Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - The PHOTOS That Could Sink Blake’s Case !!

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00:00:30.220 And then they threatened to sue everyone who published these photographs.

00:00:38.900 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk.

00:00:40.640 I'm Sasti Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,

00:00:43.220 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.

00:00:47.300 Okay, first of all, I have to correct myself from something I did yesterday,

00:00:50.960 which I find really funny, actually,

00:00:52.860 because I had no idea that this meant this thing.

00:00:58.000 So, I was reading up one of, like, Lively's posts or a story that she did

00:01:03.460 when she talked about what she did during Christmas,

00:01:06.520 basically explaining what her heaven is.

00:01:09.780 And that was, amongst other things, drinking a glass of milk with ice cubes in it.

00:01:14.820 And then she added in brackets, I-Y-K-Y-K.

00:01:20.280 And I pronounced that Y-K-Y-K or Y-K-Y or something like that.

00:01:25.120 I thought she added that as a Y-K-Y kind of comment,

00:01:28.480 that it's some people might not like that idea.

00:01:31.220 And then a lot of you explained to me in the comment section what this actually stands for,

00:01:35.560 which is, if you know, you know.

00:01:38.920 And obviously, I didn't know, so I didn't pronounce it even right. 1.00

00:01:43.840 Talk about boomerang and making myself look like an idiot. 0.98

00:01:47.940 I laughed so hard when I saw the first person say, 1.00

00:01:51.280 you know, that means if you know, you know.

00:01:53.440 So, now I know.

00:01:54.700 So, if you think I don't know, you know I know.

00:01:58.220 Anyways, I love when you guys are correcting me.

00:02:00.300 And sometimes I pronounce things really weird because I'm from Norway

00:02:04.720 and I don't always know the right or correct pronunciation.

00:02:08.420 So, I really appreciate when you do that.

00:02:09.760 And it makes me laugh sometimes because you have to laugh at yourself.

00:02:13.920 Anyways, tomorrow is the last day of 2025.

00:02:17.280 So, I thought this would be a great opportunity to look back at some of the things

00:02:21.920 that came back to haunt Blake Lively in 2025.

00:02:25.580 These are things that very likely will be used against her during the trial.

00:02:32.220 Just like her attorneys have been trying to bring Justin Baldoni's pass back,

00:02:36.660 the Wayfair Party's attorneys are going to do the same thing to Blake Lively.

00:02:40.420 So, let's go through some of the things that might come up during trial 0.99

00:02:45.300 and bite her in the butt. 1.00

00:02:47.600 I think one of the craziest things that came back to haunt Blake Lively 1.00

00:02:51.140 is the fact that her and Ryan Reynolds got married on a plantation.

00:02:57.000 This was in 2012 and they came out and apologized for this and said,

00:03:02.560 hey, we didn't really know and this was kind of tone deaf of us.

00:03:06.900 Yes, it was and a lot of people reacted to it then

00:03:09.700 and now it's coming back to haunt them again.

00:03:12.260 And people started talking again, especially after Jamie Heath's deposition was unsealed

00:03:19.060 where we see his side of the story when he entered Blake Lively's trailer.

00:03:23.120 As we know, Jamie Heath is black and a lot of people reacted to the fact

00:03:26.820 that Blake Lively was criticizing him for looking her in the eye.

00:03:31.220 She told him to turn against the wall and look against the wall

00:03:34.720 and that just didn't sit well,

00:03:37.120 especially considering her past of getting married on a plantation. 0.91

00:03:41.380 And of course, this came back to haunt her as well

00:03:44.120 when she was on stage with the rest of the cast from Gossip Girl

00:03:47.800 and she pointed out that Leighton Meester was born in a cage.

00:03:52.500 Leighton Meester's mom gave birth to her in prison

00:03:54.680 and of course, Blake Lively had to point that out in front of a live audience,

00:03:59.980 something that people thought was extremely ruthless and just mean.

00:04:05.140 Also, another big story broke of Blake Lively's company Preserve.

00:04:09.980 A total disaster.

00:04:12.140 So she started this company basically because she was inspired by Goop

00:04:15.800 and she wanted to be the next Gwyneth Paltrow and it was a complete catastrophe.

00:04:20.680 And someone did a deep dive into this company

00:04:22.840 and some of the ex-employees came out and spoke about it.

00:04:27.260 And it wasn't pretty saying that according to multiple employees,

00:04:31.400 behind the scenes was nothing but chaos,

00:04:34.000 with some pointing out the irony of the entitled movie star's current lawsuit.

00:04:39.040 They all described this workplace as completely toxic

00:04:42.900 and they were paid off not to talk about it.

00:04:45.980 Apparently, Leslie Sloan was out there trying to kill stories 1.00

00:04:49.380 of how much of a disaster this company was.

00:04:53.280 Also, some of the clothing and some of the products that she was pushing

00:04:57.240 was inspired by a time where there were actually plantations

00:05:01.840 and people were like, what are you doing?

00:05:05.440 Apparently, this company was run by her brother, Eric, and he didn't do much.

00:05:09.740 He was just drinking alcohol and smoking all day and people didn't get paid.

00:05:14.560 It was horrible.

00:05:15.800 And then Ryan Reynolds came in and he bossed around and yelled at people

00:05:18.820 and Blake Lively rarely showed up.

00:05:21.100 Yeah.

00:05:21.260 And of course, as we know now, the company didn't survive for very long.

00:05:24.300 And when her company failed, this is so funny.

00:05:27.640 It says here that Preserve's failure was blamed on sexism and the media

00:05:32.800 by Lively in a previous interview.

00:05:36.480 And she said, you don't see male entrepreneurs pitted against each other,

00:05:41.600 destroyed, picked apart, and every word they say served up to judge.

00:05:46.720 Yeah.

00:05:46.900 Doesn't that sound familiar?

00:05:48.780 Anyways, of course, things that happened in this company that she was running,

00:05:52.900 she was the boss here, she was in power here.

00:05:55.980 And all these employees and so many of them quit,

00:05:59.300 makes it clear that this was a toxic work environment.

00:06:03.160 And of course, during a trial, if they ask her about this,

00:06:06.080 it's just going to make her look terrible because comparing this work environment

00:06:10.780 to the work environment on It Ends With Us makes It Ends With Us look like a cupcake. 0.95

00:06:16.180 And of course, another story that came up to bite Blake in the butt this year 0.98

00:06:20.480 is the fact that she improvised grabbing Henry Golding by the crotch. 0.98

00:06:27.500 This was during filming of A Simple Favor.

00:06:31.180 And there was like this behind the scenes video that some amazing internet suit found online

00:06:37.140 where Blake Lively is talking to Paul Feig, the director,

00:06:41.540 and they're discussing the different scenes.

00:06:44.120 And they're talking about how she improvised this scene.

00:06:48.040 And on top of that, as you know, Justin Baldoni released a video where he said

00:06:52.500 that Blake Lively had improvised kissing him.

00:06:56.280 So that adds up to all the things that can be used against Blake.

00:07:01.180 And as you know, she doesn't have any evidence for SH.

00:07:04.000 So when a jury is showed this kind of footage, what are they going to think?

00:07:08.900 Also, another behind the scenes video that shocked people to the core this year

00:07:14.300 was when Ryan Reynolds and the director of Deadpool, Sean Levy,

00:07:18.280 was talking about a scene from Deadpool where Ryan Reynolds used his daughter, Ines.

00:07:25.640 She was nine at the time.

00:07:27.620 And they were laughing about the fact that Ryan asked his own daughter

00:07:31.760 to say really R-rated stuff.

00:07:35.780 And she didn't want to do that.

00:07:38.220 And he said that I threatened her and said,

00:07:40.800 if you don't do it, I'm going to find someone else who wants to do it.

00:07:43.780 So she agreed to do it.

00:07:45.260 And then they laughed that she had to do this about 50 times.

00:07:49.040 And what her father told her to say was that Deadpool,

00:07:54.100 who was played by her father,

00:07:56.740 should take his thing out of Wolverine's mouth.

00:08:01.660 And then they were laughing about it.

00:08:03.240 Keeping that in mind, and the latest story that just broke,

00:08:07.980 that Justin Baldoni had told Blake Lively in front of Ryan Reynolds

00:08:12.900 and other people that he was circumcised,

00:08:15.580 and that it made headlines everywhere.

00:08:17.700 How are you going to convince a jury that that was traumatizing for Blake and Ryan

00:08:22.700 when they're making their kids do stuff like this on movie sets?

00:08:26.720 Also, Siddhal, thank you for reminding me of this story.

00:08:29.560 It hasn't really been around that much this year,

00:08:32.460 but I think this is another story that can really harm Blake Lively during this trial.

00:08:39.180 So in 2011, right after Blake Lively had done The Town with Ben Affleck,

00:08:45.680 there were a lot of nude photos of Blake that leaked online.

00:08:50.500 These photographs allegedly came from a hacker,

00:08:54.160 and a lot of online media published these.

00:08:57.840 I have to say that I feel for all women who are the victims of something like this to happen to them.

00:09:05.160 But if we put all of that aside here and look at just this story,

00:09:08.460 that doesn't make much sense to me.

00:09:10.520 So when all these pictures were out there,

00:09:13.320 Blake Lively's team and Leslie Sloan went bananas trying to kill this story.

00:09:18.920 And what they did was basically saying that these pictures were fake.

00:09:24.580 And then they threatened to sue everyone who published these photographs.

00:09:28.940 I was doing a lot of Googling this morning on these photos,

00:09:32.200 and it's really hard to find.

00:09:34.080 They've been really successful at scraping the internet for these images.

00:09:38.060 And I'm thinking, if they were fake anyways,

00:09:40.420 then why would you make such an effort scraping them?

00:09:43.120 So OK Magazine did a story back then where they interviewed an industry insider.

00:09:49.680 And he said,

00:09:50.660 I would say 90% is an orchestrated attempt or act on her part to raise her profile.

00:09:58.600 His name is Joe Francis, and he's the founder of Girl Gone Wild.

00:10:02.640 And he is 90% sure that Blake Lively leaked those photos herself.

00:10:09.360 We've seen a lot of this happening in Hollywood,

00:10:12.180 and we've seen a lot of the times when this happens,

00:10:15.140 like Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson.

00:10:19.420 When things like this leak, it could bring that person's fame to the next level.

00:10:23.940 And that's exactly what this guy is saying about these photos of Blake Lively.

00:10:28.340 She is saying that they are fake.

00:10:30.040 And then I actually saw this article on TMZ

00:10:32.720 where they're comparing a photo of Blake where she has this tattoo

00:10:36.520 from when she was shooting the town,

00:10:39.360 on this little star or whatever it is near her collarbone.

00:10:42.860 And in the photo, that same star is there.

00:10:46.240 So that means that she probably, if it was her,

00:10:49.320 allegedly, we don't know, took those photos.

00:10:52.120 She did that during the filming of the town,

00:10:56.080 which also makes sense with all the rumors that were swirling around this time

00:11:00.880 that she had allegedly an affair with Ben Affleck.

00:11:04.680 Blake, and she sent those photos to him.

00:11:07.520 I've heard people say that Jennifer Garner found these photos and she leaked them.

00:11:12.260 I'm not sure if I believe that.

00:11:13.360 I don't think she's that kind of person.

00:11:15.300 But anyways, her publicist here, I'm assuming, again, this is Leslie Sloan.

00:11:20.100 She said that Blake has never taken nude photos of herself

00:11:23.220 and will pursue legal actions against the publication

00:11:25.680 which initially published these photographs

00:11:27.920 and other outlets that republished them in any manner.

00:11:31.660 That never happened as far as we know, but I think the photographs disappeared.

00:11:36.360 But anyways, this guy is continuing.

00:11:38.260 He says that I think it's a smart move.

00:11:40.260 This will make her desirable.

00:11:42.640 He explains that it's working because it's getting wide coverage.

00:11:46.720 This may be what she needed to get her name out there. 0.99

00:11:50.300 He believes the photos will help boost Blake's appeal and her public profile.

00:11:55.660 Anyways, he says that she has nothing to worry about because she looks fantastic. 0.99

00:11:59.320 What a dumb comment, by the way. 0.99

00:12:01.180 Then you don't get it. 0.99

00:12:02.880 But anyways, and at this time, Blake was rumored to be dating Leonardo DiCaprio

00:12:07.800 and there were some photographs of her and Leo on this yacht

00:12:11.120 and she looked stressed out.

00:12:13.620 Anyways, TMZ did an update on this story

00:12:16.540 where they point out that this hacker had published more photographs

00:12:21.160 and he did this after they denied that the photos were real.

00:12:25.720 And according to TMZ, he posted new pictures with a warning saying,

00:12:33.420 oh yes, Blake's rep.

00:12:34.840 These are totally fake.

00:12:36.880 We really, really believe you.

00:12:39.320 Want more?

00:12:40.940 Two of the pictures show a woman holding an iPhone and it sure looks like Blake.

00:12:45.780 Yes.

00:12:46.180 I don't want to throw any shade at a woman experiencing something like this,

00:12:50.080 but if Blake was behind it herself...

00:12:52.520 I remember I spoke to an insider about this.

00:12:55.020 He used to work for a magazine, a very prominent magazine,

00:12:57.820 and he mentioned this story and he said to me back then

00:13:02.940 that these were photos that Blake had sent to Ben Affleck.

00:13:06.780 As I said, I don't know if that's true or not,

00:13:09.400 but I do find it weird that it was never confirmed

00:13:12.580 if these pictures were real or not.

00:13:15.320 And apparently, Hollywood didn't believe it either

00:13:18.620 because Reese Witherspoon went on the MTV Movie Awards that year

00:13:24.020 and she mentioned it in her speech in a very snarky way.

00:13:29.460 I came up in this business.

00:13:30.880 If you made a sex tape, you were embarrassed 0.93

00:13:32.540 and you hid it under your bed. 0.98

00:13:34.580 And like if you took naked pictures of yourself on your cell phone,

00:13:37.940 you hide your face, people.

00:13:39.960 Like, hide your face.

00:13:41.280 Yeah, she also made fun of Kim Kardashian here,

00:13:43.640 but that other comment was definitely for Blake.

00:13:47.380 Yes, hide your face if you're going to do stuff like that.

00:13:51.000 Anyways, of course, these are things that are going to be brought up in trial.

00:13:55.320 And when Blake Lively is on the stand

00:13:57.820 and have to talk about this incident as well, you know,

00:14:01.680 did you take those photos of yourself?

00:14:04.060 Did you send them to someone?

00:14:05.860 Yes, she's going to have to answer those kind of questions

00:14:08.700 because it is in the Wayfair party's interest

00:14:11.520 to take away all her credibility of how she was harmed

00:14:15.940 by Justin Baldoni and Jamie Heath on the set of It Ends With Us.

00:14:20.220 Yes, so Blake, you better be prepared for this kind of stuff.

00:14:23.540 Anyways, before I go, thank you, Darla, for sending me this video again.

00:14:27.460 I haven't seen this in a while either.

00:14:29.340 And this reminds me of the video I showed a clip of yesterday

00:14:32.740 when Blake Lively is interviewed by Forbes magazine

00:14:35.920 and she talks about how she accepts a role as an actress,

00:14:40.680 but her plan is always to get ownership. 1.00

00:14:44.540 And this video as well, where she was interviewed on the red carpet

00:14:47.500 by Sky News for the premiere of It Ends With Us,

00:14:51.840 she said this.

00:14:53.100 I'm not the type of actor who can act without producing, you know?

00:14:57.620 Like, I can't, you can't just put me in any clothes

00:14:59.860 and give me any words and have me step in and transform.

00:15:02.380 And I used to be very insecure about that.

00:15:04.520 I used to, like, feel like an imposter

00:15:06.260 because I would watch actors who were just shapeshifters.

00:15:08.880 They could do it in any circumstance.

00:15:11.200 And then I realized that half of the actors that I admire most

00:15:14.820 were people who were more filmmakers,

00:15:17.180 were people who had to get their hands in the storytelling

00:15:19.980 and the writing and the creating and the environment

00:15:22.540 and people that I respected so much.

00:15:24.880 And I was like, oh, okay, there's two different categories.

00:15:27.480 And I'm in this category and that's okay.

00:15:29.260 So once I started embracing that and leaning into it

00:15:32.120 and not feeling embarrassed about it,

00:15:35.320 I think I was able to do the best work.

00:15:37.540 And so that's why I'm so proud of this film.

00:15:39.300 Yes, at first she was insecure about taking ownership,

00:15:41.920 but now she's not anymore.

00:15:44.160 And she doesn't mind if she has to put the director of the movie

00:15:47.800 in the basement of his own career.

00:15:50.180 Anyways, that's it for me, you guys.

00:15:52.160 I hope you enjoyed this episode.

00:15:53.820 It's been a quiet week and I feel like it's leading up

00:15:57.180 to a lot of action next week.

00:15:59.100 As I said yesterday, we are waiting for a lot of evidence

00:16:03.140 to get unsealed.

00:16:04.880 And I will be on top of everything as usual.

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Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - January 01, 2026

The PHOTOS That Could Sink Blake’s Case !!

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