Journalist who was 'humiliated' by Blake Lively speaks out amid lawsuit against co-star Justin Baldoni
The journalist who was 'humiliated' by Blake Lively has spoken out after the actor filed a lawsuit against her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni.
Earlier this year, Norwegian journalist Kjersti Flaa spoke out about interviewing Lively back in 2016 for the Woody Allen film Café Society.
Flaa took to her YouTube on August 10 to share footage from her interview with Lively titled: "The Blake Lively interview that made me want to quit my job."
"Sitting down with Blake Lively and her co star Parker Posey for Café Society (2016) is the most uncomfortable interview situation I have ever experienced. Is it not ok to congratulate someone on their pregnancy or to ask another woman about costumes she is wearing in a film?" the journalist captioned the video.
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Flaa began the interview by congratulating Lively on her recent pregnancy announcement and 'little bump,' with the actor responding: "Congrats on your little bump."
Flaa then asked Lively and Parker Posey whether they loved wearing their costumes, to which Lively responded: "Everyone loves to talk about the clothes but I wonder if they would ask the men about the clothes?"
The journalist told UNILAD she was 'kind of in shock' when the interview finished and she got up and walked out of the room.
Amid Lively's lawsuit against Baldoni, Flaa has taken to social media to speak out because the NYT report says of Flaa: “It wasn’t the first time she had posted a video aligned with a client of Ms. Nathan. In 2022, in the midst of Mr. Depp’s legal battle with Ms. Heard, Ms. Flaa posted clips of her interviews with the actor, tagged #JusticeForJohnnyDepp.”
Flaa penned on Threads: "Just wanted to put it out there. I have nothing to do with Justin Baldoni and his smear campaign against Blake Lively.
"I see that things are starting to snowball and people start thinking that I had anything to do with the smear campaign against Blake Lively."
Flaa then added on video: "I also read the article in the New York Times this morning. I’ve been reading through the lawsuit and I see there’s been so much dirty work going on behind-the-scenes.
"I just wanted to say I had nothing to do with it."
The journalist concluded: "I would never take part in anything like that. That’s such an insult to me."
The Gossip Girl star is accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment - something the Baldoni camp categorically denies - and 'other behaviors that were shocking and emotional distressing', as per the complaint.
Bryan Freedman, an attorney for Baldoni as well as Wayfarer Studios, told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement: "It is shameful that Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations against Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its representatives, as yet another desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation which was garnered from her own remarks and actions during the campaign for the film; interviews and press activities that were observed publicly, in real time and unedited, which allowed for the internet to generate their own views and opinions."
Topics: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Celebrity, Film and TV, News
Callum Jones