The judge has ruled in favor of the Wayfair parties and what it could mean for the future of Blake Lively's case before the trial starts. The internet is speculating like crazy. Let s look into Blake's deposition and how she really sold out Stephanie Jones, the person who gave her Jennifer Abel s phone with all those text messages that ended up in the New York Times, Colin Hoover s new movie Reminders of Him is being trashed by critics, and more people are feuding in Hollywood.
00:01:45.420And Baldoni's team were asking the judge for a little favor.
00:01:48.540They're saying, hey, you're going to rule on the summary judgment and on the motion for judgment on the pleadings, meaning that he might likely toss out a lot of Blake's claim before they go to trial.
00:02:02.340So why would Baldoni's team spend all this time and energy preparing for all these claims when maybe half of them will be tossed out?
00:02:10.480So they asked the judge, hey, can you give us a deadline so that we can wait until after you
00:02:15.960ruled on all of that so we don't have to do all this extra work? And Blake's team was like, no,
00:02:20.960we don't want them to have that. I don't know really the reason for that. Maybe they think
00:02:25.800that the trial will be delayed or maybe they just don't want to cooperate. Anyways, the judge
00:02:30.820responded and said, yes, but you're only going to get one more week. The deadline was supposed to be
00:02:37.340on April 3rd and now it is on April 10th. And that means that he is probably about to rule
00:02:43.980pretty soon on everything that Justin Bologna's team wants tossed out, which is basically
00:02:49.160everything. A lot of people on Reddit are speculating if he is about to rule on this
00:02:55.060today or maybe tomorrow. It's going to be really interesting to see what he allows her to keep for
00:03:03.240this trial and as many people also pointed out so far is that the best thing that could happen
00:03:09.200for Blake Lively is if he tosses out her entire case because then she can still move on and say
00:03:16.740hey I was a victim it's the system everything is rigged and then also she doesn't have to show up
00:03:22.940in court trying to convince a jury with her very very very weak claims and as I mentioned before
00:03:30.860when she's sitting there in front of a jury having to testify about these things, the lawyers will
00:03:37.000ask her extremely uncomfortable questions. And there is a risk that a lot of personal information
00:03:43.760that she doesn't want to be out there will be out there. And I'm sure Ryan Reynolds is not very keen
00:03:50.380on that happening either. So I agree with these people saying that the best thing that could
00:03:55.520happen for Blake right now is if the judge just tosses her whole case out. I have no idea what's
00:04:01.480going to happen. These are just speculations. Anyways, this reminded me of what Blake Lively
00:04:06.620did back in June. Remember she abandoned her claims of infliction of emotional distress
00:04:13.780against Baldoni? So she was claiming that she had all this emotional distress, obviously,
00:04:19.480which is something that happens to you when you are traumatized by someone treating you so horribly.
00:04:25.020But then when she had to prove that she had this distress by sharing her medical records, she refused to do that.
00:04:34.300So instead of letting them see her medical records, when she talked to a psychiatrist or a therapist about everything that happened to her on this set, which probably didn't happen, she said, no, no, no, I'd rather just drop those claims.
00:04:49.640For me, from my logical point of view, I feel like it's really weird to continue having claims of S.H. when you at the same time say that it didn't cause you any emotional distress.
00:05:04.000What are we going to trial for then? I don't get it.
00:05:07.140Variety covered this back in June where they said Blake Lively is attempting to withdraw her claims against Justin of infection of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
00:05:19.240The move comes after Baldoni's legal team sought discovery that included her medical records in their efforts to defend the Danswitha's director against her claims that she suffered several emotional distress and pain, humiliation, embarrassment, belittlement, frustration, and mental anguish.
00:05:37.300And then the Wayfair party said, okay, if you want to withdraw these claims, they need to be with prejudice, meaning that you cannot bring them up again later.
00:05:44.660And of course, Lively's team were arguing against that.
00:05:49.240And Mike Gottlieb, her attorney, came out to Variety and called this whole thing a press stunt from Baldoni's team.
00:05:57.140Have we heard that a few times already?
00:05:59.040It says here in the article that it's standard procedure in cases alleging physical or emotional injury for the defense to access the plaintiff's medical records that will shine a light on the root and scope of alleged distress.
00:06:13.120I mean, otherwise, how is she going to have any evidence that she felt distressed about the situation?
00:06:18.260and we know her husband Ryan isn't even a witness here.
00:06:22.780So how is she going to prove any of this?
00:06:25.360They said here that what is unusual is for a plaintiff to abandon the claims midstream
00:06:30.900given that it's well known heading into such a lawsuit
00:06:34.440that medical records will be an unpleasant but inevitable part of the discovery process.
00:06:40.020So I keep thinking what on earth was Blake Lively thinking when she filed this lawsuit
00:06:44.780when she didn't want to show any evidence
00:06:47.340And we know that she wanted to keep everything sealed from you guys
00:06:51.340and from me and from the public in general
00:06:53.660when she filed all the evidence that we've now seen.
00:06:57.460And of course, now that we've seen her evidence,
00:07:00.120we understand why she didn't want this to be public.
00:07:03.200What's there only puts her in a bad light.
00:07:06.340And it makes it really hard for anyone to believe
00:07:08.440that she is the actual victim in this story.
00:07:11.560Anyways, as I just said, she posted an Instagram story yesterday.
00:07:15.940She hasn't done that in a while, apart from when she went to the soccer match with her
00:07:20.820husband and they shared a passionate kiss in front of all these people.
00:07:26.340And of course, it ended up in all the media outlets.
00:07:29.020Anyways, now that she has convinced us that her and Ryan are going strong, she posted
00:07:42.260and she says I love you at Cedric Grolet but oh I may love your new chocolate even more
00:07:49.480if even possible my fellow my fellow Virgo detailed perfectionist magical wonka friend
00:07:56.580also please a shop in New York begging yes Blake Lively wants us to believe that she has a lot of
00:08:04.380friends although none of her real friends are really there to support her anymore but she has
00:08:10.620people like this that runs businesses that she takes photos with she's done that a lot actually
00:08:15.400her husband on the other hand posted this photo on his instagram story like how old is this photo
00:08:23.360they look so much younger he probably didn't have a new photo of the two of them together so he just
00:08:29.640found an old one because maybe his pr management team told him like hey you need to let the world
00:08:35.740know that you and Blake are going strong so you kissed last week at the soccer match then keep
00:08:40.920posting a few more stories about how much you love your wife and he's like okay I just have this photo
00:08:45.760and he just posted this but it's clear that this photo is really old so does that mean that Ryan
00:08:51.000doesn't have any new pictures with his wife do they spend any time together at all I mean all
00:08:56.400the photos that he's posting are from the UK mainly so now he's trying to convince everyone
00:09:01.220that he really cares about his wife even though he wasn't there for her at the most important time
00:09:06.240so far in this case when they had that settlement meeting in court a couple of weeks ago. As you
00:09:12.920know Blake arrived solo while the others Jamie Heath and Justin Baldoni came with their wives.
00:09:20.200Anyways I wanted to read a short thing from Blake Lively's deposition. As you know so far
00:09:24.580It was a huge scandal in this case when it became public knowledge that Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds used a sham lawsuit to send a subpoena to Stephanie Jones to get hold of Jennifer Abel's phone, her ex-employee, so that Blake could get that phone, get those text messages and give it to the New York Times.
00:09:46.360Here's something interesting. Blake was asked about this in her deposition.
00:09:50.320Baldoni's team is asking her, did Leslie Sloan call you and tell you that she received information
00:09:55.900from Stephanie Jones about a smear campaign or something similar to that?
00:10:01.000She did not, Blake says. Did you learn from Leslie Sloan that there were text messages
00:10:05.860in Jen Abel's phone? No. Who did you learn that from?
00:10:11.160from Ashley Avignon. Ashley Avignon is a stylist, a friend of Taylor Swift. I spoke about that the
00:10:19.680other day. So Taylor Swift was the go-between here who put Ashley in touch with Blake. Here,
00:10:26.980Blake is claiming that they are friends because he's asking, who is that? And she says,
00:10:32.520she's a friend of mine. I guess they became friends after this. There's a lot of photos
00:10:37.460of Ashley together with Taylor Swift online so they've been friends for a long time I don't know
00:10:44.580if Blake knew her very well beforehand or not and but the attorney here is continuing asking
00:10:50.000and what did she tell you she said that a woman that she knows named Stephanie Jones was trying
00:10:57.140to get in touch with me she gave me more details when did she tell you that late August of 2024
00:11:05.240and did she tell you that in writing or on the phone on the phone and what else did she tell you
00:11:13.540she told me that she works with a woman and then it cuts off unfortunately I wanted to see what she
00:11:19.440could see and say more about this but what's interesting here is Blake said that this phone
00:11:23.920call happened in late August and this stylist called her to tell her we have this phone and
00:11:31.300there are text messages on this phone that you should probably see unless they're trying to get
00:11:37.780away with an explanation saying that we have this phone we don't know what's on it yet but it maybe
00:11:44.520it could help you to me this just says one thing and that is that stephanie jones went into her
00:11:51.380ex-employee's phone without permission found these text messages and alerted ashley her friend
00:11:59.700who alerted Taylor Swift who alerted Blake Lively that Ashley wanted to talk to her and then they
00:12:06.060started talking the subpoena that was sent from Blake Lively's company Van Zand was not sent to
00:12:14.300Stephanie Jones until September 27th that means that there was one month in between there and if
00:12:23.940you're trying to tell me that Blake Lively did not look at the content of that phone before she
00:12:31.620sent that subpoena out I believe that Blake was already in touch with the New York Times at this
00:12:38.260point and that they're the ones who told her we can't use these text messages unless you get them
00:12:45.180to us legally and that's when Blake went to her legal team at Manat Phelps and Phillips one of
00:12:51.780the law firms that she's using in this case as well, and asked them to file a lawsuit against
00:12:59.46010 unnamed people. And in this lawsuit, she's claiming on behalf of Van Zandt, this company
00:13:08.120that she owns with Reynolds that has nothing to do with it, ends with us. She's claiming that
00:13:15.100these does Jane and Joe does have harmed Van Zand's business and reputation but she did not specify
00:13:24.520what they did wrong so she filed a lawsuit on behalf of Van Zand claiming that Van Zand was
00:13:32.240the one being harmed and that is one of the reasons why a lot of lawyers reacted to this