Blake Lively- Jason Baldoni and NYT - False Light claims

[Anonymous]

How Blake Lively and 'Hurt' Taylor Swift Were 'Able to Recover' Friendship amid Justin Baldoni Lawsuit (Exclusive Source)

https://people.com/blake-lively-taylor-swift-friendship-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-exclusive-source-11721814

Was this talked about yet? This is definitely Blake’s side trying to downplay Taylor publicly saying she doesn't want to be involved. That friendship is over knowing Taylor. She will never trust her fully againbb

[Anonymous]

I can’t believe people still believe Blake Lively. She has shown her true colors countless times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How Blake Lively and 'Hurt' Taylor Swift Were 'Able to Recover' Friendship amid Justin Baldoni Lawsuit (Exclusive Source)

https://people.com/blake-lively-taylor-swift-friendship-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-exclusive-source-11721814

Was this talked about yet? This is definitely Blake’s side trying to downplay Taylor publicly saying she doesn't want to be involved. That friendship is over knowing Taylor. She will never trust her fully againbb

I wasn't aware of a public statement from TS on the lawsuit?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How Blake Lively and 'Hurt' Taylor Swift Were 'Able to Recover' Friendship amid Justin Baldoni Lawsuit (Exclusive Source)

https://people.com/blake-lively-taylor-swift-friendship-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-exclusive-source-11721814

Was this talked about yet? This is definitely Blake’s side trying to downplay Taylor publicly saying she doesn't want to be involved. That friendship is over knowing Taylor. She will never trust her fully againbb

I wasn't aware of a public statement from TS on the lawsuit?

Did you read the article, it’s just a puff piece that says a source thinks that they will be able to move past this.

Taylor has not issued a statement and she’s refused to be seen with either of them since this has happened so I’m not placing any bets on their friendship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not an attorney or a publicist. Not a frequent poster on this thread. But I'll wager a prediction about this case: Blake is going down. I don't know what will happen in court but Blake is not going to get much work at all, because she's too much of a liability. Even if she wins, she will lose. By contrast, Baldoni will become highly successful because this case has made him famous and hasn't reflected negatively on him.

I *am* a frequent poster on this thread, and I tend to take Lively’s side, and I agree that what you’re saying is highly probable. Even if she wins. I don’t think it’s right, but that seems to be the culture.

I’m not sure that the culture is wrong here though. If Blake was sexually harassed, she didn’t go through the right channels.

Someone on her team, her PR folks, certainly legal, ideally any other trusted advisor, should have told her what happens when a woman accuses a man of sexual harassment. We are in a different time with me too, but you still need to follow certain protocols. From what a lot of people are seeing about this case, she complained about some inappropriate behavior during the strike, everyone met about it, and the inappropriate behavior was stopped. I think people are confused…. that is kind of the ideal situation. At most, she should’ve complained to SAG and gone to HR. Evidence shows that she tried to go to Sony and they told her they couldn’t handle it, which is a bit of a red flag given they are a big corporation, if it wasn’t in their purview, they should’ve directed her to go to sag. SAG is the non-biased third-party that is there to help.

Instead she went scorched Earth and really started a PR war with him to publicly damage his reputation over the summer. It seems she assumed a lot of the bad press was from the campaign, but again, a trusted advisor should’ve said, look maybe his campaign did some of this, but clearly some of this is organic and clearly you are not as loved by the public as we thought and let’s admit we got some of the marketing for this movie wrong and some fans are pissed. Let’s lay low and let this pass.

Then we find out they did this really dubious legal maneuver with a doe lawsuit that exposed that she started a company with ryan when he was very married to someone else. And she gets her very private friend Taylor Swift involved. It just seems like this was really poorly thought out.

If they they could just run to the New York Times and she would become some sort of me to movement hero, standing up for women everywhere, I mean, that’s just really really bad advice and reading the room wrong.

Is your argument here really that if Blake was really sexually harassed, she still deserves to "go down" because she failed to be a quiet victim? Seriously? Like in a universe where she 100% was harassed and retaliated against, you still blame Blake for choosing to fight against the people who [again in this hypothetical where she was wronged] wronged her?

That's gross. Shut up. Anyone who is harassed has a right to speak up. Not an obligation to "lay low and let this pass." Just no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's the text of her speech. Well, we can definitely say she's leaning into MeToo.

https://time.com/collections/time100-summit-gala-2025/7279196/time100-gala-blake-lively-speech/

She's not "leaning into MeToo." It's the whole thing. Her lawsuit is a MeToo lawsuit. Her narrative is a MeToo narrative. Whether you believe her or not, it's not like she's wavered on this. From the start, this has been framed by Lively as her standing up to people who she claims harass and oppress women. It's not a shift in tone, we just haven't heard her speak in public since the lawsuit was filed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How Blake Lively and 'Hurt' Taylor Swift Were 'Able to Recover' Friendship amid Justin Baldoni Lawsuit (Exclusive Source)

https://people.com/blake-lively-taylor-swift-friendship-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-exclusive-source-11721814

Was this talked about yet? This is definitely Blake’s side trying to downplay Taylor publicly saying she doesn't want to be involved. That friendship is over knowing Taylor. She will never trust her fully againbb

I wasn't aware of a public statement from TS on the lawsuit?

Did you read the article, it’s just a puff piece that says a source thinks that they will be able to move past this.

Taylor has not issued a statement and she’s refused to be seen with either of them since this has happened so I’m not placing any bets on their friendship.

I agree about the article but was referring to the PP statement "Taylor publicly saying she doesn't want to be involved" because I also thought TS hadn't issued a statement, but I guess they meant they consider publicly backing away to be an implied statement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the text of her speech. Well, we can definitely say she's leaning into MeToo.

https://time.com/collections/time100-summit-gala-2025/7279196/time100-gala-blake-lively-speech/

She's not "leaning into MeToo." It's the whole thing. Her lawsuit is a MeToo lawsuit. Her narrative is a MeToo narrative. Whether you believe her or not, it's not like she's wavered on this. From the start, this has been framed by Lively as her standing up to people who she claims harass and oppress women. It's not a shift in tone, we just haven't heard her speak in public since the lawsuit was filed.

I guess you're right, but it seems OTT as someone who thinks she has a weak SH claim but a reasonable retaliation claim. And also, because the original time article mentioned her donating to NAACP but her whole speech is MeToo. But I guess this is really the only card to play. It also mitigates some of the criticism that she's suffered no damages because she's out and about at these galas. She can play it that she's bring brave. I can see it backfiring for her online bigtime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How Blake Lively and 'Hurt' Taylor Swift Were 'Able to Recover' Friendship amid Justin Baldoni Lawsuit (Exclusive Source)

https://people.com/blake-lively-taylor-swift-friendship-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-exclusive-source-11721814

Was this talked about yet? This is definitely Blake’s side trying to downplay Taylor publicly saying she doesn't want to be involved. That friendship is over knowing Taylor. She will never trust her fully againbb

I wasn't aware of a public statement from TS on the lawsuit?

Did you read the article, it’s just a puff piece that says a source thinks that they will be able to move past this.

Taylor has not issued a statement and she’s refused to be seen with either of them since this has happened so I’m not placing any bets on their friendship.

I agree about the article but was referring to the PP statement "Taylor publicly saying she doesn't want to be involved" because I also thought TS hadn't issued a statement, but I guess they meant they consider publicly backing away to be an implied statement.

Yes that's what I meant. Tree (Taylor’s PR) uses ET religiously. Up until now the articles about the situation have been pretty neutral until the last one saying she doesn't want to be involved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not an attorney or a publicist. Not a frequent poster on this thread. But I'll wager a prediction about this case: Blake is going down. I don't know what will happen in court but Blake is not going to get much work at all, because she's too much of a liability. Even if she wins, she will lose. By contrast, Baldoni will become highly successful because this case has made him famous and hasn't reflected negatively on him.

I *am* a frequent poster on this thread, and I tend to take Lively’s side, and I agree that what you’re saying is highly probable. Even if she wins. I don’t think it’s right, but that seems to be the culture.

I’m not sure that the culture is wrong here though. If Blake was sexually harassed, she didn’t go through the right channels.

Someone on her team, her PR folks, certainly legal, ideally any other trusted advisor, should have told her what happens when a woman accuses a man of sexual harassment. We are in a different time with me too, but you still need to follow certain protocols. From what a lot of people are seeing about this case, she complained about some inappropriate behavior during the strike, everyone met about it, and the inappropriate behavior was stopped. I think people are confused…. that is kind of the ideal situation. At most, she should’ve complained to SAG and gone to HR. Evidence shows that she tried to go to Sony and they told her they couldn’t handle it, which is a bit of a red flag given they are a big corporation, if it wasn’t in their purview, they should’ve directed her to go to sag. SAG is the non-biased third-party that is there to help.

Instead she went scorched Earth and really started a PR war with him to publicly damage his reputation over the summer. It seems she assumed a lot of the bad press was from the campaign, but again, a trusted advisor should’ve said, look maybe his campaign did some of this, but clearly some of this is organic and clearly you are not as loved by the public as we thought and let’s admit we got some of the marketing for this movie wrong and some fans are pissed. Let’s lay low and let this pass.

Then we find out they did this really dubious legal maneuver with a doe lawsuit that exposed that she started a company with ryan when he was very married to someone else. And she gets her very private friend Taylor Swift involved. It just seems like this was really poorly thought out.

If they they could just run to the New York Times and she would become some sort of me to movement hero, standing up for women everywhere, I mean, that’s just really really bad advice and reading the room wrong.

Is your argument here really that if Blake was really sexually harassed, she still deserves to "go down" because she failed to be a quiet victim? Seriously? Like in a universe where she 100% was harassed and retaliated against, you still blame Blake for choosing to fight against the people who [again in this hypothetical where she was wronged] wronged her?

That's gross. Shut up. Anyone who is harassed has a right to speak up. Not an obligation to "lay low and let this pass." Just no.

Thanks for saying this. I had the same reaction but checked out instead. Nobody creates a similar elaborate maze for the sexual harasser to wind through even though they create the harm (again, assuming Lively was harassed). It’s not right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the text of her speech. Well, we can definitely say she's leaning into MeToo.

https://time.com/collections/time100-summit-gala-2025/7279196/time100-gala-blake-lively-speech/

She's not "leaning into MeToo." It's the whole thing. Her lawsuit is a MeToo lawsuit. Her narrative is a MeToo narrative. Whether you believe her or not, it's not like she's wavered on this. From the start, this has been framed by Lively as her standing up to people who she claims harass and oppress women. It's not a shift in tone, we just haven't heard her speak in public since the lawsuit was filed.

I guess you're right, but it seems OTT as someone who thinks she has a weak SH claim but a reasonable retaliation claim. And also, because the original time article mentioned her donating to NAACP but her whole speech is MeToo. But I guess this is really the only card to play. It also mitigates some of the criticism that she's suffered no damages because she's out and about at these galas. She can play it that she's bring brave. I can see it backfiring for her online bigtime.

DP. I defend Lively on here so (no surprise) I liked this speech and found it moving. Of course you would find it over the top, even if she was pointing the spotlight on her mother as a survivor of harassment rather than herself (unlike Baldoni who films himself giving things to homeless people and makes an hour long video where he is the main character in a performative play about proposing to his wife that he then films her reaction to watching *gag*, but whatever).

[Anonymous]

To be fair, I don't think this was an acceptance speech. Everything I've seen has called it a "toast". So I think it might have been less formal than people think. And as a toast, it is basically a tribute to her mom for standing up to people, and to the woman her mom was inspired by for speaking out. Yes, it's self serving, but it's fairly on topic for the gala and could also be seen as general toast to both her mom and the other honorees and the project of the Time 100 (which I think is a dumb honor anyway).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How Blake Lively and 'Hurt' Taylor Swift Were 'Able to Recover' Friendship amid Justin Baldoni Lawsuit (Exclusive Source)

https://people.com/blake-lively-taylor-swift-friendship-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-exclusive-source-11721814

Was this talked about yet? This is definitely Blake’s side trying to downplay Taylor publicly saying she doesn't want to be involved. That friendship is over knowing Taylor. She will never trust her fully againbb

I wasn't aware of a public statement from TS on the lawsuit?

Did you read the article, it’s just a puff piece that says a source thinks that they will be able to move past this.

Taylor has not issued a statement and she’s refused to be seen with either of them since this has happened so I’m not placing any bets on their friendship.

I agree about the article but was referring to the PP statement "Taylor publicly saying she doesn't want to be involved" because I also thought TS hadn't issued a statement, but I guess they meant they consider publicly backing away to be an implied statement.

Yes that's what I meant. Tree (Taylor’s PR) uses ET religiously. Up until now the articles about the situation have been pretty neutral until the last one saying she doesn't want to be involved.

Where is the statement from Tree saying Taylor doesn't want to be involved? I remember one from a while back where her team released a statement saying she was not involved in the production of IEWU beyond licensing her music for the trailer/movie. I think there were rumors around that time that she'd been more involved (i.e. involved in casting, had a say in who scored the movie, etc.) so I viewed it more as a response to that.

I don't recall a statement where she said she doesn't want to be involved in the litigation though I am sure she doesn't!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the text of her speech. Well, we can definitely say she's leaning into MeToo.

https://time.com/collections/time100-summit-gala-2025/7279196/time100-gala-blake-lively-speech/

She's not "leaning into MeToo." It's the whole thing. Her lawsuit is a MeToo lawsuit. Her narrative is a MeToo narrative. Whether you believe her or not, it's not like she's wavered on this. From the start, this has been framed by Lively as her standing up to people who she claims harass and oppress women. It's not a shift in tone, we just haven't heard her speak in public since the lawsuit was filed.

I guess you're right, but it seems OTT as someone who thinks she has a weak SH claim but a reasonable retaliation claim. And also, because the original time article mentioned her donating to NAACP but her whole speech is MeToo. But I guess this is really the only card to play. It also mitigates some of the criticism that she's suffered no damages because she's out and about at these galas. She can play it that she's bring brave. I can see it backfiring for her online bigtime.

DP. I defend Lively on here so (no surprise) I liked this speech and found it moving. Of course you would find it over the top, even if she was pointing the spotlight on her mother as a survivor of harassment rather than herself (unlike Baldoni who films himself giving things to homeless people and makes an hour long video where he is the main character in a performative play about proposing to his wife that he then films her reaction to watching *gag*, but whatever).

I didn’t like the speech b/c she’s basically saying her mother was assaulted by a coworker and likens that to her own situation. However, even if you believe Blake’s incredibly weak SH claims, they are not assault. She’s intentionally trying to cast JB in a false light here (again) putting him on the same level with predators for asking her weight and using the word sexy. It’s really quite disgusting. She just exudes white woman privilege and seems incredibly entitled and delusional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the text of her speech. Well, we can definitely say she's leaning into MeToo.

https://time.com/collections/time100-summit-gala-2025/7279196/time100-gala-blake-lively-speech/

She's not "leaning into MeToo." It's the whole thing. Her lawsuit is a MeToo lawsuit. Her narrative is a MeToo narrative. Whether you believe her or not, it's not like she's wavered on this. From the start, this has been framed by Lively as her standing up to people who she claims harass and oppress women. It's not a shift in tone, we just haven't heard her speak in public since the lawsuit was filed.

I guess you're right, but it seems OTT as someone who thinks she has a weak SH claim but a reasonable retaliation claim. And also, because the original time article mentioned her donating to NAACP but her whole speech is MeToo. But I guess this is really the only card to play. It also mitigates some of the criticism that she's suffered no damages because she's out and about at these galas. She can play it that she's bring brave. I can see it backfiring for her online bigtime.

DP. I defend Lively on here so (no surprise) I liked this speech and found it moving. Of course you would find it over the top, even if she was pointing the spotlight on her mother as a survivor of harassment rather than herself (unlike Baldoni who films himself giving things to homeless people and makes an hour long video where he is the main character in a performative play about proposing to his wife that he then films her reaction to watching *gag*, but whatever).

I didn’t like the speech b/c she’s basically saying her mother was assaulted by a coworker and likens that to her own situation. However, even if you believe Blake’s incredibly weak SH claims, they are not assault. She’s intentionally trying to cast JB in a false light here (again) putting him on the same level with predators for asking her weight and using the word sexy. It’s really quite disgusting. She just exudes white woman privilege and seems incredibly entitled and delusional.

Her SH claims were obviously more than this but minimizes gonna minimize amirite?