Justifies Outing Taylor !!!
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Jashti Flohr talks about the latest in the Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni case, including new details about text messages between the two, and why she thinks it's fine to drag Taylor Swift into the drama.
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Oh my god, get your popcorn, wear your florals, bring your friends.
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This is so cringe that you might also need a pillow.
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I'm Jashti Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
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and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
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I'll go through some of the latest articles about her.
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And also, we have to talk about what happened in court yesterday,
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because there was a hearing and the judge heard both sides,
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both arguments from Blake Lively's side and from Justin Baldoni's side.
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And most attorneys that I've listened to so far believe that this case is going to trial.
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But here is the juicy part, because outside of the court yesterday,
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Sigrid McCowley, she answered questions from journalists.
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She is about to tell you why Blake Lively thinks it's totally fine to drag Taylor Swift into this
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and jeopardize all of her A-list friends' careers,
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Also, some really interesting new text messages has reached the headlines.
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And she is trashing Blake Lively in text messages to Justin Baldoni's publicist.
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And now she's out here defending herself and saying,
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I spoke about his text messages with Blake Lively yesterday.
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because now he's accused of trashing the TV show he's in.
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Not only is he being attacked for publicly supporting Blake Lively now,
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but he's also being accused of trashing his own TV show now.
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Also, Jenny Slate is at Sundance promoting a new project there.
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And she's claiming that she's not on the internet.
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To make sure that you don't miss any of these videos that I'm making
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I created a playlist called Lively vs Baldoni, The Great Unsealing.
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So if you worry that you missed any episodes from this whole new drama,
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So this is Sigrid Macauli outside the court yesterday responding to the media.
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I laughed so hard this morning when I watched this video of her.
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She's having to stand in front of all these reporters defending Blake Lively.
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I'm sure she wasn't properly informed before she said yes to do this job for Blake.
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So first she started talking about all the strong evidence that they have.
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There's been mountains of evidence that have come out this week that have been unsealed.
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And what that evidence shows very clearly is that Blake was not alone.
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There were multiple women who raised concerns in this workplace.
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You don't have to say that there's a lot of strong evidence out there because you know that's not true.
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Okay, so I love this when she's been asked by a reporter what Blake feels about all these texts
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being released from conversations she had with friends.
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Blake has worked very hard to protect her friends, the acquaintances she had along the way.
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This case is about her performing her job in the workplace and being subject to harassment.
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She doesn't care how many people she drags down with her.
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She thinks that all of them should sacrifice their reputation and also their careers
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Anyways, as long as she's doing this for the greater good of women, which she truly is,
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then Sigrid thinks this is just fine and so does Blake.
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And she wants to send a message for all women that if you are wronged and harmed in the
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So if you are wronged by your boss, according to Blake Lively, you can just take his job from him.
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And then you can sue him after that and ruin his life and his family and his career opportunities
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in the future and then bring all your friends and colleagues down with you.
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Blake Lively should be an example for all of our daughters to follow.
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She stood up for herself in the workplace as we would hope that our daughters would do as well.
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So to all the daughters out there, you can just scheme behind the scenes with your friends to
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And then if you have a terrible boss, as I said, you can just take his job and then claim
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And if you don't have any evidence, you can just create a company, a shell company, and file some
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subpoenas on people and take their phones and use what they're saying in their private text
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And it doesn't matter if the people that you work with, the executives of other companies that
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you are in contact with, if they call you a terrorist or if they call you epic level stupid,
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that doesn't mean that you are those things because you are the most important thing in
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And then another reporter asks again what Blake feels about dragging Taylor into this.
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Blake Lively has done everything she can to protect her friends from not being brought into
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It was the Baldoni parties who brought that evidence into this case.
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She's saying that Justin brought Taylor into this case.
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While Blake was out there promoting It Ends With Us, just a reminder, she told the media
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so many times that Taylor was with her and supported her the entire time.
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And she could not have done this movie without her.
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It's so interesting how she's been willing to sacrifice Taylor's career for her case.
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I'll get more into that in my next episode because there will be another one today as
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And this is truly funny because here Sigrid really misspeaks.
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Let me see if you catch what she's actually saying here.
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It can be very difficult, particularly when you're being retaliated against by your former
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She said, it's really hard when you're being retaliated against by your former employees.
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She's talking on Blake's behalf that Blake looks at all these people as her employees,
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Very, very telling and terrible mistake for Sigrid, who is in PR and an attorney for using
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Sigrid also keeps talking about the false narrative that they created, talking about the Wayfair parties.
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And what's really fascinating here is that Blake was asked about these false narratives
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in her deposition and she could not point to one single story about her with a false narrative.
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And of course, she could not point to any negative stories about her with a false narrative that
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It says here that actress played the poor victim, but texts show Blake's smear campaign.
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I think that's one of the things that's been so clear to all of us now after reading all
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these text messages, not only with Taylor Swift, but with all her co-stars as well.
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And with Sony and with WME, with so many people not even involved in this project at all.
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That Blake Lively had a mission to smear Justin Baldoni as much as possible.
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And the author says that Blake Lively is 38 and a mother of four.
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But it's clear that she never graduated from being a middle school mean girl who thinks
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She's imperious, she's cruel, like a catty tween.
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She won't hesitate to rally all her cool kid friends against those who she believes has
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But unlike with many of the narcissists in Hollywood, Lively's acting cannot redeem her character.
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Unsealed court papers detail the pair's plot talking about Taylor Swift to essentially bully
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Baldoni, whom Lively called the doofus director of my movie.
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It's rather strange that a woman who's so relished in her dominance over this better man would
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then melt into victimhood made just a year and a half later when she filed a December
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2024 complaint with the California Civil Rights Department, accusing Baldoni of SH orchestrating
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a smear campaign and creating a hostile work environment.
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And then she talks a lot about these text messages that's been released.
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But I just wanted to read the end here because I thought it was so, so on point.
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Lively clearly weaponized the Me Too movement to paint herself as a victim and smear Baldoni,
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All she had to do was finish the movie, smile on the red carpet and move on to another project.
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She could have simply resolved to never work with this clown again.
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How everything she's accusing him of is what she's been doing this entire time.
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Call it hubris or call it karma, but definitely call it self-inflicted.
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You can now read Taylor Swift and Blake Lively's most creative text insults for Justin Baldoni.
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Then they're linking to all the text messages between the two of them.
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Also, Daily Mail did a story that I mentioned in the beginning of this episode about Jamila Jamil,
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who brands Blake Lively a word I can't even say here, but you can read it there,
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and villain in explosive unsealed messages as the actress court battle with Justin Baldoni rumbles on.
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So, here are the text messages that Jamila Jamil sent to Jennifer Abel,
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who at that point, I think she maybe still is, Justin Baldoni's publicist.
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So, Jamila is well known as an activist and a feminist, and she's very outspoken about that.
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She has about 5 million followers on Instagram, and she's also a model.
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She's very well spoken, and this is a text exchange between Jamila and Jennifer Abel, as I said.
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So, this is on 13th of August, and Jamila is sending Jennifer a text message saying,
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Oh, my God, and then she's attaching a TikTok video.
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It looks like that TikTok video is the interview that Blake did with this reporter
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when he asked, How do you want people to approach you to talk about the serious subject of this movie?
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Like, asking for, like, my address, or my phone number, or, like, my location share.
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I could just location share you, and then we could...
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I want to officially incorporate nightmare C-word and demon C-word into my vocabulary.
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Talking about Blake, and she says, Unbelievable.
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That's what everyone's been saying this entire time.
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Like, she's inflicting all of this on her to herself.
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As I said the other day, I was reading some text messages between Sony executives,
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and they were like, She does not listen to any advice.
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Why is she not listening to us when we're saying she shouldn't promote her hair care line
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in the middle of this promo, when she's getting so much backlash from it,
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Jamila says, Did you see Blake post that survival link?
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So she's probably referring to a link she did on a story that,
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And Jennifer Abel says, I'm thinking about having Justin share it.
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I've never seen such a bizarre villain act before.
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And then they're sharing some more TikTok videos.
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And Jamila says, When you get to the parody, it's over.
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So the story today was about those text messages.
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Someone commented on one of our posts on Instagram saying,
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And Jamila says, oh dude, feminism means fighting for equal rights, not liking every
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That's what I've been trying to say this entire time.
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I fight for the human rights of all the women I dislike just as much as the ones I like.
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It's a political movement, not some blind, fluffy sisterhood.
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If I had said it publicly, I would have been fanning the flames.
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I stayed out of the whole thing because I think they both suck.
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And I don't believe in speculation during an active trial.
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And she fought to publish my texts for no reason, just to hurt me.
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So Blake Lively wanted this text exchange to be unsealed to hurt Jamila.
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She really wanted to hurt a very outspoken feminist because she doesn't support her.
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Imagine having such a fragile ego that you see someone taking the piss out of your social
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media and you blast their private messages across the world without them having any relevance
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She's positioned me publicly against her when I was not doing that.
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She's doxxed a bunch of small TikTokers who made fun of her online.
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I was kidding when I called her a villain in those texts 18 months ago.
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Yes, thank you, Jamila, for standing up for all women.
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As I've said from the beginning, this has nothing to do with feminism or supporting other
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And this is about taking advantage and weaponizing me too.
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Okay, so let's talk about how Blake Lively also harmed her co-star Brandon Sklinar.
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As I said yesterday, there was a lot of new text messages between him and Blake that were
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And he already got a lot of heat from publicly supporting him.
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He was quoted a few months ago saying that he received so much hate and he felt like it
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And now the text exchange that I read from yesterday hit the headlines.
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And this is a story from Us Weekly where it says that, read Brandon Sklinar's text with
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Blake Lively about Justin Baldoni's feud, 1923 shade and more.
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So they're pointing out that he was shading the TV show he was a part of, the spinoff of
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So to refresh people's memory, Blake said, I hope your show gives you space to hustle,
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Week two will be a time that will get especially heated for you, blah, blah, blah, convincing
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him that it's much more important for him to be out there promoting her film than being
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on this TV show that he's been on for like four or five seasons already.
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They are particularly shitty about that, but I'm, but I'm going to do everything I can
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So she's kind of tricking him into talking bad about this TV show.
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This and so many examples of all these private text messages now being public.
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I mean, all of us have said things in private to people that we don't want printed in a magazine
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or in a newspaper, and Blake is forcing all of this to become public now.
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They angled it on Blake Lively shading Gossip Girl.
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As I said yesterday as well, she said to Brandon that, you know, this is what happened to me
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And I realized that later they didn't allow me to do things outside of Gossip Girl.
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I saw this video with her this morning where she was interviewed by Variety on the red carpet
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for some movie she's in at the Sundance Film Festival that's going on right now in Park
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So she doesn't know who was nominated for an Oscar.
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I didn't know that the Oscar nominations came out this morning.
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I should have said something better than that, swear.
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First of all, I think that's pretty disrespectful to all her colleagues in this industry that
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she doesn't even care who's nominated for an Oscar.
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So Jenny Slate does not read the news or she goes out and buys a paper, newspaper.
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I think she's saying this so that he will not ask her about anything that goes on in
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And you can see how stressed she is in this interview.
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And she is definitely ready to shut him down if he asks her anything about this lawsuit.
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She also admitted in her deposition that she never read the book, it ends with us, before
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I think that also is an insult to Colin Hoover and everyone involved in the project.
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If you say yes to do a part in a movie that's based on a book and the author of the book is so involved in everything, in the PR, in everything, and then you can't even be bothered to read the book.
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And I think that's terrible work ethic as well.
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There is a long thread of text messages between Jenny Slate and Blake Lively.
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I haven't really looked into them yet, but I've seen some other content creators talk about them.
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I just feel like she has this energy about her that I don't like.
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But anyways, now someone sent me this tip that now she's also in a movie with Rainn Wilson.
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So this is quite interesting because Rainn Wilson is one of Justin's closest friends and he's also in Baha'i, the faith that Justin Baldoni and a lot of the people from Wayfarer belong to.
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And Rainn Wilson is one of the people that Justin really poured his heart out to when he was going through all of this.
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He told Rainn about the meeting with Ryan Reynolds when he was yelling at him.
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He really confided in him as a friend and he was appalled by all of this going on.
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Another lesson to everyone, don't burn your bridges.
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That must be so uncomfortable for her right now.
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And as I said in this interview, she seems so uncomfortable.
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She's even apologizing for the words she's using.
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And can you imagine the pressure you have and all these people have when they can risk being called to the stand and witness in a courtroom about all these things that they have said?
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And all of this is going to be used against them by Baldoni and the Wayfarer Party's attorneys.
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I hope you enjoyed this episode and more to come later today.
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I'm trying to get through some of them, but there's a lot.
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And I really, really, really, from the bottom of my heart, want to thank you for that.
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