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Taylor Swift went to a wedding on New Year s Eve, and the bride is on Blake Lively s witness list. And guess who else is not invited? And the bride's sister is also on Blake's witness list, so are her sisters. What does she know about what happened on the set of It Ends With Us?
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And guess who's not invited? And the bride is on Blake Lively's witness list.
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Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Kersti Flo, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
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and your voice of reason in a town built on the illusion. Happy New Year if I haven't seen you
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yesterday. And happy Friday, everyone. I'm excited for this weekend. On Sunday, I'm going to the
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Critics' Choice Awards. And I'm especially interested to see if Chelsea Handler is going
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to throw more shade at Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni as she did last year. It is important
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in times like these to have a distraction. And that's why I want to personally extend my gratitude
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Thank you for providing us with that distraction. I'm grateful. I think we're all grateful.
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I think everybody in this room, no matter whose side you're on, we can all agree to accept that
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there's probably not going to be a sequel. It ends with us, guys. I will give you a recap from
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behind the scenes on Monday. Anyways, what else is new? Taylor Swift went to a wedding on New Year's
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Eve. And the bride is on Blake Lively's witness list. And while we're at it, let's look at some of
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the more witnesses that Blake Lively named on her list of people who potentially have knowledge
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to the situation. I think that list is shrinking right now. And also, one of the people on that
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list, the intimacy coordinator, just showed up on another production. This is strange.
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Talking about scandal, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, his wife, are both being sued now. This
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latest lawsuit smells so fishy and it looks like something that's been taken right out of Blake
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Lively's playbook. Okay, so let's get into it. Taylor Swift was spotted in a
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gold gown at her friend's wedding, Estie Himes, who is a part of the Himes sister. They're all
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musicians that Taylor Swift have been working with. They've been really close friends for a long time.
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And they're obviously a part of Taylor Swift's girl squad. I knew that I had that name from
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somewhere else. And that is because she's on Blake Lively's witness list. So are her sisters.
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And that just tells me everything about the rest of the people that Blake Lively put on her witness
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list. Obviously, she was not invited to this wedding because if she was, there would be some
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paparazzi photos of her. And she would definitely have jumped on a chance to take selfies with other
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celebrities, to gush about them on Instagram, to pretend that she still has friends. Other people on
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Blake's list of over 100 names are, of course, Taylor Swift and Emily Blunt, Gigi Hadid, Hugh Jackman,
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and these three sisters. And her co-stars from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pans, Amber Tamlin,
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America Ferrara, Alexis Blendell, and also Scooter Braun. And then Taylor Swift's friend and stylist,
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Ashley Avignon. What does she know about what happened on the set of It Ends With Us? What do
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any of these people know about anything that happened on the set of It Ends With Us?
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I was devastated when I saw that she dragged Emily Blunt into this because I always thought Emily
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Blunt seemed like such a level-headed person, such a grounded person. And I also like her husband,
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John Krasinski. And we saw that Emily came out and supported Blake for the premiere of Another
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Simple Favor. And I was like, oh no. Apparently, they've been friends for a while because People
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Magazine did a story when Emily came out and supported her and said that Blunt also attended
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Lively's baby shower for her second child. And Ryan and Blake hosted a reception at a screening of
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Mary Poppins' return with Emily Blunt. And apparently they've done some double dating, I think.
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This Fashion Week moment of you and Blake Lively once went viral.
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I think I was worried that she was flashing her vagina. So it might have been something to do with
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that. Zendaya doesn't look very happy though with our jokes.
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I wanted to see what I could find out about their friendship and how deep it goes and how far back
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it goes. And Emily Blunt is not on Instagram. So good for her because Instagram is really the source
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of a lot of speculation when it comes to celebrities. But her husband, John Krasinski, is on Instagram.
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And John Krasinski directed a movie that Ryan Reynolds produced called If. And that movie wrapped
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in May 2023, which was exactly when It Ends With Us started shooting. And Blake Lively also voiced one of
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the characters in If. It was a movie that was a mix of animation and real characters. And Ryan Reynolds
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played a real character. And he was also producing the movie that had so many major stars in it. You
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won't believe the list of stars. Everyone from Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, George Clooney, Amy Schumer.
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Yeah, the list goes on and on and on about all these big stars. And the movie flopped big time.
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And John Krasinski pushed the movie. He used Ryan Reynolds to push the movie. But it still didn't
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work. But we know now that John Krasinski directed Blake in this movie because she had, as I said,
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a role in it. And that's why I think it's interesting that he is not following Blake Lively on Instagram.
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He's following Ryan Reynolds, though, but not Blake. And he did not show up at the premiere of
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Another Simple Favor with his wife, Emily Blunt. So back to the question, what does Emily Blunt know
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about what happened on It Ends With Us, of the set of It Ends With Us? Well, we know Emily Blunt
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also had a part in If. And when they wrapped that movie in May of 2023, Ryan Reynolds had already yelled
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at Justin Baldoni in their penthouse in New York in front of Taylor Swift and Hugh Jackman. So maybe
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Blake told her about it. But what I find so ridiculous about this whole scenario of the
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people that Blake are mentioning on her witness list are that none of them has any first-hand
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knowledge of what happened. If they have any knowledge, it is from what Blake Lively and
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Ryan Reynolds have told them. And I think that the only reason why Blake are mentioning all these
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people on her witness list is to intimidate the wayfair parties to say, hey, look at all my dragons.
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It's not only Taylor Swift and my husband, Ryan. I have all these other people as well,
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which are no longer my friends. Interestingly enough, that movie If is about imaginary friends.
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How fitting. And talking about witnesses, if you compare Blake Lively's list of witnesses who are
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just like famous people and some people working for Sony and mainly people who were never on the set
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of it ends with us, and you look at Justin Baldoni and the wayfair parties' list of potential witnesses,
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they're all production people that are directly connected to the production of the movie.
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They are camera operators, they are assistant directors, they're costume designers, they are boom operators,
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location managers. Everyone involved in the daily work on this movie are on their list.
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None of these people are on Blake's list. I wonder why. Anyways, one of the people that are on both
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people's list is the intimacy coordinator Lizzie Talbot. I remember reading about her a while back
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because she was allegedly the one intimacy coordinator that Justin told Blake about. And he
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wanted Blake to meet her before they started shooting. And as you know, Blake declined that offer
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and said, you know, I don't need to meet with anyone. We'll just do it when we start shooting.
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So then Justin felt a little awkward that he had to go directly to Blake to talk about these intimate
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scenes with her. And during these conversations, he brought up some of his own experiences. And that's
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of course what we know now, something that Blake used against him. But anyways, Liz Talbot just showed
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up again. Thank you, Deborah, for sending me this interview with Paul Feig. As you know, Paul Feig
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directed Blake in another simple favor. And as you know, Blake Lively's co-star from It Ends With Us,
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Brandon Splenar, got offered a role in Paul Feig's movie because of Blake. And now it turns out that
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Lizzie also got an opportunity to work with Blake Lively's BFF director, Paul Feig, in his movie,
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It's really uncomfortable. But, you know, we had a great intimacy coordinator. The two
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actors who did it, no spoilers, were just so comfortable with it. And they were cool. I was
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the only old hung up guy in the room. But by the end of shooting, you're just yelling and
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you're like, you know, have an orgasm. And you're like, okay.
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Well, Lizzie said, the intimacy coordinator said, face these like they're stunt scenes.
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Another one of Blake's supporters is also a part of that movie,
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Miguel Maron. I've been talking about him before. I showed a clip of a video from
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his Instagram the other day when he went out and supported Blake Lively and said that everyone
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else is wrong. You have to read that article in the New York Times. But anyways, I thought it was
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very interesting that she's now working with Paul Feig. Because of course, that makes me think like,
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what did Blake promise her for her to get that job? And why are none of these two projects
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mentioned on her IMDb? She hasn't mentioned that she worked on It Ends With Us. And she also didn't
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mention that she worked on this movie. Anyways, I wanted to talk a little bit about Will Smith here
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because I saw that Jada Pinkett Smith was sued the other day by a person who's known the family for
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like 20 years, I think. His name is Brother Bilal. I'll get back to him shortly. And then I saw
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yesterday, Will Smith was sued. And when I read this story, I was like, okay, I don't know about
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this one. And he reminded me of this interview that I watched with Will Smith a few years ago,
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when he said that in a regular year, he gets sued from like 15 to 20 times. It was an enormous
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amount of times of people that are opportunist and people that want to take advantage of celebrities.
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This is a part of the world of being a celebrity. And we see it all the time. And when I read this,
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I was like, okay. So if you missed the story, this is a violinist. His name is Brian King Joseph.
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And he filed a complaint a couple of days ago here in California. And he said that Smith was
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deliberately grooming and priming him for further exploitation after inviting him to join his global
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tours. So he's a musician that joined Will Smith on his tour last year. And apparently in this lawsuit,
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he's detailing traumatic series of events that happened on this tour. So what he's claiming is
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that he had discovered that someone had entered his Las Vegas hotel room with no sign of forced entry.
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Evidence of a sexual threat or violence allegedly included a handwritten note reading,
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Brian, I'll be back dot dot dot just us with a drawn heart and signed stone F as well as wipes,
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a beer bottle, a red backpack, a bottle of HIV medication with another individual's name,
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an earring and hospital discharge paperwork belonging to an unknown person. So Joseph here alleges that
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he feared that an unknown individual would soon return to his room and start doing inappropriate
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things to him. And that caused Joseph to have severe emotional distress, economic loss, reputational harm
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and other damages, including PTSD and other mental illness as a result of the termination.
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So apparently he lost his job. So he's also suing for retaliation here. Sounds familiar.
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And he said that he reported this to the hotel staff and to a local non-emergency police line
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and to Smith's management team. So he has no evidence that this was from Will Smith or anyone
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from his team. He's just blaming it on them. I don't get it. And he doesn't even say how much money
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he wants. I mean, if you get mental illnesses and PTSD from someone leaving something in your hotel
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room. I don't know. What do you guys think? Do you believe this guy? I feel everything all again.
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It's just about his feelings, about how he how he read this situation, that he felt that this was a
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threat towards him. And he can't even point that this is coming from Will Smith. Adding to this,
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Jada Pinkett Smith was sued for $3 million in the beginning of December last year. I just watched
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an interview that Popcorn Planet, Andy Signor, did with Brother Bilal. It's really interesting. He's
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asking him really good questions. So he's suing Jada for $3 million. And he's basically describing a lot
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of really disturbing stuff that went on in Will and Jada's personal life. And especially with Jada.
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And he's saying that there are freak-off tapes with Jada doing really weird stuff. I mean,
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there's been a lot of rumors about Will and Jada's relationship before and that they are really into
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kinky stuff. But he is pushing it to the limit of illegal stuff. And that's what's interesting here.
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And he's saying when whatever he has to say becomes public and this goes to court, both
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Will and Jada will end up in jail. He also said that he was threatened by Church of Scientology
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and he's faring for his life. So I don't know where the truth lays here. I don't know too much
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about the situation. But I have to say, I've met Will Smith many times. I've also met Jada Pinkett
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Smith. I've also met Jaden Smith. And it is an interesting family. I've said this before about Will
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Smith that he is hands down one of my favorite people to interview. That doesn't mean that I
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don't condemn what he did at the Oscars. I'm just talking about my experience with the celebrities
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from a personal perspective. But I have to say, interviewing him has always been some of my
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highlights, you know, because he is so sincere. He's so friendly. He knows the game. He knows how to
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behave. And as a journalist, I really appreciated that because, you know, I could ask him about
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anything. And I asked him a lot of questions about his personal life. And he talked to me about how
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he and Jada, their parenting style and how, you know, they let their kids basically do whatever they
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wanted. Will Smith told me the only rule is that they have to clean up their room and no Justin
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Bieber posters on the wall. But that was the only rule. And he was laughing about that. But anyways,
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Jada Pinkett Smith is a little different. I had a great interview with her once. But I remember the
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person who just had interviewed her while I was entering the room. She said,
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oh, she's in a bad mood. She got really annoyed with me because I asked something about the movie.
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And I was told beforehand, don't ask her about the movie. So I didn't. I asked her about her red
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table talks. And you're bringing your family into it as well. So you probably had to have a talk with
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them before you did this. Were they all positive about it? Oh, yeah, for sure. I wouldn't do it if
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we weren't all on the same page. Yeah. Do you think it even made you stronger as a family to do
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something like that? I think you already have to be a strong family to do it. Honestly, you know
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what I mean? As you know, she also admitted that she had a relationship with one of her son's
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friends. I think he was 22 at the at the time and she was 40. This was like 10 years ago now. I guess
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having so many skeletons in the closet that probably hasn't come out yet, it makes them an easy target.
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And when someone's been close to the family for so long, they know a lot of stuff and that kind of
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stuff can be used against them. But anyways, I don't know enough about these cases yet to know
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where the truth lies. But I do recommend watching the interview with Brother Bilal, as I said, because
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it's quite interesting. And I'm curious to see where all of this goes. So much scandal, you guys.
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Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this episode. Thank you so much for watching. And if you haven't
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I just have to say that you are always so positive and look so happy and have this energy about you
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that is very rare that you meet people like you. So are you always happy? Or are you just
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You know, it's funny. I think I look at the world through a lens of comedy. Right? So my natural
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reaction is always no matter when something happens and I can't even help it. It's why
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is that funny? You know, so even at a funeral, I can't help but think why that's funny, you
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know? So it's extremely helpful for me just psychologically that no matter what's going on, I can't keep
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my mind from finding jokes. Yeah, we've lost some talk.