Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - May 05, 2026


Insider Tells Me: What REALLY Happened !!


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Justin Baldoni has been dismissed from the Blake Lively vs. Ryan Reynolds Lawsuit. Is this the end of the road for the Blake and Ryan Lively legal saga? Will they ever be able to work together again?

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