00:05:22.060She did embrace the year's theme in the form of a red feathered and sequined Valentino gown.
00:05:29.200And again, shaved off her eyebrows.0.81
00:05:32.020That literally looks good on no one.1.00
00:05:34.040Stop doing that, women of America.1.00
00:05:37.640It's amazing because you had, and I'll get to Nicole Kidman in a second, but Nicole Kidman showed up in red sequins and was, of course, stunning.1.00
00:07:39.880You don't look recognizable, which I mean, you know, it's kind of it defeats the point of what Anna Wintour wants, which is for all of us to be noticing that the A-level celebrities and how fashionable they are.
00:07:55.680I think that's probably I just answered my own question.0.99
00:07:59.300She seems like a nice person, but she is not an alias celebrity.1.00
00:08:01.940She'll show up to the opening of an envelope.0.98
00:08:04.380She's basically on every singing reality show as just, you know, your basic good-looking guest.
00:08:09.020I mean, honestly, she's not really even a star.
00:08:12.200So I guess it makes sense to go completely unrecognizable.0.97
00:08:16.400One of the most criticized looks of the night was former astronaut Katy Perry.0.91
00:08:21.320She chose a rather unconventional look, though it was kind of a cheat from Kim Kardashian's look a couple of years ago.0.83
00:08:28.060she was sporting a white Stella McCartney gown with a long train, a face full of metal.
00:08:37.360Okay, so like a full metal mask. I mean, honestly, Kim Kardashian did this a couple years ago0.95
00:08:42.540where she had a mask that hit her face. Like, do you really want to be following a Kardashian
00:08:47.120on the style choices? Like, you know, but maybe she does because she's, you know, good friends
00:08:53.340with Lauren Sanchez, who is good friends with all the Kardashians. So it's possible she doesn't
00:08:57.360find that shameful. She had matching white gloves for the face mask. The gloves were,
00:09:01.840of course, six fingered. Was that a nod to her treason trip to outer space and what she saw?
00:09:08.640Did she see aliens during her 12 minute trip up and back down? Have you been?
00:09:13.920Okay. People Magazine reports that the weird mask was a nod to Perry's public performance
00:09:20.780as art. It was a, it was a nod. You see here she is on the steps leading in. Um, and it was designed
00:09:28.500to be quote, a literal and symbolic reflection that invites the observer to consider that their
00:09:34.040perception of others can mirror their own internal war world and conversely mask truth.
00:09:38.960It's a long way of saying, stop writing mean things about me. I'm an absolutely lovely person
00:09:45.840And I don't want to be bullied for allegedly shoving my vag in some unsuspecting young woman's face to the point where the woman vomited and a criminal investigation into me is now underway in Australia.
00:09:57.540That's OK. Yeah, that's your issues reflecting on you from my mask.
00:10:03.940Actress Sarah Paulson, this is she was the AOC of this year's Met Gala.0.55
00:10:09.080She wore a dollar bill mask made out of leather to reflect the 1% being blinded by money.0.99
00:12:34.520This guy's one of them because he's so creepy0.83
00:12:37.120and disturbing and obsessed with the sexualization0.98
00:12:40.380of children in some imagery, devils,0.86
00:12:45.400his own enormous, he makes Lena Dunham look like Twiggy.
00:12:50.420And that's 33-year-old British pop star, Sam Smith.0.99
00:12:53.480He's disgusting. He describes himself as non-binary. He goes by they, them, of course.1.00
00:13:00.340So he naturally showed up wearing a dress, an embellished black gown weighing 52 pounds.
00:13:06.240And let me tell you something. He didn't need any extra pounds put on him. Okay.
00:13:09.920His coat was adorned with over 230,000 crystals and beads, hand placed by a team of 45 artisans,
00:13:17.540over 800 hours of work. Imagine, imagine like having to work on one of these gowns and thinking,
00:13:24.460oh my God, who am I getting? Am I getting Nicole Kidman? You know, am I getting like Zendaya? No,0.60
00:13:29.980you're getting the fat they, them, Sam Smith, devil worshiper. Oh my God. Now this is Hunter0.99
00:13:37.860Schaefer. Hunter is a 27 year old man dressing up as a woman for the red carpet. Schaefer is an
00:13:46.400actor on the HBO show Euphoria, he showed up in a Prada gown inspired by a painting of
00:13:52.200a nine-year-old girl. Why is a man showing up to the Met Gala depicting a little girl?
00:14:01.560You're fucking sick, okay? You're sick. Sam Smith is sick. Anna Wintour is sick. And by the way,1.00
00:14:08.560Lauren Sanchez Bezos, as an honorary chair of this event, which you paid $10 million to be,
00:14:13.980Are you okay with this? Like, do you actually sanction a grown man showing up dressed as a single digit girl? Fuck these people. Honestly, they're so out of touch. Anna Wintour, the 76 year old Anna Wintour, you're good with this? Is that art to you? The exploitation of little girls by grown ass men? What part of high fashion are we not getting here? Because we don't want any part of it.
00:14:38.920then there were the moments that we're supposed to just like witness but not say anything about
00:14:44.500this one's truly bizarre everyone's like talking about it but they're like they're they don't want
00:14:49.100to actually say what they're thinking uh this is aaron rose philip philip's being lauded as
00:14:55.000making history at the met gala for being and this is not a joke the first african-american
00:14:59.480transgender model with cerebral palsy in a wheelchair no less to attend the event i mean
00:15:04.800like is she a lesbian that's that i think that's the only thing she's missing she is she a lesbian
00:15:11.480this is like okay we all know what they're doing here she was born in antigua raised in the u.s
00:15:19.840she's 25 years old it says she or he i don't know i'm not i don't know it's a trans person
00:15:28.800i i have no idea what the natural sex is and as you know i like to go by normal
00:20:00.100And if you have a big saggy face when you've gotten your filler taken out of your lips and your weird cheeks, everyone's starting to look Asian.1.00
00:20:07.960They're putting so much filler and whatever in their face.0.99
00:20:10.660They're all starting to have squinty eyes and look Asian, which is fine if you're Asian, but she's not.1.00
00:25:18.700And good for them because nine times out of 10, if you're a man and you show up at this thing in costume, like on point when it comes to the style, you look like a flaming homosexual, which most of them aren't.0.92
00:25:32.360But like if you are a straight man, like Justin Bieber, you don't really want to show up gay, have everybody speculating for days just how gay you are because you were a very gay outfit, which all of these designers are.0.57
00:25:44.000And they work out their weird gay fantasies on these male actors or singers who show up.
00:25:49.620So I applaud those guys for not going.0.88
00:25:52.480And as a result, their female counterparts just showed up, walked the red carpet.0.83
00:32:12.380It ended with a return to the Met Gala here.
00:32:16.980Blake Lively making her very first Met Gala appearance since 2022.
00:32:22.980And on the same day, she reached a settlement in her lawsuit against Justin Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios, his studios, over the film It Ends With Us.
00:32:33.160Lively telling Vogue, quote, I haven't been to the Met since giving birth to my fourth child.
00:32:38.100Every year, I am a different version of myself than the last.
00:32:41.080So to be able to stand in the version of myself that I am today.
00:32:45.020to be able to stand in the version of myself that I am today and all the experiences I have had
00:32:51.080in strength and confidence is important to me. These are lies. No one who actually feels strong
00:32:57.500and confident talks about themselves like that. I sit here at the anchor desk in my strength and
00:33:03.960confidence to bring you the news. Nobody talks like this. Like she's just trying to give you
00:33:09.900the adjectives she wants you to repeat about her because she has not those things. I mean,
00:33:16.700I've said this to you many times, but like the six foot seven center doesn't tell you how tall
00:33:21.020he is. If somebody is telling you the adjectives they are in this way, it is an ultimate, ultimate
00:33:27.800tell that they don't feel those things about themselves. So she does not feel strong. She
00:33:33.160feels weak. She does not feel confident. She has to suffer from a lack of confidence, which seems
00:33:38.220very obvious because she's a bully. And that's how all bullies are. None of them has confidence0.99
00:33:44.900or feel strength. That's why they have to behave like that to make them feel those things for a
00:33:50.080moment or two. And she is a bully. And I have a lot of thoughts on this settlement, why it came0.99
00:33:56.940about and why it had to happen, and some new reporting on exactly what changed hands to make
00:34:04.660this lawsuit go away. And we will talk about that right after this quick, quick break. Don't go
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00:35:05.480The big news yesterday was the settlement two weeks before trial of the case brought by Blake
00:35:12.700Lively against Justin Baldoni and his movie studio, not to mention the PR team representing
00:35:19.460him. This came as a big shock to most because so far they had been saying all along,
00:35:27.240there'll be no settlement. Like we're, we're going to see this through right to the bitter end
00:35:30.940and a bitter end. It was indeed. Um, I want to take you back before we kick this off to what
00:35:39.080Brian Friedman, who represented Justin Baldoni to what he said to me back in January, 2025,
00:35:45.900right after this thing was filed. Uh, he's a friend. He's also my own personal attorney and
00:35:51.360he will make your life very unpleasant if you come after me. But that's an aside.
00:35:56.940He came on the show and he talked about what was going to happen in this litigation. Remember what
00:36:02.880happened was Blake Lively, just as a quick primer, she starred in this movie, It Ends With Us,
00:36:07.360was Justin Baldoni. He had purchased the rights to that Colleen Hoover novel. It was his film.
00:36:13.500He agreed with Blake Lively that she would star in it. And she agreed to that just to be the star,
00:36:17.980Not the co-writer, not the co-director. She had an executive producer credit, but that's meaningless. It's just like a vanity plate. And when she did the movie, she started to complain that he was allegedly doing things inappropriate on the set, that she felt like he was writing in sex scenes that weren't there and other allegations.
00:37:04.480And then you heard the other half of it.
00:37:05.620It was like, oh, wow, she's terrible for misleading me in this way.
00:37:08.260So she filed first a complaint with the California Human Rights Department.
00:37:13.680And then somehow, I mean, gee, who knows, it wound up in the New York Times.
00:37:17.660I have no idea how the New York Times got wind of her super confidential complaint with the California Human Rights Division.
00:37:24.060But lo and behold, the New York Times, they're good scoopers, and they found out.
00:37:29.060Shortly thereafter, we had crossed lawsuits.
00:37:32.160She sued Baldoni and Wayfarer and Justin's PR team, claiming that they had unleashed, that she'd been discriminated against, sexually harassed, and then that they had retaliated against her when she complained with the California Human Rights Division and with them internally.
00:37:47.300And he cross-claimed against her, too, for defamation of character and so on and so forth.
00:37:51.820The litigation proceeded. He was very aggressive in his defense and very aggressive in his PR, thanks to his lawyer, Brian Friedman, who, let me tell you, has been through this a time or two.
00:38:03.960I mean, his representation of me in my battle with NBC was one of the first huge litigations that he'd handled that was equally big on the PR front battle and on the legal battle.
00:38:20.420And he understood in this case, and he's handled so many in between, but he understood in this case that both were going to be equally necessary here.
00:38:26.980In fact, the truth is the PR battle was even more important in this lawsuit.
00:38:31.020So we spoke to him weeks after the New York Times article dropped on this program, and he made a prediction about how this was going to go for Blake Lively.
00:40:33.440Okay, so they're both, all of them, signing on to this.
00:40:36.760The end product, the movie It Ends With Us, is a source of pride to all of us
00:40:41.380who work to bring it to life. Raising awareness and making a meaningful impact in the lives of
00:40:46.000domestic violence survivors and all survivors is a goal that we stand behind. Okay. Generic.
00:40:52.640Go see our movie. It was a good one. Then we get to the meat of it. We acknowledge the process
00:40:58.320presented challenges and recognize concerns raised by Ms. Lively deserved to be heard.
00:41:05.500Now I'm going to guarantee I haven't talked to Brian. I guarantee you that that line there was the subject of about 200 revisions back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Right. You I can feel it getting watered down and watered down and watered down from like Blake Lively had righteous claims that she was correct to bring.
00:41:27.440Unfortunately, they were thrown out by a judge and whatever.
00:41:31.660I'm sure it sounded much more favorable to Blake Lively when it was first drafted.
00:41:35.860Instead, we wind up with the process of making the movie presented challenges and we recognize concerns raised by Lively deserve to be heard.
00:44:03.980And I know they're liars from the complaint that they filed against Justin, which Brian bit by bit undermined with proof, with proof that she had taken things out of context, that she was determined to paint herself as a victim.
00:44:16.340I'm telling you, this woman, Blake Lively, I think she has Munchausen's.
00:44:20.500If one word of what she alleged was sincere in her head, she has Munchausen's.0.99
00:44:24.860Or like she tries to make something bad happen to her.
00:44:27.940She like insists that she has to be a victim because like something terrible has happened to her.
00:44:35.600And either that or she's just a bald-faced liar who made the whole thing up because she understood that she was suffering PR-wise thanks to her own bad deeds.1.00
00:44:46.340and she wanted somebody to blame it on.0.98
00:45:12.120That is a total and complete victory for him.
00:45:16.340With this anodyne statement and she dismisses all charges, it is a complete and total win for Justin Baldoni.
00:45:25.840And it is a complete and total surrender by Blake Lively and admission that she had no claims.
00:45:34.740She won't be forced to do it publicly.
00:45:36.480She was allowed to save face by just saying, oh, we settled it and give this statement.0.77
00:45:40.940You know, we both agree on appropriate workplaces.0.99
00:45:43.160And now she's going to run around and she's going to try to paint herself as like, I can't talk about it because of an NDA, but like, you know, wink, wink, we, we care about workplaces and I care about women. I care. I deeply care. And the press is going to let her get away with that. But the public is not.0.55
00:45:58.700And this is where I want to offer a free PR lesson to Blake Lively, to Meghan Markle, another person who wasn't at the Met Gala, even though her good friends, the Kardashians, were all there and very tight with the co-chair, Lauren Sanchez Bezos, couldn't quite manage to get an invite for that loser.
00:46:23.900But both women need the same lesson, and I am just the gal to provide it.
00:46:28.700When you come under withering attack by the media, which happens to virtually every public figure at one point or another in his or her life, there is only one play.
00:47:37.640You yourself reportedly earned $21 million in the eight years preceding the filing of this lawsuit, according to those involved in the case.
00:47:45.160So you're earning, what, $4 million and change per film?
00:47:54.880You have four wonderful children. You live in some huge mansion, I think, up in Bedford, New York, or someplace in the sort of hills of Connecticut.
00:48:02.460You're doing great. Shut up. You got your liquor company. You got your hair company.0.99
00:48:10.020Shut the fuck up about your bad PR, which amounted to like a month's worth of negative articles, which he didn't even generate.1.00
00:48:20.460But honestly, even if he had, shut up. We don't care.1.00
00:48:24.880America has its own problems, and they look like real problems, not your stupid problems.0.99
00:48:30.400I had bad things said about me in the Daily Mail or the New York Post.1.00
00:49:07.300She and her dragons, Taylor Swift and Ryan Reynolds, her best friend and her husband, and Blake herself, had way more power than Justin Baldoni.
00:49:14.220And she was determined to ruin his life, to dub him as a Me Too-er, as a sexual predator, to misrepresent his emails, his behavior on set, that of his partners from Wayfarer.
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01:10:02.420Yeah. So and people were very, very angry because you're not allowed to like him because he's got this very racist strain when it comes to blacks and Jews and women and so on.
01:10:15.520Racist, bigoted, whatever you want to call it. But he's got this other strain that is interesting.
01:10:20.780And so but you're not allowed to say that. You can't even acknowledge it.
01:10:23.880And you definitely can't interview it. Dasha, didn't anybody tell you that?
01:10:26.940Well, I saw, yeah, I saw Tucker say that he regrets it.
01:10:29.880And I actually also regret Tucker interviewing him because we had Fuentes on a month before and it wasn't, no one cared.
01:39:09.660You know, like it wasn't legal film, but it was one of those type of, you know, where, and he plugged in all these details that kind of dovetail this lawsuit, except he described his harasser as a he and a man and said he was with Morgan Stanley, not JP Morgan Chase.