Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - October 22, 2026


Testimony UNSEALED !! New Crisis for Blake Lively !？!

People wanted me dead !!

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00:00:00.000 Do you have a hope that your friendship will resume with Blake Lively when this case is concluded?
00:00:06.340 I can't say, she says.
00:00:13.640 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Kersti Flore, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
00:00:18.200 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
00:00:22.320 Okay, we got some new evidence unsealed in the Blake Lively lawsuit,
00:00:26.600 and this time it's Janis Slade's deposition.
00:00:30.000 We've seen parts of it before when Blake Lively's attorney were asking her questions,
00:00:35.120 but this part, when Justin Baldoni's attorneys are asking her questions, has never been seen before.
00:00:41.420 They are really setting up a trap for her, especially when it comes to the question
00:00:47.580 if she viewed Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds differently after knowing that they got married on a plantation.
00:00:55.800 You won't believe her answer to that and how she later regretted it.
00:01:01.620 And we got a very interesting new interview with Colleen Hoover.
00:01:05.140 It's pretty telling that Colleen no longer has a problem talking about Justin Baldoni.
00:01:12.000 The podcast host also reveals her encounter with Justin.
00:01:16.740 And this makes Blake's narrative completely collapse again.
00:01:21.820 Let's look into it.
00:01:23.100 So kudos to Carol over at Docket Update.
00:01:25.940 She's done such an amazing job keeping everyone updated
00:01:28.660 on what's going on.
00:01:29.580 And she's the one who found these new pages
00:01:31.820 from Jenny Slate's deposition.
00:01:33.700 Reading this, it's so obvious that Justin Baldoni
00:01:37.420 and the Wayfair Party's attorneys
00:01:39.140 are trying to set up a trap for Jenny Slate.
00:01:43.140 And she walks right into it.
00:01:45.780 I've talked about parts of this deposition before
00:01:48.280 when Blake Lively's attorneys are asking her
00:01:51.540 about all these traumatic incidents that happened on the set trying to paint Justin Baldoni and
00:01:57.900 Jamie Heath as these creeps and that they were creating this toxic unbearable environment and
00:02:05.520 Jenny Slade kept saying how incredibly irritated she was all the time she mentioned specifically
00:02:11.320 that Justin had called one of Blake's outfits sexy and we all know that she's referring to
00:02:17.680 the fleece onesie that blake was wearing and they talk a lot about that back and forth and also the
00:02:24.380 traumatizing experience jenny had herself when justin baldoni called her pants sexy then after
00:02:31.140 blake's attorneys have established that this was horrible justin baldoni jenny heath the white
00:02:36.320 party's attorneys start asking jenny's questions about blake lively and ryan reynolds and their
00:02:43.720 past and if she would ever consider judging them for anything that they've done. She also says in
00:02:50.680 this new evidence that she read the article in the New York Times but she never even read Blake
00:02:57.220 Lively's complaints. That's how engaged she was in this traumatizing experience. But anyways this is
00:03:03.980 the part that I find really interesting. This is where the attorneys are informing Jenny Slate
00:03:11.240 about Blake Lively's reputation and she has no idea first they ask her here what she knew about
00:03:18.420 Justin Boldoni and she didn't know that much except that he was in Jane the Virgin and that
00:03:23.180 he had done some TED talks and then they start asking what she knew about Blake Lively and they
00:03:29.440 say uh had you ever heard anything negative about Blake Lively before beginning this project with
00:03:34.020 her and Jenny says no had you ever read anything online that was negative about Blake Lively
00:03:39.820 no she says and the only bad vibe you had going into this project was a bad vibe you had about
00:03:46.360 Justin Baldoni is that correct and she says yes so prior to this she also talked about a screening
00:03:52.760 test or an audition or whatever a rehearsal she did with Blake Lively on a zoom where Justin
00:04:00.200 Baldoni was recording it and she said they didn't know that he was going to record it which was also
00:04:05.480 very traumatizing and then they continue do you know who Leighton Meester is I don't know her but
00:04:11.260 I know who she is she says who is she an actress do you know do you have any opinions about her
00:04:17.520 no do you know that Blake Lively worked with her on a show yes have you heard that Blake Lively
00:04:23.860 and Leighton Meester avoid each other like the plague no do you know if that's true or you've
00:04:31.260 never heard it yeah i've never heard that she says do you know why it might have been said
00:04:37.020 i can't speculate and then they ask if the allegation that late meester and blake lively
00:04:44.560 avoid each other like the plague impact your opinion of blake lively no she says do you know
00:04:51.040 who anna kendrick is again i don't know her personally but of course i know who she is
00:04:56.800 do you have an opinion about her no are you aware of rumors that blake lively and anna kendrick do
00:05:02.300 not get along no do the allegation that anna kendrick and blake lively do not get along
00:05:07.900 impact your opinion of blake lively no i mean as you sit here today you have a good opinion of
00:05:15.460 blake lively correct and she says i don't have a current opinion of someone i haven't spoken to
00:05:21.880 in months so it's obvious that Blake and Jenny are not very close at this point they actually
00:05:31.420 stopped talking to each other and in the middle of this legal mess why are they not talking to
00:05:37.860 each other it's obvious to me at this point that Jenny agreed to support Blake Lively and I believe
00:05:43.960 this is just speculation that a lot of these text exchanges between the two of them was Blake Lively
00:05:50.440 trying to collect some evidence i also believe that when two women start hyping each other up
00:05:55.940 about something that they believe is so horrible it just gets worse and worse and then of course
00:06:01.280 that affects the set as well and i can imagine how annoyed justin baldone is at this point
00:06:07.140 with these two women just making a huge deal about everything and he's just like let's just
00:06:11.980 get this over with and then they continue asking her do you anticipate speaking with blake lively
00:06:17.860 when this case is concluded?
00:06:19.960 And she says, I don't know.
00:06:22.100 Do you have a hope that your friendship
00:06:23.800 will resume with Blake Lively
00:06:25.660 when this case is concluded?
00:06:28.280 I can't say, she says.
00:06:31.300 It's obvious to me that she had a fallout
00:06:35.980 with Blake Lively.
00:06:37.720 I think she's realized that Blake was using her.
00:06:41.160 It's interesting because there's also conversation here
00:06:44.480 and evidence that Blake Lively wanted Jenny Slate
00:06:47.400 to join her lawsuit she's asking her about it she said in a text the door is always open for you
00:06:53.200 jenny if you want to join and jenny was like no i'm okay i support you and then she ended up
00:06:59.480 writing a statement in support of blake but she said that i resolved my issues and i don't want
00:07:06.780 to be a part of this lawsuit so something definitely happened after blake lively filed
00:07:11.820 her a lawsuit because now they're not talking to each other anymore and then they continue pushing
00:07:16.520 her saying is there a reason why you would not want to resume your friendship with blake lively
00:07:20.760 at the conclusion of this case and she says no then they ask are you aware that blake lively
00:07:27.480 and ryan reynolds allegedly began the relationship while she was still married to scarlett johansson
00:07:33.060 and then all the lawyers are objecting like no no no and miss hudson is saying you can't talk about
00:07:39.260 my client's sexual history like that yeah they obviously don't want that on any public record
00:07:45.620 and then they rephrase the question asking jenny are you aware that blake lively married ryan
00:07:50.200 on a slave plantation in south carolina and then jenny says yes i did know that have you ever read
00:07:56.900 any of the comments about the fact that blake lively married ryan reynolds on the plantation
00:08:01.360 and she says no does the fact that blake married ryan reynolds on a slave plantation in south
00:08:07.840 carolina change your opinion about her in any way and then she responds like this that's not
00:08:13.540 something I thought about as you sit here today does that impact your opinion of Blake Lively
00:08:20.460 and she says no she regrets saying this later in this deposition by the way and she corrects
00:08:27.380 herself which is very interesting and then they continue asking her here are you aware of Blake
00:08:32.660 Lively's lifestyle brand called Preserve and she says I think I remember that she had that but I
00:08:38.040 don't know anything about it are you aware that there were allegations of toxic unprofessional
00:08:43.060 and disorganized workplace culture she says no and then here at the end jenny regrets what she
00:08:51.300 just said about blake and ryan getting married on a plantation so the attorney is asking her here
00:08:58.620 do you have anything else you would like to add regarding that line of questioning and she's like
00:09:03.800 yes i wanted to make clear after thinking about it just to make it clear that in no way do i condone
00:09:12.020 being unkind to people you know a toxic workplace certainly not you know celebrating or getting
00:09:18.680 married on a slave plantation. I certainly do not think that those are good things that people
00:09:24.220 should do but when the context is what feels like kind of like a quick output of things that I can't
00:09:30.980 corroborate that feel like rumors to me I don't know if they're true or the context or what
00:09:38.140 happen and I wasn't there I can't comment on truthfully on how that would change my opinion
00:09:44.020 of the person but it doesn't mean at all that I condone those you know those things generally so
00:09:50.040 now she's just saying that the fact that Blake and Ryan got married on a plantation is basically
00:09:55.780 just rumors and that's why she can't really comment on it and that's why her opinion about
00:10:02.140 Blake didn't change but at the same time she says that I certainly do not think that those are good
00:10:07.940 things that people should do. It's interesting how Jenny refuses to judge Blake Lively on some
00:10:13.680 of her actions in her life while she's so quick at judging Justin Baldoni for some comments that
00:10:21.900 he made on the set. I also find it very interesting. I was rereading some of the other things that she
00:10:27.300 said in this deposition about what happened in that scene when Justin Baldoni said to Blake Lively
00:10:34.180 that you look sexy or you look hot and she was like I wasn't going for that and he was like okay
00:10:39.900 whatever you were going for something like that Jenny couldn't remember in detail what happened
00:10:44.600 I find it interesting that when they thought this was so outrageous when it happened that they don't
00:10:49.000 remember any details and she kept saying oh it's such a long time ago it's not really such a long
00:10:54.000 time ago and also when you think about how Jenny Slade speaks publicly on podcasts being so open
00:11:03.580 And at times, I would say vulgar talking about her own sex life.
00:11:08.820 Sometimes when I'm drunk, I do play like kind of an erotic clown.
00:11:14.100 And my husband hates it, but he loves it.
00:11:17.340 Like, first of all, imagine me totally drunk.
00:11:20.260 I'm trying to like, like, it'll be like, I'm sort of like coming on to him.
00:11:25.360 But then like, I'll be like having to like take my pants off, you know, and I'm like.
00:11:33.580 If Justin Baldoni had seen that, why on earth would he think that it was inappropriate to call her pants sexy?
00:11:42.620 Jenny also says here that she thinks that is inappropriate, even when you're talking about a character's wardrobe.
00:11:51.480 So if you're going to explain that a person has to look sexy in a scene, you can't use that word.
00:11:57.460 As a director, you have to find alternative words, I guess, to describe the wardrobe of the character.
00:12:06.000 And as you know, we've seen so many examples from the set, B-roll from the set,
00:12:11.300 where Blake Lively refers to things that she's wearing as sexy.
00:12:15.840 And of course we've seen the famous text message that Blake sends to Justy
00:12:28.960 Baldoni saying that she's a ball buster, never with teeth, and that's my love
00:12:34.340 language. Can you imagine if it was him sending that to her? She also admits in
00:12:40.280 in this deposition that she never read the book either so neither her or blake lively actually
00:12:47.160 read the book what an insult to colin hoover and she admits here that she actually never watched
00:12:54.200 the movie which is basically an insult to blake lively and ryan reynolds who wrote starred
00:12:59.640 produced directed and marketed the movie and jenny slate couldn't be bothered to watch it
00:13:06.120 Anyways, let's get into this really fascinating new interview with Colleen Hoover
00:13:10.700 and where the podcast host talks about her encounter with Justin Baldoni.
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00:15:07.720 Okay so let's get back into it. So Colleen Hoover was a guest at Olivia Ponton's podcast.
00:15:14.000 I don't know who Olivia Ponton is but she seems very sweet in this interview and she could also
00:15:20.400 reveal that she's a big fan of Colleen Hoover and she was invited by Colleen to be an extra in a
00:15:28.460 small part in one of the scenes at It Ends With Us. In the podcast they talk about how this actually
00:15:35.180 happened. I'm maybe like a third into the book and I pick up my phone I'm reading in my apartment I
00:15:42.800 pick up my phone and it was you asking me to potentially come on to set for ends with us and
00:15:48.300 that was like i can't even describe that i had no idea that you were you were like in the process
00:15:54.240 of reading the book yeah so then i was like i really need to finish this book so i know what's
00:15:57.740 going on in the movie just mentioning that in contrast to blake lively and jenny slates who
00:16:03.100 had big parts in this movie and they couldn't even bother to read the book but anyways this is where
00:16:09.000 it gets really interesting um actually it was justin baldoni had messaged me and was like do
00:16:15.740 you have any you know people that you know like your books that might can play um this tiny role
00:16:23.280 um because he knew like i wanted to incorporate readers as much as possible and um and you were
00:16:31.640 the first person i thought of and i was like i didn't even know if you were like into acting or
00:16:35.520 anything yes it's pretty telling that colleen hoover no longer has a problem talking about
00:16:42.960 justin baldoni she's even mentioning him with first and last name in previous interviews we've
00:16:50.420 seen her talk about that just the director she hasn't even said his name but here she's crediting
00:16:56.280 him saying it was his idea that he came up to her saying that hey do you have any fans of your books
00:17:03.060 who might want to be a part of this movie.
00:17:05.460 I would say that is a really considerate thing to do.
00:17:09.160 And as you know, Colleen Hoover came out during this whole mess
00:17:12.840 and said that she didn't feel seen by Justin Baldoni
00:17:16.860 and he didn't listen to her ideas.
00:17:19.340 And here you have her saying that Justin Baldoni texted her and asked her,
00:17:23.300 hey, should we bring some of your fans into this movie?
00:17:26.700 And that's when Colleen contacted Olivia.
00:17:30.840 Then this is very telling as well.
00:17:33.060 Olivia talks about her experience on the set.
00:17:37.320 It was like my first ever like time reading a script.
00:17:40.700 I remember I went in for my fitting and he gave me the pink little script and I loved that it was pink.
00:17:48.280 I was like, oh my gosh.
00:17:49.380 And I sat there in one sitting.
00:17:51.760 I read the script front to back and then he asked me for my notes.
00:17:55.180 I was like, you want my notes?
00:17:56.700 Like, what do I, what am I going to say to this?
00:17:58.920 I was like, I have no notes.
00:17:59.860 I think it's perfect.
00:18:00.560 Yes, Justin gave her the script and he was even pink.
00:18:05.540 But the most interesting thing here is that Justin asked an extra who had like one or two lines in the movie to give him notes.
00:18:15.680 Colleen, Blake, all the women, the screenwriter of the movie, everyone was like, Justin didn't listen to us.
00:18:23.880 He didn't give us a chance to have any opinions about anything.
00:18:27.740 It was horrible.
00:18:28.420 and here you have an extra who spent one day on set and she's saying that justin asked her for
00:18:35.240 notes yeah and then the two of them continue talking about this day on set the party scene
00:18:41.260 how we weren't talking we weren't allowed to talk you had to voice or not only not talking
00:18:47.940 but also having to dance to know music for hours and hours and I find it to be one of the most
00:18:59.140 hilarious days of my life and it's interesting how that day was so tense for Blake and for
00:19:05.040 Jenny Slate as well when no one else noticed anything both these women are talking about
00:19:10.520 how long the day was that they started at 4 30 p.m and Olivia says she wasn't home until like
00:19:17.280 four o'clock or five o'clock in the morning so it was a really long shoot. Isn't that interesting
00:19:23.580 that she's saying that now that it was one of the most hilarious days of her life? I'm sure you all
00:19:28.900 remember how much she was complaining about what an awful septic was also for her and that she
00:19:35.460 didn't feel seen at all and here she's talking about that day like this and talking about how
00:19:42.640 Justin Baldoni wanted to involve even her fans in this movie. Yeah I guess these women could claim
00:19:49.420 that they were victims of Blake Lively's manipulation but at the same time both Jenny
00:19:55.140 and Colleen have a mind of their own. They're both successful actor, writer, now producer.
00:20:02.740 Colleen Hoover is also a producer now. So the fact that they were letting themselves be used by Blake
00:20:07.980 like this I think they can only blame themselves. Anyways that's it for me today you guys.
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