00:56 were bragging that they negotiated a favorable settlement for Blake Lively.
00:01:02 You've got to see this.
00:01:03 Also, is Ryan Reynolds monetizing on his dead father again?
00:01:08 It certainly looks like it.
00:01:10 And that's why I tell people if my family's experience sounds familiar, then don't wait.
00:01:15 Just talk to your doctor about it.
00:01:16 And I asked my insider again if they think that Blake Lively fell for Justin Baldoni
00:01:22 and that is why Ryan Reynolds got so furious.
00:01:27 Yeah, let's see what they had to say about that.
00:01:30 Also, Puck, the famous Hollywood newslater, came out with another story today
00:01:34 talking about Justin Baldoni's future in the industry.
00:01:38 And yes, they do have a very different view than all the trade magazines here in Hollywood
00:01:43 who's been saying that Justin Baldoni's career is over.
00:01:46 It's not.
00:01:47 Also, Page Six did an interview with me.
00:01:49 If you want to go and check that out, you can do that.
00:01:51 I'm not going to talk about it here on my channel.
00:01:53 And here's an interesting thing.
00:01:55 All of Blake Lyle's co-stars have removed her from their Instagram grid.
00:02:02 Brandon Sklenar went as far as he deleted his entire Instagram feed and started over again.
00:02:08 Okay, so let's look into that first.
00:02:10 Someone tipped me about this yesterday.
00:02:11 Thank you so much.
00:02:12 So I actually went into Brandon Sklenar's Instagram and it's true.
00:02:16 He just like wiped everything out to get a fresh start.
00:02:20 There's nothing about It Ends With Us.
00:02:22 There's nothing with Blake Lively, but he still has the comment section open and people
00:02:28 are still going after him.
00:02:29 So I don't know what he was trying to achieve by doing that.
00:02:33 If he was just trying to pretend that everyone should just forget about all the things that
00:02:36 happened and that he was supporting Blake Lively in taking Justin Bolden down.
00:02:41 but unfortunately for him people still remember even though he removed the pictures of himself
00:02:47 with Blake and with Ryan. So let's look at her other co-stars like Denny Slade. She still has
00:02:52 her comments shut off on her Instagram. There's not one single picture of her and Blake on her
00:02:58 Instagram. She has two posts when she was promoting It Ends With Us when she was wearing this totally
00:03:04 see-through dress wiggling her butt to the camera while promoting a movie about DV by the way. I 0.99
00:03:10 think that is a little tone deaf, but anyways. Also, Colleen Hoover, no pictures of Blake Lively.
00:03:16 No pictures from any promotion of It Ends With Us. All wiped out. Isabella Ferrer, same thing.
00:03:24 No photos of Blake Lively on her Instagram. So all of these people who work with her,
00:03:30 who supported her, has now deleted her from their lives. I find that very telling. Okay,
00:03:37 so let's look into this interview that Megyn Kelly did with Mark Garagos and Matt Murphy.
00:03:41 These are two very, very seasoned attorneys in Hollywood and had a lot of celebrity clients
00:03:46 over the years. And Mark Garagos had a very interesting theory. He said that this was just
00:03:51 speculation, but it makes a lot of sense when you think about it. As you know, Blake Lyley's
00:03:57 attorneys have been doing a lot of little shady things and unethical things throughout this entire
00:04:02 thing. Also remember that they knew about the Van Sam lawsuit. They knew and they backed Blake and
00:04:09 Ryan in filing that sham lawsuit to get the subpoena to get the phone of Jennifer Abel so
00:04:14 they could give it to the New York Times. Her attorneys knew about that. So this is what Mark
00:04:19 Garagos said yesterday. He thinks that when the judge tossed out 10 out of Blake Lively's 13
00:04:26 claims, he criticized her law firm so much throughout that filing, throughout that ruling,
00:04:32 that it really made them nervous.
00:04:35 And that's why they jumped into private mediation
00:04:37 straight away with the Wayfair parties.
00:04:41 We don't know the details here,
00:04:42 but I know that Mark Garagos and Brian Friedman
00:04:45 are really close.
00:04:47 So I'm sure he knows a little bit more
00:04:49 than the general public does
00:04:51 about what actually happened here.
00:04:53 The California Supreme Court case says
00:04:55 if you go through private mediation,
00:04:58 you can't sue your lawyer for legal malpractice.
00:05:01 So 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 So 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 And when you do a private mediation, it protects you from being sued by your own client for
00:05:41 malpractice because what goes on in that mediation cannot be used in court or is very difficult
00:05:49 to get that information out because it's very confidential.
00:05:53 So if she were to sue them, it would be much more difficult for her.
00:05:58 Another reason, of course, for Blake to sue her lawyers is because then she could just
00:06:03 blame everything on them, saying that they didn't tell me all these things. They told me that I could
00:06:08 win this case and they did certain things that wasn't very smart. And that ended up with me
00:06:13 losing 10 out of these 13 claims. And then they got me to settle this way, which I didn't really
00:06:19 agree on, but they kind of put me in a position where I believe them. And as Garagos also points
00:06:25 out here, those attorney's fees she's seeking, that's just going to be covered by insurance
00:06:30 anyway. 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 it looks like you actually won. So this is how her attorneys are trying to save their asses because 1.00
00:06:41 now they're ridiculed all over the internet. And Megyn Kelly was also showing clips in this 0.99
00:06:49 interview with these attorneys from the interview that Matt Bologna did with Michael Gottlieb,
00:06:54 Blake's attorney that Magnus and I spoke about on Sunday, where he says so many things to try
00:07:00 and make it look like Blake Lively is a winner. And the journalist is basically mocking him
00:07:06 throughout this whole thing. And Mike Gottlieb basically looks like an idiot. It's interesting 1.00
00:07:10 how Blake's other main attorney, Ezra Hudson, hasn't come out and done any interviews. She has
00:07:17 her name behind some of the statements that's in the press, but she has not shown her face in any
00:07:23 interviews. So it's going to be interesting to see if Blake is trying to save herself by suing
00:07:29 her attorneys. And as Garrigo said here, this is going to make it more difficult for her. And I
00:07:34 don't know enough about law to actually see if this is a real risk or not, or if that is why her 0.57
00:07:40 attorneys acted the way they did here. But I think this would be an interesting opening for Blake
00:07:46 to try and blame someone else for her major defeat.
00:07:50 So someone pointed me to Manat Phelps and Phillips' LinkedIn page.
00:07:55 And here, this is interesting, with a picture of Ezra Hudson.
00:07:59 They posted this, saying a Manat team led by Ezra Hudson
00:08:04 secured a favorable settlement for Blake Lively in her case
00:08:09 against Justin Baldoni and Wayfair Studios.
00:08:11 This marks another critical, important step in Ms. Lively's lawsuit 0.99
00:08:16 in Ms. Lively's pursuit of justice after raising concerns about inappropriate behavior during
00:08:22 production of It Ends With Us and the subsequent retaliation campaign levied against her. 1.00
00:08:29 Isn't that insane? They're saying that they negotiated a favorable settlement for Blake?
00:08:34 She just dropped everything and got zero dollars. How is that favorable for her? If this is what
00:08:41 winning looks like? I wonder what losing looks like. And they also added a quote from Ezra Hudson
00:08:46 in here saying, from day one, Blake Lively's mission was clear. Expose and hold accountable
00:08:52 those who weaponize smear campaigns and retaliatory lawsuits to intimidate and silence survivors.
00:08:59 That mission continues. Well, well, well, we're going to see what happens now. It's so fascinating
00:09:05 to me how they keep pushing this as a big win when every single lawyer that's been interviewed
00:09:11 about this case said that they couldn't have lost any worse than they actually did. It couldn't have
00:09:18 been a bigger defeat for Blake. And here they are on their own LinkedIn page saying they're so proud
00:09:24 of winning. And this is another thing that I found on their LinkedIn page posted three weeks ago,
00:09:29 where they're saying congratulations to Manat's Esra Hudson
00:09:33 for being recognized by The Hollywood Reporter
00:09:36 as one of the most powerful lawyers in 2026.
00:09:41 Yeah, isn't that interesting?
00:09:42 I think there were two comments on this
00:09:44 and one was from her daughter saying that she's so proud of her mom.
00:09:48 To me, that says a lot about where The Hollywood Reporter stands in all of this. 0.63
00:09:51 They're recognizing her as one of the most powerful attorneys.
00:09:54 One thing is true, she is powerful in the sense 0.84
00:09:56 that she managed to ruin so many people's lives 0.99
00:09:59 so many people's careers in her pursuit to be one of the most powerful attorneys in Hollywood.
00:10:06 If that is her goal, then congrats to Ezra Hudson. Okay, as I've been talking about a few times
00:10:13 already on my channel, how experts have come out in trade magazines, always anonymous by the way,
00:10:19 and they're like executive studio rep this and that. I don't believe any of these sources that
00:10:24 are anonymous. If you want to say something, put it out there. Don't be a coward and say,
00:10:30 oh, Justin Baldoni doesn't have a future and I don't want anyone to know who I am for saying that. 0.97
00:10:35 Well, then it has absolutely no value. So today, Puck, who is one of the most respected
00:10:41 newsletters here in Hollywood, came out with another article. They're also the one behind
00:10:47 the interview of Michael Gottlieb, by the way. And they have a pretty different view than what
00:10:51 we've been reading about in the Hollywood Reporter. They're starting off saying that
00:10:54 Justin Baldoni's image or reputation has been damaged by this lawsuit. But then they're also
00:11:00 pointing out the most obvious thing here, that he and the Wayfair Party still has financial backing.
00:11:05 They still have Steve Sarowicz, who they also talk about in this article. They mentioned the
00:11:10 threat to his home. You know, there was a person threatening to kidnap his daughter at one point.
00:11:15 and that was a person that mentioned this lawsuit saying we know you have so much money to fight
00:11:21 Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds so why don't you give us $80,000? They're also mentioning how he's
00:11:27 been paying all the legal fees on time and he comes across as a very decent person and this
00:11:32 article mainly says that people will still work with Justin Baldoni if his projects are funded.
00:11:39 That's all it is about in Hollywood. Hollywood doesn't care about people, Hollywood cares about
00:11:45 money. And if they can make money on someone or something, they are in. Remember that joke from
00:11:52 Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globe when he said, if ICE is called with a project, you will call
00:11:56 your agent? Yeah. It also mentions here that they have several projects in the works that the Wayfair
00:12:02 Party does. And why would any actor or actresses say no to working with Justin Baldoni at this
00:12:09 point. Most actors and actresses in this town are looking for work. Maybe not the top top A-listers
00:12:15 who have projects lined up for the next 10 years but there is a lot of talented actors and actresses
00:12:23 out there that would love the opportunity to work with Justin Baldoni. Why wouldn't they? Do they
00:12:28 really believe it was a toxic work environment? I don't think so. They also mentioned by the way
00:12:33 how Steve Sarwitz had to shut down the Wayfair Foundation because of the pressure from this
00:12:39 lawsuit. He was doing a lot of good. They were doing a lot of good with a lot of charities and
00:12:44 because of Blake Lively and her threat to them, they decided to shut that down. So it's impossible
00:12:50 to calculate how much damage Blake Lively actually did by filing this lawsuit, by the way,
00:12:56 because there's so many other layers to this of people who were harmed by her false accusations.
00:13:02 They actually say in this article that 99% of actors and actresses would engage.
00:13:08 If they need a job, if they need a job, people will do it.
00:13:11 And I totally agree.
00:13:13 And I think it would be a great opportunity for a lot of actors and actresses out there
00:13:18 to work with Justin to prove a point also to say, hey, I believe in the truth here.
00:13:25 And I think it would be great for someone's image to do that.
00:13:28 It would be great for their reputation amongst their fans if they work with Justin Baldoni and the Wayfair parties.
00:13:35 That's my opinion because you know the support behind Justin Baldoni at this time.
00:13:40 It's humongous.
00:13:42 People want to support him.
00:13:44 They also mentioned in this article that Ryan Reynolds' project Mayday that he's doing with Apple has been pushed several times.
00:13:51 And now it's going to come out in September.
00:13:53 and also the fact that Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool is basically never going to have his own movie.
00:14:00 He's just going to appear as a character in other Marvel movies and that is huge.
00:14:05 The studio is too scared to actually bet on Ryan selling another Deadpool movie.
00:14:11 Anyways, 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 Okay, so Ryan Reynolds is posting on Instagram every single day.
00:16:00 It'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 and in between he's also pushing some other products and trying to sell things to his audience
00:16:11 and in between that he might do a little story making sure that people knows that he is still
00:16:16 married to Blake but he really doesn't care that much because if he did he would actually put a
00:16:21 picture of her on his Instagram grid. When you scroll down Ryan Reynolds Instagram there's not
00:16:26 one single photo of his wife. Anyways this post caught my attention today because this is Ryan
00:16:33 Reynolds, sponsored by a pharmaceutical company called Acadia, trying to sell products to people
00:16:41 who have family members suffering from Parkinson's. So now he's sitting talking about his beloved
00:16:47 dad and the relationship he had to him and how it was so hard for the entire family when they
00:16:53 realized that he was hallucinating and losing his mind, which is a part of Parkinson's. And
00:16:59 And Ryanair is pretending that he had some kind of relationship with his father.
00:17:05 It was incredibly hard on him.
00:17:06 It was incredibly hard on my mom and my brothers and his caregivers.
00:17:10 At the time, we just weren't prepared for that part of the disease.
00:17:13 So we didn't really know how to help him.
00:17:15 Look at this People magazine article that was done in 2024.
00:17:18 This is when he started to do this collaboration with the Parkinson's organization
00:17:23 and also these pharmaceutical companies.
00:17:26 So don't mistake this for charity.
00:17:28 This is not charity.
00:17:29 this is Ryan Reynolds getting paid to promote a pharmaceutical company and using his dead father
00:17:34 to do so. So here it says in People magazine, Ryan Reynolds opens up about healing letter he wrote
00:17:41 his dad before his death. Grateful I sent that. So that's how close he was to his dad. He sent him
00:17:48 a 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 that in a lot of interviews by the way always portraying him as a person that he was scared of
00:18:00 and because of him he's been traumatized and he's been suffering with anxiety and all that he was a
00:18:05 very strict father and here in this interview he said it was very easy for me to die enough the
00:18:10 idea that my father and I do not see eye to eye on anything and that an actual relationship with him
00:18:17 is 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 at the time to meet him where he was. He continues to say, I think I could have done better at not
00:18:29 resting on the storyline that I established between he and I and that I could have maybe
00:18:34 been there with him towards the end and I wasn't. He and I just drifted apart and that's something
00:18:40 I'll live with forever. He wasn't there when his father died. He wasn't even there and now he is
00:18:48 promoting this pharmaceutical company, pretending that he had a close relationship with his own
00:18:53 father, selling us this idea. I don't know. What do you guys think about that? Also, another thing
00:18:59 I was thinking about yesterday, which is quite interesting. Why have we not seen any text
00:19:06 messages between Blake and Ryan to confirm how Blake Lively was feeling when she was on the
00:19:13 set of It Ends With Us. They could have used that as their own evidence saying hey this is a message
00:19:18 that Blake sent her own husband saying that she felt unsafe on the set of It Ends With Us saying
00:19:25 that she felt that she was S-aged by Justin. No such text messages exist. If you are a woman and
00:19:32 you feel unsafe at work wouldn't you text your husband about that? We know that Justin Baldoni
00:19:39 and the Wayfair parties didn't have access to the communication between Blake and Ryan because
00:19:43 that is protected speech between spouses but Blake could herself have used text messages between her
00:19:49 and her husband to prove that she was actually S-aged and none of that exists. Another example
00:19:56 of what a sham lawsuit this whole thing was. Okay so I have another message from my insider.
00:20:01 Yesterday I told them what do you think about this? For me it's been really hard to figure out
00:20:07 where all this rage from Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively came from, especially the rage from Ryan
00:20:14 Reynolds. How, why was he so furious and angry with Justin Baldoni? You don't just get that kind
00:20:21 of anger towards someone unless there's something really serious underneath. So this person told me
00:20:28 this. Ryan is a mess of insecurities clearly and he basically admits this. He's talked about this
00:20:35 in a lot of interviews as well, that he needs a lot of validation and he's insecure and all that
00:20:40 stuff. And as you know now, Blake Lively is very shy, as you said on the Met Gala in that interview.
00:20:45 Anyways, then Ryan got unexpectedly wealthy and he's not equipped to handle that because money
00:20:51 doesn't solve personal issues. Blake saw her husband get super powerful and her supposed
00:20:56 best friend, Taylor, get super powerful. And Blake didn't have either of those capabilities.
00:21:03 abilities. She was just a normal actress trying to get parts, no ability to write or create or 1.00
00:21:09 produce. So that must have driven her crazy. And she has said she needs to take authorships to 1.00
00:21:16 feel fulfilled, so she can't just accept her average level abilities. Good point. So there
00:21:23 is some desperation there, and who knows how dysfunctional that household really is. True.
00:21:28 But 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 And from the beginning, she never allowed herself to be true, honest friends with Justin.
00:21:54 He was trying, but she was mocking him from the start.
00:21:58 That's not normal on a movie.
00:21:59 So she put herself in a crazy position of lying to him all the time,
00:22:03 pretending to be respectful, but never being an honest person.
00:22:07 She started scheming early, started lying, started trying to find faults with him
00:22:12 rather than just bond and accept his vision.
00:22:15 So it must have been absolutely wild for her to be in these passionate scenes
00:22:19 with this very attractive, powerful man who she is lying to and plotting against.
00:22:25 So true.
00:22:26 We've seen all those text messages.
00:22:27 Her own self-loathing and desperation combined with passionate kissing and embracing. 0.92
00:22:33 Crazy.
00:22:34 And yes, that's what might have alarmed Ryan. 1.00
00:22:38 There are so many layers of ickiness and unprofessional behavior on her part,
00:22:42 but Ryan seeing their chemistry on screen might have bothered him.
00:22:46 And 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 So all of it combined, perhaps, we'll never know the whole story, but this is definitely people absolutely being their worst.
00:23:05 Yes, so true.
00:23:07 What do you guys think?
00:23:08 I remember in the beginning, there was a lot of talk if Blake actually had fallen for Justin
00:23:13 and he rejected her and then she felt embarrassed about that and then she went against him.
00:23:19 And then, of course, she got Ryan with her going against Justin saying that,
00:23:24 oh my gosh, he's saying that my clothes are sexy and Ryan was like, what?
00:23:28 So yeah, I don't know what her feelings were. 0.52
00:23:31 I think now that we've seen the text messages that she sent to people calling him a clown
00:23:35 and a doofus director i don't know if that was some kind of weird attraction or not
00:23:41 yeah i don't know let me know what you think so i wanted to end this episode on a funny note
00:23:46 because sophia sent these to me i don't know if she did these herself but these photos or drawings
00:23:52 are hysterical okay so you remember blake why we showed up at the met gala with this bag this
00:23:59 custom made bag from judith lieber and now you can buy it yourself for just ten thousand dollars
00:24:04 and put your kids pictures on it and now she sent me this photo of her kids real drawing
00:24:12 where it says there's all four kids on the drawing here says are you sure you should go
00:24:17 how about we stay home and watch Deadpool again yes her kids told her not to go to the Met Gala
00:24:25 and then there's a photo of Blake actually holding the purse or you can see her hand and
00:24:29 there's a drawing here saying we tried I love this people are so creative making these fun
00:24:37 memes please keep sending them to me this made my day and also again thank you guys so much for
00:24:42 being here you guys are so amazing so supportive I love all your comments I don't always have the
00:24:48 time to look through everything because there's a lot right now especially but I really truly
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