MAJOR Backlash From Founder of #MeToo law. Blake should NOT get ANY fees covered !!
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Summary
According to sources who were inside the courtroom yesterday, it seems like Blake Lively wants to go to trial after all. And wow, do I have a scoop for you. It turns out the architect behind that Me Too Law that they re arguing about right now in court is very unhappy with what Blake is doing.
Transcript
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Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Sashdi Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
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and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
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He's making sure everything goes according to plan and that I don't change things up in the script without asking him first.
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both parties where they're arguing about these attorney's fees that Blake Lively is asking for.
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According to sources who were inside the courtroom, it seems like Blake Lively wants to go to trial
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after all. This is insane. And wow, do I have a scoop for you guys. It turns out the architect
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behind that Me Too law that they're arguing about right now in court is very unhappy with what Blake
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Lively is doing right now. This is huge. Also, big shout out to Elsie, LSwitchTV here on YouTube.
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She was outside the courthouse yesterday and she went all the way with Sigrid McCowley. Yeah,
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Blake Lively's PR attorney. Elsie asked her the real questions and her response was priceless.
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Also, by the way, someone was wearing one of my t-shirts outside the courtroom yesterday.
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Big shout out to you for wearing I'm with the guy in the basement t-shirt.
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And also a big thank you to all of you guys for sending me so many great tips.
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I would never be able to do this show without all of you.
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A short recap from what happened in that courtroom yesterday.
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The judge allowed both parties to argue about 30 minutes each
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and he also allowed them to file a letter maximum two pages before this hearing yesterday.
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So this meeting was basically about who has the burden of proof for Blake Lively's attorney's fees
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and on top of that as you know she's asking for all these damages
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which could be a lot of money if the judge agrees with Blake's attorneys.
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yesterday from what I understand he was a little baffled by all of this as you know this is a very
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new law and at one point apparently the judge said to Mike Gottlieb Blake Lively's attorney who was
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there arguing for her he said you know your client could just end this right it's so interesting how
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Blake is just pushing and pushing for this because she needs as you know she needs a win but the
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major thing that happened yesterday basically was that Blake's team told the judge that they believe
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that Blake basically should be entitled to this mini trial because they want all these damages
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to be paid by the wayfarer parties and if the judge would agree with that they would go through
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another round of discovery, expert witnesses and all that stuff and this would go on and on and on
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And that is apparently what Blake wants at this point.
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So basically, she just wanted to settle her big lawsuits
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Blake demands mini-trial to win significant damages from Justin Baldoni
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for the harm to her reputation and lost job opportunities.
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Blake claims she's entitled to a mini trial for damages, even though their case is settled.
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The actress said that she wanted to call experts to quantify her losses from Baldoni's failed 400 million defamation lawsuit against her in a hearing in federal court in Manhattan on Monday.
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I wonder how she's planning to prove that it was Justin Baldoni's countersuit against her that really harmed her and not her original lawsuit against him that actually came back to bite her in the butt.
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Because it was basically the public reacting to all the facts that came out, all the evidence that Justin Baldoni put on that website.
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I remember the website and the public got to see all the evidence that he had and everyone
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was like, oh, this isn't how Blake told this story.
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Blake basically says that the truth hurt her and he's responsible for that.
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According to Daily Mail's insider here, who was there, said that Michael Gottlieb, Blake's
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attorney, didn't put a price point on this yet, but I'm assuming it's probably like over
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that would be right up her alley and also she knows that that would make headlines and that's
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what she's looking for right now. It says here however they would need expert testimony to
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quantify the reach of the allegation from the complaints by Baldoni that branded Miss Lively
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a liar. As you know Blake had already eight experts who had calculated how much this had
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cost her in lost work so yes I'm guessing she's ready to contact those people again and make
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them write some more of these ridiculous expert reports. Anyways, there was a poll in the Daily
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Mail asking if people think that Blake deserves attorney's fees. And apparently I said no. And
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it says here that 87% of people agree with me. 5% says she does. And I think that mirrors the
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public opinion right now that 5% is on Blake Lively's side and 95% is on Justin Boltoni's
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side. The rest of this percentage said we need to have more information. So those are the people
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who obviously didn't read up on this case and they said, I don't know, but interesting stuff.
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Apparently the judge's reaction to Michael Gottlieb, Blake's attorney, when he presented
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this like mini trial for Blake's attorney's fees, the judge said, all of which without a jury.
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and Gottlieb said that would be entirely appropriate.
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Gottlieb insisted that the law did indeed allow lively damages
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and she didn't obviously plan that he would sue her back,
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knowing that she could weaponize this law if he did,
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But saying that this was all about something that she didn't even know was going to happen from the beginning here, it's so dumb.
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And apparently Judge Lyman told both sides he was not trying to come up with something that's convenient for you all,
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insisted that he was trying to figure out a statue that works.
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Speaking after the hearing, McAuley said Lively was determined to press on.
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She said the damages to Lively are very significant.
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You know, this is the attorney Blake hired for Optics
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So, of course, she wants to be in that category of victims,
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which is very offensive, obviously, to a lot of people out there
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But anyways, remember Sigrid said just like a month ago
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that Blake is really looking forward to her day in court.
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Talking about Sigrid McCauley, this made my day.
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I will leave a link to this video below and you should all go and follow her.
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I love that she went to New York and was outside the courthouse with some other amazing content
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It was funny because she was there and I could see this TMZ reporter there as well.
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and who asked the best questions Elsie did but anyways I had to share this little clip from when
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Elsie confronted Sigrid outside the courthouse before the hearing Sigrid I have to say was very
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polite and very friendly I mean it must be horrible for her to stand there and defend Blake Lively so
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kudos to Sigrid for trying to do that although it makes her look like a freaking idiot so TMZ
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through this question at Sigrid asking, how is Blake Lively doing? And Sigrid responded like
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this. This is a moment where the court's acknowledging the motions. So we get to go in
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and talk about that today and the importance of these kinds of laws to protect all employees who
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face harassment of the workplace. So she's, you know, she's continuing that mission and looking
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forward to hearing from the court today. Yeah, she's saying how Blake is protecting all employees
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for the future. I think Sigrid forgot that Blake was never an employee. She was a contractor and
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that's how most of her claims just fell apart because she didn't have the rights as an employee
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and also the Me Too law they're fighting over now, the 47.1, has nothing to do with you being
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an employee, an employer or whatever. It doesn't even have to do with you in a workplace. It has
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to do with women's rights to speak up and not being retaliated against. So I wonder if Sigri
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even knows why she's there at this point. Anyways, as she said, Blake will continue on this mission.
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This mission so far has been about going to the Fendi store, going to the Met Gala, and going to
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a jewelry store, and posting photos of herself and Ryan Reynolds on Instagram, hashtagging them
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yummy yummy yummy. Yeah, helping a lot of victims out there. Anyways, here's my favorite,
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I appreciate you for taking the time, and I know you don't have to.
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But we know everybody was looking forward to trial.
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And we heard from even you a couple of times that Blake really wanted her day in court.
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Was it, did she need to be at the Met Gala that badly?
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Or what was it that went from, we're going to court, we're going to hear from her, to actually a settlement does the job?
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What you're saying here is exactly that type of situation coming to fruition.
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She's getting to have the court hear her damages under this law.
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And it was really about lifting up the law and making sure that she could be heard in that way.
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Oh, my God. I love Elsie for asking that question.
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And what a priceless answer from Secret McCowley.
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What are you seeing here is an exact situation coming into fruition.
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she's going to have the court hear her damages under this law it was really about lifting up
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the law and making sure she could be heard in that way or whatever word salad she might as well
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have just said well i'm having pasta for dinner and then i'm taking my dog out for a walk and
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then i'm meeting a friend for a glass of wine in the evening it's like she's not answering the
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question at all she just starts talking about something else this is what all politicians do
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all the time, by the way. And then Elsie followed up with this priceless question.
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I think I'm still kind of battling with going to court for SH and everything that happened versus
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we are here to fight over some money. It's kind of how people are looking at it.
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Could I chime in? Maybe it's not really about the money. Is it just the principle? I know people use
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that term lightly, but is it just the principle at this point?
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Right. Well, 47.1 law that you referenced is really a groundbreaking law that allows people
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So, yeah, that TMZ reporter jumped in to kind of help Sigrid out of the situation.
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Let her just stand there with that question and answer it.
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Anyway, Sigrid responded that you're going to see a lot more from Blake Lively doing advocacy work in the future.
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like why couldn't she already start doing that work i mean nothing is stopping her she's going
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out to all these fancy events so why don't we see her like elsie was suggesting here why don't we
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see blake at some women's shelters doing some real work i guess she has all that in the plans
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for the future because we've seen her since she's been out in the street since she got her release
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papers she's been at the fendi show she's been at the met are we gonna see her go to some is this
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an idea maybe go to some shelters support some women you're gonna see a lot of great advocacy
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for the future thank you so much and this outfit is eating cigarette it's eating anyways elsie and
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some of these other content creators who were there also got some moments with brian friedman
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so go and check out her entire video if you're interested in that but now let's get to this
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me too law and the architect of this law who is now very unhappy with what blake lively is doing
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mentioned her before here on my channel when I went through that article by Eumonia Dyke, where
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she did a huge expose about how Ryan Reynolds was abusing this new Me Too law and how his and Blake's
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attorneys knew exactly who to contact, what to do, and how to lobby behind the scenes so that they
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could use this law or abuse this law to their advantage. Anyways, Victoria Burke is mentioned a
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lot of times in this article. She is the architect of this law and the reason why she created this
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law or pushed for this law is because she is a victim herself and she had experienced horrible
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things and she wanted to make a law to protect women in the future unfortunately victoria burke
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let herself be weaponized by blake and her team basically supporting what blake and her team was
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doing but now she's having second thoughts this is pretty groundbreaking so someone sent me this
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post from Victoria's Instagram that she posted herself. Her Instagram is private. And the person
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who sent this to me is also involved in a legal matter against a man who retaliated against her.
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We all have to remember that this law is designed to protect women. So Victoria Burke put this on
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her Instagram and attached that story from the New York Times that I spoke about yesterday.
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and she said never thought my bill would be in the eye of a storm with all eyes watching as the
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architect of the bill I strongly believe in the constitutionality of my bill unhappy with it being
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weaponized as a PR redemption tool by Blake Lively and her team honestly I don't think the judge
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should grant attorney's fees in this matter. Yes, this is from the woman who created this
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Me Too law, who pushed for this Me Too law. I haven't seen anyone talking about this yet,
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and this is pretty big. Blake does not have the support from the author, from the architect
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of this law. I asked the person who sent this to me about how Victoria Burke is portrayed in this
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article about Eumonia Dyke and I was like in this article it seems like she was playing along with
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Blake's team and Blake all the time and she was giving interviews she was quoted in articles
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kind of putting Justin Baldoni in the same category as Harvey Weinstein and these other abusers
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and she said to me that I think she's having second thoughts she had a change of mind after
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learning all the details after learning and seeing all the facts in this case so what Blake is doing
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right now is really hurting real victims anyways Brian Friedman was also there of course yesterday
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Justin Baldoni's attorney and the Wayfair Party's attorney and he gave interviews outside as well
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and here he is quoted in the Daily Mail that was TMZ who did this interview actually but anyways
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Brian Friedman said that he might take on an advocacy role
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for people who have been falsely accused of things
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just weeks after his legal war with Blake Lively
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I think it would be amazing if he uses this opportunity
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to help others, men and women who have been falsely accused.
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I mean, as you know, I was falsely accused of being part of this smear campaign.
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I can't even fathom what him and Jamie Heath and their families
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Being falsely accused of something so serious is just brutal.
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who also told me that he is definitely going to continue making movies so even though if he takes
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on a role like this he would still be out there making films and they're also quoting Friedman
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here on this experience what it's been like for Justin and he said I think it's still been tough
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for him he's still he's still going through a lot and you go through anything like that it's really
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shattering your ego and your pride and your vulnerability and all of it he really opens
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himself up in a way that most people don't and he's really been super authentic and that's
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and that's been wounded and then there was a message to everyone including you guys
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it's so meaningful to him and so powerful to him he's blown away at the love that he's gotten
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and it's and it's helped him survive yeah that's been wounded so um we're gonna try to uh you know
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build that back up build back up trust with people and and the idea that you can be a good person
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and not be taken advantage of just because you're kind.
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Yeah, I think that's what's so heartbreaking about this story.
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It's because we've all seen Justin Baldoni's personality.
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And the fact that he's never said a bad word about Blake.
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The only thing he said is that he wanted to pray for her.
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I mean, after all the things that she and her husband Ryan did to him,
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that just says everything about who he is as a person.
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Anyways, as I said yesterday, I wanted to mention
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what Blake Lively's last post on Instagram really means.
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As you know, she posted this photo of herself and her husband,
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And then she added the music from Justin Bieber, Yummy, and another song called Yummy, Yummy, Yummy.
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If you saw my episode the other day, I put the two articles next to each other from the New York Post and from People.
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They had the same information at the exact same spot.
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they just change up the wording a little bit which tells me everything I need to know that this
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was a press release from Leslie Sloan also a very important detail about that there were so many
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people speculating what was on that plate that Ryan Reynolds had in front of him some people
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were saying it looked like burger meat some people were saying it looked like chicken patties
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some people were like oh what is that thing and that is why it was very interesting that both
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these newspapers or magazines got it right they knew they were cookies and how did they know that
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because Leslie Sloan told them anyways my point of this is why does Blake Lively publish a story
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with the word yummy in it right now well this is about search engines and SEO and how Blake
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want all her big blunders to disappear so when you google her and you google yummy you're not
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looking and you're not getting that text message that she sent to justin baldoni where she expresses
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how her personality is and it's so yummy you will get this article where she talks about her
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husband's arms as yummy remember this text when she said to justin or ryan said to justin it's
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a little unclear who actually sent Blake's messages to Justin if it was herself or Ryan
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and Blake says I can send you my pass at the roof or just read with you when we get together next
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week as you know Blake pretended she wrote that scene and her husband wrote that scene let me know
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what you prefer prefer smiley if you knew me in person longer you'd have a sense of how flirty
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and yummy the ball best busting would play it's my love language spicy and playfully bold never
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with teeth and him serving it back to her is just as important now she's talking about this scene
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that she also needs to be that kind of person to Justin Baldoni's character she's talking about
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Lily and Ryle here obviously on that roof that her character needs to have these traits as well
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because i guess blake believes that lily is herself and she has to say these words that
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her husband fed her and she's saying here you don't usually see both the man and the woman
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with such agency and humor why not that's news to me by the way anyways anyway i can act it out
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for you next week to make sure it comes through or i can send now let me know what you prefer
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So, yeah, she really wants to bury this sexy text message that she sent to Justin to try and seduce him into accepting her husband's writing of that scene.
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As you know, Justin responded to that like, sorry, I was just crying my eyes out as kids and family just left for another five weeks and it was a shit show.
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Yes, and it's so important to the film and can't wait to play and find it.
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Lily needs to be strong and witty and playful and blah blah blah anyways he didn't respond to her
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sexy flirty ball busting without teeth yummy thing he's just like oh I'm crying because I'm
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gonna miss my kids and she knows that that text message made so many headlines and it really hurt
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her case and now she wants us to forget about it but we won't anyway that's it from you guys thank
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private parks he sometimes does that i'm sorry if that happens please don't sue me for s aging you
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