Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - Judge RULES. Ryan Reynolds Gets EXPOSED !!

00:00:00.000 Well, the judge is on fire.

00:00:06.940 Hi and welcome to Blossom Talk.

00:00:08.660 I'm Tash D. Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,

00:00:11.320 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.

00:00:15.620 Well, the judge is on fire.

00:00:18.140 He just filed another three rulings,

00:00:22.160 one of them being Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds

00:00:24.780 asking the judge to sanction Justin Baldoni

00:00:27.900 and the Wayfair parties

00:00:28.980 and for them to pay their attorney's fees for defending themselves against their frivolous

00:00:35.580 lawsuit that they filed against them. And the judge said, no, you're not getting any attorney's

00:00:41.660 fees. And here's the kicker. He also allowed the possibility that there is a valid legal path

00:00:47.620 tying Ryan Reynolds to the defamation. He also ruled on Leslie Sloan asking for attorney's fees

00:00:56.360 and he said nope you are not getting them at least not for now but you can always try again

00:01:02.740 through another vehicle he also ruled on the content creator subpoena the ones that was sent

00:01:08.160 to 107 content creators i think it was in may or june last year it's a long time ago and all the

00:01:15.120 content creators had to fight this in the meantime and now the judge says sure we can quash all of

00:01:21.080 them and we're all for freedom of speech here but we don't think Blake Lively acted in bad face

00:01:26.980 that's the part I don't like we also have to talk about how Blake and Taylor now are having

00:01:32.660 meltdowns over the ruling that came out on Friday remember I spoke about that on Friday if you missed

00:01:38.800 that you have to go and watch it it is about the ruling the judge just did on Stephanie Jones versus

00:01:44.100 Jennifer Abel and Jennifer Abel the Wayfair party suing her back and he dismissed parts of it

00:01:51.060 But he said that the defamation part of that lawsuit could move forward.

00:01:55.460 And that means more discovery, more text messages, more damaging communication.

00:02:02.720 And Blake and Taylor are not happy about it.

00:02:06.200 Also, Ryan Reynolds' movie Animal Friends is postponed again.

00:02:12.920 I think this is the fourth time now.

00:02:16.060 Let's look into it.

00:02:17.240 and also Blake Lively's latest Instagram post, and how the media has twisted it in the most

00:02:23.340 absurd ways. Okay, let's get into it. First, a little report from Rob Shooter, who I had on my

00:02:30.780 channel on Thursday. Go and watch that too if you missed it. He is amazing. So he's reporting today

00:02:37.360 that the drama surrounding Blake and Justin Baldoni just hit a boiling point. An insider said

00:02:44.500 Taylor Swift is now caught in the panic too. After a federal judge ruled Baldoni's defamation

00:02:50.860 lawsuit can move forward, the case is heading into discovery, meaning private communications

00:02:56.460 could see soon be exposed. As you know, there's already been discovery in the case Blake Lively

00:03:02.840 filed against Justin Baldoni, but this case, which is a separate case in this case, kind of,

00:03:09.920 We haven't seen any discovery yet, so be ready for more damaging information hitting the docket.

00:03:17.140 It also says here, this is Blake's worst nightmare.

00:03:20.560 One insider tells Rob, naughty but nice, discovery means texts, emails, DMs, everything could come out.

00:03:28.560 And he says here that she's not the only one worried being about Blake.

00:03:32.820 Taylor is very aware of this, the source adds.

00:03:36.000 if she's mentioned anywhere in those communications it could drag her into a legal

00:03:41.060 and PR mess she never signed up for so as you know this big lawsuit against Justin Baldoni and

00:03:48.300 the wayfair parties and the publicists and everything that is going to trial on May 18th

00:03:52.960 so I don't know if this discovery is going to start right now and there's going to come up more

00:03:56.700 stuff before that trial or if this is something that we're going to have to wait a little longer

00:04:01.960 before I'll do my research here and come up with an update for you guys.

00:04:05.820 But anyways, we have to talk about these three new rulings that came out this weekend.

00:04:10.340 So first, the ruling that the judge did on the sanctions motions

00:04:16.700 that Blake Lively filed against Justin Baldoni and the Wayfair Party

00:04:21.680 saying that your lawsuit was frivolous and it was just for PR spin

00:04:26.960 and the judge needs to punish you.

00:04:30.220 The judge found some faults in this lawsuit.

00:04:33.760 He slammed Brian Friedman saying that you should not have added all these plaintiffs

00:04:39.240 into this lawsuit suing for all the same things

00:04:42.280 because some of the plaintiffs weren't involved in some of these actions.

00:04:47.180 For example, when Justin Baldoni claims extortion from Ryan Reynolds

00:04:52.980 saying that he forced me to sign this statement to the press

00:04:58.820 saying it's our responsibility or the backlash that Blake Lively received during It Ends With Us

00:05:03.300 basically. The judge is saying Jennifer Abel and Steve Sarowitz and Melissa Nathan had nothing to

00:05:09.640 do with that extortion so why did you add all those people also to that claim? So he's basically

00:05:15.140 calling up Brian Friedman to say hey this was really sloppy and he gave him a slap on the wrist

00:05:20.640 and I know that lawyers are saying that this is not great for Brian Friedman but when it comes

00:05:26.180 to the Wayfair parties, this is really good news because they don't have to pay anything and they're

00:05:31.560 not sanctioned by the judge. And also through this, it allowed us to learn that the judge doesn't

00:05:39.200 believe that this lawsuit against Blake, Ryan and Leslie Sloan was just for PR spin. And that is

00:05:46.520 huge because that's been Blake's narrative this entire time saying that they just filed that

00:05:51.620 lawsuit it was frivolous just to harm us in the public eye and it had no marriage and it was filed 0.89

00:05:59.360 in bad faith and the judge does not agree with that. He acknowledges the case and the facts in

00:06:06.580 this case so the judge did not say that the smear campaign against Justin didn't happen and he also

00:06:13.600 leaves the door open on defamation including Ryan Reynolds role. The judge said here that Ryan could

00:06:21.600 still be tied to defamation through conspiracy. So there's still a legal possibility here that

00:06:28.840 Ryan has to pay for what he's done. I don't know why Brian Friedman decided to include all the

00:06:34.320 plaintiffs in all the claims. Maybe he did it to show that, you know, there's power in a lot of

00:06:41.060 in numbers, basically. But I'm sure that he knew about this and he did it anyways. I don't know,

00:06:47.200 it might be some legal strategy but I think everyone should be prepared to read about this

00:06:51.880 in the press like the following day saying that this is a big win for Blake or something like that

00:06:57.420 and trying again to smear Brian Friedman because they love doing that I'm not saying Brian Friedman

00:07:03.140 is perfect in any way but both sides here are playing dirty anyways let's get to the other

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00:08:37.780 about leslie sloan blake lively's publicist she was asking the judge for the wayfair parties to

00:08:44.240 cover her attorney's fees she's saying she's claiming here her attorney's fees were about

00:08:50.000 1.3 million dollars which is so much money to write a few letters back and forth and a motion

00:08:58.280 to dismiss I don't know how these legal fees they're just insane to me you guys but anyways

00:09:03.640 the judge said not so fast Leslie Sloan you are not getting your attorney's fees covered this way

00:09:10.920 you have to use another vehicle to get your fees covered and so this is not right and you have to

00:09:17.580 do it another way I don't know I feel like these things keep happening that the lawyers are doing

00:09:23.240 something wrong. I feel like these should be like top-notch lawyers. Don't they know the rules

00:09:28.680 or do they make mistakes on purpose? I don't know. But anyways, he's giving her another chance to try

00:09:36.060 to get these legal fields covered. So what Leslie Sloan is claiming is in regards to that journalist 0.83

00:09:43.000 James Svitushka, remember him from Daily Mail, who wrote a sworn statement and then later on

00:09:50.480 he retracted it and wrote another sworn statement. I have now learned that he's a very troubled

00:09:56.720 person. I spoke to someone who works for that newspaper who told me what happened when he got

00:10:01.700 fired after all of this mess that he vandalized the lift in the building of Daily Mail when he

00:10:09.800 left and that he apparently allegedly had a lot of issues before this and as you can see from what

00:10:17.780 happened to him when he was dragged into this lawsuit. It's a big mess. And he's very untrustworthy

00:10:23.180 because he's changed his story so many times. So basically what he's claiming and what Leslie

00:10:29.200 Sloan is claiming is that he told them that Leslie Sloan had told him that Blake Lively was

00:10:36.940 S-aid on the set of It Ends With Us. And also that Leslie Sloan knew at the time that that was not

00:10:44.460 true. And Brian Friedman used that in their legal claims against Leslie Sloan saying, hey,

00:10:51.900 you spread false information here and you need to be punished for that. But then James Svitushka

00:10:58.200 later said that, oh, it wasn't Leslie Sloan who gave me that information. I learned about that

00:11:03.220 from the CRD complaint that Blake Lively filed before she filed her lawsuit. So I just read

00:11:10.260 about it in legal papers so it didn't come from Leslie Sloan so he's sworn that that is the truth

00:11:16.620 and he also claims that Brian Friedman used this information without his permission in the lawsuit

00:11:24.080 which is not great if he said don't use my text message don't use this evidence because uh you're

00:11:30.960 misunderstanding whatever so if that's true Leslie Sloan did not tell him this information but my big

00:11:38.260 question here is, all the information that we now know that Leslie Sloan sent to journalists

00:11:44.460 everywhere else, doesn't that count at all? And apparently it doesn't because that information

00:11:52.000 wasn't available at the time where they sued her. Now, as I talked about so many times, her messages

00:11:59.060 slamming and smearing Justin Baldoni to other journalists from Us Weekly, from People Magazine,

00:12:06.000 from Daily Mail, from New York Post. Those messages were not available at this time. So

00:12:11.440 this claim is only about that one text to James Vitushka or the one text that Brian Friedman

00:12:19.380 used from James Vitushka in the lawsuit. So we now have to wait and see if Leslie Sloan is going 0.77

00:12:25.020 to try again, which I'm sure she will. This never ends. The judge also ruled on the content creator

00:12:31.240 subpoenas. I thought that he completely forgot about that because he left everything up to us

00:12:37.220 to fight for our own rights, for freedom of speech. As you might remember, it was a big deal

00:12:42.740 for a lot of us. We were 107 content creators and journalists who received a subpoena from Blake

00:12:48.300 Lively's team. We didn't even know if it was real at first because they subpoenaed Google and our

00:12:54.260 YouTube accounts. A lot of us, some people got bigger, broader subpoenas like Popcorn Planet,

00:13:01.560 Andy Signo, Perez Hilton, Candace Owens. They got subpoenas where they had to hand over all their

00:13:08.300 emails and communications about Blake Wively. Anyways, the rest of us fought this directly.

00:13:14.800 Some of us got our own attorneys and some people tried to do it on their own. And now the judge

00:13:20.040 said yes the people who wanted to stay anonymous could stay anonymous and he also said that now

00:13:26.140 I'm going to quash all of these subpoenas. Well that's a little late because we all had to deal

00:13:30.720 with this already a long time ago so I don't even understand the purpose of this ruling at this

00:13:35.940 point. He also mentioned that some creators ask for punishment because they believe including me

00:13:42.640 actually I also believe that that Blake Lively's team served these subpoenas in bad faith meaning

00:13:47.780 that basically she only wanted to intimidate and silence content creators and journalists which we 0.99

00:13:54.200 now know is the truth because as soon as we started fighting these subpoenas her lawyers just 0.99

00:14:01.300 withdrew them and that's exactly what the judge is saying here because she withdrew them while we

00:14:07.940 started fighting them that means it wasn't in bad faith that is ridiculous the judge is saying that

00:14:15.880 anyone has the right to subpoena anyone and it's your duty to fight it and to hire an attorney

00:14:22.560 that could cost you up to 10 15 000 and that's totally fine i mean imagine you're some of these

00:14:30.120 people with like one follower one person actually had and you had to hire a lawyer for this amount

00:14:37.040 of money that's a lot of money and for the judge to just say that that's fine you know she didn't

00:14:43.100 mean any harm by it. To me it just says bad faith that she just dropped them instantly when we

00:14:48.900 started fighting them because if she wasn't even interested in fighting them she wasn't really

00:14:53.120 interested in finding out what we had which she knew was nothing. I mean what was she expecting

00:14:59.500 to find out? My attorney John Genga called her lawyers and they explained that they wanted proof

00:15:06.480 that we had been paid by the wayfair parties that's why they wanted access to our bank accounts

00:15:13.440 I mean it's so ridiculous and it's so obvious to me that this is abuse of process meaning abuse of

00:15:21.200 taxpayers money anyways I'm not a lawyer but I could see that this was not about getting any

00:15:26.400 evidence anyways let's talk about Blake Levy's Instagram now she has posted a reel for the first

00:15:33.300 time since November 2025. And it's basically most of the photos that she posted a couple of weeks

00:15:40.620 ago when she said she had an amazing week on her story. But now all these photos have made it to

00:15:46.600 the grid of her Instagram. And she's saying that she's so grateful for all the 10,000 people. And

00:15:52.900 it was an emotional roller coaster watching Wreck Sam. And she says she's so grateful that she had

00:15:58.580 the best week with her loved ones so here's the fun part this just made me laugh so hard

00:16:04.440 e-news picked this up as you know e-news hasn't written one single article that is criticizing

00:16:12.700 Blake Lively's methods or Ryan Reynolds for that sake and they made this headline

00:16:17.360 Blake Lively shares extremely rare pic of one of her and Ryan Reynolds four kids okay here is that

00:16:26.220 photo how is that a story a blurry picture from far away from the back and that is Blake Lively

00:16:38.520 sharing a picture of her kid give me a break and People magazine picked it up they also says

00:16:45.820 Blake shares very rare photo of one of her kids riding on husband Ryan Reynolds shoulders

00:16:52.600 Lively and Reynolds share four kids, James, Ines, Betty, and Olin.

00:16:56.280 Yes, I mean, I expect to see a lot of articles now of the happy family life of Blake and Ryan.

00:17:03.120 It's so obvious, this PR strategy that they're doing right now.

00:17:06.640 But for anyone to point out this angle, and then People Magazine did another story.

00:17:11.580 This one is so funny as well.

00:17:13.220 It says, Blake Lively says,

00:17:15.160 She still takes sneaky photos of husband Ryan Reynolds 14.5 years later.

00:17:20.700 I have such a crush the couple who first met on the set of Green Lantern in 2010 have four

00:17:28.000 children together the story is ridiculous but this comment made my name from Grain of Salt

00:17:34.980 it says I misread the title of the article and thought it said Blake still takes sneaky

00:17:41.180 photos of herself and sends them to Ben Affleck thank you thank you Grain of Salt that was really

00:17:48.320 funny okay so let's get to this other story which is quite interesting so Hollywood Reporter reports

00:17:56.220 that Ryan Reynolds Jason Momoa's Animal Friends movie moves released to early 2027 okay so I spoke

00:18:04.720 about this before because this movie I think it was already done in 2024 2023 so it's been on the

00:18:11.700 shelf for so long. The second time it was pushed was for October 10th of 2025. And then they pushed

00:18:21.420 it to May 1st of 2026. I remember thinking at that point, when this happened, the lawsuit wasn't

00:18:30.240 moved yet. The lawsuit, as you know, was supposed to happen now in March, but the judge had to push

00:18:35.640 it for two months because he was so busy with other cases. So now it's on May 18th. And I thought,

00:18:40.580 oh now this movie is going to come out on May 1st and that's just two weeks before this lawsuit

00:18:48.140 and there's going to be so much attention around this case before that happened so I was like oh

00:18:53.220 I wonder if they're going to stick to that date and they're not so now they moved it to January

00:19:00.780 22nd of 2027 so almost a year from now to make sure that things probably has calmed down a little

00:19:10.280 bit around this lawsuit so this movie's uh production team is a company called legendary

00:19:17.100 and a company called prime focus and a company called maximum effort which you know is ryan

00:19:24.280 reynolds company so i wonder what happened in these meetings if they were like hey we can't

00:19:30.800 have this movie on right now because of all this mess or if ryan reynolds himself said you know

00:19:36.540 we should probably wait. I want to focus on winning this lawsuit right now. So I don't want

00:19:42.260 to be in the public eye doing interviews and promotion for this movie. I feel like he just

00:19:46.680 wants attention all the time, no matter what he does. So I think this is coming from Warner

00:19:51.220 Brothers, the studio. Anyways, lots of interesting things happening. On Thursday, there is a hearing

00:19:57.100 where the public can call in and listen between the two parties, where they're going to discuss

00:20:02.180 the pre-trial delays because Blake Lively's team is saying that Justin Baldoni's team is trying to

00:20:08.480 push the deadline for everything just because they want to push the deadline I guess

00:20:13.300 while Justin Baldoni's team is saying hey you just dumped a thousand documents on us

00:20:18.980 we need time to look through this and the judge already agreed to give them an extra week

00:20:23.780 something I spoke about on Friday as well so I guess these are some of the things that they're

00:20:27.820 going to discuss in that meeting on Thursday. And I think it makes sense that the judge will rule

00:20:33.340 on the summary judgment and judgment on the pleadings before Thursday, because this meeting

00:20:41.080 is about preparing for trial as well. And as you know, Justin Baldoni and the Wayfair Party said to

00:20:47.320 the judge, you know, they want him to rule on this as quickly as possible. So they know how many of

00:20:52.980 Blake Lively's claims will survive because he might dismiss half of them and then they would

00:20:58.460 have to sit there and prepare for a lot of stuff that's never going to happen that's never going

00:21:03.140 to be mentioned in court so of course they want to know what do we need to prepare for trial

00:21:07.920 and because that meeting is on Thursday I think a lot of people are speculating now that he has

00:21:13.500 to actually rule on these two most important things before Thursday so stay tuned anyways

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Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - March 31, 2026

Judge RULES. Ryan Reynolds Gets EXPOSED !!

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