Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - January 29, 2026


THEY NEVER SAW THIS COMING !!!


Episode Stats

Length

26 minutes

Words per Minute

158.07822

Word Count

4,217

Sentence Count

295

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

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.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Ryan Reynolds is facing his biggest nightmare right now.
00:00:08.860 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Jashti Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
00:00:13.340 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion. Okay, so Ryan Reynolds is facing his
00:00:20.700 biggest nightmare right now. New reports are showing that his popularity is crumbling and
00:00:28.740 also his close friends tried to help him to stop him while he was acting so erratic in those text
00:00:36.780 messages to all those Sony employees and WME agents and now it has backfired. This is what
00:00:45.800 we've been waiting for. Also, more from Blake Lively's testimony. I wanted to share this with
00:00:50.960 you. This is another story that she came up with now. This is truly fascinating how she's making
00:00:57.840 this situation, which I'm going to talk about reading from her testimony, into something
00:01:03.640 inappropriate. This is truly mind-blowing. Also, let's look at some more text messages from Brandon
00:01:11.400 Sklenar. This is truly shocking because he knew a lot more than I realized a few days ago. He even
00:01:18.400 admits here that he's looking forward to Justin Baldoni getting fired by his agency, WME,
00:01:25.440 four months before it even happened. And yes, I'm wearing florals. Anyways, let's get into it.
00:01:33.380 So there's a few articles now starting to pop up telling the truth about Ryan Reynolds and those
00:01:39.940 fuming text messages that he sent to people in Sony and to WME. Here is a very interesting angle
00:01:47.240 though. So Radar Online is reporting that Ryan Reynolds sparks fears he's set to spiral back into
00:01:55.380 anxiety after his blistering takedowns of Justin Baldoni were exposed. So now, I don't know,
00:02:04.100 are they trying to make us feel sorry for him now because all of this has backfired? And it says here
00:02:10.100 that Ryan has been very open about his struggles with anxiety in the past and now he might get anxious
00:02:17.380 again. It says here that Radar Online can reveal rattled Ryan Reynolds is facing fresh concerns in
00:02:24.700 Hollywood after a cache of explosive text messages revealed the depth of his fury towards Justin
00:02:31.420 Baldoni, prompting fears among friends that the Deadpool actor could be pushed back into an anxiety
00:02:39.500 spiral. He has previously spoken about openly. So first of all, I don't think this is a fresh
00:02:46.660 concern in Hollywood in general. I think people are more shocked in Hollywood in general right now of
00:02:53.880 his behavior. I don't think they're concerned about him personally because in this town, people really
00:02:59.680 don't care about anyone but themselves. But apart from that, his fury towards Justin Baldoni,
00:03:05.880 I think is what really shocked people. Where is this anger coming from? Why is he so angry with
00:03:13.140 Justin? And as you know, I've read through these text messages in an episode a few days ago and there's
00:03:19.100 nothing really there where he's saying that he's so worried for his wife because she felt so unsafe.
00:03:25.340 It's all about blaming Blake's unpopularity on Justin. It's his fault that the public no longer likes his
00:03:33.820 wife and that is the major issue for Ryan. He doesn't like that people don't like his wife
00:03:39.700 and now it turns out people don't like him anymore either. And now it seems like finally the press has
00:03:48.100 started to pick this up. There's this really great article in the Puck today. Puck is a Hollywood
00:03:54.380 newsletter basically for insiders. A lot of people here read it and this journalist obviously investigated
00:04:01.100 all of those text messages that were released. And this is quite interesting because it says here
00:04:06.340 that Ryan Reynolds' friends were worried about him and tried to stop him. The journalist is saying
00:04:12.680 that sources told me that long before the latest batch of texts and emails became public, some of
00:04:18.240 Ryan Reynolds' famous friends saw the publicity around his level of involvement in his wife's battle
00:04:24.980 with Baldoni as a problem for him and even discussed some sort of intervention to urge him to back
00:04:32.280 down. It's unclear whether that happened but it appears the concern was well placed. So I'm assuming Hugh
00:04:40.440 Jackman is probably one of those people close to him who tried to stop him. Why did they let this go so
00:04:48.200 far? It seems like his friends as well were asking the same question. Why didn't you stop Ryan?
00:04:54.540 Why didn't you stop the world from seeing these text messages that makes you look like a complete
00:05:02.080 bully? And as it turns out, this has really hurt Ryan's reputation. It says here that according to
00:05:09.400 Parrot Analytics, which tracks public sentiment via social media mentions and video comments,
00:05:15.840 Ryan has been on a swift descent over the past few years. In January 2023, more than 80%
00:05:24.140 of public sentiment around him was positive. So that was in January of 2023 before any of this leaked to
00:05:34.200 the press. By the end of 2025, just a month ago, that figure had dropped to just above 20%. That's like
00:05:43.120 a 60% drop. And it says here, that's despite Reynolds producing, co-writing and starring in Deadpool and
00:05:48.920 Wolverine, the second highest grossing movie of 2024. Lively has far even worse. Her positives dropped
00:05:58.180 from a high of just over 80% in early 2023 to roughly 10% last December. So here we have the real
00:06:09.420 sentiment because this comes from the public. This is not what comes from the media. So 10% support Blake
00:06:17.500 Lively. That means 90% doesn't. Good luck at the trial, Blake. And the journalist here mentions,
00:06:25.860 amongst other things, that Ryan and Lively wanted Baldoni disinvited. They didn't want him to show up
00:06:31.620 at the premiere at all. They wanted to disinvite him so he wouldn't even be able to see his own movie.
00:06:38.700 And then when he showed up, he hadn't seen the movie yet because Blake Lively didn't allow him to
00:06:45.100 watch her cut of the movie. And then Ryan had the audacity to write his agent at WME Zavala that
00:06:53.400 Baldoni first saw the finished film at the premiere, adding, it's baffling, it's baffling that he has the
00:07:00.560 lazy lidded confidence to even show up. I think most people in Hollywood are just shocked by how
00:07:10.940 Ryan has terrorized other people in the industry here. Not only Justin Baldoni, but he put so much
00:07:18.240 pressure on all these people. He put all these people's jobs in jeopardy. And here is mentioned
00:07:24.480 that he managed to actually pressure Sony to come out with a statement supporting Blake.
00:07:30.020 So there was an article in the Hollywood Reporter. I remember when that came out and I was like,
00:07:34.200 oh my God, this is so desperate. Where Vince Zikera from Sony was praising Lively's passion and commitment
00:07:41.600 to advancing the conversation around TV. This is so great. And it's also really funny because
00:07:50.640 Blake had accused Justin Baldoni and all the other actresses to accuse him of talking about that
00:07:57.420 to make them look bad. And that's why they didn't talk about it. And here Sony is praising her for
00:08:02.340 actually talking about it. Well, that's what she was criticized for not doing. He added,
00:08:08.900 we love working with Blake. Can you imagine him sitting writing this or saying this to the reporter?
00:08:17.420 Oh my God. We love Blake. And we want to do 12 more movies with her. Well, can't wait for those 12
00:08:24.200 movies to come out. I don't see anything in the pipeline here yet. And the journalist there is
00:08:30.600 adding that for an executive like Vince Zikera, this unusual statement must have seemed like a major
00:08:36.440 concession, but not to Reynolds. A couple of days later, he wrote to Zavala, his agent, saying the
00:08:43.520 thing they did with THR, Hollywood Reporter, is a joke. So it wasn't good enough for him. He wanted
00:08:50.000 war. So he kept pushing for more. He wanted the whole cast to come forward and support her. So again,
00:08:56.620 if you missed that episode where I went through all these text messages, I will leave a link below
00:09:01.000 so you can catch up on that too. And then he criticizes two people from Sony being really rude
00:09:05.940 to them. Both Todd Black and Ange Giannetti are very accomplished people. And Ryan is describing them
00:09:14.140 as Todd and Ange are effing textbook, ineffectual elderly people with no ideas or thoughtful
00:09:21.740 communication skills, just blunt instruments with six catchphrases and about five key words.
00:09:29.220 And the journalist is adding here that Giannetti is in her 50s and Black is his 60s and Reynolds is 49.
00:09:36.820 So he's an ageist too. Shame on you, Ryan. And then the journalist asked people if they think that
00:09:43.320 Blake is hireable or is she blacklisted in Hollywood. And she's quoting an executive
00:09:50.920 here saying, I would say she's still not employable. And the person added, you would almost have to
00:09:56.900 be playing into what the public now knows about her and thinks about her. Hollywood operates with
00:10:03.120 herd mentality. You have to be brave to go against the grain. There's awareness that she's not
00:10:08.780 untalented. And the movie was a hit. At some point down the line, there's going to be an opportunity.
00:10:15.340 This person said, well, good luck to the person who wants to hire Blake Lively. And you have to
00:10:20.580 remember, it's not only about the people who are willing to take the risk to hire her, but it's also
00:10:24.960 do people want to watch a movie with Blake Lively if 90% of people don't like her anymore?
00:10:31.340 Then they get to Ryan Reynolds here and his future projects. And it says here,
00:10:36.260 meanwhile, Apple has been sitting on a finished Skydance movie called Mayday, a comedic survival
00:10:42.560 story starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh for more than a year. Sources say release date will be
00:10:50.580 announced soon. It will go straight to streaming, likely in September. Apple declined to comment.
00:10:58.520 So they're sitting on a Ryan Reynolds movie that they're not putting on their platform.
00:11:04.540 There's no explanation why. And it says here that Ryan has another project on the runway,
00:11:10.300 his executive producer and voice in Animal Friends from Warner. That movie was supposed to premiere in
00:11:16.840 October of 2025, but it's been moved to May 1st this year. So in a few months, just before the trial,
00:11:26.200 I can imagine all of these co-stars are super excited to go on a red carpet and promote this
00:11:32.980 movie with Ryan Reynolds. His co-stars are Aubrey Plaza, Jason Momoa, Vince Vaughn, Dan Levy,
00:11:40.140 and Addison Rae, amongst others. So yeah, not great timing for that movie. I'm thinking they moved it to
00:11:47.740 May 1st before they knew that this trial was pushed from March to May. So they gave it like two months
00:11:55.880 after the trial, but now this is going to come out like two weeks before the trial. Terrible,
00:12:02.980 terrible timing. And it says here that one source who was tasked with helping him fight this battle
00:12:09.480 has been left shaking his head. So there was a person here who was helping Ryan in this battle.
00:12:16.460 I don't know who this is. He understood, he said, Reynolds need to support Lively and hold Baldoni
00:12:22.620 accountable if she truly felt she'd been harassed. Having said that, this source added, if that isn't
00:12:32.300 the case, this is the dumbest effing thing I've ever seen in my life. And I guess that's where we
00:12:40.620 are at this point. I think this is probably one of the dumbest effing things I've seen in my life so
00:12:47.380 far. And it keeps on giving. Okay, so let's get into this deposition from Blake Lively that I just
00:12:55.460 read this morning. I mean, I just had to share this with you because it is so absurd what she's trying
00:13:02.000 to do in this conversation with Justin Baldoni's attorneys. So he's basically asking her to go through
00:13:09.260 all the moments during the filming that she felt that he was inappropriate to her. And she's
00:13:16.680 mentioning this incident. Hold your horses. So here the attorney is asking, I just want to walk through
00:13:22.920 some of the other allegations of SH. One of the things that's alleged in the amended complaint
00:13:28.720 is I believe that you're saying that Justin compliment your outfit. Is that correct? No, says Blake.
00:13:36.700 Are you saying that one of the instances of SH or something that made you otherwise uncomfortable
00:13:41.960 was there was one day in which Justin commented on how much he liked your outfit? No, says Blake.
00:13:49.600 Did Justin ever say anything inappropriate or that bothered you concerning an outfit that you wore?
00:13:56.380 And she says, there was an incident that made me uncomfortable. Yes. And what was that incident?
00:14:01.540 Late May of 2023. He's asking, do you remember the date exactly? She doesn't. And do you remember
00:14:08.400 where it took place? And she says, yes. Where did it take place? On a set, a bar set where we were
00:14:14.920 rehearsing. That was the bar scene. No, it was, we were rehearsing that scene, but no, it was not the scene.
00:14:22.800 It was when I arrived to work. And can you tell me what happened? Can you be on, can you be more
00:14:28.800 specific? Blake says, how can you be more specific of what happened when you felt harassed? And the
00:14:35.760 attorney saying, sure. What about whatever happened there made you feel uncomfortable? And she says,
00:14:42.200 I was wearing a, I had a newborn baby and I had a jacket on and that was covering my dress underneath.
00:14:49.660 And I bent down to pick something up and the jacket opened and my dress was low cut because it was
00:14:54.820 easier to feed my baby. And Mr. Baldoni said in front of, Justin said in front of, I remember in
00:15:01.820 front of Jenny Slate, I have a witness. And I don't remember specifically who else was there, but he
00:15:08.100 said, I like your outfit. And he gestured on the chest. So basically it went something like this.
00:15:17.260 I like your outfit. Okay. Keep that in mind. And the attorney saying, you just made a movement of
00:15:27.860 your hand. Yes, says Blake. It's hard for the court report to mark those downs. What do you mean?
00:15:34.880 He made a gesture of his hand and said, I like your dress. He gestured across the chest. Did he
00:15:44.540 gesture across your chest or his chest? He said, I like your outfits. Now it's not your dress anymore.
00:15:51.500 Now it's the outfit, I guess. He moved his hands up and down, like above and below his chest.
00:15:57.920 And then the attorney is asking, he moved his hand up and down, like above and below his chest or your
00:16:04.760 chest. I was standing in front of him. So I don't know whose chest, but he didn't touch my chest.
00:16:11.400 Okay. If that's what you're asking, when he made the gesture in front of his chest,
00:16:17.620 was his arm close to his chest or closer to your chest? I don't recall. And what were you doing
00:16:24.440 during this time? Was it during a rehearsal of some sort? We weren't rehearsing the scene yet,
00:16:30.060 but I was on the set to rehearse the scene. And then they're asking who else was present on the set.
00:16:35.960 And the person I remember most is obviously, and then it was probably Justin and Jenny,
00:16:41.020 but then it's cut off. Can you believe it? He said that he liked her outfit and that's a part of a
00:16:49.020 lawsuit. I mean, I mean, I give up. Is she really going to sit and talk about this in front of a jury
00:16:58.980 and make them believe that that made her feel unsafe? Again, there are real victims out there.
00:17:05.620 And this is such an insult to all of them. Okay. So let's get into Brandon Sklenor again. I saw he
00:17:13.000 was out there promoting a movie and someone asked him on the red carpet, what he feels about his texts
00:17:18.300 being released. And he was just like walking away and getting away from the situation.
00:17:23.280 Anything about the Texas you want to clear up? Anything? Nah.
00:17:26.380 So again, all these people that Blake Lively dragged into her lawsuit, all the people that
00:17:33.400 supported her, they must be furious with her at this point. Because what she's shown here that
00:17:39.960 she's willing to do, because she can't accept the fact that the public doesn't like her,
00:17:45.440 she is dragging all these people down with her. And now the public doesn't like Brandon Sklenor anymore.
00:17:51.860 They don't like Jenny Slate anymore. They don't like Colleen Hoover anymore. They definitely don't
00:17:57.060 like Ryan Reynolds anymore. Or any of these people who came out to support her. I really think they
00:18:04.660 all regret that decision right now. Because what is this for? For the greater good of women?
00:18:11.400 Come on. Anyways, let's get into Brandon Sklenor's text messages, because this is terrible.
00:18:17.260 So this is a text exchange between Blake and Brandon, her co-star. And it ends with us
00:18:23.560 on August 12th of 2024. So just a few days after the premiere. The premiere of the movie was
00:18:30.720 in New York on August 6th. And that was so this was in the middle of all the mess when Blake Lively
00:18:38.780 was promoting this movie and received all this backlash. And so did her co-stars, by the way.
00:18:43.220 So it starts off here with Brandon saying, who is this person? I think Blake sent him
00:18:48.960 an attachment of something. And then Blake says to Brandon, for your info, we are each looking to
00:18:54.840 post resources for people experiencing DV. I can and should fill you in more first if you want to post
00:19:02.280 also. So this is quite interesting, because this shows that Blake wanted her co-stars to talk about
00:19:10.820 the subject of the movie and promote it. And all they've been saying through all these depositions
00:19:16.720 that I've been reading from is that they were told not to talk about that. And they're blaming
00:19:22.780 Justin Baldoni for their backlash, because they're saying that he had told them with no sources and no
00:19:29.560 fact that it came from the Wayfair parties that they were not supposed to talk about the subject of
00:19:34.420 the movie. And then Justin Baldoni did. So that made people like him and not like them. But anyways,
00:19:39.940 this is quite interesting, because here she's asking him to push that narrative anyway. So that
00:19:45.400 whole argument just fell apart. Brandon likes the message. And he says, great, definitely getting
00:19:50.880 hits with comments, really grinding my gears. So he's admitting here that he's getting a lot of hate
00:19:59.140 online. And it's really, really bothering him. And Blake's ignoring that saying, Sony is pulling
00:20:05.340 together a graphic with organizations by region that we were released in, getting that to us all
00:20:11.260 ASAP. So now they're trying to save this situation from where they got all this criticism for not
00:20:16.720 talking about DV during the promotion. And now she's just telling all her co-stars to post these things
00:20:22.740 on their Instagram with links to organizations. Brandon responds, that's good. Definitely think we should
00:20:29.320 hold off on that create video, given the way things are leaning in the comments and what he's putting out
00:20:34.020 there. Talking about Justin, what he's putting out there. What is he putting out there? Anyways,
00:20:39.640 at the very least, I can show my friends and Courtney. I don't know who Courtney is. Blake says,
00:20:44.540 no one is touching any special content until we get through this Baldoni shitstorm. So I think
00:20:51.460 they're talking about a video. I don't know if we ever got to see that, because I did look back and see
00:20:56.300 when that video was released, the video where Ryan Reynolds is pretending to be the jealous husband,
00:21:02.440 this spoof where he crashed a junket, a press junket with Brandon Sklenor. And that was released
00:21:10.240 three or four days before this. So it's not that one they're talking about here. Could be another
00:21:15.960 one that we actually never saw. Who knows? Then Blake says, this man is a monster to levels I never
00:21:22.960 imagined. And I thought I saw it all. Remember, Blake praised Harvey Weinstein when she worked with him
00:21:31.880 and Woody Allen. And she was even a special guest at a Jeffrey Epstein party. But she's never seen
00:21:38.840 a monster like Justin Baldoni. Brandon agrees and says it's actually insane. What are they even
00:21:45.740 talking about? What did Justin do at this point? He just went out to promote the movie. He didn't say
00:21:50.120 anything bad about anyone in this cast. And Brandon says he's projecting the exact opposite of
00:21:57.380 everything. Constructing all of it. They are so twisted. Just praying it all comes out, he says.
00:22:05.060 Well, Brandon, your prayers have been heard because now it has all come out. And then he says,
00:22:12.280 I have no idea how. Well, now we know how because all of your text messages has been leaked and we got
00:22:18.620 to see the entire picture here. And then he says something interesting. He says, I'm sure once WME
00:22:24.300 drops him, it will snowball. So this was in August. And this is the time when Ryan was putting pressure
00:22:33.140 on WME to drop Justin Baldoni. They didn't do it until that article came out in the New York Times.
00:22:41.200 And then they dropped him the same day. It was all planned, obviously. But how did Brandon Sklenor know
00:22:47.160 that WME was going to drop Justin Baldoni if it wasn't coming from Blake and Ryan? It's so
00:22:56.320 telling. And this, as I said, is four months before it actually happened. So Blake has obviously told
00:23:04.020 him we're working behind the scenes here to get Justin fired from WME. And then he adds naturally.
00:23:10.940 And then Blake says, I think at some point we're all going to have to confirm it.
00:23:14.560 If even anonymously or jointly, this is so painful and awful for everyone. So basically here she is
00:23:22.360 blaming all the backlash they're receiving from people like you and me and the public in general.
00:23:27.480 They're blaming all of it on Justin. And that's why he's a monster. Then she's saying to Brandon,
00:23:32.780 he has an entire machine and team and bots prepared for this. None of us do, not even Sony,
00:23:41.200 because none of us had anything to hide. Okay. None of us has anything to hide. Well,
00:23:50.660 now you don't anymore because now we know everything. But really what she's saying to
00:23:54.280 Brandon here is, you know, this is all him. Don't believe any of the hate you're getting online
00:23:59.860 because Justin Baldoni has hired an army of bots to hate you. And Brandon says, I agree. None of us
00:24:07.040 deserves all of the hate at all. Especially you. Pissing me off so much. Just have to block it out.
00:24:15.420 But every time I go on Instagram, I read something. And Blake says, yeah, I'm legitimately depressed
00:24:21.900 and heartbroken. Like in an immense amount of pain. I'm sorry it's being aimed at all of us.
00:24:28.040 You included. She's not sorry about that. She's so happy that all of them are getting dragged
00:24:33.580 down with her because that's what she wanted. That's why she got all of them to get on board
00:24:40.520 with Ryan Reynolds' idiotic PR for this movie. Remember, Ryan's company was responsible
00:24:47.780 for the marketing of It Ends With Us. And then somehow they managed to blame everything on the
00:24:53.960 Wayfair parties. It's so dumb. And then on August 20th, about a week later, Brandon Sklenor caved
00:25:02.400 and came out with a message public supporting Blake saying that it's disheartening to see the
00:25:08.800 amount of negativity. There was a long message and the Hollywood reporter, of course, picked this up
00:25:13.940 and wrote a story about it where he says, amongst other things, all I ask is that before you spread
00:25:20.000 hate on the internet, ask yourself who it's helping. Ask yourself if your opinions are based in any fact
00:25:27.180 or if you simply want to be part of something. Let's be part of something better together. A part
00:25:33.420 of a new story being written for women and all people everywhere. Lead with love and please be
00:25:39.480 kind, Brandon. This is coming from a guy who just called another man a monster because he's receiving
00:25:47.680 backlash online for teaming up with Blake Lively. He even said that he can't wait for Justin to get
00:25:55.260 fired by his agency. That's just cruel. He was great. I mean, he, he did a really good job at
00:26:02.500 balancing being both, you know, a lead actor in the film and then being a director and a producer.
00:26:07.520 And honestly, the entire crew that he assembled was just, it was a really pleasant environment to
00:26:13.680 work in. Anyways, that's it from you guys. I hope you enjoyed this episode and thanks again for all
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