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Ryan Reynolds is facing his biggest nightmare right now. New reports are showing that his popularity is crumbling and also his close friends tried to help him to stop him while he was acting so erratic in those fuming text messages to all those Sony employees and WME agents. And now it has backfired. This is what we ve been waiting for. Also, more from Blake Lively s testimony.
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Ryan Reynolds is facing his biggest nightmare right now.
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Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Jashti Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
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and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion. Okay, so Ryan Reynolds is facing his
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biggest nightmare right now. New reports are showing that his popularity is crumbling and
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also his close friends tried to help him to stop him while he was acting so erratic in those text
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messages to all those Sony employees and WME agents and now it has backfired. This is what
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we've been waiting for. Also, more from Blake Lively's testimony. I wanted to share this with
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you. This is another story that she came up with now. This is truly fascinating how she's making
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this situation, which I'm going to talk about reading from her testimony, into something
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inappropriate. This is truly mind-blowing. Also, let's look at some more text messages from Brandon
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Sklenar. This is truly shocking because he knew a lot more than I realized a few days ago. He even
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admits here that he's looking forward to Justin Baldoni getting fired by his agency, WME,
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four months before it even happened. And yes, I'm wearing florals. Anyways, let's get into it.
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So there's a few articles now starting to pop up telling the truth about Ryan Reynolds and those
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fuming text messages that he sent to people in Sony and to WME. Here is a very interesting angle
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though. So Radar Online is reporting that Ryan Reynolds sparks fears he's set to spiral back into
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anxiety after his blistering takedowns of Justin Baldoni were exposed. So now, I don't know,
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are they trying to make us feel sorry for him now because all of this has backfired? And it says here
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that Ryan has been very open about his struggles with anxiety in the past and now he might get anxious
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again. It says here that Radar Online can reveal rattled Ryan Reynolds is facing fresh concerns in
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Hollywood after a cache of explosive text messages revealed the depth of his fury towards Justin
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Baldoni, prompting fears among friends that the Deadpool actor could be pushed back into an anxiety
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spiral. He has previously spoken about openly. So first of all, I don't think this is a fresh
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concern in Hollywood in general. I think people are more shocked in Hollywood in general right now of
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his behavior. I don't think they're concerned about him personally because in this town, people really
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don't care about anyone but themselves. But apart from that, his fury towards Justin Baldoni,
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I think is what really shocked people. Where is this anger coming from? Why is he so angry with
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Justin? And as you know, I've read through these text messages in an episode a few days ago and there's
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nothing really there where he's saying that he's so worried for his wife because she felt so unsafe.
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It's all about blaming Blake's unpopularity on Justin. It's his fault that the public no longer likes his
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wife and that is the major issue for Ryan. He doesn't like that people don't like his wife
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and now it turns out people don't like him anymore either. And now it seems like finally the press has
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started to pick this up. There's this really great article in the Puck today. Puck is a Hollywood
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newsletter basically for insiders. A lot of people here read it and this journalist obviously investigated
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all of those text messages that were released. And this is quite interesting because it says here
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that Ryan Reynolds' friends were worried about him and tried to stop him. The journalist is saying
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that sources told me that long before the latest batch of texts and emails became public, some of
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Ryan Reynolds' famous friends saw the publicity around his level of involvement in his wife's battle
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with Baldoni as a problem for him and even discussed some sort of intervention to urge him to back
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down. It's unclear whether that happened but it appears the concern was well placed. So I'm assuming Hugh
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Jackman is probably one of those people close to him who tried to stop him. Why did they let this go so
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far? It seems like his friends as well were asking the same question. Why didn't you stop Ryan?
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Why didn't you stop the world from seeing these text messages that makes you look like a complete
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bully? And as it turns out, this has really hurt Ryan's reputation. It says here that according to
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Parrot Analytics, which tracks public sentiment via social media mentions and video comments,
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Ryan has been on a swift descent over the past few years. In January 2023, more than 80%
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of public sentiment around him was positive. So that was in January of 2023 before any of this leaked to
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the press. By the end of 2025, just a month ago, that figure had dropped to just above 20%. That's like
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a 60% drop. And it says here, that's despite Reynolds producing, co-writing and starring in Deadpool and
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Wolverine, the second highest grossing movie of 2024. Lively has far even worse. Her positives dropped
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from a high of just over 80% in early 2023 to roughly 10% last December. So here we have the real
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sentiment because this comes from the public. This is not what comes from the media. So 10% support Blake
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Lively. That means 90% doesn't. Good luck at the trial, Blake. And the journalist here mentions,
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amongst other things, that Ryan and Lively wanted Baldoni disinvited. They didn't want him to show up
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at the premiere at all. They wanted to disinvite him so he wouldn't even be able to see his own movie.
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And then when he showed up, he hadn't seen the movie yet because Blake Lively didn't allow him to
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watch her cut of the movie. And then Ryan had the audacity to write his agent at WME Zavala that
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Baldoni first saw the finished film at the premiere, adding, it's baffling, it's baffling that he has the
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lazy lidded confidence to even show up. I think most people in Hollywood are just shocked by how
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Ryan has terrorized other people in the industry here. Not only Justin Baldoni, but he put so much
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pressure on all these people. He put all these people's jobs in jeopardy. And here is mentioned
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that he managed to actually pressure Sony to come out with a statement supporting Blake.
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So there was an article in the Hollywood Reporter. I remember when that came out and I was like,
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oh my God, this is so desperate. Where Vince Zikera from Sony was praising Lively's passion and commitment
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to advancing the conversation around TV. This is so great. And it's also really funny because
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Blake had accused Justin Baldoni and all the other actresses to accuse him of talking about that
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to make them look bad. And that's why they didn't talk about it. And here Sony is praising her for
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actually talking about it. Well, that's what she was criticized for not doing. He added,
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we love working with Blake. Can you imagine him sitting writing this or saying this to the reporter?
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Oh my God. We love Blake. And we want to do 12 more movies with her. Well, can't wait for those 12
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movies to come out. I don't see anything in the pipeline here yet. And the journalist there is
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adding that for an executive like Vince Zikera, this unusual statement must have seemed like a major
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concession, but not to Reynolds. A couple of days later, he wrote to Zavala, his agent, saying the
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thing they did with THR, Hollywood Reporter, is a joke. So it wasn't good enough for him. He wanted
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war. So he kept pushing for more. He wanted the whole cast to come forward and support her. So again,
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if you missed that episode where I went through all these text messages, I will leave a link below
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so you can catch up on that too. And then he criticizes two people from Sony being really rude
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to them. Both Todd Black and Ange Giannetti are very accomplished people. And Ryan is describing them
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as Todd and Ange are effing textbook, ineffectual elderly people with no ideas or thoughtful
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communication skills, just blunt instruments with six catchphrases and about five key words.
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And the journalist is adding here that Giannetti is in her 50s and Black is his 60s and Reynolds is 49.
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So he's an ageist too. Shame on you, Ryan. And then the journalist asked people if they think that
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Blake is hireable or is she blacklisted in Hollywood. And she's quoting an executive
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here saying, I would say she's still not employable. And the person added, you would almost have to
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be playing into what the public now knows about her and thinks about her. Hollywood operates with
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herd mentality. You have to be brave to go against the grain. There's awareness that she's not
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untalented. And the movie was a hit. At some point down the line, there's going to be an opportunity.
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This person said, well, good luck to the person who wants to hire Blake Lively. And you have to
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remember, it's not only about the people who are willing to take the risk to hire her, but it's also
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do people want to watch a movie with Blake Lively if 90% of people don't like her anymore?
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Then they get to Ryan Reynolds here and his future projects. And it says here,
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meanwhile, Apple has been sitting on a finished Skydance movie called Mayday, a comedic survival
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story starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh for more than a year. Sources say release date will be
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announced soon. It will go straight to streaming, likely in September. Apple declined to comment.
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So they're sitting on a Ryan Reynolds movie that they're not putting on their platform.
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There's no explanation why. And it says here that Ryan has another project on the runway,
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his executive producer and voice in Animal Friends from Warner. That movie was supposed to premiere in
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October of 2025, but it's been moved to May 1st this year. So in a few months, just before the trial,
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I can imagine all of these co-stars are super excited to go on a red carpet and promote this
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movie with Ryan Reynolds. His co-stars are Aubrey Plaza, Jason Momoa, Vince Vaughn, Dan Levy,
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and Addison Rae, amongst others. So yeah, not great timing for that movie. I'm thinking they moved it to
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May 1st before they knew that this trial was pushed from March to May. So they gave it like two months
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after the trial, but now this is going to come out like two weeks before the trial. Terrible,
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terrible timing. And it says here that one source who was tasked with helping him fight this battle
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has been left shaking his head. So there was a person here who was helping Ryan in this battle.
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I don't know who this is. He understood, he said, Reynolds need to support Lively and hold Baldoni
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accountable if she truly felt she'd been harassed. Having said that, this source added, if that isn't
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the case, this is the dumbest effing thing I've ever seen in my life. And I guess that's where we
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are at this point. I think this is probably one of the dumbest effing things I've seen in my life so
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far. And it keeps on giving. Okay, so let's get into this deposition from Blake Lively that I just
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read this morning. I mean, I just had to share this with you because it is so absurd what she's trying
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to do in this conversation with Justin Baldoni's attorneys. So he's basically asking her to go through
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all the moments during the filming that she felt that he was inappropriate to her. And she's
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mentioning this incident. Hold your horses. So here the attorney is asking, I just want to walk through
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some of the other allegations of SH. One of the things that's alleged in the amended complaint
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is I believe that you're saying that Justin compliment your outfit. Is that correct? No, says Blake.
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Are you saying that one of the instances of SH or something that made you otherwise uncomfortable
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was there was one day in which Justin commented on how much he liked your outfit? No, says Blake.
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Did Justin ever say anything inappropriate or that bothered you concerning an outfit that you wore?
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And she says, there was an incident that made me uncomfortable. Yes. And what was that incident?
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Late May of 2023. He's asking, do you remember the date exactly? She doesn't. And do you remember
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where it took place? And she says, yes. Where did it take place? On a set, a bar set where we were
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rehearsing. That was the bar scene. No, it was, we were rehearsing that scene, but no, it was not the scene.
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It was when I arrived to work. And can you tell me what happened? Can you be on, can you be more
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specific? Blake says, how can you be more specific of what happened when you felt harassed? And the
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attorney saying, sure. What about whatever happened there made you feel uncomfortable? And she says,
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I was wearing a, I had a newborn baby and I had a jacket on and that was covering my dress underneath.
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And I bent down to pick something up and the jacket opened and my dress was low cut because it was
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easier to feed my baby. And Mr. Baldoni said in front of, Justin said in front of, I remember in
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front of Jenny Slate, I have a witness. And I don't remember specifically who else was there, but he
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said, I like your outfit. And he gestured on the chest. So basically it went something like this.
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I like your outfit. Okay. Keep that in mind. And the attorney saying, you just made a movement of
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your hand. Yes, says Blake. It's hard for the court report to mark those downs. What do you mean?
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He made a gesture of his hand and said, I like your dress. He gestured across the chest. Did he
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gesture across your chest or his chest? He said, I like your outfits. Now it's not your dress anymore.
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Now it's the outfit, I guess. He moved his hands up and down, like above and below his chest.
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And then the attorney is asking, he moved his hand up and down, like above and below his chest or your
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chest. I was standing in front of him. So I don't know whose chest, but he didn't touch my chest.
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Okay. If that's what you're asking, when he made the gesture in front of his chest,
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was his arm close to his chest or closer to your chest? I don't recall. And what were you doing
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during this time? Was it during a rehearsal of some sort? We weren't rehearsing the scene yet,
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but I was on the set to rehearse the scene. And then they're asking who else was present on the set.
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And the person I remember most is obviously, and then it was probably Justin and Jenny,
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but then it's cut off. Can you believe it? He said that he liked her outfit and that's a part of a
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lawsuit. I mean, I mean, I give up. Is she really going to sit and talk about this in front of a jury
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and make them believe that that made her feel unsafe? Again, there are real victims out there.
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And this is such an insult to all of them. Okay. So let's get into Brandon Sklenor again. I saw he
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was out there promoting a movie and someone asked him on the red carpet, what he feels about his texts
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being released. And he was just like walking away and getting away from the situation.
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Anything about the Texas you want to clear up? Anything? Nah.
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So again, all these people that Blake Lively dragged into her lawsuit, all the people that
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supported her, they must be furious with her at this point. Because what she's shown here that
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she's willing to do, because she can't accept the fact that the public doesn't like her,
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she is dragging all these people down with her. And now the public doesn't like Brandon Sklenor anymore.
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They don't like Jenny Slate anymore. They don't like Colleen Hoover anymore. They definitely don't
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like Ryan Reynolds anymore. Or any of these people who came out to support her. I really think they
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all regret that decision right now. Because what is this for? For the greater good of women?
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Come on. Anyways, let's get into Brandon Sklenor's text messages, because this is terrible.
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So this is a text exchange between Blake and Brandon, her co-star. And it ends with us
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on August 12th of 2024. So just a few days after the premiere. The premiere of the movie was
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in New York on August 6th. And that was so this was in the middle of all the mess when Blake Lively
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was promoting this movie and received all this backlash. And so did her co-stars, by the way.
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So it starts off here with Brandon saying, who is this person? I think Blake sent him
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an attachment of something. And then Blake says to Brandon, for your info, we are each looking to
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post resources for people experiencing DV. I can and should fill you in more first if you want to post
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also. So this is quite interesting, because this shows that Blake wanted her co-stars to talk about
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the subject of the movie and promote it. And all they've been saying through all these depositions
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that I've been reading from is that they were told not to talk about that. And they're blaming
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Justin Baldoni for their backlash, because they're saying that he had told them with no sources and no
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fact that it came from the Wayfair parties that they were not supposed to talk about the subject of
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the movie. And then Justin Baldoni did. So that made people like him and not like them. But anyways,
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this is quite interesting, because here she's asking him to push that narrative anyway. So that
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whole argument just fell apart. Brandon likes the message. And he says, great, definitely getting
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hits with comments, really grinding my gears. So he's admitting here that he's getting a lot of hate
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online. And it's really, really bothering him. And Blake's ignoring that saying, Sony is pulling
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together a graphic with organizations by region that we were released in, getting that to us all
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ASAP. So now they're trying to save this situation from where they got all this criticism for not
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talking about DV during the promotion. And now she's just telling all her co-stars to post these things
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on their Instagram with links to organizations. Brandon responds, that's good. Definitely think we should
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hold off on that create video, given the way things are leaning in the comments and what he's putting out
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there. Talking about Justin, what he's putting out there. What is he putting out there? Anyways,
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at the very least, I can show my friends and Courtney. I don't know who Courtney is. Blake says,
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no one is touching any special content until we get through this Baldoni shitstorm. So I think
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they're talking about a video. I don't know if we ever got to see that, because I did look back and see
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when that video was released, the video where Ryan Reynolds is pretending to be the jealous husband,
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this spoof where he crashed a junket, a press junket with Brandon Sklenor. And that was released
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three or four days before this. So it's not that one they're talking about here. Could be another
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one that we actually never saw. Who knows? Then Blake says, this man is a monster to levels I never
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imagined. And I thought I saw it all. Remember, Blake praised Harvey Weinstein when she worked with him
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and Woody Allen. And she was even a special guest at a Jeffrey Epstein party. But she's never seen
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a monster like Justin Baldoni. Brandon agrees and says it's actually insane. What are they even
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talking about? What did Justin do at this point? He just went out to promote the movie. He didn't say
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anything bad about anyone in this cast. And Brandon says he's projecting the exact opposite of
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everything. Constructing all of it. They are so twisted. Just praying it all comes out, he says.
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Well, Brandon, your prayers have been heard because now it has all come out. And then he says,
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I have no idea how. Well, now we know how because all of your text messages has been leaked and we got
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to see the entire picture here. And then he says something interesting. He says, I'm sure once WME
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drops him, it will snowball. So this was in August. And this is the time when Ryan was putting pressure
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on WME to drop Justin Baldoni. They didn't do it until that article came out in the New York Times.
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And then they dropped him the same day. It was all planned, obviously. But how did Brandon Sklenor know
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that WME was going to drop Justin Baldoni if it wasn't coming from Blake and Ryan? It's so
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telling. And this, as I said, is four months before it actually happened. So Blake has obviously told
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him we're working behind the scenes here to get Justin fired from WME. And then he adds naturally.
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And then Blake says, I think at some point we're all going to have to confirm it.
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If even anonymously or jointly, this is so painful and awful for everyone. So basically here she is
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blaming all the backlash they're receiving from people like you and me and the public in general.
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They're blaming all of it on Justin. And that's why he's a monster. Then she's saying to Brandon,
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he has an entire machine and team and bots prepared for this. None of us do, not even Sony,
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because none of us had anything to hide. Okay. None of us has anything to hide. Well,
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now you don't anymore because now we know everything. But really what she's saying to
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Brandon here is, you know, this is all him. Don't believe any of the hate you're getting online
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because Justin Baldoni has hired an army of bots to hate you. And Brandon says, I agree. None of us
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deserves all of the hate at all. Especially you. Pissing me off so much. Just have to block it out.
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But every time I go on Instagram, I read something. And Blake says, yeah, I'm legitimately depressed
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and heartbroken. Like in an immense amount of pain. I'm sorry it's being aimed at all of us.
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You included. She's not sorry about that. She's so happy that all of them are getting dragged
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down with her because that's what she wanted. That's why she got all of them to get on board
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with Ryan Reynolds' idiotic PR for this movie. Remember, Ryan's company was responsible
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for the marketing of It Ends With Us. And then somehow they managed to blame everything on the
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Wayfair parties. It's so dumb. And then on August 20th, about a week later, Brandon Sklenor caved
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and came out with a message public supporting Blake saying that it's disheartening to see the
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amount of negativity. There was a long message and the Hollywood reporter, of course, picked this up
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and wrote a story about it where he says, amongst other things, all I ask is that before you spread
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hate on the internet, ask yourself who it's helping. Ask yourself if your opinions are based in any fact
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or if you simply want to be part of something. Let's be part of something better together. A part
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of a new story being written for women and all people everywhere. Lead with love and please be
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kind, Brandon. This is coming from a guy who just called another man a monster because he's receiving
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backlash online for teaming up with Blake Lively. He even said that he can't wait for Justin to get
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fired by his agency. That's just cruel. He was great. I mean, he, he did a really good job at
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balancing being both, you know, a lead actor in the film and then being a director and a producer.
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And honestly, the entire crew that he assembled was just, it was a really pleasant environment to
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work in. Anyways, that's it from you guys. I hope you enjoyed this episode and thanks again for all
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your support and all your feedback and all your lovely comments. You guys are amazing. I love
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this community here. It's so supportive and it's so respectful. So really, thank you. Thank you for
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