The New York Times has finally admitted that I had nothing to do with the smear campaign against Blake Lively. Also, the judge has postponed Blake's trial for the second time, which means we have to wait another two months.
00:03:43.700It's like, oh, she's just defending herself.
00:03:46.280Anyway, so yesterday, I wrote an email to them again,
00:03:49.820saying that I request a correction or clarification appendant to the article stating that there is no evidence I participated in any coordinated effort.
00:04:02.500So they had to add in the article that there's no evidence of what they're actually saying here or insinuating.
00:04:08.340Or I suggested that removal or revision of language that implies alignment with an alleged smear campaign.
00:04:32.720As a result, the story was clear that,
00:04:35.680A, we did not know how much of the anti-lively sentiment online was prompted by the Baldoni people and how much was, as in your case, organic.
00:04:46.920And B, you had no interaction with the Baldoni representatives.
00:04:51.920Just before the paragraph about you, we write,
00:04:55.780It is impossible to know how much of the negative publicity was seeded by Ms. Nathan, Mr. Wallace and their team and how much they noticed and amplified.
00:05:13.920And then they put my statement in there.
00:05:16.340And then he's ending this email saying,
00:05:18.620We believe that those statements dispel any possible implication that you were coordinating with Baldoni's team.
00:05:24.860Well, as I thought, they will not correct this article.
00:05:29.480Because, as you know, New York Times has now also sued the Wayfair parties because they want them to pay for their legal fees that they spend defending themselves against them.
00:05:41.360Because, you know, Baldoni countersued Blake Lively and the New York Times for defamation.
00:05:57.000If they would admit that they did not check their sources right and they printed false information in that article,
00:06:04.120that would really weaken their case against the Wayfair parties.
00:06:08.580So, of course, they're not going to admit to any wrongdoings.
00:06:12.300I wasn't expecting that because that's the way things work.
00:06:15.800This is how they can get away with anything today.
00:06:18.980Because if you are vague in the way you're describing something, you can always work your way around that legally.
00:06:26.500And that's also why they're always using this kind of vague language and say allegedly.
00:06:32.080And then they can get away with things like this without it having any consequences for the reporters who actually reported on this and definitely didn't do their job as a journalist.
00:06:42.900So, the New York Times is claiming that they just reported on legal papers that was given to them because she filed this lawsuit.
00:06:51.000They also claim that they had access to thousands of text messages, meaning that they themselves probably cherry-picked the ones that fit the narrative.
00:07:00.360But apart from all of that, you have to remember I was a non-party here.
00:07:04.240And that's why they should have reached out to me.
00:07:07.380And that is something I think to this day that they really regret not doing.
00:07:13.140So, now they're basically saying that, hey, we can get away with this because we used those words.
00:07:19.000And now we are saying, like I said at the end here, that those statements dispel any possible implication that you were coordinating with Baldoni's team.
00:07:28.800So, yes, why am I still in your article?
00:07:32.800If you now know that I had nothing to do with any of this, why am I still there?
00:07:37.780I was the perfect pawn to be used to fit the narrative that Blake served them and they just went for the bait.
00:07:44.680And I think that's just so embarrassing for them and they know it.
00:07:48.860Okay, so let's get to Brandon Sklenor.
00:07:51.440I guess at this point everyone knows who he is.
00:07:53.520He was the one playing Atlas in It Ends With Us.
00:07:56.600And he, as you know, if you follow this case, was really supportive of Blake from the beginning.
00:08:00.960And he was also one of the cast members who unfollowed Justin Baldoni on Instagram.
00:08:07.020And we've read and we've seen Justin's text messages that he was really surprised by that because he thought that Brandon and him were really good friends.
00:08:16.720Anyways, so as I reported on last week, E! Online did this story.
00:08:24.060He is the director of The Housemaid, a new movie out with or coming out this month with Brandon Sklenor, Sidney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried.
00:08:33.640And in this interview, Paul Feig said that Blake Lively was the one who helped Brandon Sklenor get this part.
00:08:41.660He said that Blake kept pushing for him to meet with Brandon and she said he's the most wonderful guy.
00:08:49.600She praised him so much that Paul Feig decided to have lunch with Brandon and when he met him for lunch, she said that he completely fell in love with him and he decided to cast him for his next movie.
00:09:02.100So now, Brandon Sklenor has been out talking about promoting this movie and a few days ago, he was on NBC Today Show.
00:09:13.020In this show, he was asked about how he got the role and it seemed like the host was already prepped for that question because he's the one who brought this up.
00:09:24.240Saying that Sidney Sweeney was the one who pushed for Brandon to get this part.
00:09:31.160I said that Sidney really pushed for you to be hired for this role.
00:09:45.320I was, you know, playing a cowboy a hundred years ago and I've never done a white collar contemporary man.
00:09:53.940But yeah, I was honored and thrilled that she saw that I could potentially do that and producers were on board and Paul Feig was on board and yeah, I had lunch with Paul Feig actually and we just, you know, we hit it off big time.
00:10:07.120Okay, so the story has changed here and also for the rest of this interview, Blake Lively is not mentioned once.
00:10:14.700So it's so obvious to me that Brandon Sklenar wants nothing to do with Blake Lively anymore and he does not want to be associated with her.
00:10:24.420So funny thing, after this interview on NBC Today show was aired, People Magazine comes out with an article.
00:10:50.480So then People Magazine publishes basically the same story as E! Online five days later and they're saying here that how Blake Lively helped Brandon Sklenar land the housemate role
00:11:04.180according to director Paul Feig and here they're quoting Paul saying she just kept going on and on about how great he is
00:11:12.720and I met him and I was like, yes, you're great and I love you said director Paul Feig.
00:11:19.000So they point out here that Blake worked with him on Another Simple Favor in 2018 and the sequel earlier this year Another Simple Favor
00:11:26.860and Paul is saying, hey, Blake had just worked with Brandon on It Ends With Us and she was still in the middle of shooting all that stuff
00:11:33.300when we were doing Simple Favor, they were doing reshoots and she was like, I'm working with this guy and he's so amazing.
00:11:42.580So this means that Blake was pushing for Brandon while they were shooting It Ends With Us.
00:11:48.320I was like, all right, I'll have lunch with Brandon.
00:11:51.680He walks in and within 30 seconds, I'm like Jelly, the most charismatic guy you've ever met in your life and so talented, says Paul Feig.
00:12:02.420As you know, Paul was very supportive of Blake when he was promoting Another Simple Favor
00:12:07.720because she got so much backlash during the promotion of that movie and he said he loves working with her.
00:12:13.820I think he's the only person on the planet who actually loves working with Blake, but I do find this so telling on how Blake now is working the media
00:12:23.000to get all her pawns in the right place and reminding people like, hey, I saw that you said Sidney Sweeney got you this part,
00:12:31.480but remember, you promised me you'll be backing me up here because I got you this part.
00:12:36.820Talking about Blake's pawns here, as you know, Jenny Slate has also been out there supporting Blake
00:12:44.100and she's one of her witnesses, as I've spoken a lot about the last couple of weeks.
00:12:50.380Jenny Slate also accused Justin of being inappropriate to her by saying that her leather pants that her character was actually wearing were sexy.