Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - August 07, 2026


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00:00:00.000 He just slapped her in the face so hard.
00:00:07.440 Hi and welcome to Blossom Talk.
00:00:09.380 I'm Sashty Flore, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
00:00:12.040 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
00:00:16.260 Talking about delusion.
00:00:18.460 This really made my day.
00:00:20.420 Remember Jed Wallace?
00:00:22.160 That guy that Blake Lively accused of being the brain
00:00:26.140 behind the untraceable underground smear machine?
00:00:30.860 That guy.
00:00:32.120 Yes, she wants him to pay attorney's fees as well.
00:00:35.440 And now Jed has responded
00:00:37.280 and exposed Blake Lively's attorneys
00:00:40.760 of some real serious threats.
00:00:44.060 He just slapped her in the face so hard.
00:00:47.060 And guess what?
00:00:48.060 Blake Brown is about to release some new products.
00:00:52.700 and Ryan Reynolds is helping to promote it.
00:00:56.660 I mean, talk about reading the room.
00:00:59.100 And we have to talk about Perez Hilton
00:01:01.920 and all the reactions that are coming from people
00:01:05.360 after his complete mental breakdown Tuesday nights.
00:01:10.120 Why is it so hard for people to show compassion?
00:01:14.060 Yeah, let's talk about it.
00:01:15.980 Anyways, let's get into this crazy new filing from Jed Wallace.
00:01:19.940 As I said, this really made my day.
00:01:22.700 I love when people are being called out for bad behavior, as you may have noticed.
00:01:27.520 So as you know, Blake is asking for attorney's fees from Justin Baldoni and the Wayfair parties,
00:01:33.160 and they allowed her to do that.
00:01:36.100 According to Justin Baldoni's attorney, Brian Friedman, he didn't want to deny her this right
00:01:42.140 because he was worried that that might contribute to silencing women in the future.
00:01:47.300 If that was a good decision, that's very debatable.
00:01:49.840 And now we know, of course, Blake weaponized this against him and is asking for $8 million
00:01:56.560 in attorney's fees.
00:01:58.060 She also went after Jed Wallace.
00:02:01.640 Jed Wallace, according to Blake, is the hired gun and the brain behind this mayor campaign
00:02:07.520 against her.
00:02:08.820 She added him to the lawsuit as well.
00:02:11.760 So when Blake accused him of all these things in the lawsuit and in the New York Times,
00:02:16.700 Jed Wallace sued her back.
00:02:18.940 He sued her in Texas, which is where he lives.
00:02:22.440 What happened next was that Jed Wallace was dismissed from Blake Lively's lawsuit because
00:02:27.340 he lives in Texas and not in New York, where Blake Lively filed her lawsuit.
00:02:33.160 The same thing happened to his lawsuit against Blake Lively because she lives in New York
00:02:39.020 and therefore the judge has no jurisdiction over Blake in Texas.
00:02:44.700 He appealed that decision and that appeal is still pending.
00:02:50.520 But still, Blake Lively wants to go after him for attorney's fees.
00:02:56.180 And she is claiming that the attorney's fees for getting that lawsuit dismissed due to
00:03:03.540 jurisdiction cost her $800,000.
00:03:07.700 And on top of those $800 in fees, she also wants trepable damages and costs and punitive damages.
00:03:16.720 As you might remember, there was a discussion when Blake Lively asked Justin Baldoni and the
00:03:22.400 Wayfair parties to cover her legal fees, who had the burden of proof. And it was decided by the
00:03:29.620 judge that the Wayfair parties, the people she sued, had the burden to prove that she acted with
00:03:36.180 malice, meaning that she knew what she accused them of was basically false. Something that is
00:03:42.900 really, really difficult, of course, to prove because you have to get inside of Blake Lively's
00:03:48.220 brain to prove that. Anyways, now Jed Wallace in Texas is saying, hey, the judge said that it was
00:03:54.420 the other party's responsibility to prove malice. And for us to prove that Blake Lively acted with
00:04:01.880 malice, we need to depose her. We need to sit down and interview her to see what her mental state
00:04:08.460 was like when she filed this lawsuit. So they found a date, which was August 4th, to depose
00:04:15.000 Blake Lively in New York City. Her lawyers were like, no way. Of course, because they know Blake
00:04:23.260 Lively has been caught in lying over and over and over again. And as I mentioned the other day,
00:04:29.700 when Andy Signor interviewed Brian Friedman, Justin Bologna's attorney, over at his channel
00:04:35.360 the other day, Brian Friedman revealed that Blake Lively was caught in lying so many more
00:04:42.740 times than we actually know. So I don't know if Jed Wallace has access to that entire deposition
00:04:50.700 that Brian Friedman did on Blake Lively back then, or if he only has access to what he asked her.
00:04:58.240 As his new filings are revealing here, he only got one hour or his attorney only got one hour with Blake back when she was deposed by the Wayfair parties.
00:05:10.440 And the reason for that is because they only focused on one thing in their deposition of Blake, which was to prove that New York court had no jurisdiction over Jed Wallace.
00:05:23.920 And they did prove that.
00:05:26.100 So now Blake's attorneys are saying, well, you already deposed her.
00:05:29.820 And they're like, well, we did, but we only asked her about that one thing
00:05:33.520 because that's the only thing that was important here.
00:05:36.420 So now we want to depose her again.
00:05:39.280 And guess what?
00:05:40.360 Blake Wiley did not show up for her interview for her deposition in New York.
00:05:45.960 And now Jed Wallace is saying, hey, judge, what do you think about this?
00:05:50.320 On top of this, Blake's attorneys threatened Jed Wallace and said,
00:05:55.260 if you make this public, if you reveal to the public that you wanted to depose her and that
00:06:01.920 she denied or refused to be deposed, we will use our entire army of lawyers to fight you back.
00:06:11.560 And in a footnote here in the filings from Jed Wallace, they're mentioning that Blake Lively
00:06:18.520 wanted to use seven attorneys to fight him. And that accumulates an hourly rate of nearly $10,000
00:06:28.440 per hour. So again, of course, Blake is using her fortune or Ryan's money basically to threaten
00:06:36.820 people saying that I will bill you $10,000 per hour if you are fighting me on this. And I will
00:06:43.140 not give you any evidence to prove that I think I was telling the truth when I sued you. I think
00:06:49.740 this is pretty clever. I mean, I'm not a lawyer, obviously, but that they're actually using Judge
00:06:54.700 Lyman's ruling against Blake saying like, hey, Judge Lyman ruled in your favor saying that the
00:07:00.800 other parties had to prove that you acted with or without malice. And now we're using that against
00:07:07.000 you saying, yes, and we're going to fight this because we are not as noble as Justin Boldoni
00:07:12.180 and the Wayfair parties. So Judge Wallace said, I don't agree that you should apply a California law
00:07:18.300 here in Texas. And as you might remember, Blake, you said that Texas has no jurisdiction. And now
00:07:25.240 you're asking a Texas judge to rule on this. Well, you just said that he can't rule on anything
00:07:32.080 because he doesn't have jurisdiction over you. They're saying here in this filing, the reason
00:07:37.240 that there is no evidence of malice from Lively in the record is not because such evidence does
00:07:43.080 not exist. It is because Lively ensured it could never be obtained. Beginning on June 16, 2025,
00:07:52.360 the Wallace parties made multiple attempts to engage defendants in a conference pursuant to
00:07:59.100 federal rule of civil procedure. Lively's counsel refused, forcing the Wallace parties to seek an
00:08:06.380 order requiring the parties to confer and submit a proposed scheduling order. So they didn't even
00:08:13.640 want to have a meeting about this. They didn't want to meet and confer. And as they're saying
00:08:17.620 here, the central question of these legal fees to be paid is Blake Lively's state of mind.
00:08:24.920 Whether she knew her allegations were false, had a good faith believe in the truth of her
00:08:31.260 statements about respondents specifically or acted with reckless disregard of the truth or with ill
00:08:38.900 will. Lively is the best person to testify about her subjective knowledge and intent regarding
00:08:47.260 Wallace parties at the time she made the challenged statements. And they're saying because malice is
00:08:53.900 an inherently subjective inquiry, other evidence such as documents or third parties testimony
00:09:00.420 is subordinate to Lively's own testimony about what she knew and believed
00:09:06.120 when she falsely accused the Wallace parties of S.H.
00:09:10.360 Can you believe that she also sued Jed Wallace of S.H.?
00:09:15.040 I mean, it's so ridiculous.
00:09:17.600 I bet you Blake and her legal team are going to try and sanction them somehow here
00:09:22.520 because they're saying that this discovery is frivolous.
00:09:26.780 And they're also threatening them, by the way, that if they pursue this and trying to
00:09:32.700 depose Blake Wively, they will also depose the Wayfair Party's attorneys.
00:09:38.160 I mean, she has to stop this.
00:09:40.720 Why is she doing this?
00:09:42.780 I do believe that Ryan Reynolds is behind this because as I spoke about the other day,
00:09:47.100 he is driven by spite and he just wants to punish people, even if it has to cost him
00:09:54.620 his own career.
00:09:55.680 as we are witnessing right now i will keep you posted on what's happening here obviously and
00:10:02.100 of course i will keep you posted on the other lawsuit the publicist and her company that was
00:10:06.420 representing justin baldoni and their ex-employee jennifer abel who is i think still maybe justin
00:10:14.500 baldoni's publicist and in that lawsuit we are waiting for a lot of really juicy stuff to come
00:10:21.540 out so stay tuned we're in August and summary judgment is due soon and that is when we're going
00:10:29.020 to see all the evidence come out and in the middle of this guess what's happening Blake Brown has a
00:10:36.680 new product coming out I saw this random website pick up Ryan Reynolds Instagram story and that's
00:10:44.840 when I realized that they're actually that Blake Brown is releasing some new products so as you
00:10:53.860 know her brands are suffering big time I was going into Blake Brown's Instagram accounts and I was
00:11:01.560 scrolling down and there's not one single photo or reel or anything related to Blake Lively on
00:11:08.680 their Instagram. It only says in their bio that the brand is owned by Blake Lively. She's the
00:11:15.320 founder. And I guess they have to say that. And it is basically her name. Her name was Brown or her
00:11:20.740 dad's name was Brown or whatever. So it is her name, but they don't want to be associated with
00:11:27.220 her anymore. And as I talked about the other day, Blake herself made a reel promoting Blake Brown
00:11:35.060 again on her instagram where she obviously tagged blake brown but blake brown did not repost that
00:11:42.000 in any way which i also find very very telling and now ryan reynolds is trying to help her so he
00:11:49.700 posted this on his instagram story with a tiny little at blake brown underneath thinking that
00:11:58.320 he could help boost the sale or something i don't think the fans at comic-con are really
00:12:05.260 the target group here for blake brown but anyways i'm sure leslie sloan blake's publicist already
00:12:11.780 called people magazine to say hey ryan is helping his wife promote her new hair products so according
00:12:21.100 to this random article this new product is about curls. The curls you've been craving and Blake has
00:12:28.980 posted a sneak peek of the upcoming products. I missed that she posted that on her Instagram story
00:12:34.340 but apparently she did. Anyways let's talk about Paris Hilton again for a second but before we get
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00:14:23.240 been as traumatized as most people from what happened with Paris Hilton on Tuesday night I am
00:14:30.380 very sensitive to anything graphic, if I see anything gory, or if I see any disturbing violence
00:14:37.920 in a movie, I would leave, I would cover my eyes, I would cover my ears, because it really gets
00:14:43.640 under my skin. I've been in movie theaters where I almost felt like I had to throw up, because I
00:14:49.360 was so affected with what I was watching on the big screen. Anyways, apart from that, there's been
00:14:55.580 so many reactions out there and as you know Perez Hilton is a very controversial figure. He has built
00:15:04.520 an empire of mocking other people and now a lot of people say that we don't feel sorry for him
00:15:11.840 because he ruined so many people's lives. There are so many emotions out there. Some are just angry
00:15:19.020 and some people are angry with the people who are angry.
00:15:23.500 And I understand all of them.
00:15:25.700 Perez made so many bad choices in his life.
00:15:28.500 And the last few years,
00:15:29.580 he's told us that he really regrets a lot of those choices.
00:15:33.340 And of course, now the irony of it all,
00:15:35.920 when he's the subject of the conversation,
00:15:39.140 of the scrutiny and of this horrific tragedy and scandal,
00:15:44.000 his team and family is asking people to respect his privacy.
00:15:47.960 something that he never did and now everyone of course is speculating of what happened to him a
00:15:54.220 lot of people think that this is related to him having sepsis that that could have triggered
00:15:59.620 something like this as a psychosis like this while other people are talking about what's going to
00:16:05.440 happen to his children after this and if he can ever recover from something like this and also
00:16:11.280 what other things could have triggered this i want to share my personal opinion on this i i think uh
00:16:16.400 Perez Hilton is on drugs. I do. It's an opinion, not a fact.
00:16:19.880 And I've seen on his website, PerezHilton.com, that is the outlet that the family and his team
00:16:26.720 is using to update the public on what's happening. And I do see the irony in all of this. I have to
00:16:33.780 say that. But I also feel it's so important for everyone to have compassion. And I think Rob
00:16:39.600 Shooter said it so well in an op-ed that he just did for the Daily Mail. Rob Shooter's been in the
00:16:46.280 same industry. And he's known Perez Hilton for over 25 years, he says. The way he's describing
00:16:52.380 how Perez went from being this cruel, mean blogger who Hollywood fared to becoming kind of irrelevant
00:17:02.140 and how Perez loved the attention and he loved the fame. And he was really struggling to find
00:17:07.980 his place when social media came along. He also mentioned how Perez spends the last few years
00:17:14.160 in trying to make amends and apologizing to people for his behavior. Some people accepted
00:17:21.000 the apology, some people didn't, and that's fine. And I wanted to read something he says here that
00:17:26.420 really resonated with me as well. He says, Perez didn't simply report celebrity news,
00:17:31.240 he helped create an era in which humiliation became a business model. He mocked people's
00:17:38.240 appearances, sexuality, addictions, mental health struggles, breakups, and public breakdowns. He
00:17:44.860 often delighted in tearing them apart. And he says, if we reserve compassion only for people we
00:17:51.580 admire, then it isn't compassion at all. Grace should be given to people even if they've shown
00:17:57.900 very little of it themselves. And he says, offering humanity to Perez Hilton doesn't erase the pain
00:18:04.000 he caused it doesn't rewrite history or excuse his behavior it simply acknowledges a truth that
00:18:10.860 should be obvious but often isn't broken people are still people we don't have to like perez we
00:18:19.240 don't have to forgive him we don't have to pretend his victims weren't real but we also don't have
00:18:25.300 to become him and it ends this with he built a career by convincing us that other people's
00:18:32.040 suffering was fair game if our response to his suffering is to cheer then we've learned nothing
00:18:40.020 I think that was really well said and again as I said yesterday I wish all the best for Perez
00:18:47.700 and his recovery and his family and his children and his mom and everyone who loves him and I'm
00:18:55.840 sure he's getting a lot of support and he's getting a lot of help as well and I also feel
00:19:01.260 terrible for the people who stumbled upon that live streaming and wish they had never witnessed
00:19:08.680 it or wish they had never seen it. You only needed to see two seconds of that video to be traumatized
00:19:15.380 by it. I've seen in comment sections people arguing like you didn't have to watch it, you could have
00:19:20.780 just scrolled through it. Why did you watch it? You have to blame yourself for that. But I don't
00:19:26.020 agree with that. Because if you only saw two seconds of that video, you can be traumatized by
00:19:31.420 that. And there's a lot of people with mental issues that are doom scrolling on TikTok. And
00:19:37.620 for some of these people to be exposed to this as well can trigger something. And who knows what the
00:19:43.340 aftermath will be. My big question is still, is someone responsible for this? Who is responsible?
00:19:49.360 Is it social media? Is it Perez Hilton himself? Is it the people who are watching it? Is it the
00:19:55.740 people who are sharing it is it all of us who allowed social media to get so much power and is
00:20:03.360 it our responsibility to take action here to protect people from something like this happening
00:20:08.440 again I don't know let me know what you think in the comment section anyways that's it for me today
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