Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - TRUTH IS COMING OUT !!

00:00:00.000 So Blake was really pushing for the NDA.

00:00:08.140 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Tashli Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.

00:00:16.340 So let's look at how Blake and Ryan are now being iced out by Hollywood and these new photographs that are being shared online

00:00:24.900 with Blake's former BFF Taylor Swift and her co-star from Another Simple Favor,

00:00:32.040 that must really hurt.

00:00:34.280 And let's look at this, how Ryan Reynolds was trying to ridicule the other lawsuit going on

00:00:39.560 that potentially could really take him down, the Van Zandt lawsuit.

00:00:45.820 And he used all the biggest late night hosts to do it for him.

00:00:50.220 It also looks like Blake Lively's publicist Leslie Sloan is losing grip over Hollywood.

00:00:58.360 One of her major publicists just left her company. 0.57

00:01:02.800 And let's talk about this ridiculous fluff piece in People magazine.

00:01:07.500 I think this story shows the lowest of the low of how a magazine can sink.

00:01:12.480 and I have some really interesting inside info from my insider who tells me what really went

00:01:19.400 on behind the scene during these settlement meetings. Okay so let's get into it. This

00:01:25.260 photograph popped up on my Instagram feed yesterday and I was like oh I wonder how Blake

00:01:30.440 will feel when she sees this. So Lena Dunham had a 40th birthday party in New York in West Village

00:01:37.200 in a restaurant, I think it was. And she invited all her friends and she took a selfie with her

00:01:43.560 friends. And there you see Taylor Swift. And who is she sitting next to? Blake Lively's co-star

00:01:50.600 from A Simple Favor and Another Simple Favor, Andrew Reynolds. He was with her during the

00:01:58.660 promotion of Another Simple Favor last year. He was trying to stay away from all the drama because,

00:02:04.140 of course all his co-stars were just asked about the Blake Lively lawsuit and he never and he never

00:02:10.060 really responded to that but when you see him sitting next to Taylor Swift at this dinner party

00:02:15.320 I'm wondering what did they talk about imagine being a fly on the wall there also a few people

00:02:21.600 mentioned to me that Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift's fiance had Colin Just on his podcast the other day

00:02:30.900 And as you know, Colleen Just is married to Scarlett Johansson, who is Ryan Reynolds' ex-wife.

00:02:38.180 And it seems like Travis and Colleen was getting along really well.

00:02:41.920 And we know that Ryan and Travis are not friends.

00:02:46.920 Travis made very clear that the world knows where he stands when it comes to Ryan Reynolds,

00:02:51.540 when he very publicly unfollowed him on Instagram last year.

00:02:55.380 Yeah, I think at this point, Blake and Ryan is really starting to feel the cold from Hollywood

00:03:00.580 And there are other stories out today as well,

00:03:02.940 talking about how they're planning to move to Europe

00:03:05.500 and stay away from Hollywood for a while.

00:03:08.200 I doubt that they would actually be able to stay away from the public eye

00:03:12.040 because both of them need to have validation and attention constantly,

00:03:16.780 especially Ryan, I think.

00:03:18.780 So yeah, we'll see how that goes.

00:03:20.860 This one was quite interesting.

00:03:22.520 Thank you, Bettina, for sending me this.

00:03:24.040 This is a really good catch from Bettina here.

00:03:26.160 She sent me this video of all the late night hosts.

00:03:30.060 Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, and Seth Meyers,

00:03:34.840 they were having a conversation on their podcast, Strict Force 5,

00:03:38.520 something that they, this podcast that they actually started during COVID.

00:03:42.260 And they mention in this episode that the main sponsor of their podcast back during COVID was Mint Mobile.

00:03:50.560 And Ryan Reynolds would always read the ads for them.

00:03:54.740 And he was also a guest on the show, I think, a couple of times.

00:03:58.120 And in the middle of this episode, Jimmy Kimmel takes up a note saying that, hey, we need to thank the sponsor, again, Mint Mobile, who's doing so much great work and they're doing charity work, blah, blah, blah.

00:04:10.940 And then he says that Ryan didn't have time to read the ad this time.

00:04:14.880 Ryan himself was too busy to record a commercial for this, but he did have time to send what in the podcast industry is called a live read ad script that he specifically requested be read by our man of the hour, Stephen Colbert.

00:04:29.200 Yeah, Ryan was too busy to record a one minute commercial for them, but he wasn't too busy to write what he wanted them to say.

00:04:37.100 And of course, as always, Ryan can't help himself.

00:04:41.980 And this time, he wanted to make sure that everyone knows how ridiculous this whole lawsuit is that's still going on between the two publicists.

00:04:52.560 I'll run the clip for you first so you understand what I'm talking about.

00:04:55.260 Plus, you can keep your phone, unless your phone belongs to your television network.

00:04:59.620 They're going to want it back.

00:05:01.200 Either way, signing up is easy.

00:05:03.300 All you need to do is go to mintmobile.com slash strikeforce.

00:05:06.460 Yes, you can keep your phone unless your phone belongs to a television network.

00:05:10.580 They're going to want it back.

00:05:12.040 And as you can see, there were some weird laughs around that.

00:05:15.060 They're going to want it back.

00:05:16.360 Either way.

00:05:17.440 I don't know if everyone caught that joke or if they're just trying to laugh about it

00:05:22.780 because there was nothing really funny about that.

00:05:25.420 This thing made the whole ad so cringe because Ryan Reynolds used this ad

00:05:29.940 to promote his personal agenda here. 0.52

00:05:32.720 As you know, Stephanie Jones, the publicist that Justin Baldoni hired, is in a legal feud with Jennifer Abel, who used to work for her, who then left the company to start her own.

00:05:45.440 And when she did that, Stephanie Jones said, I need to keep your phone.

00:05:50.740 And she didn't just say, OK, give me your phone.

00:05:53.220 I need your phone.

00:05:54.540 She had an attorney present.

00:05:56.080 She had a security guard presence.

00:05:57.700 And she said, hand it over.

00:05:59.780 It was not done voluntarily.

00:06:01.360 Let's put it that way.

00:06:02.120 And as you know, that phone was used against Justin Baldoni.

00:06:07.380 So Stephanie Jones went into the phone and found text messages that could harm her ex-employee,

00:06:13.680 Jennifer Abel, and really harm her clients, Wayfair Partizan, Justin Baldoni.

00:06:20.040 But still, she decided to contact Blake Lively so that she would get access to this phone

00:06:25.760 so that she could give it to the New York Times so that they could write that horrific

00:06:29.840 story they did to take down Justin Baldoni and the Wayfair parties. And this lawsuit is still

00:06:35.620 going on. And as you know, Blake and Ryan wanted to get hold of that phone legally. So they filed

00:06:42.880 a sham lawsuit to send out a subpoena to Stephanie Jones so they could get hold of that phone. They

00:06:49.800 did that through their company, Van Zand. And in this ad, it's so obvious that he's trying to put

00:06:55.720 that message through. And it's so appalling that he's using all these big names to put that message

00:07:03.840 through for him. And I'm sure if Stephen Colbert knew how he was being used in that moment, he would

00:07:09.880 not agree to read that commercial. Yeah, I think this was a really stupid move from Ryan Reynolds. 1.00

00:07:14.920 Why would you drag all these other people into this? Okay, so let's look at how Leslie Sloan, 0.99

00:07:20.300 Blake Lively's publicist is now losing employees. So this is from The Hollywood Reporter saying that

00:07:28.160 Jeffrey Chasson, veteran Hollywood publicist, launches Gingham PR. So he worked for many years

00:07:35.600 for Leslie Sohn's company, Vision PR. She's the CEO and founder of that company. I wonder what

00:07:42.820 it was like when he told her he's leaving her company. Did she say, hey, give me your phone,

00:07:48.840 I'm going to give it to the New York Times and we can leak every conversation you had with our

00:07:53.000 clients. I don't think so. But still, I don't think it was an easy move for him. So this guy

00:07:58.300 is, according to the Hollywood Reporter, a veteran in the industry. And the reason for leaving,

00:08:03.440 he's saying, is that I've always felt that I ran a bit of a different cadence from traditional

00:08:08.100 personal PR, offering clients a broader spectrum of strategy and deliverables. I'm extremely excited

00:08:14.960 to showcase my personal style now in full within my own framework. Launching Gingham PR allows me

00:08:21.620 to fully realize that vision and deliver my approach in a more focused bespoke way for

00:08:26.540 clients. It's not that he's criticizing directly here but he is kind of criticizing saying that he

00:08:32.620 has a different approach to PR. As we know from Leslie Sloan's text messages that I've been reading

00:08:39.340 up a few times here on my channel. She is very aggressive. She is a really aggressive and scary 1.00

00:08:46.320 woman if you ask me. She sent really threatening and manipulating text messages to journalists 1.00

00:08:52.720 and I've been really appalled by her behavior. Anyways, let's look at what my insider is saying

00:08:57.940 about what happened during the settlement meetings and how Justin Baldoni's wife might have played a

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00:10:46.540 who I speak to very often and they're sending me things that are coming directly from some of the

00:10:51.000 people involved here. They sent me this yesterday saying that what's starting to dawn on people is

00:10:57.440 just how unprecedented the win for Justin is and it all comes down to not having Ryan silence him.

00:11:04.320 I've spoken about this before how they were actually really worried about settling this

00:11:08.520 because Justin and the other people involved here were terrified of what Ryan would do next. They

00:11:14.700 don't trust him, they don't trust Blake, they don't trust their lawyers so they were terrified

00:11:19.120 that even after a settlement they would go after them and guess what happened they did and they

00:11:24.740 twisted that one sentence in the settlement to make them still look guilty as you know they

00:11:29.940 agreed to say that Blake lively deserved to be heard and they weaponized that against them the

00:11:35.240 person continues to say one of the main things Ryan and Blake wanted was an NDA from Justin

00:11:39.900 a walk away with both sides agreeing to never discuss the matter in public again so Blake was

00:11:46.760 really pushing for the NDA and to keep the facts hidden forever. That's what they wanted to do.

00:11:54.280 It was killing Blake that piece by piece, day by day, she was getting more and more humiliated with

00:12:00.840 every new piece of evidence that was revealed. As you know, just before she settled, she was caught

00:12:07.480 in lying in her deposition saying that she never asked Sony to delete the dailies while Sony said

00:12:13.860 in another text message that they had just been asked by Blake Lively to delete the dailies and

00:12:18.980 then they say it's been become clear to the public that everything she accused Justinus of was

00:12:24.100 actually something Blake and Ryan had done. They were the aggressors, they were the bullies, they

00:12:29.240 were the liars, they were the ones with the idea for the smear campaign. It was destroying both 0.96

00:12:34.800 Blake and Ryan. They begged the wayfarer side to settle to just drop everything if they agreed to

00:12:40.760 never speak of it again. So that's what they started pushing for and Justin said no. Some

00:12:49.260 people suspect it was Emily who once again stood up to Ryan. Emily as you know is just involved

00:12:55.100 on his wife and we know that she got involved when Ryan Reynolds wrote that statement. Remember

00:13:01.920 that statement he wrote for them that he wanted them to sign and give to the media saying that

00:13:09.520 it was all their fault that the PR for the for the movie It Ends With Us was so tone deaf and

00:13:16.180 taking all the responsibility for all the backlash that Blake Lively and her co-star had received

00:13:21.060 Emily stepped up and said no way we've seen that in text messages and that makes me believe that

00:13:28.660 Emily has been a lot more involved in actually pushing back at Blake and Ryan and here is another

00:13:35.660 example of that they say here that some people suspect it was Emily who once again stood up to

00:13:40.540 Ryan because again the more that comes out the more it sounds like the case wasn't really about

00:13:46.940 the interaction on sets between Blake and Justin things like that happen every day on sets and

00:13:52.580 people move past them it was about power about Blake demanding power and Ryan getting involved

00:13:57.460 with his insane rants and threats is really what escalated things and it took Emily's strength to

00:14:03.780 finally say enough to the insanity. When Lively begged Wayfair to let her drop the remaining

00:14:10.880 three claims, Friedman told Wayfair this could be the end. And Wayfair agreed to allow her to

00:14:17.080 drop the claims, but only if the NDA was dropped. Justin did not want to be silenced about the hell

00:14:23.280 he had been put through. No deal unless the NDA is gone. And Lively's side hated it, but was in

00:14:31.180 but was in no position to resist this is why Justin was okay with the deserve to be heard

00:14:37.480 language because from the point because from his point of view everyone deserves to be heard even

00:14:43.360 if they're utterly wrong and the person says that now Justin walks away being able to tell the truth

00:14:49.660 that's all he ever wanted and we've heard that from his attorney as well Brian Friedman said

00:14:54.860 all he wants is the truth to come out and they say here he has faith in the truth some people

00:15:00.860 think he's naive for this belief because mainstream media is captured by money. People

00:15:05.400 Magazine and other barely even try to fact check stories. They print things clearly untrue. But

00:15:11.520 here's the thing. If Justin does write a book about this, it's a guaranteed bestseller. It's

00:15:16.660 going to be huge. I agree. It is going to be huge if he agrees to do it. Blake and Ryan already

00:15:23.900 basically published their story. Yes. And they're saying it's the New York Times article that they

00:15:29.840 tricked Megan Thewey into writing for them. That was their best seller. That was their fictionalized

00:15:36.000 version of events. They got Megan to write their smear campaign against Justin for free. This is so 0.90

00:15:42.960 terrible for Megan Thewey who had such an amazing reputation before this. She was the one behind the 0.64

00:15:49.460 Harvey Weinstein story. She received a Pulitzer Prize and then she let herself be used by Blake 1.00

00:15:56.440 Lively and Ryan Reynolds like this. It's really, really sad. And they continue. So Blake has had

00:16:02.420 her big story published already. But Justin's book, if he decides to do it, will be absolutely

00:16:09.560 titanic, especially if he enlists the help of content creators who were tracking this from

00:16:15.100 the beginning. Because it's not just about him. It's about Hollywood power, about money, about

00:16:21.180 manipulation and about manipulating the mainstream media and about how a small brand of truth seekers

00:16:27.780 like you, me, thank you, Dave Neal, Cassidy O'Connell, Andy Signor, Lauren Nady, Dana Bolling,

00:16:36.980 Not Actually Golden, Sack Peter, Lil Girl Attorney, Teresa Conception and many others became obsessed

00:16:45.740 with figuring out what was actually happening and breaking down the legal mess that Blake created.

00:16:52.600 Thank you for pointing that out. I also find this side of the story really, really fascinating,

00:16:58.260 how the mainstream media has basically reported on the surface and copied and pasted each other

00:17:04.220 without really digging into what's actually happening here. And also, I think a lot of them

00:17:08.800 were afraid of actually reporting on the truth because A, Ryan Reynolds has a lot of power in

00:17:15.420 the industry and b they didn't want to be on the wrong side of a me too story so they were afraid

00:17:21.140 to call out blake lively now things have shifted as you may have noticed they're also pointing out

00:17:26.600 here that katie at without a crystal ball actually helped track down crucial information about the

00:17:31.900 sham lawsuit ryan and blake concocted to subpoena jen abel's phone that is true katie from without

00:17:38.140 a crystal ball is the one who found out about the van zam sham lawsuit and that was a major

00:17:44.640 discovery and really helped justin build on his team and they continue bigger platforms like

00:17:50.080 megan kelly candace owens and billy bush even got involved and a major point is that voices from

00:17:55.320 across the political spectrum all ended up siding with justin once they looked into the facts it

00:18:00.860 actually brought together voices from from across politics even though justin is a progressive with

00:18:06.740 deep interest in social issues conservatives ended up siding with liberals who were horrified

00:18:12.280 at how he was being treated and then they're quoting Whitney Cummings who said that I did not

00:18:17.720 think that Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds would be the people that united this country and it has

00:18:22.240 happened the most liberal people I know are now obsessively following Candace Owens for her take

00:18:28.360 on journalism on the situation thank you Ryan and Blake for having such a terrible personality

00:18:33.740 that we are now united as a country and the person says so this is a huge story and it's not

00:18:40.020 over. It's playing out right now and it reflects our current culture, the upheaval of mainstream

00:18:46.100 media and how information is spread. Yes, I think this is another really, really fascinating and

00:18:53.640 interesting part of this story for sure. And if Justin's not writing this side of the story,

00:19:00.460 maybe I should. Yes, as a journalist, I really find that aspect of this story so fascinating.

00:19:07.040 Okay, before I go, I need to mention this story from People Magazine.

00:19:10.560 I was like, what are you doing?

00:19:13.460 So as you know, Blake and Ryan are out there pitching stories about themselves daily now

00:19:19.320 to make it seem like they're a lovable couple.

00:19:22.220 They love their children.

00:19:23.520 She's a great mom.

00:19:24.540 He's a great dad.

00:19:25.640 They have a lot of friends, blah, blah, blah.

00:19:28.020 They're super successful still.

00:19:29.980 So this lawsuit didn't really harm them in any way.

00:19:32.720 So People Magazine did this story saying, see photos of every time Blake and Ryan packed on the PDA.

00:19:41.540 The Deadpool actor and Gossip Girl star married in 2012 and share four kids.

00:19:46.480 That is this news.

00:19:48.300 Talking about news, breaking news, you guys.

00:19:51.600 And then they say, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have been madly in love for almost 15 years.

00:19:56.300 And they have the photos to prove it.

00:19:58.400 they have taken selfies together 16 times according to this article so they must be in love

00:20:06.140 that is the proof really that's all you need to prove that you're in love taking a selfie and

00:20:12.940 posting it on instagram i don't know and then they're saying that the actor who met on the

00:20:17.960 actors who met on the set of 2011 green lantern began dating later that year and wed in september

00:20:23.420 2012. Since then, they have welcomed four children, blah, blah, blah. James, Ines, Betty, and Olin.

00:20:31.000 James, I was thinking about that yesterday when I saw that Ryan Reynolds wanted his firstborn to be

00:20:37.900 named after his father, James. And I'm thinking being a girl and you have the name James,

00:20:44.420 that's going to lead to a lot of confusion in your life. Like when you're applying for a job,

00:20:49.920 everyone's gonna think you are a man for example or you're going to a new class and everyone's like

00:20:55.900 who's james oh it's the girl i mean you're just complicating the life of your child if you ask me

00:21:02.020 if you give a girl a boy's name i don't know i just feel like we should always avoid putting

00:21:06.380 children in position that when things can get more complicated than it has to be anyway celebrities

00:21:11.640 and their children's names is another story i'm coming from me who has a very complicated name

00:21:16.400 that most people can't pronounce i probably shouldn't say anything and then of course they

00:21:20.120 quote ryan reynolds from that appearance he had on this sponsored event where he said i've never

00:21:25.900 been in my life been more proud of my wife and he said i've never been more proud of someone in my

00:21:32.060 life with that level of integrity that they bring with them and everything they do yeah whatever we

00:21:37.700 talked about that quote a few times already and then of course ryan reynolds is trying to sell

00:21:43.860 you something through this article so it says as the Deadpool star releases season five of his

00:21:50.340 documentary Welcome to Wrexham on May 14th 2026 which is oh it's today actually what a coincidence

00:21:58.360 we look back at his most PDA filled pictures with his beloved wife and then they post 16 pictures

00:22:07.580 of them uh packing on the PDA or whatever they call it and they mentioned the settlement here

00:22:13.300 but they're mentioning it like this on mother's day 2026 a few days after lively and baldoni's

00:22:20.240 production company wafer studios announced their settlement reynolds paid tribute to his

00:22:26.100 fearless wife and he said i appreciate this mother beyond measure he wrote on instagram stories

00:22:32.700 she's kind she's fearless she's the absolute love in my life of my life and to our four little kids

00:22:39.220 she's the life of their love. How nice. Why didn't he post that on his Instagram grid? As I said

00:22:46.500 before, if you really want to show the world that you love your wife, why do you just put her on

00:22:51.220 story so she disappears after 24 hours? Why can't you just make a real post about it so people know

00:22:57.180 that you're actually still married? Because all the photos that we've seen Ryan post in regards

00:23:02.720 to his love for his wife are old photographs. We've seen them before. I think the one he posted

00:23:08.800 on Mother's Day was from Niagara Falls or something like that of course they weren't there

00:23:12.780 of course they weren't there the other day so he's just looking through his phone and finding

00:23:17.860 old photos and pretending that he still cares I don't think he does anyway that's it for me today

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Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - May 15, 2026

TRUTH IS COMING OUT !!

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