New SOURCES confirms - Blake fell for Justin !
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Summary
Isabella Ferrer is fighting to keep her testimony from being made public because she fears it will hurt her professional life. Will the judge listen to her or will Justin Baldoni's team fight to make her testimony public?
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Why would Boldoni's team fight so hard to make her testimony public?
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If she was supporting Blake, they would not do that.
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I'm Sarshti Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
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All right, Boldoni's team has responded to Isabella Ferrer.
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As you know, she wrote a letter to the judge the other day
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because I'm a working actress and it might harm my professional life
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Well, I don't think the judge is going to listen.
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And when you hear what Boldoni's team is saying here,
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it is so clear to me that Isabella Ferrer's testimony is not supporting Blake.
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Also, more text messages has been unsealed from what's been going on behind the scenes
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It just shows how unethical and dishonest people are, to be honest with you.
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But it also shows how Leslie Sloan, Blake's publicist, was leaking to the press
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where she said, amongst other things, that Brandon Sklenor, in particular,
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it was evident that Blake was trying to flirt with Justin.
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And it's interesting to hear the psychiatrist's witness expert
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talking about how Blake was so obviously attracted to Justin.
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And she's also wondering how long Ryan is going to support his wife.
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Okay, so let's get into this letter from Boldoni's team here.
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Kevin Fritz, who is one of the attorneys that we really, really like on Boldoni's team,
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He's telling the judge why Isabella Ferrer's deposition or testimony should not be hidden
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As you know, the other day, she wrote a letter and she said to the judge, hey, you can't show
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my testimony because I talk about the intimate scenes in the movie and those are really personal
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And also, I'm a working actress, blah, blah, blah, and I need special treatment here.
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She also claims that the Wayfair parties dragged her into this litigation and she didn't
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Well, now, here's the truth coming from Boldoni's camp where they're pointing out that Isabella
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Ferrer was already deposed and subpoenaed by Blake Lively and she was also mentioned in
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Blake made a big deal about how Isabella Ferrer felt unsafe on the set of It Ends With Us
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and she's mentioning one of the scenes that Justin Baldoni came up to her after this intimate
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scene was filmed and said that, I have to say, this was really hot.
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I don't know if I believe that actually happened, but anyways.
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And to refresh everyone's memory, when Justin tried to subpoena her, which is his right to
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So when he tried to subpoena her, she claimed that he was harassing her because he couldn't
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get hold of her and because her attorney refused to actually accept the subpoena.
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Of course, all the headlines were that Justin Baldoni is harassing another woman.
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And then what happened was quite interesting because then Baldoni's team said, hey, we don't
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We don't need to depose her unless if Blake agrees that she won't use her as a witness
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So then they decided again to keep Isabella Ferrer a part of this lawsuit.
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So as Fritz is saying here in his letter, he says that the motion contends that sealing
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is appropriate because according to Ms. Ferrer, her deposition testimony contains sensitive
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details regarding the filming of intimate scenes and the religious affiliation of another
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non-party who is not involved in this litigation.
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I don't know that non-party who that is, but she's saying that this information is so
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And then Mr. Fritz is pointing out here that the scene that she's pointing to is already
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in the movie and the film was distributed everywhere.
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So everyone can go and watch that if they want to.
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So what about that is so sensitive to Ms. Ferrer?
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He's also saying here that there is no details or graphic details about that scene in her testimony.
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The only things that she was asked in her deposition were about rehearsals of the scene,
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whether she was or was not concerned about anything that occurred during such rehearsals,
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whether the scene was filmed or not, and her comments to the film's intimacy coordinator
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As I showed before, there's an interview of Isabella Ferrer where she's talking about
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I mean, we had a phenomenal intimacy coordinator, Lizzie.
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She's worked on Bridgerton before, so she was extra, extra careful with us at all times.
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But also there was just a lot of communication and check-ins and making sure,
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And it can get tiring, but it was a great process, honestly.
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She also sent a text to Justin Baldoni where she said that she felt so comfortable
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So, of course, she was asked about that text, I can imagine, in this deposition.
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And she couldn't really come up with a good answer.
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And also something that I realized when I was looking at her IMDb page is that she's saying
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She hasn't done anything since It Ends With Us and she has nothing in the pipeline.
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So I really wouldn't go that far to call her a working actress when she hasn't had a movie
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I think what happened here is that Isabella agreed to help Blake, but she didn't understand
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She did not think this through, that she would have to sit probably maybe in front of Justin
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Baldoni because I think he is allowed to be at her deposition and watch her defend herself,
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And she didn't think that through, that that would be the scenario here.
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And if she's saying contradictive things in Blake's deposition and Justin's deposition,
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I think that Isabella probably caved and she was honest in her deposition.
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And she does not want us to see that because otherwise, why would Baldoni's team fight so hard
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If she was supporting Blake, they would not do that.
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You also have to remember that Blake and Isabella didn't have any scenes together.
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She was playing the younger version of Blake here.
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So they didn't really meet until after, until they started doing promotion together.
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And all of a sudden, Isabella Ferrer unfollows Justin Baldoni and takes a distance from it
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I was like, I feel like that is a disservice too, because she's, in the movie, she's not
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She's bringing herself to the role as a young Lily.
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Yeah, let's see what the judge says here, you guys.
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I'm sure that he's going to allow this to become public because it is important to Justin's
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case, because Blake has portrayed Isabella as another victim.
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And if Isabella is contradicting that in her testimony, that's important for everyone to
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I was reading through them this morning and I was like, wow, this never ends.
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However, they're unethical, they're hiding things from each other.
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And you know, I want Justin Bologna to win this, but I think some of the players here are
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So this is a text exchange between Jennifer Abel and Melissa Nathan.
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Melissa Nathan is a crisis expert that Justin hired after there was so much, after all the
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And Jennifer Abel is his publicist that he had working for him throughout this entire
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Jennifer Abel at that point was working for Stephanie Jones' company.
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She then left the company and Stephanie Jones is now suing her.
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And she's also suing Stephanie Jones for taking her phone and the content of her phone and
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giving it to Blake Lively, who gave it to New York Times.
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Anyway, so this exchange between Jennifer Abel and Melissa Nathan, here they're talking
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about how Leslie Sloan planted a story in the New York Post.
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And they're quoting Leslie Sloan here, who is the source of this article, saying that
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Blake Lively was given final edit approval on It Ends With Us to make the movie more feminine,
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The star and the rest of the cast are not speaking to director and co-star Justin Baldoni.
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And Brandon Sklenar particularly has a problem with him, we are told.
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So here they're trying to plant a seed, or Leslie is, according to Melissa Nathan, that
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We don't know what that issue is supposed to be.
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And as we've seen from Justin's text messages back and forth, he was in shock when Brandon Sklenar
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And he was like, well, that was the end of that bromance.
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And so far, we haven't heard anything from Brandon Sklenar that he had any issues with Justin.
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Anyways, they also quote here saying that, although not greenlit as we predicted, there
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As Baldoni owns the rights to the film, but due to the rift with Lively, it's unknown what
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A source said, there were two edits and the studio went with a more feminine edit.
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She had final edit approval, which is basically a lie.
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She made herself a producer, but no one has final edits over a director of a movie.
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Then Jennifer Abel says in a text here, Leslie is working overtime and she wasn't given a final
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She said she wouldn't promote the film if it wasn't one that she could personally get behind.
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In other words, if it wasn't her edits, even though Justin scored higher in the focus group
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Yeah, you know that Justin's version was more popular in screenings than Blake's version,
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but Sony gave in to Blake's pressure because she pressured them as well and said, I won't
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promote this movie unless I get my version of the movie out there.
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Then comes an interesting part here because they talk about that article in the Hollywood
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Reporter, where they did a story that Melissa Nathan was hired by Justin as his crisis manager.
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Justin did not appreciate that that became public because he felt people would judge him
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for that and that it would start speculations online that he had something to hide and that's
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Melissa had already represented Johnny Depp and her name was out there.
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And when this article hit, it really freaked Justin out.
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In this text exchange, they talk about this article, Jennifer Abel and Melissa Nathan.
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And Melissa Nathan pretends that she's surprised by this article.
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Because as I said the other day, when I was reading from Justin Baldoni's deposition,
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he was told and shown evidence by Blake Lively's team that Melissa Nathan already knew that that
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And she also spoke to the Hollywood Reporter on background here.
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She had leaked these to her circle and they had planted that story in the Hollywood Reporter.
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Then this exchange shows that everyone else started picking up this story and it really
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added fuel to the fire that there was a big conflict of the set of It Ends With Us.
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And this really harmed Justin's reputation at this time because it did actually make people
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This is from Justin's deposition where Blake Lively's attorney is informing him about what
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happened here, where they're asking Justin, did Melissa Nathan ever tell you that she,
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in fact, was responsible for the leak that culminated in this story?
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Did she ever tell you that she was lying to you when she thought, when she told you that
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Did you ever, did she ever tell you when she said, I know someone placed this, that she
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Did she ever tell you that it was one of her friends?
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And then they flipped the page here, blah, blah, blah, so they can show him more evidence
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I told our friend Josh that Melissa is a boss and has a cool client.
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Josh told his wife, who is a very prominent publicist.
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Sarah somehow told the Hollywood Reporter, and now they're doing a story on Melissa.
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Blake's attorney is showing him this, saying, you understand this is how the Hollywood Reporter
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And Justin says, it appears that is what Amy is saying.
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And then he's showing another text message here, saying, from Melissa, saying, just checking
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in to see if I need to look out for this article, and if so, when?
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Then Pam, her friend says, was just texting you, story is very fair and going soon.
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And then he's asking, Justin, were you aware that Melissa had spoken to the Hollywood Reporter
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Then he also asked Justin, were you aware that Melissa and her friends were boasting
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and joking about how good this article was going to be for Melissa at the time?
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And as I said the other day, these are things that can be used against Melissa Nathan in
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As you know, she's also representing or she was doing crisis management for Rebel Wilson,
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who's also being sued for defamation and retaliation.
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So I think at this point, Justin must be so disappointed in some of these people that
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And when you see these text messages, everyone is talking shit about each other behind each
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The only people we haven't seen done that is Justin and Jamie.
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OK, let's get into these new sources talking about the chemistry between Justin and Blake and
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how Blake was falling for Justin and how this witness expert in psychiatry is confirming that
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We have to talk about this new report from Rob Schroeder, who's been talking to some insiders here,
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who's claiming that Blake was attracted to Justin and that there was a lot of flirting going on.
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He's saying here that a source tell me that when Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni first met to discuss
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her taking the role in It Ends With Us, it started as business, but their chemistry was undeniable from the very first minutes.
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An insider says there was lots of playful flirting going on, enough to make Ryan Reynolds shifts uncomfortably in his chair.
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There was a spark, a playfulness, one source said.
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Baldoni shared a personal detail about himself.
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Yes, his circumcision during a discussion after Lively's unborn son.
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Blake agreed to the role after that conversation, they're pointing out.
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She literally signed on after he got that dot, dot, dot, personal.
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And he says here that another insider says that they were close, too close.
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And a friend of the couple wonders aloud, is this why Ryan seems to be going after Justin now?
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Some people think Ryan is making him pay for that first connection with his wife.
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These speculations have been going on for a while.
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I don't believe Justin was attracted to Blake for a minute.
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But I do think that Blake was attracted to him.
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And I do think that, and I do think that Ryan was threatened by that.
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I just wanted to remind people of this text message that Blake sent to Justin in regards to that rooftop scene.
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And I can imagine if Ryan saw this text, he would not be happy.
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I can send you my pass at the roof or just read with you when we get together next week.
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She's lying here because it was Ryan who wrote that scene and she admitted that later.
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If you knew me in person longer, you'd have a sense of how flirty and yummy the ball busting would play.
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And him serving it back to her, talking about the characters, is just as important.
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You don't usually see both the man and the woman with such agency and humor.
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Anyway, I can act it out for you next week to make sure it comes through.
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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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He is not buying into her flirtatious love language at all.
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And when you read this, this is not coming from a woman who feels that her work environment is unsafe.
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And also you wouldn't invite someone, as I said so many times, you wouldn't invite someone up to your home, up to your personal space if you feel unsafe around them.
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I've shown this before, but I wanted to remind people of what this psychiatrist expert witness said to Sky News.
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She was interviewed there, I think it was about seven months ago, after that dancing scene came out and after Blake Lively withdrew her claims against Justin for emotional distress.
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Remember that she said that it wasn't worth it for her because she didn't want to show her medical records because she obviously doesn't have any medical records of her being distressed because of the situation.
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Anyways, this expert witness, after watching that video, this is what she said.
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So basically, she was trying to say that he came on to her in this movie.
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Not that married men don't come on to women, but he seems happily married.
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And really what I think happened is that she got into her character, and I think she was starting to fall for him.
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And she was very uncomfortable with that possibility because, of course, she's married.
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And so at the end, she just decided to blame him for sexual harassment rather than facing and acknowledging her own feelings.
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And I wonder if her husband, how much longer he's going to stay supporting her because this has just really blown up.
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Dr. Carol Lieberman says that Blake fell for Justin.
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And that's exactly what I think happened here as well.
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And, of course, on top of that, Ryan felt there was something there.
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And as I also said a couple of months ago when I was interviewing Rick Feddick, the photographer that Ryan put in jail for taking a photo, that story is so crazy.
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Anyways, he said that some of his paparazzi friends who were there at the set of It Ends With Us taking photos confirmed that Ryan was on set a lot and he went into Blake Lively's trailer once.
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They were yelling and screaming and he left really angry and slammed the door behind him.
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And as I said before, I can't wait for all of this evidence to get unsealed later this month.
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And what we've seen so far from Judge Lyman, a lot of people think he's been biased towards Blake.
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But one thing that I noticed with him is that he is very pro-transparency and he's been ruling a lot to make things public.
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So, I think he will continue down that road, which means that we get to see almost everything.
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