Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - March 31, 2026


Judge RULES. Ryan Reynolds Gets EXPOSED !!

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Kjersti Flaa
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Blake Lively Ryan Reynolds Jason Momoa Leslie Sloan Justin Baldoni Brian Friedman Taylor Swift James Svitushka James Vitushka Wayfair Steve Sarawitz Melissa Nathan Match Masters Candace Owens Flossom Talk Perez Hilton Blake Wively Rob Shooter Ben Affleck Andy Signo John Genga and 2 more
Blake LOSES !!! IT GET'S WORSE !!

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Well, the Judge is on fire! Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have been ordered to pay their attorney's fees for the defamation case against Justin Baldoni and the Wayfair Party. Also, Taylor Swift is now in the crosshairs of the court as the case moves into discovery.

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00:00:00 Well, the judge is on fire.
00:00:06 Hi and welcome to Blossom Talk.
00:00:08 I'm Tash D. Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
00:00:11 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
00:00:15 Well, the judge is on fire.
00:00:18 He just filed another three rulings,
00:00:22 one of them being Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds
00:00:24 asking the judge to sanction Justin Baldoni
00:00:27 and the Wayfair parties
00:00:28 and for them to pay their attorney's fees for defending themselves against their frivolous
00:00:35 lawsuit that they filed against them. And the judge said, no, you're not getting any attorney's
00:00:41 fees. And here's the kicker. He also allowed the possibility that there is a valid legal path
00:00:47 tying Ryan Reynolds to the defamation. He also ruled on Leslie Sloan asking for attorney's fees
00:00:56 and he said nope you are not getting them at least not for now but you can always try again
00:01:02 through another vehicle he also ruled on the content creator subpoena the ones that was sent
00:01:08 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 content creators had to fight this in the meantime and now the judge says sure we can quash all of
00:01:21 them and we're all for freedom of speech here but we don't think Blake Lively acted in bad face
00:01:26 that's the part I don't like we also have to talk about how Blake and Taylor now are having
00:01:32 meltdowns over the ruling that came out on Friday remember I spoke about that on Friday if you missed
00:01:38 that you have to go and watch it it is about the ruling the judge just did on Stephanie Jones versus
00:01:44 Jennifer Abel and Jennifer Abel the Wayfair party suing her back and he dismissed parts of it
00:01:51 But he said that the defamation part of that lawsuit could move forward.
00:01:55 And that means more discovery, more text messages, more damaging communication.
00:02:02 And Blake and Taylor are not happy about it.
00:02:06 Also, Ryan Reynolds' movie Animal Friends is postponed again.
00:02:12 I think this is the fourth time now.
00:02:16 Let's look into it.
00:02:17 and also Blake Lively's latest Instagram post, and how the media has twisted it in the most
00:02:23 absurd ways. Okay, let's get into it. First, a little report from Rob Shooter, who I had on my
00:02:30 channel on Thursday. Go and watch that too if you missed it. He is amazing. So he's reporting today
00:02:37 that the drama surrounding Blake and Justin Baldoni just hit a boiling point. An insider said
00:02:44 Taylor Swift is now caught in the panic too. After a federal judge ruled Baldoni's defamation
00:02:50 lawsuit can move forward, the case is heading into discovery, meaning private communications
00:02:56 could see soon be exposed. As you know, there's already been discovery in the case Blake Lively
00:03:02 filed against Justin Baldoni, but this case, which is a separate case in this case, kind of,
00:03:09 We haven't seen any discovery yet, so be ready for more damaging information hitting the docket.
00:03:17 It also says here, this is Blake's worst nightmare.
00:03:20 One insider tells Rob, naughty but nice, discovery means texts, emails, DMs, everything could come out.
00:03:28 And he says here that she's not the only one worried being about Blake.
00:03:32 Taylor is very aware of this, the source adds.
00:03:36 if she's mentioned anywhere in those communications it could drag her into a legal
00:03:41 and PR mess she never signed up for so as you know this big lawsuit against Justin Baldoni and
00:03:48 the wayfair parties and the publicists and everything that is going to trial on May 18th
00:03:52 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 stuff before that trial or if this is something that we're going to have to wait a little longer
00:04:01 before I'll do my research here and come up with an update for you guys.
00:04:05 But anyways, we have to talk about these three new rulings that came out this weekend.
00:04:10 So first, the ruling that the judge did on the sanctions motions
00:04:16 that Blake Lively filed against Justin Baldoni and the Wayfair Party
00:04:21 saying that your lawsuit was frivolous and it was just for PR spin
00:04:26 and the judge needs to punish you.
00:04:30 The judge found some faults in this lawsuit.
00:04:33 He slammed Brian Friedman saying that you should not have added all these plaintiffs
00:04:39 into this lawsuit suing for all the same things
00:04:42 because some of the plaintiffs weren't involved in some of these actions.
00:04:47 For example, when Justin Baldoni claims extortion from Ryan Reynolds
00:04:52 saying that he forced me to sign this statement to the press
00:04:58 saying it's our responsibility or the backlash that Blake Lively received during It Ends With Us
00:05:03 basically. The judge is saying Jennifer Abel and Steve Sarowitz and Melissa Nathan had nothing to
00:05:09 do with that extortion so why did you add all those people also to that claim? So he's basically
00:05:15 calling up Brian Friedman to say hey this was really sloppy and he gave him a slap on the wrist
00:05:20 and I know that lawyers are saying that this is not great for Brian Friedman but when it comes
00:05:26 to the Wayfair parties, this is really good news because they don't have to pay anything and they're
00:05:31 not sanctioned by the judge. And also through this, it allowed us to learn that the judge doesn't
00:05:39 believe that this lawsuit against Blake, Ryan and Leslie Sloan was just for PR spin. And that is
00:05:46 huge because that's been Blake's narrative this entire time saying that they just filed that
00:05:51 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 in bad faith and the judge does not agree with that. He acknowledges the case and the facts in
00:06:06 this case so the judge did not say that the smear campaign against Justin didn't happen and he also
00:06:13 leaves the door open on defamation including Ryan Reynolds role. The judge said here that Ryan could
00:06:21 still be tied to defamation through conspiracy. So there's still a legal possibility here that
00:06:28 Ryan has to pay for what he's done. I don't know why Brian Friedman decided to include all the
00:06:34 plaintiffs in all the claims. Maybe he did it to show that, you know, there's power in a lot of
00:06:41 in numbers, basically. But I'm sure that he knew about this and he did it anyways. I don't know,
00:06:47 it might be some legal strategy but I think everyone should be prepared to read about this
00:06:51 in the press like the following day saying that this is a big win for Blake or something like that
00:06:57 and trying again to smear Brian Friedman because they love doing that I'm not saying Brian Friedman
00:07:03 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 about leslie sloan blake lively's publicist she was asking the judge for the wayfair parties to
00:08:44 cover her attorney's fees she's saying she's claiming here her attorney's fees were about
00:08:50 1.3 million dollars which is so much money to write a few letters back and forth and a motion
00:08:58 to dismiss I don't know how these legal fees they're just insane to me you guys but anyways
00:09:03 the judge said not so fast Leslie Sloan you are not getting your attorney's fees covered this way
00:09:10 you have to use another vehicle to get your fees covered and so this is not right and you have to
00:09:17 do it another way I don't know I feel like these things keep happening that the lawyers are doing
00:09:23 something wrong. I feel like these should be like top-notch lawyers. Don't they know the rules
00:09:28 or do they make mistakes on purpose? I don't know. But anyways, he's giving her another chance to try
00:09:36 to get these legal fields covered. So what Leslie Sloan is claiming is in regards to that journalist 0.83
00:09:43 James Svitushka, remember him from Daily Mail, who wrote a sworn statement and then later on
00:09:50 he retracted it and wrote another sworn statement. I have now learned that he's a very troubled
00:09:56 person. I spoke to someone who works for that newspaper who told me what happened when he got
00:10:01 fired after all of this mess that he vandalized the lift in the building of Daily Mail when he
00:10:09 left and that he apparently allegedly had a lot of issues before this and as you can see from what
00:10:17 happened to him when he was dragged into this lawsuit. It's a big mess. And he's very untrustworthy
00:10:23 because he's changed his story so many times. So basically what he's claiming and what Leslie
00:10:29 Sloan is claiming is that he told them that Leslie Sloan had told him that Blake Lively was
00:10:36 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 true. And Brian Friedman used that in their legal claims against Leslie Sloan saying, hey,
00:10:51 you spread false information here and you need to be punished for that. But then James Svitushka
00:10:58 later said that, oh, it wasn't Leslie Sloan who gave me that information. I learned about that
00:11:03 from the CRD complaint that Blake Lively filed before she filed her lawsuit. So I just read
00:11:10 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 and he also claims that Brian Friedman used this information without his permission in the lawsuit
00:11:24 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 misunderstanding whatever so if that's true Leslie Sloan did not tell him this information but my big
00:11:38 question here is, all the information that we now know that Leslie Sloan sent to journalists
00:11:44 everywhere else, doesn't that count at all? And apparently it doesn't because that information
00:11:52 wasn't available at the time where they sued her. Now, as I talked about so many times, her messages
00:11:59 slamming and smearing Justin Baldoni to other journalists from Us Weekly, from People Magazine,
00:12:06 from Daily Mail, from New York Post. Those messages were not available at this time. So
00:12:11 this claim is only about that one text to James Vitushka or the one text that Brian Friedman
00:12:19 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 to try again, which I'm sure she will. This never ends. The judge also ruled on the content creator
00:12:31 subpoenas. I thought that he completely forgot about that because he left everything up to us
00:12:37 to fight for our own rights, for freedom of speech. As you might remember, it was a big deal
00:12:42 for a lot of us. We were 107 content creators and journalists who received a subpoena from Blake
00:12:48 Lively's team. We didn't even know if it was real at first because they subpoenaed Google and our
00:12:54 YouTube accounts. A lot of us, some people got bigger, broader subpoenas like Popcorn Planet,
00:13:01 Andy Signo, Perez Hilton, Candace Owens. They got subpoenas where they had to hand over all their
00:13:08 emails and communications about Blake Wively. Anyways, the rest of us fought this directly.
00:13:14 Some of us got our own attorneys and some people tried to do it on their own. And now the judge
00:13:20 said yes the people who wanted to stay anonymous could stay anonymous and he also said that now
00:13:26 I'm going to quash all of these subpoenas. Well that's a little late because we all had to deal
00:13:30 with this already a long time ago so I don't even understand the purpose of this ruling at this
00:13:35 point. He also mentioned that some creators ask for punishment because they believe including me
00:13:42 actually I also believe that that Blake Lively's team served these subpoenas in bad faith meaning
00:13:47 that basically she only wanted to intimidate and silence content creators and journalists which we 0.99
00:13:54 now know is the truth because as soon as we started fighting these subpoenas her lawyers just 0.99
00:14:01 withdrew them and that's exactly what the judge is saying here because she withdrew them while we
00:14:07 started fighting them that means it wasn't in bad faith that is ridiculous the judge is saying that
00:14:15 anyone has the right to subpoena anyone and it's your duty to fight it and to hire an attorney
00:14:22 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 people with like one follower one person actually had and you had to hire a lawyer for this amount
00:14:37 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 mean any harm by it. To me it just says bad faith that she just dropped them instantly when we
00:14:48 started fighting them because if she wasn't even interested in fighting them she wasn't really
00:14:53 interested in finding out what we had which she knew was nothing. I mean what was she expecting
00:14:59 to find out? My attorney John Genga called her lawyers and they explained that they wanted proof
00:15:06 that we had been paid by the wayfair parties that's why they wanted access to our bank accounts
00:15:13 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 taxpayers money anyways I'm not a lawyer but I could see that this was not about getting any
00:15:26 evidence anyways let's talk about Blake Levy's Instagram now she has posted a reel for the first
00:15:33 time since November 2025. And it's basically most of the photos that she posted a couple of weeks
00:15:40 ago when she said she had an amazing week on her story. But now all these photos have made it to
00:15:46 the grid of her Instagram. And she's saying that she's so grateful for all the 10,000 people. And
00:15:52 it was an emotional roller coaster watching Wreck Sam. And she says she's so grateful that she had
00:15:58 the best week with her loved ones so here's the fun part this just made me laugh so hard
00:16:04 e-news picked this up as you know e-news hasn't written one single article that is criticizing
00:16:12 Blake Lively's methods or Ryan Reynolds for that sake and they made this headline
00:16:17 Blake Lively shares extremely rare pic of one of her and Ryan Reynolds four kids okay here is that
00:16:26 photo how is that a story a blurry picture from far away from the back and that is Blake Lively
00:16:38 sharing a picture of her kid give me a break and People magazine picked it up they also says
00:16:45 Blake shares very rare photo of one of her kids riding on husband Ryan Reynolds shoulders
00:16:52 Lively and Reynolds share four kids, James, Ines, Betty, and Olin.
00:16:56 Yes, I mean, I expect to see a lot of articles now of the happy family life of Blake and Ryan.
00:17:03 It's so obvious, this PR strategy that they're doing right now.
00:17:06 But for anyone to point out this angle, and then People Magazine did another story.
00:17:11 This one is so funny as well.
00:17:13 It says, Blake Lively says,
00:17:15 She still takes sneaky photos of husband Ryan Reynolds 14.5 years later.
00:17:20 I have such a crush the couple who first met on the set of Green Lantern in 2010 have four
00:17:28 children together the story is ridiculous but this comment made my name from Grain of Salt
00:17:34 it says I misread the title of the article and thought it said Blake still takes sneaky
00:17:41 photos of herself and sends them to Ben Affleck thank you thank you Grain of Salt that was really
00:17:48 funny okay so let's get to this other story which is quite interesting so Hollywood Reporter reports
00:17:56 that Ryan Reynolds Jason Momoa's Animal Friends movie moves released to early 2027 okay so I spoke
00:18:04 about this before because this movie I think it was already done in 2024 2023 so it's been on the
00:18:11 shelf for so long. The second time it was pushed was for October 10th of 2025. And then they pushed
00:18:21 it to May 1st of 2026. I remember thinking at that point, when this happened, the lawsuit wasn't
00:18:30 moved yet. The lawsuit, as you know, was supposed to happen now in March, but the judge had to push
00:18:35 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 oh now this movie is going to come out on May 1st and that's just two weeks before this lawsuit
00:18:48 and there's going to be so much attention around this case before that happened so I was like oh
00:18:53 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 22nd of 2027 so almost a year from now to make sure that things probably has calmed down a little
00:19:10 bit around this lawsuit so this movie's uh production team is a company called legendary
00:19:17 and a company called prime focus and a company called maximum effort which you know is ryan
00:19:24 reynolds company so i wonder what happened in these meetings if they were like hey we can't
00:19:30 have this movie on right now because of all this mess or if ryan reynolds himself said you know
00:19:36 we should probably wait. I want to focus on winning this lawsuit right now. So I don't want
00:19:42 to be in the public eye doing interviews and promotion for this movie. I feel like he just
00:19:46 wants attention all the time, no matter what he does. So I think this is coming from Warner
00:19:51 Brothers, the studio. Anyways, lots of interesting things happening. On Thursday, there is a hearing
00:19:57 where the public can call in and listen between the two parties, where they're going to discuss
00:20:02 the pre-trial delays because Blake Lively's team is saying that Justin Baldoni's team is trying to
00:20:08 push the deadline for everything just because they want to push the deadline I guess
00:20:13 while Justin Baldoni's team is saying hey you just dumped a thousand documents on us
00:20:18 we need time to look through this and the judge already agreed to give them an extra week
00:20:23 something I spoke about on Friday as well so I guess these are some of the things that they're
00:20:27 going to discuss in that meeting on Thursday. And I think it makes sense that the judge will rule
00:20:33 on the summary judgment and judgment on the pleadings before Thursday, because this meeting
00:20:41 is about preparing for trial as well. And as you know, Justin Baldoni and the Wayfair Party said to
00:20:47 the judge, you know, they want him to rule on this as quickly as possible. So they know how many of
00:20:52 Blake Lively's claims will survive because he might dismiss half of them and then they would
00:20:58 have to sit there and prepare for a lot of stuff that's never going to happen that's never going
00:21:03 to be mentioned in court so of course they want to know what do we need to prepare for trial
00:21:07 and because that meeting is on Thursday I think a lot of people are speculating now that he has
00:21:13 to actually rule on these two most important things before Thursday so stay tuned anyways
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