Blake Lively demands $300M over ‘mean girl’ claims…
That’s wealthy, Blake Lively.
In new court paperwork, the beleaguered actress claims that being labeled a imply woman in her mucky legal battle against Justin Baldoni misplaced her almost $300 million.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I ought to obtain reparations for having to watch her pathetic stab at a Boston accent in “The Town.”
Blake Lively has argued that being labeled a “mean girl” in press coverage of her legal battle with Justin Baldoni has price her almost $300 million in reputational harm, misplaced wages and past and model income. ©Sony Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
I’m still reeling.
The former “Gossip Girl” star and spouse of uber-wealthy actor Ryan Reynolds claims that she misplaced as a lot as $40.5 million thanks to alleged reputational harm from a smear marketing campaign in the press, involving “the retaliatory phrases ‘tone deaf,’ ‘bully and ‘mean girl.’”
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Lively alleges she also missed out on past and future income — between $34.3 million and $87.8 million — from missed appearing and endorsement alternatives.
And she claims to have misplaced $39.6 million to $143.5 million in income from her haircare and booze manufacturers that she hawked during the promotion of “It Ends With Us,” the film that precipitated all this drama.
This smear marketing campaign accusation is laughable. Lively shouldn’t blame Team Baldoni for those derisive labels. She can thank herself.
Since Blake Lively sued her “It Ends With US” co-star Justin Baldoni, correspondence in court paperwork has seemingly revealed just how concerned her husband Ryan Reynolds was in her efforts to commandeer the film. Getty Images
We discovered who she is by watching her.
We noticed her unusual interactions with reporters during the promotion of “It Ends with Us,” discussing home violence prefer it was a sunny floral association.
Then there may be her damning sit-down with Norwegian journalist Kjersti Flaa while Lively was selling Woody Allen’s 2016 period piece, “Cafe Society.” Flaa has called it “the Blake Lively interview that made me want to quit my job.”
In it, a pregnant Lively mocked Flaa after the journalist congratulated her on her “bump.” Then she and co-star Parker Posey actually dug in when Flaa requested them about their wardrobe in the Nineteen Thirties-set film.
In a 2016 interview, Blake Lively and Parker Posey (above) have been stunningly impolite to Norwegian reporter Kjersti Flaa after she congratulated Lively on her child bump and requested the actresses about their film wardrobe. Kjersti Flaa/YouTube
“But I wonder if they would ask the men about the clothes?” Lively said condescendingly, her physique and face shifted toward Posey and utterly cutting off Flaa.
It was deeply uncomfortable to watch two fancy-pants celebrities intentionally make a working journalist really feel like a piece of mud in the nook. The pair acted like impolite little piggies feasting on the humiliation of somebody they thought-about beneath them.
It is the type of conduct related with insecure tween ladies making an attempt to discover their approach in the middle-school ecosystem.
This is why people suppose Lively is a grade-A, 100% imply woman. Her workforce underestimates the intelligence of the final public.
Kjersti Flaa (above) has said the 2016 interview with Blake Lively made her need to stop her job. Kjersti Flaa/ YouTube
Now Lively resides through a reputational nightmare, which might have been averted if not for her ego and narcissism.
She might have wrapped “It Ends With Us” and merely moved on with her profession and her life, leaving Baldoni in the review mirror — a footnote on her IMDB.
Instead, she filed the grievance in late 2024, alleging that she skilled inappropriate harassment on the set of the film and lobbing some fairly horrible accusations at Baldoni.
The actress possible assumed Baldoni, who moonlighted as a male feminist influencer, would merely fold just as he had on key choices in the film, permitting her to wrest control of his project.
But the actor-director and his legal workforce has fought back like junkyard canine.
Lively’s protracted legal battle has revealed that the actress seemingly enlisted her one-time best good friend Taylor Swift in efforts to get her approach in the manufacturing of “It Ends With Us.” Peter Cruz / SplashNews.com
And in the course of this ugly legal battle, troves of correspondence has been launched exposing the reality about Lively’s seeming coordinated effort — with both her good friend Taylor Swift and her husband Ryan Reynolds — to commandeer the film. It also appeared to reveal her partner’s heavy-handed interference on her behalf. It has not been a good look for the onetime golden energy couple.
Lively clearly thought she was entitled to own the film and to make a bundle by cross-promoting her hair care and booze strains.
She believed that she was owed success and adoration — and she was going to get her due by ruining an actor who barely anybody knew before this debacle. She allowed her ego to pull her proper into the gutter.
A decide tossed 10 of Lively’s 13 allegations, including inappropriate harassment and defamation. It’s wanting like the 2 can have an explosive showdown in court on May 18.
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have been in a legal feud since December 2024, 4 months after the release of “It Ends With Us” (above). ©Sony Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
Even if the actress ultimately wins, she has already misplaced the real battle. The world has seen the real her: an arsonist who burned down her own home.
Baldoni shouldn’t have to pay to rebuild it.
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