Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - Taylor's BRUTAL statement !!

00:00:00.000 I think this little bee knows something's coming because she's bringing out her tiny violin again.

00:00:06.100 Taylor is telling the media that this does not involve her at all.

00:00:14.640 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Kersti Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller and your voice

00:00:19.720 of reason in a town built on delusion. Happy Sunday everyone. I hope you had a great weekend.

00:00:25.740 So now Taylor Swift is out there saying that she is not concerned about this legal battle at all

00:00:31.120 because it does not involve her. She is just enjoying her life but her popularity is plummeting.

00:00:40.220 Let's look at that and let's look at this new video evidence that Justin Baldoni's team just released.

00:00:46.480 This shows the same dancing scene as they released footage from about a year ago

00:00:51.580 but now we have it from a new angle. This is very interesting. Also we have the deposition from

00:00:59.580 the intimacy coordinator and she is blowing up Blake Lively's case and we have to look at this old

00:01:06.300 interview where Blake Lively talks about her chemistry with Justin. This is so cringe. Let's get back to

00:01:14.040 Taylor Swift. I have to say I never really had any like opinions about Taylor Swift. To me she's just

00:01:21.340 like whatever a pop star. I don't really like her music. I'm not interested in her personal life.

00:01:26.780 I've seen her a couple of times. I've been to some press conferences with her. I remember I watched her

00:01:32.060 and her then boyfriend Calvin Harris go into a pizza store in my neighborhood in New York and they were

00:01:39.340 followed by 15-20 paparazzis and she was dressed to the ninth and I was like why are they going into this

00:01:45.120 like local pizza store and how do all these people know that they're there. Anyways let's talk about

00:01:52.380 Taylor Swift and how she's now handling the fact that all her private text messages have been released

00:01:58.500 and become public. She's saying here to the New York Post or a source is saying to the New York Post

00:02:05.160 that Swift is more concerned about her man, her family and her friends and feels lively suit

00:02:12.920 allegedly alleging SH and retaliation tactics against Baldoni. Her it ends with us co-star and

00:02:20.460 director simply doesn't involve her. Well I don't think everyone agrees with that but she's just

00:02:28.480 trying to again take a step back from this and say hey I'm like I couldn't care less about this.

00:02:34.240 This has nothing to do with me. She's doubling down on that and Daily Mail also picked up this story

00:02:39.680 saying Taylor Swift unconcerned about Blake Lively legal drama because it doesn't involve her. I don't

00:02:45.900 think things like this is going to help Taylor Swift that she's just like indifferent to it all and I do

00:02:51.120 think that she is definitely really upset about this and she feels that Blake Lively has used her.

00:02:57.180 She's said that before but the fact is we've seen the text messages now so we know that Taylor Swift

00:03:03.380 was celebrating the day that Blake Lively took down Justin Baldoni in that New York

00:03:08.820 in that New York Times article. Anyways New York Post did another story on Taylor this week in saying

00:03:14.260 that Taylor Swift's popularity reportedly plummeted even before release of controversial Blake Lively

00:03:21.820 texts. That's interesting because they don't have any numbers from what happened after these texts

00:03:28.040 were released but they're saying here that Swift's popularity rating dropped even before the release

00:03:33.420 of her controversial text messages. The billionaire songstress popularity fell from 46.7 percent 0.86

00:03:40.240 down from 55.4 this time last year according to a poll taken on January 5th. So yes I guess Taylor's

00:03:48.520 popularity was going down anyways. I don't know how to read this really but I think that her popularity

00:03:55.560 maybe went up last year because of that information that came from her dad that she claimed that Blake

00:04:02.760 Lively had pressured her to support her publicly and Blake Lively had threatened her to say that if

00:04:09.000 you don't do as I say I will release all our private text messages but I think that helped Taylor's

00:04:15.160 popularity. But since she released her latest album in October I think it was then you would expect her

00:04:21.460 popularity to go up. But anyways what do I know? Let's look at this email that Ingrid sent me. Thank

00:04:28.060 you so much Ingrid. She's saying that I remember when her, Taylor and Calvin Harris broke up and he said

00:04:34.860 truthful things about her years ago and it's mind-blowing how much of what he said was absolutely

00:04:40.820 right about her. And she attached some tweets from Calvin Harris. So apparently Taylor had written a song

00:04:49.700 called This Is What You Came For and she had told Calvin back then that she wanted to use the

00:04:55.300 pseudonym Nils Schöberg. And then after they broke up Taylor said that he had refused to give her credit

00:05:02.620 for the song and he said that's really suspicious like why did you wait until we broke up to say that

00:05:08.040 and I never said that you couldn't have credit on the song that's something you want in yourself.

00:05:13.260 We don't know where the truth lays but he did tweet this. He said

00:05:17.300 if you know you're off tour and you need someone new to try and bury like Katy, like Katy Perry because

00:05:24.600 there was a feud between Taylor Swift and Katy Perry. But I'm not that guy, sorry. I won't allow it.

00:05:31.960 It's funny that they're using the word bury here as well. We've heard that before. We can bury anyone

00:05:37.620 in that story in the New York Times. And Calvin tweeted another one saying I figure if you're happy in

00:05:43.560 a new in your new relationship, you should focus on that instead of trying to tear your ex-boyfriend

00:05:48.960 down for something to do. He continued to say I wrote the music, produced the song, arranged it and

00:05:55.340 cut the vocals though. And initially she wanted it kept secret, hence the pseudonym. That makes sense to

00:06:01.240 me. Why would they pick a pseudonym together and put on that record? I mean, but I do find it

00:06:06.940 interesting though that he is saying that she needs to bury someone because she's off tour. And as Ingrid

00:06:13.220 pointed out in her message to me, she said that, you know, Taylor was off tour when she was texting

00:06:19.060 with Blake about these things. Well, I don't know what happened between her and Calvin, but she has

00:06:23.980 this history of breaking up with a lot of guys. She had so many boyfriends and then she gets very angry

00:06:30.160 with them afterwards and then she outs them in her songs or whatever it is. So to me, I feel like you

00:06:36.620 should keep your problems private and maybe not share it with the world, but whatever. What do I

00:06:42.280 know? I'm not a billionaire and pop star, so maybe things change when you get to that level. Who knows?

00:06:47.980 Okay, so let's look at this dancing scene. So there was more video footage released just before the

00:06:54.200 weekend. Some of these files weren't in that big dump that we had a couple of weeks ago because there

00:06:59.620 were larger files and this was one of them. And this is the same dancing scene that was released a year

00:07:05.680 ago when Justin Baldoni released his evidence when he sued Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Leslie Sloan

00:07:12.160 and the New York Times. He released this video, a much longer version of it, but this is from a

00:07:17.920 different angle. And as I've heard, people who were in the hearing last week, Andy Signor over at Popcorn

00:07:25.580 Planet pointed out, amongst others, that in that hearing, Blake Lively's lawyer kept pounding on the

00:07:32.680 fact that Justin Baldoni had to ask permission every time he was going to lean in or kiss or do

00:07:39.800 anything physical with Blake Lively. And he said that that was not there and he never asked for these

00:07:45.700 things. But now looking at this video, well, it looks like he is wrong. So here is Justin explaining to

00:07:54.360 Blake Lively that he's going to take his hat off before he leans in to try to kiss her.

00:08:01.480 Lay back. Lay back. Lay back. I'll take it off. Like I'll try to kiss you.

00:08:05.080 And back around. Okay.

00:08:06.600 Yeah, you know how about this sticker? Good. Hey, no, there's no sticker.

00:08:13.240 And it's four. It's four.

00:08:16.280 Did you hear that? He explained to her exactly what he was going to do. And she says, okay,

00:08:32.280 yeah, yeah. Does that sound like someone who doesn't consent? And secondly, she's been shown

00:08:39.240 this script already. So she knows what's going to happen here. I find it really weird, by the way,

00:08:46.040 that if you are a director of a movie and you have an actor there, that that person has to ask for

00:08:53.000 permission every time they do something in a scene, if it's physical. Anyways, we also have clearer audio

00:08:59.000 on that smelling good comment. One of the things that Blake Lively pointed out in her lawsuit when 0.99

00:09:06.760 she first filed it, that he was inappropriate and said that, oh, you smell good. But this is how it

00:09:13.000 really happened.

00:09:24.680 Yeah. If you didn't hear that clearly, she said to Justin, I am probably getting spray tan on you

00:09:30.760 while he leans into her and he says, it smells good. And she says something like, yeah, it's not

00:09:37.400 bad. It's my body makeup. What is inappropriate about that? He's trying to comfort her that her

00:09:43.960 spray tan doesn't smell bad. He's saying, well, it smells good. I mean, how is that harassing someone?

00:09:51.720 I just, I'm just like, I'm so curious how they're able to twist this around. But anyways, this is what

00:09:58.440 her lawyers said back then about this dancing scene. And keep in mind, Blake did not know that the B-roll,

00:10:07.000 the behind the scene footage, had audio on it. So she thought that this conversation could never become

00:10:14.760 public because they didn't have the audio for it. But guess what? They did. So this is what they said

00:10:20.760 back then when he released this video with audio, because obviously they were really caught off guard

00:10:27.880 here because they didn't know that they had audio. And her lawyer said that Justin Baldoni and his

00:10:32.760 lawyer may hope that this latest stunt will get ahead of the damaging evidence against him. But the

00:10:38.920 video itself, itself is damning. How? Oh, well, they're getting to that here. They're saying the video

00:10:45.400 shows Mr. Baldoni repeatedly leaning in towards Miss Lively, attempting to kiss her, kissing her

00:10:51.080 forehead, rubbing his face and mouth against her neck, flicking her lip with his thumb, caressing her,

00:10:56.920 telling her how good she smells, and talking with her out of character.

00:11:04.200 I mean, they're supposed to play two people falling in love on camera. What is he supposed to do?

00:11:10.680 But when you are shooting an intimate scene like this between two people and you happen to be both

00:11:17.480 the director and the character, you have to go in and out of character. And then he added here that

00:11:24.600 every moment of this was improvised by Mr. Baldoni with no discussion or consent in advance and no

00:11:30.920 intimacy coordinator present. First of all, you don't need an intimacy coordinator for a kissing scene.

00:11:38.200 That is well known all over Hollywood and all intimacy coordinators that I've seen talking about this

00:11:44.360 says you don't need an intimacy coordinator to kiss someone or to dance that didn't even kiss.

00:11:49.720 The scene was supposed to be him trying to kiss her. Anyways, a lot of people commented on it looked

00:11:56.200 like more that she was leaning into him trying to kiss him. And as we know now that she has not denied,

00:12:02.920 she was the one who improvised kissing. We all saw that in that hospital scene behind the scene that

00:12:08.600 was released last year as well. And also the fact that they said there was no consent,

00:12:14.280 he actually explained to her exactly what was going to happen. I'm going to take my cap off

00:12:20.200 and then I'm going to lean in and she says okay. So let's get a little bit into this intimacy

00:12:25.720 coordinator because her deposition has now been unsealed and Lizzie Talbot is not supporting Blake's

00:12:32.920 narrative at all. So she testified that she personally explained what consent means to Blake

00:12:41.560 and what boundaries are and her role in the movie and her role in those scenes. And she

00:12:49.240 offered to remove anything Blake wasn't comfortable with. And she invited Blake to reach out if she

00:12:55.400 needed anything further. Blake never followed up and never raised additional concerns. The fact that

00:13:02.600 Blake Live is using this scene particularly for her SH claims is obviously because Lizzie Talbot wasn't

00:13:09.240 there because you don't need an intimacy coordinator for a kissing scene. Also Lizzie Talbot says that 0.90

00:13:16.040 she does not recall any nudity in the birthing scene and at most there was a high hip line in that scene.

00:13:24.040 You know the birthing scene that she's also been talking about that oh it was so humiliating for her

00:13:30.040 because she was laying there like almost nude but she had a hospital gown on, she had a fake tummy on, 1.00

00:13:35.480 and she had black briefs underneath. And Liz Talbot is saying here that SAG, the actors union,

00:13:43.000 they have certain rules for nudity and they're saying that that is what is visible under a bikini

00:13:49.880 or a speedo. Meaning that what Blake Lively was wearing in that scene is not considered nudity at all.

00:13:56.760 So it's saying here that Blake's framing leans on how something felt or how it may be interpreted

00:14:03.720 and that doesn't matter. And Talbot makes it clear saying that that legally and professionally that's

00:14:10.520 not how consent of our relations are evaluated. So she didn't even have to sign a nudity writer 1.00

00:14:16.520 because there wasn't any nudity in the movie. Okay, so I wanted to share this interview. I've seen this

00:14:21.640 before, maybe you've seen it too, but I re-watched it and now it's just so funny to me because this is

00:14:28.920 Access Hollywood interviewing Colleen Hoover, Blake Lively and Brandon Sklenar. So I'm sure this

00:14:35.160 reporter has been told beforehand like everyone was when they did the promotion of this movie.

00:14:40.600 I remember watching a BBC reporter talking about that she was told beforehand that she should not ask

00:14:46.760 Blake Lively anything about Justin Baldoni on the red carpet. So I'm sure this reporter was told

00:14:51.240 that too, but she was like, I'm going to try a little bit anyway, and I'm going to do it in a smart

00:14:55.800 way. I really respect her for doing that. And she said, hey, Blake, it was undeniable the chemistry that

00:15:02.840 you and Justin Baldoni had. I mean, yes, you just have to watch this. The chemistry with Justin

00:15:09.400 also was off the charts. I mean, really, truly, you fell in love with both couples, you know,

00:15:17.880 with Lily, with both of them. And Blake, you always have a vision. So talk to me about how

00:15:22.840 sometimes you were even the intimacy coordinator in some of those sexier scenes. Like we saw you.

00:15:27.880 That shouldn't be happening, by the way. I just want to be clear that you should not be the intimacy

00:15:33.880 coordinator. You should definitely hire intimacy coordinators, which we did have. Thank goodness.

00:15:37.960 Blake does not know how to react to that. It's so funny. And of course, then,

00:15:42.840 and of course, then this thing is brought up. You were teaching Justin how to pull you in.

00:15:49.160 Where have you seen this? I actually just saw it too. I was on Instagram yesterday.

00:15:55.720 Yeah. I mean, I think that like, you know, romance is really important. How funny is that? She's like, 0.77

00:16:02.760 I saw you were teaching Justin how to pull you in. And Colleen was like,

00:16:07.560 yeah, I remember that too. Oh my God. I can't wait for all of these things to be played for in

00:16:16.360 front of a jury in a courtroom. I mean, how is she going to explain all of these things?

00:16:22.040 Here she is teaching Justin Baldoni. She is being the intimacy coordinator here,

00:16:28.040 just as this reporter is pointing out that, hey, you had, you were actually doing that too.

00:16:33.880 And then she explains that she did everything else on this movie, except being an intimacy coordinator.

00:16:39.880 Another telling thing that she was not just like an employee, an innocent victim here with no power.

00:16:46.680 I mean, oh my gosh, she is just destroying her case over and over and over again with her own words.

00:16:54.600 Then of course, she adds that, oh, you want to tell a story that's safe and respectful.

00:16:59.480 And then when she's talking about that, you can see that Brandon Sklenor and Colleen Hoover is just

00:17:04.680 looking down and being like, yeah, I actually did another video a while back on how Brandon Sklenor is

00:17:11.800 sitting in all interviews, hiding his crotch like this with either a coffee cup or a mug or a bottle or 0.76

00:17:19.320 something. It's like he's protecting his private area against Blake Lively. It's quite funny. 0.86

00:17:25.240 So if you watch any interviews with the two of them together, you will notice that Brandon Sklenor,

00:17:30.040 his body language is always the same. And he's always trying to like have a distance,

00:17:35.080 a physical distance from Blake Lively. Anyways, another interesting message I got from someone.

00:17:41.240 Thank you, Christina, for sharing this with me. This is so interesting and something that she's

00:17:45.800 pointing out no one really talked about. And can you imagine if this was the other way around,

00:17:51.960 that Justin had said something like this to Blake? What a locomotion it would be and how this would

00:17:59.240 have been used against him over and over again. So this is what Christina wrote to me. She said,

00:18:04.840 there are a few aspects of the Blake and Justin case that I feel have not been

00:18:09.480 adequately examined. And I believe there is important questions worth addressing.

00:18:14.120 One element I find particularly troubling is the reported comment by Blake suggesting that Justin

00:18:20.040 needed a nose job. Remember that? I'm going to play that from that video. So you see what I'm talking

00:18:25.320 about. I feel so nosy. And my nose is so big. I was hoping that we could address this. It's not too late.

00:18:35.560 Just got to shut down. We've got to call an insurance month and just deal with that.

00:18:41.480 Cut. Yes. And then she's saying to me, the impact and broader implications of that statements have not

00:18:48.360 been meaningfully explored. Telling a man of Italian and Jewish heritage that he needs to fix his nose is 0.97

00:18:56.680 not a neutral or harmless remark. Historically, certain facial features, particularly noses,

00:19:03.320 have been weaponized through racist and anti-Semitic propaganda, most notably during the Second World War.

00:19:10.040 While nose size is not inherently tied to Jewish identity, the myth of the Jewish nose has long been

00:19:17.400 used to demean and dehumanize. Against that backdrop, a comment like this carries far more weight than it

00:19:25.560 may appear on the surface. It's so true. And this seems to be a pattern. Remember her behavior towards

00:19:35.480 Jamie Heath. In one instance, she asked him to get her toilet paper. I haven't really talked about here

00:19:41.560 before, but that's something that came out, came up in a deposition as well. And in another instance,

00:19:46.920 she said, you can walk and come into my trailer, but you have to look at the wall. Don't look me in the

00:19:51.880 eye. And then she accused him of looking her in the eye afterwards. There are so many instances

00:19:58.280 that reveal who Blake Lively truly is. Anyways, thank you to Catherine for sending me these photos from

00:20:05.240 Target. This is where Blake Brown is right now. It's on some like messy shelf down at the bottom of

00:20:13.720 Target. They just want to try to get rid of it. And they're on clearance, basically. And it doesn't look

00:20:19.720 pretty. This is not how you want your brand to look in a store, for sure. But of course, it's all just

00:20:27.080 the Baldoni's fault. Anyways, that's it from you guys. Thank you so much for watching. I really appreciate all

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Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - February 02, 2026

Taylor's BRUTAL statement !!

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