Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - THEY SETTLED !!!

00:00:00.000 What a waste of time for everyone.

00:00:07.960 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Siasse Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.

00:00:16.660 Oh my God, it's over.

00:00:19.820 I never thought I would say that today.

00:00:23.440 I just uploaded another video with new evidence that's been unsealed, and now they have settled.

00:00:32.040 I'm in shock, actually.

00:00:34.060 So they've come out with this statement now.

00:00:37.140 I'm going to read it for you.

00:00:38.260 This is from the Daily Mail, where it says, it ends with us, settled.

00:00:43.420 Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni avoid explosive trial after feuding co-stars finally reached agreement in a multimillion-dollar case.

00:00:53.500 Blake Lively has called time on her bitter two-year legal battle with Justin Baldoni

00:00:58.200 in a surprise move just two weeks before the case was set to go to trial.

00:01:02.900 The Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.

00:01:06.880 The actress finally reached a settlement with Baldoni's production company, Wayfair Studios,

00:01:12.140 as well as a PR firm he hired over claims of retaliation and breach of contract.

00:01:18.560 in a joint statement released on monday the pair said the film remained a source of pride

00:01:26.780 to all who work to bring it to life and emphasized its mission to raise awareness for dv survivors

00:01:34.520 really and then it says we acknowledge the process presented challenges and recognize

00:01:42.100 concerns raised by Miss Lively deserved to be heard. We remain firmly committed to workplaces

00:01:50.720 free of improperties and unproductive environment, they added. They recognize that Blake's concern

00:02:00.520 that she raised, that she raised, deserved to be heard. Wow, what happened here? I am really

00:02:10.900 shocked right now. And then it says the statement did not include an apology from either of the

00:02:16.540 parties who have been locked in a messy court battle since December 2024. Instead, Baldoni and

00:02:23.500 Lively's team said it was their sincere hope that this brings closure and allows all involved to

00:02:30.360 move forward constructively and in peace, including a respectful environment online.

00:02:38.260 The settlement comes after a judge last month's sensationally gutted Lively's case dismissing 10 of her 13 claims, including all of her S.H. allegations.

00:02:51.340 The trial was still due to kick off on May 18, but covering only three counts, retaliation, aiding and abetting retaliation,

00:03:07.940 and breach of an agreement known as the contract writer.

00:03:12.180 The ruling also meant that Baldoni was no longer a named defendant in the case.

00:03:16.460 As you know, there were no defendants left in the case.

00:03:18.720 It says here,

00:03:19.320 In a pre-trial hearing last week,

00:03:21.400 Lively's attorneys argued that the actress had lost tens of millions in endorsement

00:03:25.220 on top of nine-figure hits to her earnings and profits.

00:03:28.780 Figures Wayfair's side has dismissed as wildly inflated.

00:03:32.980 Wayfair's attorneys, Amir Kaltgrad, argued that the numbers were pie in the sky,

00:03:37.480 broken down as $143 million lost in lost profits and $132 million in lost earnings

00:03:44.520 and several millions more for lost endorsement.

00:03:48.660 I mean, this is crazy.

00:03:50.500 And then they keep talking about all the things that we already know here.

00:03:53.420 I'm so shocked right now.

00:03:55.200 I mean, doing a settlement at this point, I guess it's never too late.

00:03:59.400 And people have been saying the entire time, oh, they will settle.

00:04:02.460 Just wait.

00:04:03.040 They will settle.

00:04:03.880 But the fact that they did it now, after everything that has come out, why right now, before this weekend, they had a deadline to release all these unseal or to unseal all these documents, who did a lot of extra damage, by the way, not only to Blake, but to other people involved as well, including Jed Wallace.

00:04:26.160 and now that they released everything so we know everything then they settle and we don't know if

00:04:34.900 there was any money exchanged here by the way but always after a settlement both parties agree to

00:04:40.760 not talk about what they agreed upon in the settlement and most likely to never mention

00:04:45.580 this case again they're not allowed to even talk about this case what a waste of time for everyone

00:04:53.000 I mean, now they're saying that they recognize that the concerns raised by Miss Lively deserve to be heard.

00:04:59.820 Why did those concerns deserve to be heard by everyone?

00:05:04.520 I'm sure that that's one of the things in this statement that they've been arguing most back and forth about.

00:05:10.340 No one's apologizing for anything here, by the way.

00:05:13.000 And I'm so shocked that the Wayfair parties agreed to this, that Blake is not taking any blame for anything.

00:05:19.980 now that all of this dirt has come out from both sides and the public have spent so much time and

00:05:27.000 energy into supporting Justin Baldoni and the wayfair parties and then it's just like we

00:05:32.640 recognize that she deserved to be heard uh that's not good enough I think let me know what you think

00:05:39.920 in the comment section are you as shocked as I am by this when I just received a text from a friend

00:05:45.520 of mine who works for a news agency I was like no this is not true you know this can't be happening

00:05:52.820 right now uh but but who knows I don't know if we're gonna hear more from both sides if they're

00:05:58.080 gonna come out and say anything if their lawyers are gonna say anything or if they're not allowed

00:06:02.420 to talk about anything at all which is such a bummer for everyone and you all included who's

00:06:09.300 really spent so much time on getting to the truth here analyzing all these legal documents for what

00:06:16.940 my wildest guess here is that there is no money exchange that blake lively did not get any money

00:06:23.760 and maybe the way fair parties thought that okay that might be a good gamble for us in case the

00:06:31.620 jury decides to give her whatever but i still find this statement just such bs the movie was

00:06:38.640 a source of pride to all of us who work to bring it to life. That's fine. Everyone did agree that

00:06:44.440 they were proud of this movie and they all stand behind the goal of the movie. That doesn't really

00:06:50.180 matter to anyone who's been following this and who's been covering it. If they stand behind the

00:06:55.280 message of the movie or if anyone's proud of the movie, that is irrelevant for all of us if they're

00:07:01.120 proud of this movie or not. We invested in the truth and we wanted the truth to come out and of

00:07:06.800 course i guess we have seen a lot of the truth come out but at the same time when they're saying

00:07:11.400 we sincerely hope that this brings closure and allows all involved to move forward constructively

00:07:16.840 and in peace including a respectful environment online um yeah i guess everyone involved wants

00:07:24.500 to move on and they don't want people to be mean online i guess as well but there has to be something

00:07:31.000 more to this i just don't i just can't accept this to be the end of this i mean can you guys

00:07:36.440 can you believe this like what's happening right now let's look at some of the comments on this

00:07:42.320 article uh saying what's was it worth it the someone else is saying at the end of the day

00:07:49.360 the only winners here are the respective lawyers good point who had the skill to drag this non-case 1.00

00:07:55.020 for as long as they did so true may men should learn don't ever use gorgeous hot women especially 0.93

00:08:02.980 ones who are as clever and gorgeous as Megan sovereign of gorgeousness see you next time 1.00

00:08:08.960 Justin one says the reputational damage she did to herself cannot be undone she didn't want to 1.00

00:08:14.820 be exposed that trial for the pity-seeking con artist that she is a settlement was always going

00:08:20.560 to be the end of this someone else has damaged her and her husband's reputation used to be really

00:08:26.540 used to really like Ryan but he's gone down in my estimation someone else says they're all

00:08:32.460 finished. Someone says lively is toast. Someone else says Blake and Ryan's overinflated egos

00:08:38.980 severely hurt their careers over their petty vindictiveness. Would love to learn of their

00:08:47.260 settlement amount. Justin receiving 10 to 15 million would seem fair. Well, that's an interesting

00:08:53.660 twist here. Maybe she actually paid Justin Baldoni. Maybe she agreed to pay his attorney's fees.

00:09:00.400 that is also possible how much did she pay for them to write in that settlement that she deserved

00:09:07.060 to be heard and her concerns deserve to be heard how much did she pay for that people are not happy

00:09:12.020 about this I guess we will learn more tomorrow I'll keep you posted on what happens but please

00:09:18.140 let me know what you think about this are you as shocked as me and yes if you haven't subscribed

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00:09:28.060 Flossom Talk and I guess I'll be talking about a lot of other things in the near future

00:09:33.140 as this whole drama has now come to an end.

Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - May 05, 2026

THEY SETTLED !!!

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