Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - SHOCKING FACE-OFF in COURT !!!

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00:00:13.560 Did Ryan Reynolds just leave his wife all by herself in court today?

00:00:23.200 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Tashdi Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,

00:00:27.580 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion. So today is a big day. Blake Lively

00:00:34.760 and Justin Baldoni both arrived in court in New York and they're supposed to come to some sort

00:00:41.240 of agreement, to some sort of settlement. I doubt that's going to happen, but let's look at how

00:00:47.120 they arrived today. Justin Baldoni hand in hand with his beautiful supportive wife Emily and Blake

00:00:53.300 Lively arrived by herself. Where is Ryan Reynolds? And is she wearing his suit? Also, let's look at

00:01:01.560 potentially what's going on inside the courtroom today. And we have to talk about this new lawsuit

00:01:07.760 that was just filed. Is this a coincidence or not? The Hollywood Reporter blew this up on their front

00:01:15.540 page today. It sounds like Melissa Nathan and Brian Friedman is involved in another smear campaign.

00:01:22.680 This is very suspicious. Also, Radar Online is now again reporting on Hugh Jackman leaving Ryan

00:01:31.380 Reynolds, his BFF behind, ghosting him and not wanting anything to do with him anymore.

00:01:37.600 Anyways, let's look into it. So all the headlines so far about this settlement meeting has been about

00:01:43.260 their outfits. That Blake Lively was wearing this olive green suit and Justin Baldoni arrived in a

00:01:50.480 coat, the same kind of color. I don't even think that's a thing. First of all, he's wearing a nude

00:01:56.380 scarf. She's wearing this male shirt underneath. I think that's also Ryan Reynolds. As I just mentioned,

00:02:02.620 it looks like she borrowed his suit for some reason and then she put his shirt underneath. And I'm convinced

00:02:08.800 that this outfit that Blake Lively put on is not a coincidence. Nothing she does in terms of this

00:02:15.140 case is a coincidence. I do think it's really weird and shows a weakness that Ryan Reynolds was nowhere

00:02:22.060 to be seen this morning. He has come out publicly saying how important it is to support his wife,

00:02:28.360 that he wasn't angry enough in all those text messages that he sent to Sony and WME pushing people

00:02:35.020 to support Blake. And now when it really matters, he's not there. To quote himself saying any husband

00:02:43.200 would do this for his wife, I think any husband would be there today for their wife. Instead,

00:02:49.040 Ryan Reynolds is having fun watching his soccer team or his football team having success in Wrexham.

00:02:55.660 That's all he's been posting about lately. He is just like ignoring this whole thing, pretending

00:03:01.120 it's nothing to do with him. And that also looks bad for Blake's optics because she has portrayed 0.77

00:03:06.840 herself as this powerless victim. And now she's showing up in court in this powerful men's suit.

00:03:15.020 Like, hey, I'm here to negotiate. I mean business. Yeah. So what happened to this powerless woman 1.00

00:03:21.320 that we got to know through her lawsuit? When I saw her outfit, it also reminded me of Amber Heard,

00:03:27.440 how she also appeared in court wearing men's suits a lot of the time when she was in court with Johnny

00:03:34.200 Depp. And I think Blake Lively has been using her playbook a lot throughout this case. And here's

00:03:40.900 another example. There is no glamour here and all the jewelry is gone except from this little pin

00:03:46.960 that some people pointed out. It's a five-leaf clover pin. So yes, obviously Blake Lively did not

00:03:53.580 wear her florals today. Instead, she wore the same suit. It almost looks like the same suit

00:03:58.360 that Ryan was wearing at the premiere of It Ends With Us. So yeah, my other observation of watching

00:04:03.980 the video of them arriving in court is that both of them look really exhausted, both Blake and Justin.

00:04:10.400 I have to say it didn't look like they had slept in weeks. And of course, this is going to be a really

00:04:15.940 rough day for them. And that's again why I'm so baffled that Ryan Reynolds chose not to show up for

00:04:22.000 his wife. Is he so afraid of his own image, his own public image, that he's throwing his wife under

00:04:28.720 the bus? Hey, you're in this by yourself now. I'm not going to be there for you. That makes me think

00:04:33.500 that he's not going to show up in court for her if this goes to trial, which I still think it will

00:04:38.920 because there's no way that they will come to an agreement today that will benefit both of them.

00:04:44.060 And now that all the evidence is public, they kind of have nothing to lose to go to trial.

00:04:49.360 One thing that I think could happen if Blake Lively were to win this case, which I doubt,

00:04:55.520 I highly doubt that. But if she does, it's going to get so much worse for her. Because if she does,

00:05:02.800 Hollywood is going to freak out because this opens the door for all other actresses to go in and take 1.00

00:05:09.880 over a movie and then sue the director afterwards. And also, you can be sure that no one will ever hire

00:05:17.100 her again. On top of that, Justin Baldoni has so many supporters out there that are going to be

00:05:21.940 there for him. And I can't even imagine what it's going to be like for Blake when she arrives at trial

00:05:27.360 every single day, by the way, when all these supporters, I am thinking, are going to be outside

00:05:32.420 just like they were for Johnny Depp. And I think people even feel stronger for this case than they

00:05:37.640 did for Johnny. And you can see that when you look at the comment section. I was just scrolling

00:05:42.720 through the comment section here of this photo that Daily Mail put out on Blake Lively on

00:05:47.660 Instagram. It's flooded with support for Justin Baldoni. It's team Justin, team Justin, Justin will

00:05:54.080 win, blah, blah, blah. It's all support for him. Okay, so let's look closer at what could actually

00:05:58.980 happen today. So Judge Lyman, who's been the judge in this case from the beginning, he's not going to be

00:06:03.660 present today during this settlement meeting. There's going to be a magistrate, I can't say that word,

00:06:09.440 judge. Her name is Sarah Elcave. And she is going to tell both parties here like, hey, here are all

00:06:16.320 your weaknesses. Do you have an offer for the other part? Can you offer them some money? Can you offer

00:06:21.720 them some kind of statement publicly? And then she's going to, and then they're going to go back and 0.98

00:06:26.420 forth, back and forth. Maybe they're in the same room. Sometimes they are, but it's most likely they're

00:06:30.980 probably going to be separated. And this process could take three hours, four hours, one day, two days,

00:06:36.680 three days. Yeah. And bottom line is we are never going to find out what they're talking about.

00:06:41.920 All of this is super confidential. So we will never find out. So People Magazine interviewed an

00:06:47.440 attorney here who's talking about what potentially could happen here. And he said to them that in

00:06:52.500 court order settlement conferences like this, the magistrate could issue a wide range of sanctions

00:06:59.720 if she believes that one of the parties is not participating in good faith. So if people don't

00:07:05.320 show up, if Blake shows up or Justin shows up, not showing good faith that they would come to some

00:07:10.000 kind of resolution, then the judge could potentially sanction them for doing that. I saw a short

00:07:15.620 interview or comment from Brian Friedman today where he said this. And do you think we'll reach

00:07:20.100 a settlement today? I'm always hopeful. Is that the goal? I think the goal is to win. Would a settlement

00:07:27.460 be a win in your eyes? Yeah. So yeah, I don't think they're ready to give in to anything

00:07:32.820 that Blake Lively is suggesting in this meeting today. They also know that Blake Lively has a

00:07:39.480 weak case. And they also know that after this meeting, I think in a couple of weeks, within a

00:07:45.460 few weeks, the judge is going to rule on the summary judgment, meaning that he could throw out

00:07:52.160 a lot of Blake Lively's case. And I see you and me as part of a jury in a sense, because there are

00:07:58.840 people like you and me who are going to be on that jury. And we are going to look at this from

00:08:04.180 our perspective. And I guess that's also what this judge is going to tell Blake Lively today.

00:08:09.740 Everyone's been saying all the time here that 90% of cases don't go to trial and this is never going

00:08:15.520 to trial. But the attorney that People Magazine has interviewed thinks that they're going to come to

00:08:20.180 some kind of agreement. And then he's taking a wild guess on what's going to happen with that

00:08:25.220 settlement. And he says, I think it's going to have to involve the payment of some amount of

00:08:30.260 money to Lively, perhaps, perhaps by way of very first insurance company. I think it's unlikely that

00:08:36.960 the parties are going to do a walkaway deal where neither side pays money. I think there would be

00:08:41.860 a cash component coupled with some kind of press release and a limitation on what the parties can

00:08:47.660 say about each other in the future. I think he's wrong, actually. I don't know. I'm not a lawyer.

00:08:53.620 But the point he's missing here is that most cases like this, civil cases about workplace harassment

00:09:01.780 like this, the parties aren't famous. This whole case is about reputation. And that's why we're here.

00:09:09.940 And if they would settle at this point, if it ever became public that Justin Baldoni had paid Blake

00:09:15.920 Lively some sort of amount to get out of this, it would completely ruin his reputation. People would

00:09:22.720 say, oh, he's guilty. And all the fans and supporters that he has would say, we're so disappointed in you.

00:09:29.360 Why did you do that? So I think for Justin, he has to stand his ground here and say, I am not settling.

00:09:36.240 I want to go to trial. I want to prove my point here. Because the way I see it, he doesn't really have

00:09:42.060 a choice. The big risk, though, when they go to trial is that if one party wins, it's not necessarily

00:09:48.860 over. You can always appeal. So that means that if one party loses and are unhappy with that,

00:09:56.680 they could file an appeal and this could go on and on and on. So I'm sure that the magistrate

00:10:03.420 is going to point that out to them several times today and say, hey, do you really want that?

00:10:08.560 Do you really want the stress in your life? Don't you want this to be over with? No one can ever talk

00:10:13.500 about this again. But yeah, I don't think it's going to happen. And I think if Blake Lively settles

00:10:17.940 as well, that means that she wasn't that serious about her claims, that she's willing to just walk

00:10:23.560 away from this. She's been proclaiming that she's doing this for all women, for all victims out there,

00:10:29.880 that she's the voice. And if she just settles like this and get some cash, that doesn't look very 0.99

00:10:35.860 good for her either. Okay. As I said in the beginning, there is another story here today,

00:10:40.580 Radar Online exclusive. It's not really that exclusive though, because I already spoke about

00:10:45.260 this, but it's interesting that they're publishing this today, that the bromance between Hugh Jackman

00:10:51.740 and Ryan Reynolds is over, or Hugh Jackman is ghosting Ryan Reynolds and taking a step back from

00:10:59.300 his friend. They're repeating some of the quotes from Rob Schroeder here. He did this, I think it was

00:11:04.460 last week, and I also spoke about it, where he said that the sources are saying that Hugh doesn't want

00:11:09.660 to be caught in the middle of this mess. And he's loyal, but he has limits when it comes to messy

00:11:15.460 legal battles. Another source confirmed there's a sense Hugh stepping back for his own sanity.

00:11:21.620 I mean, we've seen what happens to all these people who've been dragged into this lawsuit by

00:11:26.600 Blake Lively. And I think it was a big sign that Ryan Reynolds didn't show up at any of Hugh Jackman's

00:11:32.880 careers. He was really pushing this movie, Sing Song Blue, Song Song Blue. Yeah, anyways,

00:11:38.480 I did like the movie, actually. He was really pushing that movie. He went to so many premieres,

00:11:42.580 so many parties pushing that movie. And Ryan Reynolds was never there for his friend,

00:11:46.320 and he never even posted about the movie. So I think, as Radar Online is saying here,

00:11:50.680 that that bromance is over. It seems like the same thing has happened to Hugh Jackman,

00:11:55.640 that happened to Taylor Swift and Blake Lively. The source here is saying that Reynolds reportedly

00:12:01.880 keeps reaching out. He's texting, calling, even trying to lock in plans. But Hugh hasn't been

00:12:09.660 returning his calls. It was subtle at first, a missed text here, a cooler response there,

00:12:15.080 but people close to them can feel the tension. So yes, the world of Ryan Reynolds is crumbling

00:12:21.100 right now. Let's look at this article in The Hollywood Reporter. I find this really suspicious.

00:12:26.580 Let me know what you think. One of the reasons I find this suspicious is that they publish this

00:12:32.560 story as their main story today, the day of the settlement meeting. Now that we've seen inside

00:12:40.360 this whole PR machine, I feel like nothing is a coincidence anymore. I don't want to be

00:12:46.800 conspiratorial here, but I do feel that there's a reason for this story popping up today. Okay,

00:12:52.280 so mainly this is about an actress called Alexa Nicholas, and she just sued 10 Jane and Joes,

00:13:02.220 sound familiar? And included Melissa Nathan and Brian Friedman accusing them of being behind a smear

00:13:11.060 website against her. The reason why she's targeting Brian Friedman is because he used to represent her 0.97

00:13:18.080 ex-husband. She accused him of abuse, something that she dropped later on, but Brian Friedman was

00:13:25.760 representing him. And now that she's seen other lawsuits involving a smear campaign, alleged smear

00:13:31.700 campaigns, smear websites, she decided to file this lawsuit as well. And as I said, Hollywood Reporter

00:13:38.520 has a long, long story today saying inside the secret smear machine that's targeting Hollywood,

00:13:46.300 a shadowy network of anonymous slander sites is attacking players in high profile entertainment

00:13:53.680 scandals from Blake Lively versus Boldoni to a Rebel Wilson film fiasco to an ugly K-pop feud.

00:14:01.580 Critics allege they're all the handiwork of a small circle of operatives. So what Alexa is doing here

00:14:08.780 is that she's basing this lawsuit on assumptions. She's basing it on court filings in the Stephanie Jones 1.00

00:14:15.920 case. Stephanie Jones is the PR company that Justin Baldoni hired. I know it's getting complicated

00:14:22.740 here. And she sued her ex-employee Jennifer Abel and Melissa Nathan, the crisis expert that 1.00

00:14:30.440 Justin Baldoni also hired, saying that they created a smear website to smear her. There is no evidence

00:14:39.640 of that. And on top of that, Melissa Nathan again is involved in a lawsuit against Rebel Wilson by her 0.99

00:14:48.580 producer Amanda Ghost. And there's also a smear website involved. There is actually a text message

00:14:55.240 there where Melissa Nathan is telling one of her co-workers that Rebel wants one of those sites and it

00:15:05.300 can be really aggressive. So I don't know what Melissa Nathan has been up to behind closed doors 1.00

00:15:12.700 in other cases at all. But what I'm sure of is that she did not do any of this for Justin Baldoni.

00:15:21.960 And that to me is the only thing that matters here. But what this article is strongly suggesting here

00:15:27.640 is that all the same people are involved in all of this. And that's why I think it's very suspicious

00:15:33.960 that this article is published on the same day as this meeting today. Because this again is putting

00:15:41.960 pressure on the Wayfair Party saying, hey, we have evidence that you did the same thing to so many

00:15:49.700 other people. Of course, you smeared Blake widely. And this article, as I said, goes on and on for

00:15:55.700 is a really long article. At the bottom, they do mention that someone also created a smear site,

00:16:03.160 a smear website against Brian Friedman. Of course, most people don't read to the end. So they missed

00:16:09.180 that point. And that's why they put it there. And that means that obviously someone is trying to

00:16:14.040 smear him as well. But my major problem here is with this case, is that why would Brian Friedman,

00:16:22.360 a high end attorney, very well known in Hollywood, why would he engage himself in activities like

00:16:31.020 she's suggesting here? Why would he smear some random actress on behalf of his client when it

00:16:38.860 could cost him his career? What's in it for him? Why would he risk his whole career on something like

00:16:45.840 that? Because if they catch him in doing something like this, it could definitely be a career ending.

00:16:50.460 He could lose his bar over it. So why would he do that? This article doesn't mention any of that,

00:16:55.600 what the motivation would be here. They do also mention Jed Wallace several times. But the thing

00:17:01.480 is, all of this is just speculation. Yet there's no evidence that any of these people have actually

00:17:07.300 been directly involved in creating any smear websites. I'm not saying that it didn't happen,

00:17:14.680 but I'm saying it didn't happen in the Blake Lively case. First of all, there's no smear website

00:17:19.600 against Blake Lively. And all her evidence of this alleged smear campaign is just ridiculous. 0.97

00:17:25.680 It's just all falling apart. I've gone through that so many times. So anyways, let me know what 0.94

00:17:30.160 you think. And I think the fact here that she, on top of suing Friedman and Melissa Nathan, sued 10

00:17:35.680 anonymous people. That sounds like right out of Blake Lively's playbook that she did with that

00:17:41.660 Van Zandt lawsuit when she got hold of Jennifer Abel's phone so she could use those text messages 1.00

00:17:46.840 against Justin Baldoni and give them to the New York Times and that whole circle. So yeah,

00:17:52.140 that's why I think this article in the Hollywood Reporter is a bit suspicious. And I've seen other

00:17:56.440 articles from this outlet that I don't trust at all. Yeah, anything that comes out of Penske Media,

00:18:02.660 I look at with a grain of salt. We've seen how these trade magazines have been the mouthpiece for

00:18:08.860 Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds throughout this entire lawsuit. Anyways, that's it for me,

00:18:13.620 you guys. Thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed these episodes and let me know what

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00:18:32.680 Did you reach a settlement today? How are you feeling? Blake, did you reach a settlement today?

00:18:39.200 Do you feel vindicated? Blake?

00:18:40.620 Yeah, we've lost some talk.

Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - February 12, 2026

SHOCKING FACE-OFF in COURT !!!

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