Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - Insider Tells Me： What REALLY Happened !!

00:00:00.000 But I do know some of the things that led to this decision.

00:00:05.280 I have some insiders.

00:00:11.720 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk.

00:00:13.480 I'm Tashli Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.

00:00:19.760 I think a lot of people are angry right now.

00:00:23.640 A lot of people feel sad.

00:00:25.720 A lot of people feel like justice was not done.

00:00:28.540 a lot of people feel frustration and some kind of grief and I hear you because I feel the same way

00:00:37.080 yesterday I was in shock and then I started feeling like unwell almost because I felt like

00:00:43.420 this is not what we've all been fighting for this is not the result that we wanted and I've received

00:00:50.180 so many messages from you guys telling me how you feel and I really appreciate that and I'm so happy

00:00:56.180 we have this community here where people can say what they want. Tell me how you feel. And I think

00:01:02.220 we all need some kind of therapy after this. And maybe I can contribute in some form that people

00:01:07.300 are starting to heal from this. One thing we have to remember is that this was not Justin Baldoni's

00:01:14.280 decision alone. He was not an individual. He was not a part of this lawsuit anymore. This was a

00:01:20.960 decision made from all the parties that were still involved the wayfair parties meaning that

00:01:26.920 whole production company and also tag the crisis communication company all of these people have

00:01:33.740 been dragged through the mud for one and a half years now and they were exhausted and they just

00:01:39.620 wanted to come to some solution so they could move on with their lives also keep in mind that

00:01:45.620 Justin Baldoni was vindicated by the judge dismissing all these claims against him.

00:01:51.720 So we have to remember these things.

00:01:53.480 Although I do know that what they said in that statement is really disappointing

00:01:57.840 and it makes it look like Blake Lively was right,

00:02:02.260 that they agreed that it was okay, that she needed to be heard.

00:02:07.060 I don't know what went on back and forth inside of this settlement

00:02:10.840 and no one will ever find out.

00:02:12.940 But I do know some of the things that led to this decision.

00:02:18.060 I have some insiders who have told me some things that I will go through in this episode.

00:02:24.520 And also later today, I will have Justin Baldoni's attorney, Brian Friedman, here on my show.

00:02:30.940 So please stay tuned for that.

00:02:33.360 I will publish that later in the afternoon today.

00:02:36.520 Maybe we can get some more answers.

00:02:38.960 Also, we do have one more lawsuit left. 0.89

00:02:41.740 please keep in mind that the Stephanie Jones versus Jennifer Abel and Jen Abel versus Stephanie Jones

00:02:48.340 is still ongoing. So we're still going to get some more information about what went on behind the

00:02:54.780 scenes here. Remember that Van Zandt sham lawsuit that Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds filed to get

00:03:01.400 hold of Jennifer Abel's phone? We will still find out what really happened there and some more

00:03:08.500 information is going to come out no matter what happened with this case. Also insiders are saying

00:03:14.080 that it was actually Ryan Reynolds who pushed for this settlement. I'm not surprised to hear that.

00:03:20.400 My friend here in LA interviewed him yesterday while Blake Lively was getting ready for the Met

00:03:26.740 Gala. He did interviews for his movie Mayday, who's not coming out until September. And of course we

00:03:33.460 have to talk about Blake Lively showing up at the Met Gala five minutes after it was known that she

00:03:39.360 had basically dropped her case. Those pictures of Blake on the Met Gala fueled people even more.

00:03:46.740 My jaw just dropped to the floor when I saw that she had the audacity to show up at the Met Gala.

00:03:55.480 According to sources she was not invited to the Met Gala but she bought a ticket for a hundred 0.68

00:04:00.960 thousand dollars to show up in this humongous dress and pretend that she is a princess this 0.79

00:04:07.960 is the woman who was going to fight for women and girls all over the world until she decided

00:04:14.160 to start fighting for children of digital violence all over the world but instead she decided to put

00:04:21.600 on a dress let's also look at what the industry is saying right now what they feel about bringing

00:04:28.040 Blake Lively back into making movies again and how Justin Baldoni can position himself after all

00:04:34.720 of this is over. Bottom line here is when can Blake and Ryan open up their comment sections

00:04:40.520 on Instagram? Will they ever be able to do that? Who wants to hire and work with anyone who can't

00:04:47.480 have their comment section open on social media because people hate them so much? Okay let's get

00:04:54.280 into what I heard from sources very, very close to this situation. I was thinking this actually

00:05:00.140 when I saw the photos or the videos that were taken of Blake and Justin outside that settlement

00:05:06.000 meeting a couple of months ago. I was looking at Justin Baldoni and I was like, wow, this man has

00:05:11.660 not slept in weeks. He looked so exhausted and so tired. He was just a shell of a man walking into

00:05:20.580 that courthouse. And that is also why I believe that both him, his wife, Jamie Heath, his wife,

00:05:28.140 Steve Sarawitz, his wife, their families, their parents, their children, everyone just wanted

00:05:34.320 this to be over. And this is what the sources are telling me that happened. In general,

00:05:42.000 they say in general, Justin allowed Blake to avoid trial and agree to the settlement simply

00:05:47.220 because it made the best of an awful situation. We have to remember, Justin's goal was never to

00:05:54.860 humiliate Blake. And I think that is a really, really important point. That is not who Justin

00:06:01.200 is. And they say he doesn't operate like that. Even people close to him has never heard him

00:06:07.120 insult Blake, even though, even through all the horrible things she did. Justin wanted it to be

00:06:13.800 over especially now that she's destroyed herself there was no reason not to allow her to drop the

00:06:21.440 remaining claims. As you know Justin Baldoni puts his faith really high and he was never out for

00:06:27.020 revenge here he just wanted a solution to this situation. Blake is the one who wanted revenge

00:06:33.120 please keep that in mind and I also have to add here that I'm a firm believer of karma and I think

00:06:39.140 everyone in the end will get what they deserve although it doesn't look like it right now it will

00:06:45.600 happen I promise you the source continued to say the trial would of course humiliate Blake further

00:06:51.660 with every new evidence that was coming out her future crumbles but driving her lower and lower

00:06:58.020 has no appeal to someone who just wants to get on with their life and let their family heal

00:07:04.520 Justin is trying to take the high road even though to all of us spectators it might feel like

00:07:10.840 she's getting off easy. He doesn't want to have to live in the misery of something as ugly and

00:07:17.060 public as this so for now this is as close to a win as it's ever going to be. Yes I do think that

00:07:24.080 this reflects back on who Justin really is and as we witnessed through this entire case Justin has

00:07:29.940 always taken the high road and he still is please don't spend energy on being angry at these pro

00:07:36.960 Blake lively types these people who comment on the Instagram post saying that she's queen she

00:07:43.540 looked so beautiful in that dress most of them are probably hired by her team by the way so don't

00:07:50.480 fall for it don't spend energy on it there were a lot of speculations yesterday I was watching some

00:07:56.140 attorneys discuss this what really happened here why Blake Lively settled and some people were

00:08:02.140 saying that the unsealed documents that we saw on Friday is a big reason for that that Blake Lively

00:08:08.040 was caught in asking Sony to delete evidence and then in her deposition she denied that she'd ever

00:08:15.700 done that those were things that were going to destroy her in court and they knew that and that

00:08:22.560 is why they pushed so hard for this. Most likely what happened here is that both parties just

00:08:29.260 walked away and no money was exchanged. There is no way that Justifold only paid her a penny by the

00:08:36.060 way. Anyways Rob Shooter has a report saying that Ryan Reynolds was behind this settlement that he

00:08:41.880 was the one pushing Blake to settle and I do believe that. I do believe that he just really

00:08:47.280 wants out of this. As you know, he's been really aggressively pushing his new projects lately,

00:08:52.500 and he really wants everyone to forget that he's a part of this. He's been posting about

00:08:58.340 soccer every single day on his Instagram and promoting his movie that's coming out in September

00:09:04.000 that I told you yesterday. My friend was interviewing him, and she said that it looked

00:09:08.620 like from the Zoom conversation they had that he was at home in their Tribeca apartment. And also

00:09:14.660 that made people speculate why he didn't join his wife on the red carpet and I think he just wants

00:09:21.100 to separate himself from this situation as much as possible they do not he does not want to appear

00:09:26.800 next to her I wonder how long these two are going to actually stay together but who but what do I

00:09:33.580 know Rob Schroeder says that Blake Lively's long mess illegal battle is over but insider said the

00:09:38.440 decision moment didn't happen in court it happened at home with Ryan Reynolds pushing for an end long

00:09:43.940 before she was ready. Ryan saw the full picture early. He knew the longer this dragged on, the

00:09:49.680 more it would erode everything, her career, her reputation, and their closest relationships.

00:09:56.440 At first, Blake dug in. Those close to her say the lawsuit stopped being purely legal and became

00:10:01.640 deeply personal. It wasn't about winning anymore. It was about proving she was right.

00:10:07.480 A source explains she couldn't see how much it was costing her in real time, and the cost was

00:10:13.800 mounting. How I see this is that Blake Lively still thinks that she is right and that's also

00:10:20.700 why she showed up at the Met Gala yesterday. She thinks that in her world what she did was totally

00:10:28.360 fine and she will never ever understand that she was in the wrong hair. She is not emotionally

00:10:35.340 equipped to understand things like that and for that I feel really sorry for her. But anyways

00:10:41.640 she was at the Met Gala yesterday and as I said I was so shocked when I saw the pictures of her

00:10:48.000 I was like this must be a joke but it wasn't so according to sources she didn't she wasn't invited

00:10:55.200 but she bought a ticket for a hundred thousand dollars and as you know dressing up like that

00:11:00.600 doesn't just take a day this must have been planned for at least a month ahead to make sure

00:11:06.520 that that dress fit her well and for all the jewelry everything that she was wearing it takes

00:11:12.340 an army to get someone ready like that so this is not something that she came up with yesterday just

00:11:17.840 after she settled she's like oh I'll just go to the medical I'll grab this dress no anyways and 0.86

00:11:22.860 she actually did an interview on the red carpet I was like what I've never seen her so sweet

00:11:29.880 in my entire life let's put it this way this reporter had a nicer experience with Blake

00:11:34.960 lively than I did. Well, you look gorgeous. Thank you. First of all, who are you wearing? I am wearing

00:11:40.700 Jackson Widerhop. Gorgeous. Thank you. Beautiful hair. Oh, what are you wearing? You look so

00:11:47.460 beautiful. Yeah, right, Blake. And of course, she had to bring her kids into this. Her kids were

00:11:52.720 really there with her and they had painted some stuff on this bag that she was wearing, that she

00:11:58.020 was bragging about. But then she added to this reporter that she's really shy. So my kids each

00:12:04.100 painted a painting a watercolor painting so each of my four kids did this that is so special so i

00:12:11.940 have them with me because i'm shy too so i just like to like got the kids have my kids with me

00:12:16.640 she's really shy she filed this lawsuit this huge lawsuit hollywood has never seen anything like 0.98

00:12:25.580 this and then she settles it and then she walks that red carpet alone in a dress that could hide

00:12:32.480 like seven families underneath it and she says that she's shy like really I wonder what went on

00:12:40.080 inside that museum yesterday when she ran into Gigi Hadid because I saw Gigi Hadid was there

00:12:46.160 if anyone walked up to Blake to talk to her unfortunately there is no footage from inside

00:12:52.480 it's illegal to bring any cameras or anything in there but I am sure people were just like

00:12:57.580 looking at her, staring at her, pointing at her like what is she doing here? According to other

00:13:03.160 articles today it's been said that Taylor Swift skipped the Met Gala because she didn't want to

00:13:08.240 run into Blake Lively. Who knows if that's true or not and we'll have to see now if Blake is going

00:13:14.200 to get invited to Taylor Swift's wedding after all. I actually don't think so but she's getting

00:13:21.120 married next month so yeah we'll have to wait and see. But of course everything that Blake Lively

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00:15:23.740 Okay, so let's get into it. So Daily Mail did this story today. Blake Lively snaps at Met Gala

00:15:28.680 red carpet helpers in wild diva moments after settling legal battle with Justin Baldoni.

00:15:34.540 There is a video of her talking to the people that were carrying her big train yesterday.

00:15:40.680 I watched it. I don't know what happened there.

00:15:43.200 But according to Daily Mail, it made people raise eyebrows.

00:15:47.440 And it says here that in a video from the event,

00:15:49.700 Lively could be seen stopping her ascent up the Met's iconic steps to manage the helpers lifting up her dress.

00:15:58.240 One viewer at home hilariously highlighted the moment and joked that

00:16:01.820 no one has ever looked more like they were about to cc the hr the hr department on the red carpet

00:16:09.440 and another one said that the dress said couture the energy said per my last email it says here

00:16:16.500 that the daily mail has reached out to lively representatives for comments no comments yet okay

00:16:21.640 so the new york post actually did a story today where they've spoken to a few experts or people

00:16:26.760 inside the industry executives for our big studios and they have weighed in on what they think the

00:16:32.940 future of Blake and Justin will be and they start off by saying who the winners are of this fight

00:16:39.680 which is basically Ryan Friedman, Ellen Garofalo, Michael Gottlieb and Ezra Hudson. As you know it's

00:16:46.380 estimated that both parties together has spent over 60 million dollars on this feud and of course

00:16:55.220 all of that money basically went to their attorneys. It says here that after 18 months,

00:17:01.840 a bare-knuckle brawling, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's legal saga ended with a whimper. The

00:17:08.100 two sides settles their claims on Monday afternoon, exactly two weeks before Lively's $400 million

00:17:14.040 lawsuit against Baldoni was poised to hit a New York courtroom. And they say across the industry

00:17:19.800 Monday, some top executives and producers with ties to the dispute were breathing a sigh of relief

00:17:26.040 as they would no longer be required to testify in the case that was shaping up to be an even bigger

00:17:33.300 media circus than the 2022 Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard defamation trial. I was very scared

00:17:39.240 of the backlash, said one source who was scheduled to testify. Of course, all of these industry

00:17:46.560 people that Blake Lively put on our witness list, all these people working for Sony, they were

00:17:51.640 terrified of taking the stand. And they're putting things in perspective here, saying to put that 60

00:17:56.740 million figure into context, that could finance two additional sequels of the hip movie. In fact,

00:18:02.280 it ends with us cost about 25 million and earned 351 million. Baldoni, who financed the film,

00:18:08.960 held the right to a prequel, also based on a best-selling novel by Colleen Hoover. But that

00:18:14.540 film will likely never be made it wasn't actually a prequel there it's that's wrong it is actually a

00:18:20.120 sequel even though it says it starts with us and of course that movie will never be made unless

00:18:24.740 Justin decides to do it because he does still have the rights and he doesn't have to involve

00:18:29.540 Colin Hoover in anything if he doesn't want to but anyways sources say neither side can

00:18:34.920 discuss the terms of the settlement but both are free to speak to the press about anything else

00:18:39.700 involving the drama that tarnished the careers of both Lively and Baldoni and I saw in NBC and

00:18:46.840 an article they wrote that Justin Baldoni can't come out and tell his story which I think is going

00:18:53.440 to be huge and I really hope that he will come on my channel to tell his story. I will work really

00:18:59.640 hard in hopes for that to happen. I think that would be pretty amazing but anyways that must

00:19:05.740 have been something that they negotiated in this deal as well and I can assure you that Blake Lively

00:19:12.400 is going to come out and talk about how traumatic this has been for her but again if she does she

00:19:18.820 knows the backlash is going to be humongous and now it says here that the case is over Lively

00:19:23.960 and Baldoni will look to pick up the pieces of their respective careers Lively seemed unfazed

00:19:29.400 as she posted for photos on the Met Gala red carpet hours after the settlement was announced

00:19:34.480 and folks across the industry including top executives and agents were weighing in with

00:19:40.300 their opinions on who had done more damage to their careers and opinions were split this week

00:19:46.720 yeah people don't really agree here so this is from one person saying Justin doesn't have enough

00:19:51.580 value in the market to overcome the suspicion that he may have created an unsafe set I'm sure

00:19:58.000 he could cost him I'm not sure if he could cast a movie right now someone says a high level female

00:20:04.320 studio executive actually told them the new york the new york post and they also said blake will

00:20:10.380 have to take a break and take a cut on her first paycheck but she's still a movie star at another 0.98

00:20:15.820 female executive a movie star i would never call blake lively a movie star she's an actress who

00:20:21.260 claims to have a big following on instagram which i don't believe for a second and i've said that

00:20:26.640 so many times no way she has 41 million followers on instagram no way another female executive said

00:20:33.960 they both did major damage, but because she's so established, I think she stands a chance of

00:20:38.780 re-emerging better than he does. I would struggle to hire both of them, but I would gamble on her.

00:20:45.920 There's a pretty big downside for both of them, but the upside is bigger for her.

00:20:50.760 Wow, this is one of the reasons why I cannot stand Hollywood. This hypocrisy amongst these people

00:20:59.100 makes me want to vomit oh well good luck to this executive who wants to gamble on working with

00:21:05.660 Blake she's gonna take over your movie and maybe she'll just take over the entire studio next time

00:21:12.000 also they're reminding us here that Justin Baldoni has his own production company please keep that

00:21:17.460 in mind he can do whatever he wants and they can finance their own movies meaning that they can

00:21:23.780 make movies they can make as many movies as they want and they don't need to have a studio attached

00:21:29.040 to it or distributor attached to it to actually make the movie. They can make movies and bring

00:21:34.280 them to festivals and sell them like that. There's a lot of options out there and who knows maybe he

00:21:40.220 doesn't even want to make movies anymore. Maybe he had enough of Hollywood. Here's someone who

00:21:45.380 has another opinion saying that Lively faces some challenges. Moving ahead. As a leading actor who

00:21:52.260 has proven that she can open a film her return might be more fraught as she'll need to win

00:21:57.180 support of a director's studio or financier. I think she can be in some TV shows, said a male

00:22:05.360 executive. But she's hurt the worst since he can finance his own movies. Another male manager said 0.95

00:22:15.000 most of Hollywood knows what's up. Yeah, maybe he's a weirdo, but he didn't commit any crime.

00:22:20.700 Blake did this to herself, whether they will admit it or not. Well said, thank you for that.

00:22:26.640 Before I finish this episode, I wanted to read this message that I received from someone on Instagram.

00:22:31.700 I'm not going to say her name because I don't know if she wants that.

00:22:34.000 But I think this message resonates with so many of you guys.

00:22:37.740 And I've received similar messages from so many people.

00:22:41.120 So she said, I feel so used, Shashti.

00:22:45.100 I've invested wrong on my side so much on this case because I truly thought this will give me a little hope that there's still justice in this world.

00:22:55.620 Hope in belief that society isn't as rotten as it seems to be.

00:23:00.480 But I feel so used now by both parties, including Baldoni's side.

00:23:05.300 I even got to the point thinking, was this whole thing planned from the beginning with both parties agreeing to this show?

00:23:12.540 Because at the end, even with all we now know, none of them seems to have a big loss. 0.98

00:23:22.020 I lost my faith in this world because it just requires a beautiful dress for people to forget that it's shit who's wearing it and just applaud and call it queen. 0.97

00:23:33.140 I thought we were aware of the type of shitty person Blake is and that Hollywood would not let her back in. 0.99

00:23:38.780 But truth is, we, the ones with eyes open, are the least and a very few in a world full of emptiness. 0.93

00:23:45.920 It makes me really sad to read all these messages from you guys.

00:23:49.140 So I'll do my best to lift you up and try to give you hope again,

00:23:55.160 because I think there is still hope in this story and we are going to find that together.

00:24:01.380 Anyways, please stay tuned for my interview with Brian Friedman later today.

00:24:05.660 And thanks again for watching and please subscribe and hit the notification bell

00:24:09.820 so you never miss an episode of Floss on Talk.

00:24:12.140 and I will keep you posted on everything that goes on in this case

00:24:16.500 and other cases in the future of course

00:24:18.920 so I hope you still will be subscribed to my channel

00:24:22.340 I adore you guys so much

00:24:24.900 you are the best

00:24:25.960 this community is amazing

00:24:27.780 and I feel so honored to have gotten to know so many of you

00:24:32.800 through this journey that we all had together

00:24:35.580 so yes I'll see you all later

00:24:38.240 bye

00:24:42.140 I'm so glad I'm so glad I'm so glad to be here.

Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - May 05, 2026

Insider Tells Me： What REALLY Happened !!

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