The PHOTOS That Could Sink Blake’s Case !!
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Summary
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds got married on a plantation in 2012, and it only came back to haunt her in 2019 when a photo of their wedding on the plantation was leaked to the press. Also, another big story broke of Blake Lively s company and how she was inspired by Goop and Gwyneth Paltrow's company, and how it was a complete disaster.
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So, whatever you think is going to happen in the future,
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And then they threatened to sue everyone who published these photographs.
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I'm Sasti Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
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and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
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Okay, first of all, I have to correct myself from something I did yesterday,
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because I had no idea that this meant this thing.
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So, I was reading up one of, like, Lively's posts or a story that she did
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when she talked about what she did during Christmas,
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And that was, amongst other things, drinking a glass of milk with ice cubes in it.
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And I pronounced that Y-K-Y-K or Y-K-Y or something like that.
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I thought she added that as a Y-K-Y kind of comment,
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that it's some people might not like that idea.
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And then a lot of you explained to me in the comment section what this actually stands for,
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And obviously, I didn't know, so I didn't pronounce it even right.
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Talk about boomerang and making myself look like an idiot.
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I laughed so hard when I saw the first person say,
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So, if you think I don't know, you know I know.
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Anyways, I love when you guys are correcting me.
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And sometimes I pronounce things really weird because I'm from Norway
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and I don't always know the right or correct pronunciation.
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And it makes me laugh sometimes because you have to laugh at yourself.
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So, I thought this would be a great opportunity to look back at some of the things
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These are things that very likely will be used against her during the trial.
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Just like her attorneys have been trying to bring Justin Baldoni's pass back,
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the Wayfair Party's attorneys are going to do the same thing to Blake Lively.
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So, let's go through some of the things that might come up during trial
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I think one of the craziest things that came back to haunt Blake Lively
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is the fact that her and Ryan Reynolds got married on a plantation.
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This was in 2012 and they came out and apologized for this and said,
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hey, we didn't really know and this was kind of tone deaf of us.
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Yes, it was and a lot of people reacted to it then
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And people started talking again, especially after Jamie Heath's deposition was unsealed
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where we see his side of the story when he entered Blake Lively's trailer.
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As we know, Jamie Heath is black and a lot of people reacted to the fact
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that Blake Lively was criticizing him for looking her in the eye.
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She told him to turn against the wall and look against the wall
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especially considering her past of getting married on a plantation.
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And of course, this came back to haunt her as well
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when she was on stage with the rest of the cast from Gossip Girl
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and she pointed out that Leighton Meester was born in a cage.
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Leighton Meester's mom gave birth to her in prison
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and of course, Blake Lively had to point that out in front of a live audience,
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something that people thought was extremely ruthless and just mean.
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Also, another big story broke of Blake Lively's company Preserve.
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So she started this company basically because she was inspired by Goop
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and she wanted to be the next Gwyneth Paltrow and it was a complete catastrophe.
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and some of the ex-employees came out and spoke about it.
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And it wasn't pretty saying that according to multiple employees,
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with some pointing out the irony of the entitled movie star's current lawsuit.
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They all described this workplace as completely toxic
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Apparently, Leslie Sloan was out there trying to kill stories
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Also, some of the clothing and some of the products that she was pushing
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was inspired by a time where there were actually plantations
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Apparently, this company was run by her brother, Eric, and he didn't do much.
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He was just drinking alcohol and smoking all day and people didn't get paid.
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And then Ryan Reynolds came in and he bossed around and yelled at people
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And of course, as we know now, the company didn't survive for very long.
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It says here that Preserve's failure was blamed on sexism and the media
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And she said, you don't see male entrepreneurs pitted against each other,
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destroyed, picked apart, and every word they say served up to judge.
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Anyways, of course, things that happened in this company that she was running,
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And all these employees and so many of them quit,
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makes it clear that this was a toxic work environment.
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And of course, during a trial, if they ask her about this,
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it's just going to make her look terrible because comparing this work environment
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to the work environment on It Ends With Us makes It Ends With Us look like a cupcake.
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And of course, another story that came up to bite Blake in the butt this year
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is the fact that she improvised grabbing Henry Golding by the crotch.
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And there was like this behind the scenes video that some amazing internet suit found online
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where Blake Lively is talking to Paul Feig, the director,
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And they're talking about how she improvised this scene.
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And on top of that, as you know, Justin Baldoni released a video where he said
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So that adds up to all the things that can be used against Blake.
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And as you know, she doesn't have any evidence for SH.
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So when a jury is showed this kind of footage, what are they going to think?
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Also, another behind the scenes video that shocked people to the core this year
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was when Ryan Reynolds and the director of Deadpool, Sean Levy,
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was talking about a scene from Deadpool where Ryan Reynolds used his daughter, Ines.
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And they were laughing about the fact that Ryan asked his own daughter
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if you don't do it, I'm going to find someone else who wants to do it.
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And then they laughed that she had to do this about 50 times.
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And what her father told her to say was that Deadpool,
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should take his thing out of Wolverine's mouth.
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Keeping that in mind, and the latest story that just broke,
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that Justin Baldoni had told Blake Lively in front of Ryan Reynolds
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How are you going to convince a jury that that was traumatizing for Blake and Ryan
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when they're making their kids do stuff like this on movie sets?
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Also, Siddhal, thank you for reminding me of this story.
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It hasn't really been around that much this year,
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but I think this is another story that can really harm Blake Lively during this trial.
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So in 2011, right after Blake Lively had done The Town with Ben Affleck,
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there were a lot of nude photos of Blake that leaked online.
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These photographs allegedly came from a hacker,
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I have to say that I feel for all women who are the victims of something like this to happen to them.
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But if we put all of that aside here and look at just this story,
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Blake Lively's team and Leslie Sloan went bananas trying to kill this story.
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And what they did was basically saying that these pictures were fake.
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And then they threatened to sue everyone who published these photographs.
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I was doing a lot of Googling this morning on these photos,
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They've been really successful at scraping the internet for these images.
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then why would you make such an effort scraping them?
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So OK Magazine did a story back then where they interviewed an industry insider.
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I would say 90% is an orchestrated attempt or act on her part to raise her profile.
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His name is Joe Francis, and he's the founder of Girl Gone Wild.
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And he is 90% sure that Blake Lively leaked those photos herself.
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We've seen a lot of this happening in Hollywood,
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and we've seen a lot of the times when this happens,
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like Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson.
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When things like this leak, it could bring that person's fame to the next level.
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And that's exactly what this guy is saying about these photos of Blake Lively.
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where they're comparing a photo of Blake where she has this tattoo
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on this little star or whatever it is near her collarbone.
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So that means that she probably, if it was her,
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which also makes sense with all the rumors that were swirling around this time
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that she had allegedly an affair with Ben Affleck.
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I've heard people say that Jennifer Garner found these photos and she leaked them.
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But anyways, her publicist here, I'm assuming, again, this is Leslie Sloan.
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She said that Blake has never taken nude photos of herself
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and will pursue legal actions against the publication
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and other outlets that republished them in any manner.
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That never happened as far as we know, but I think the photographs disappeared.
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He explains that it's working because it's getting wide coverage.
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This may be what she needed to get her name out there.
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He believes the photos will help boost Blake's appeal and her public profile.
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Anyways, he says that she has nothing to worry about because she looks fantastic.
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But anyways, and at this time, Blake was rumored to be dating Leonardo DiCaprio
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and there were some photographs of her and Leo on this yacht
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where they point out that this hacker had published more photographs
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and he did this after they denied that the photos were real.
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And according to TMZ, he posted new pictures with a warning saying,
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Two of the pictures show a woman holding an iPhone and it sure looks like Blake.
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I don't want to throw any shade at a woman experiencing something like this,
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He used to work for a magazine, a very prominent magazine,
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and he mentioned this story and he said to me back then
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that these were photos that Blake had sent to Ben Affleck.
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but I do find it weird that it was never confirmed
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And apparently, Hollywood didn't believe it either
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because Reese Witherspoon went on the MTV Movie Awards that year
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and she mentioned it in her speech in a very snarky way.
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And like if you took naked pictures of yourself on your cell phone,
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Yeah, she also made fun of Kim Kardashian here,
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but that other comment was definitely for Blake.
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Yes, hide your face if you're going to do stuff like that.
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Anyways, of course, these are things that are going to be brought up in trial.
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and have to talk about this incident as well, you know,
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Yes, she's going to have to answer those kind of questions
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to take away all her credibility of how she was harmed
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by Justin Baldoni and Jamie Heath on the set of It Ends With Us.
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Yes, so Blake, you better be prepared for this kind of stuff.
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Anyways, before I go, thank you, Darla, for sending me this video again.
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And this reminds me of the video I showed a clip of yesterday
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when Blake Lively is interviewed by Forbes magazine
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and she talks about how she accepts a role as an actress,
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And this video as well, where she was interviewed on the red carpet
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by Sky News for the premiere of It Ends With Us,
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I'm not the type of actor who can act without producing, you know?
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Like, I can't, you can't just put me in any clothes
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and give me any words and have me step in and transform.
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because I would watch actors who were just shapeshifters.
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And then I realized that half of the actors that I admire most
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were people who had to get their hands in the storytelling
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and the writing and the creating and the environment
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And I was like, oh, okay, there's two different categories.
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So once I started embracing that and leaning into it
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Yes, at first she was insecure about taking ownership,
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And she doesn't mind if she has to put the director of the movie
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It's been a quiet week and I feel like it's leading up
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As I said yesterday, we are waiting for a lot of evidence