Ryan's Erratic TEXTS !!! This is BAD !!!
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Summary
Ryan Reynolds' text messages have just been unsealed, and you won't believe how crazy this man is, how angry he is, and how erratic he is. At the end of this episode, I also talk about Blake Lively's letter to the PGA, Producers Guild of America, and why that letter alone will bring down Ryan.
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And you won't believe how crazy this man is, how angry he is, how erratic he is.
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Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Tashdi Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
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and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
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The text messages from Ryan to a lot of different people have just been unsealed.
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And you won't believe how crazy this man is, how angry he is, how erratic he is,
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and all the things that he's saying about Justin Baldoni.
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I am floored. I couldn't sleep last night after reading all these messages.
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It was so disturbing to me to learn who Ryan Reynolds really is.
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Not only does he just text, these are text messages that goes on for pages and pages,
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and how he's trying to bring in all his A-list friends to hate on Justin Baldoni,
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At the end of this episode, I also want to talk about Blake Lively's letter to PGA,
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She really fought to keep that sealed, and now we know why.
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Because that letter alone will bring down Blake's case.
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But first, let's get into Ryan Reynolds' text messages.
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So these texts basically gives a picture of a man who's trying to bring someone down.
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He is not interested in coming up with any solution to the problem with Blake Lively.
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And also, it's very clear from these text messages that Ryan was not worried about the S-H going on
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What really worries Ryan here, mostly when he gets really frustrated,
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is when Blake Lively is getting backlash for the marketing and promotion of It Ends With Us.
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So let's get through these text messages and emails.
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This is before they even started shooting It Ends With Us.
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And Ryan is having a conversation with Liz Plank.
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Remember Liz Plank, Justin Baldoni's co-host on his podcast, Man Enough?
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This is the crazy part for me because he's saying that Blake Lively is such an independent
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and strong woman, but then he gets in her business all the time.
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Rats, I tried to warn Blake on the red flags, but was hoping he had gotten better.
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Working on his set was truly one of the worst days of my life.
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As you know, Liz Plank really came around and helped when she publicly took a step back
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from Justin Baldoni and left his podcast the same day or the day before, actually,
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She left his podcast the same day as Blake Lively filed her CRD complaint in California.
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So this was obviously orchestrated with Ryan Reynolds and they were already this close
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over a year and a half before that actually happened.
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Liz Plank kept doing Justin Baldoni's podcast after this conversation.
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Her saying that working on this set was truly one of the worst days of my life because she
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Here Ryan is sending a text to Josh Greenstein.
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So Sony was the distributor of the movie It Ends With Us.
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So Ryan is chit-chatting here in the beginning.
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I'm not going to read all of these text messages because they're so long.
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But I'm going to point to some of the things that he's saying here that I found pretty interesting.
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I can't thank you enough for your level of integrity and leadership with It Ends With Us drama.
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You're not only backstopping a vastly better version of the film, but you're making fans
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Behind the scene stuff has been so confounding.
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If I read it in a script, my main note would be to tone it down.
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This guy is genuinely touched in some very strange ways.
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I can imagine there's almost no aspect of this which has been easy for you to navigate.
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saying that if there's any way I can pay it forward any time,
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And then Josh Greenstein responds, saying thank you, blah, blah, blah.
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Would be a dream to have both of you making movies at Sony in the future.
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So this was before the movie came out and after they finished shooting the film.
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Then there's a long text message that Ryan sent to Justin.
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It was in Justin's complaint where he's saying,
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I love you and I admire you and blah, blah, blah.
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And then also asking him for a lot of favors to move the shoot a couple of weeks for his wife and blah, blah, blah.
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So here is a text exchange he had with Patrick Whitesell.
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Patrick Whitesell is an executive over at WME, the agency that represented both Ryan and Blake and also Justin.
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So he's trying to get Patrick on the phone here saying,
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I understand that, you know, it's the weekend, blah, blah, blah.
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And then I don't know if this is after they actually spoke on the phone or not.
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So just a month before the premiere of the movie.
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And Ryan is asking Patrick if he can get him in touch with Justin's agent.
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Justin should be writing 15 page apology letter to Blake and dozens of other folks from the film.
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As I said the other day, all the women in the movie thought that Justin was bullying them
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because he was promoting the movie, talking about the subject matter of the movie, and they didn't.
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So when they got backlash online, that was because of Justin in their minds.
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And before long, she's going to stop protecting him from the other cast and crew who want to hold him accountable.
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Really, he's a bit trumpy in the sense he just labels everybody else the very thing he is himself.
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Those are big words coming from Ryan, who is doing exactly the same thing.
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I'd put Blake's reputation on trial any day of the week.
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She worked with Oliver Effing Stone and dozens of other mercurial and abusive people.
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In her experience and mine, nobody has ever reached the empyrean hate, the empyrean hates of vile the way Justin Baldoni has.
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His complete lack of not only remorse, but self-preservation is a character study in malignant, lazy, lidded stupidity and darkness.
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I'd much rather focus on what's important, but this thing has to be dealt with.
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And I'm happy to jump in with Danny whenever you feel it's the right moment.
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I'll be very calm, diplomatic and solution-oriented.
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One thing we learned from all of these text messages from Ryan Reynolds is that he is not solution-oriented.
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He doesn't want there to be peace between them.
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And here is a long, long rant he is sending to Warren Zavala, who is also an agent at WME.
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He's really trying to contact everyone he can at WME to tell them how horrible Justin Baldoni is.
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And this is so insane, you guys thinking about it.
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This is not a behavior of a protective husband.
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So this is around the premiere of It Ends With Us.
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And this is when Blake started to get a lot of backlash online.
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And this is when Ryan Reynolds completely flips.
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He cannot handle the backlash that his wife is getting.
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And I'm also sure that he's thinking how it can rub off on him.
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So in this text, I don't know how he can write text like this.
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you can sort of feel the Baldoni stuff coming to a head online.
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Twitter and TikTok are inexplicably blaming Blake at the moment.
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But I can't imagine details won't come out because Baldoni and Jamie Heath offended,
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And the internet is obviously looking for answers and obviously seeing how every cast
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member and key crew member, including Hoover, won't be in the same room as this guy.
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All of them have at some point over the last six months unfollowed him on social media
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Anyways, not one person has said Justin's name out loud in any interviews at any time
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At what point do Justin and Jamie not take a moment to step into the light and say,
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And then he's saying that Todd Black, a rep from Sony, called him in panic.
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He said the call didn't go well because he's looking to brainstorm ways to diffuse the stuff
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Paraphrasing here, but basically Todd's line of thinking is,
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Justin and I had disagreements and didn't get along,
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I think that sounded like a great solution, by the way.
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Why didn't they just do that and move on and enjoy all the success of this film?
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what I expressed to Todd is this attitude and approach is the exact problem.
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So he doesn't want this approach to find a solution, basically.
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He and Ange would prefer B, Blake, to roll over and lie
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Baldoni, Jamie, and to a certain degree, Ange literally manifested.
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So he's also blaming Ange Giannetti over at Sony.
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If you've seen some headlines lately about someone calling Blake a terrorist,
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It seemed like she was always on team Justin and Jamie here,
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And then he continues to say how frustrated he is
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I mean, he's talking about the backlash she's getting online here.
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He's not talking about what Justin supposedly did to her.
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And then he said she willed this weekend into reality.
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Baldoni and these other buckets of dum-dum juice
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should be acknowledging the speculation and gossip themselves.
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They should be jumping in front of it in the most full-throated, unqualified way.
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They can and should accept the consequences of their actions
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and lean into the countless and willfully gross behavior
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So he's saying that no way should Blake take responsibility for any of this.
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And then he's saying that if they are made of anything
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resembling the humanity or dignity or capacity for growth
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that they project on their feminist shithole of a podcast,
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they'd be releasing a statement saying something like,
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She could not be subjected to some eye roll narrative
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So he's saying here that that's what she's being labeled as right now,
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I can't respond in a way that plays at the same level.
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that she's going to make it fine for the offender.
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Nor do I think these guys have the humility or capacity
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pointing to all the backlash that Blake is receiving,
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It's the exact opposite of what should be happening.
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talking about the book and DV smells of foul play.
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So they're disappointed about Todd Black over at Sony.
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I think it's clear that Sony wants to keep out of this,
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talking about how it hurt both Depp and Amber Heard.
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and not supported Blake in filing this ridiculous lawsuit
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She has a relationship with this woman, Melissa,
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Probably best not to get lost in the comment section.
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So Ryan wants Blake to basically go on the record