Taylor's BRUTAL statement !!
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Taylor Swift is out there saying that she is not concerned about this legal battle at all because it does not involve her. She is just enjoying her life but her popularity is plummeting. Also, we have new video evidence of Justin Baldoni s confrontation with Blake Lively. Also we have the deposition from the intimacy coordinator and she is blowing up Blake's case.
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I think this little bee knows something's coming because she's bringing out her tiny violin again.
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Taylor is telling the media that this does not involve her at all.
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Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Kersti Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller and your voice
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of reason in a town built on delusion. Happy Sunday everyone. I hope you had a great weekend.
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So now Taylor Swift is out there saying that she is not concerned about this legal battle at all
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because it does not involve her. She is just enjoying her life but her popularity is plummeting.
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Let's look at that and let's look at this new video evidence that Justin Baldoni's team just released.
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This shows the same dancing scene as they released footage from about a year ago
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but now we have it from a new angle. This is very interesting. Also we have the deposition from
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the intimacy coordinator and she is blowing up Blake Lively's case and we have to look at this old
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interview where Blake Lively talks about her chemistry with Justin. This is so cringe. Let's get back to
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Taylor Swift. I have to say I never really had any like opinions about Taylor Swift. To me she's just
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like whatever a pop star. I don't really like her music. I'm not interested in her personal life.
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I've seen her a couple of times. I've been to some press conferences with her. I remember I watched her
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and her then boyfriend Calvin Harris go into a pizza store in my neighborhood in New York and they were
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followed by 15-20 paparazzis and she was dressed to the ninth and I was like why are they going into this
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like local pizza store and how do all these people know that they're there. Anyways let's talk about
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Taylor Swift and how she's now handling the fact that all her private text messages have been released
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and become public. She's saying here to the New York Post or a source is saying to the New York Post
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that Swift is more concerned about her man, her family and her friends and feels lively suit
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allegedly alleging SH and retaliation tactics against Baldoni. Her it ends with us co-star and
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director simply doesn't involve her. Well I don't think everyone agrees with that but she's just
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trying to again take a step back from this and say hey I'm like I couldn't care less about this.
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This has nothing to do with me. She's doubling down on that and Daily Mail also picked up this story
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saying Taylor Swift unconcerned about Blake Lively legal drama because it doesn't involve her. I don't
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think things like this is going to help Taylor Swift that she's just like indifferent to it all and I do
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think that she is definitely really upset about this and she feels that Blake Lively has used her.
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She's said that before but the fact is we've seen the text messages now so we know that Taylor Swift
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was celebrating the day that Blake Lively took down Justin Baldoni in that New York
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in that New York Times article. Anyways New York Post did another story on Taylor this week in saying
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that Taylor Swift's popularity reportedly plummeted even before release of controversial Blake Lively
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texts. That's interesting because they don't have any numbers from what happened after these texts
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were released but they're saying here that Swift's popularity rating dropped even before the release
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of her controversial text messages. The billionaire songstress popularity fell from 46.7 percent
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down from 55.4 this time last year according to a poll taken on January 5th. So yes I guess Taylor's
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popularity was going down anyways. I don't know how to read this really but I think that her popularity
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maybe went up last year because of that information that came from her dad that she claimed that Blake
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Lively had pressured her to support her publicly and Blake Lively had threatened her to say that if
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you don't do as I say I will release all our private text messages but I think that helped Taylor's
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popularity. But since she released her latest album in October I think it was then you would expect her
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popularity to go up. But anyways what do I know? Let's look at this email that Ingrid sent me. Thank
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you so much Ingrid. She's saying that I remember when her, Taylor and Calvin Harris broke up and he said
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truthful things about her years ago and it's mind-blowing how much of what he said was absolutely
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right about her. And she attached some tweets from Calvin Harris. So apparently Taylor had written a song
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called This Is What You Came For and she had told Calvin back then that she wanted to use the
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pseudonym Nils Schöberg. And then after they broke up Taylor said that he had refused to give her credit
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for the song and he said that's really suspicious like why did you wait until we broke up to say that
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and I never said that you couldn't have credit on the song that's something you want in yourself.
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We don't know where the truth lays but he did tweet this. He said
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if you know you're off tour and you need someone new to try and bury like Katy, like Katy Perry because
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there was a feud between Taylor Swift and Katy Perry. But I'm not that guy, sorry. I won't allow it.
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It's funny that they're using the word bury here as well. We've heard that before. We can bury anyone
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in that story in the New York Times. And Calvin tweeted another one saying I figure if you're happy in
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a new in your new relationship, you should focus on that instead of trying to tear your ex-boyfriend
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down for something to do. He continued to say I wrote the music, produced the song, arranged it and
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cut the vocals though. And initially she wanted it kept secret, hence the pseudonym. That makes sense to
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me. Why would they pick a pseudonym together and put on that record? I mean, but I do find it
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interesting though that he is saying that she needs to bury someone because she's off tour. And as Ingrid
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pointed out in her message to me, she said that, you know, Taylor was off tour when she was texting
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with Blake about these things. Well, I don't know what happened between her and Calvin, but she has
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this history of breaking up with a lot of guys. She had so many boyfriends and then she gets very angry
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with them afterwards and then she outs them in her songs or whatever it is. So to me, I feel like you
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should keep your problems private and maybe not share it with the world, but whatever. What do I
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know? I'm not a billionaire and pop star, so maybe things change when you get to that level. Who knows?
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Okay, so let's look at this dancing scene. So there was more video footage released just before the
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weekend. Some of these files weren't in that big dump that we had a couple of weeks ago because there
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were larger files and this was one of them. And this is the same dancing scene that was released a year
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ago when Justin Baldoni released his evidence when he sued Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Leslie Sloan
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and the New York Times. He released this video, a much longer version of it, but this is from a
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different angle. And as I've heard, people who were in the hearing last week, Andy Signor over at Popcorn
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Planet pointed out, amongst others, that in that hearing, Blake Lively's lawyer kept pounding on the
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fact that Justin Baldoni had to ask permission every time he was going to lean in or kiss or do
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anything physical with Blake Lively. And he said that that was not there and he never asked for these
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things. But now looking at this video, well, it looks like he is wrong. So here is Justin explaining to
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Blake Lively that he's going to take his hat off before he leans in to try to kiss her.
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Lay back. Lay back. Lay back. I'll take it off. Like I'll try to kiss you.
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Yeah, you know how about this sticker? Good. Hey, no, there's no sticker.
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Did you hear that? He explained to her exactly what he was going to do. And she says, okay,
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yeah, yeah. Does that sound like someone who doesn't consent? And secondly, she's been shown
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this script already. So she knows what's going to happen here. I find it really weird, by the way,
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that if you are a director of a movie and you have an actor there, that that person has to ask for
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permission every time they do something in a scene, if it's physical. Anyways, we also have clearer audio
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on that smelling good comment. One of the things that Blake Lively pointed out in her lawsuit when
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she first filed it, that he was inappropriate and said that, oh, you smell good. But this is how it
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Yeah. If you didn't hear that clearly, she said to Justin, I am probably getting spray tan on you
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while he leans into her and he says, it smells good. And she says something like, yeah, it's not
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bad. It's my body makeup. What is inappropriate about that? He's trying to comfort her that her
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spray tan doesn't smell bad. He's saying, well, it smells good. I mean, how is that harassing someone?
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I just, I'm just like, I'm so curious how they're able to twist this around. But anyways, this is what
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her lawyers said back then about this dancing scene. And keep in mind, Blake did not know that the B-roll,
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the behind the scene footage, had audio on it. So she thought that this conversation could never become
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public because they didn't have the audio for it. But guess what? They did. So this is what they said
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back then when he released this video with audio, because obviously they were really caught off guard
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here because they didn't know that they had audio. And her lawyer said that Justin Baldoni and his
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lawyer may hope that this latest stunt will get ahead of the damaging evidence against him. But the
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video itself, itself is damning. How? Oh, well, they're getting to that here. They're saying the video
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shows Mr. Baldoni repeatedly leaning in towards Miss Lively, attempting to kiss her, kissing her
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forehead, rubbing his face and mouth against her neck, flicking her lip with his thumb, caressing her,
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telling her how good she smells, and talking with her out of character.
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I mean, they're supposed to play two people falling in love on camera. What is he supposed to do?
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But when you are shooting an intimate scene like this between two people and you happen to be both
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the director and the character, you have to go in and out of character. And then he added here that
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every moment of this was improvised by Mr. Baldoni with no discussion or consent in advance and no
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intimacy coordinator present. First of all, you don't need an intimacy coordinator for a kissing scene.
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That is well known all over Hollywood and all intimacy coordinators that I've seen talking about this
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says you don't need an intimacy coordinator to kiss someone or to dance that didn't even kiss.
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The scene was supposed to be him trying to kiss her. Anyways, a lot of people commented on it looked
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like more that she was leaning into him trying to kiss him. And as we know now that she has not denied,
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she was the one who improvised kissing. We all saw that in that hospital scene behind the scene that
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was released last year as well. And also the fact that they said there was no consent,
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he actually explained to her exactly what was going to happen. I'm going to take my cap off
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and then I'm going to lean in and she says okay. So let's get a little bit into this intimacy
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coordinator because her deposition has now been unsealed and Lizzie Talbot is not supporting Blake's
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narrative at all. So she testified that she personally explained what consent means to Blake
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and what boundaries are and her role in the movie and her role in those scenes. And she
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offered to remove anything Blake wasn't comfortable with. And she invited Blake to reach out if she
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needed anything further. Blake never followed up and never raised additional concerns. The fact that
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Blake Live is using this scene particularly for her SH claims is obviously because Lizzie Talbot wasn't
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there because you don't need an intimacy coordinator for a kissing scene. Also Lizzie Talbot says that
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she does not recall any nudity in the birthing scene and at most there was a high hip line in that scene.
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You know the birthing scene that she's also been talking about that oh it was so humiliating for her
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because she was laying there like almost nude but she had a hospital gown on, she had a fake tummy on,
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and she had black briefs underneath. And Liz Talbot is saying here that SAG, the actors union,
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they have certain rules for nudity and they're saying that that is what is visible under a bikini
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or a speedo. Meaning that what Blake Lively was wearing in that scene is not considered nudity at all.
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So it's saying here that Blake's framing leans on how something felt or how it may be interpreted
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and that doesn't matter. And Talbot makes it clear saying that that legally and professionally that's
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not how consent of our relations are evaluated. So she didn't even have to sign a nudity writer
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because there wasn't any nudity in the movie. Okay, so I wanted to share this interview. I've seen this
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before, maybe you've seen it too, but I re-watched it and now it's just so funny to me because this is
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Access Hollywood interviewing Colleen Hoover, Blake Lively and Brandon Sklenar. So I'm sure this
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reporter has been told beforehand like everyone was when they did the promotion of this movie.
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I remember watching a BBC reporter talking about that she was told beforehand that she should not ask
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Blake Lively anything about Justin Baldoni on the red carpet. So I'm sure this reporter was told
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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
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way. I really respect her for doing that. And she said, hey, Blake, it was undeniable the chemistry that
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you and Justin Baldoni had. I mean, yes, you just have to watch this. The chemistry with Justin
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also was off the charts. I mean, really, truly, you fell in love with both couples, you know,
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with Lily, with both of them. And Blake, you always have a vision. So talk to me about how
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sometimes you were even the intimacy coordinator in some of those sexier scenes. Like we saw you.
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That shouldn't be happening, by the way. I just want to be clear that you should not be the intimacy
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coordinator. You should definitely hire intimacy coordinators, which we did have. Thank goodness.
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Blake does not know how to react to that. It's so funny. And of course, then,
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and of course, then this thing is brought up. You were teaching Justin how to pull you in.
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Where have you seen this? I actually just saw it too. I was on Instagram yesterday.
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Yeah. I mean, I think that like, you know, romance is really important. How funny is that? She's like,
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I saw you were teaching Justin how to pull you in. And Colleen was like,
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yeah, I remember that too. Oh my God. I can't wait for all of these things to be played for in
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front of a jury in a courtroom. I mean, how is she going to explain all of these things?
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Here she is teaching Justin Baldoni. She is being the intimacy coordinator here,
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just as this reporter is pointing out that, hey, you had, you were actually doing that too.
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And then she explains that she did everything else on this movie, except being an intimacy coordinator.
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Another telling thing that she was not just like an employee, an innocent victim here with no power.
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I mean, oh my gosh, she is just destroying her case over and over and over again with her own words.
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Then of course, she adds that, oh, you want to tell a story that's safe and respectful.
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And then when she's talking about that, you can see that Brandon Sklenor and Colleen Hoover is just
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looking down and being like, yeah, I actually did another video a while back on how Brandon Sklenor is
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sitting in all interviews, hiding his crotch like this with either a coffee cup or a mug or a bottle or
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something. It's like he's protecting his private area against Blake Lively. It's quite funny.
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So if you watch any interviews with the two of them together, you will notice that Brandon Sklenor,
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his body language is always the same. And he's always trying to like have a distance,
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a physical distance from Blake Lively. Anyways, another interesting message I got from someone.
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Thank you, Christina, for sharing this with me. This is so interesting and something that she's
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pointing out no one really talked about. And can you imagine if this was the other way around,
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that Justin had said something like this to Blake? What a locomotion it would be and how this would
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have been used against him over and over again. So this is what Christina wrote to me. She said,
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there are a few aspects of the Blake and Justin case that I feel have not been
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adequately examined. And I believe there is important questions worth addressing.
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One element I find particularly troubling is the reported comment by Blake suggesting that Justin
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needed a nose job. Remember that? I'm going to play that from that video. So you see what I'm talking
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about. I feel so nosy. And my nose is so big. I was hoping that we could address this. It's not too late.
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Just got to shut down. We've got to call an insurance month and just deal with that.
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Cut. Yes. And then she's saying to me, the impact and broader implications of that statements have not
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been meaningfully explored. Telling a man of Italian and Jewish heritage that he needs to fix his nose is
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not a neutral or harmless remark. Historically, certain facial features, particularly noses,
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have been weaponized through racist and anti-Semitic propaganda, most notably during the Second World War.
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While nose size is not inherently tied to Jewish identity, the myth of the Jewish nose has long been
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used to demean and dehumanize. Against that backdrop, a comment like this carries far more weight than it
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may appear on the surface. It's so true. And this seems to be a pattern. Remember her behavior towards
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Jamie Heath. In one instance, she asked him to get her toilet paper. I haven't really talked about here
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before, but that's something that came out, came up in a deposition as well. And in another instance,
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she said, you can walk and come into my trailer, but you have to look at the wall. Don't look me in the
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eye. And then she accused him of looking her in the eye afterwards. There are so many instances
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that reveal who Blake Lively truly is. Anyways, thank you to Catherine for sending me these photos from
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Target. This is where Blake Brown is right now. It's on some like messy shelf down at the bottom of
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Target. They just want to try to get rid of it. And they're on clearance, basically. And it doesn't look
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pretty. This is not how you want your brand to look in a store, for sure. But of course, it's all just
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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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