Journalist Kjersti Flaa isn’t in opposition to Blake Lively this time.
The journalist has publicly refuted claims that she was concerned in Justin Baldoni’s alleged smear marketing campaign in opposition to the actress. The denial comes after a resurfaced 2016 interview of Flaa with Lively gained traction on-line.
“I’ve nothing to do [with] it. I might by no means participate in something like that. That is such an insult to me,” Flaa acknowledged in a video shared on Threads on Saturday.
“I don’t need part of this. I posted a video [showing] how Blake Lively was behaving in my interview and that’s it.”
Flaa’s remarks addressed allegations stemming from a grievance Lively, 37, filed in opposition to Baldoni, 40, wherein she accused the actor of sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us and orchestrating a marketing campaign to break her fame.
The journalist expressed her shock over the allegations, saying, “I used to be shocked and appalled after I learn the bombshell grievance.”
Flaa additionally uploaded a YouTube video to additional make clear her place after being talked about in a New York Times article about Lively’s grievance.
She claimed it was a “coincidence” that she reposted the 2016 interview, which featured Lively and her Café Society co-star Parker Posey, across the time the film adaptation of It Ends With Us was launched in August.
“I posted the video after I had seen the film. … I didn’t prefer it,” she defined.
“I had a foul expertise with Blake Lively, and at the moment I used to be like, ‘I’ve type of had sufficient of Hollywood,’ so I wasn’t that afraid of being canceled anymore, so I made a decision to submit the video.”
Flaa described her 2016 interview expertise as “uncomfortable,” noting that Lively commented on her “little bump” and appeared dismissive all through the session.
The controversy follows Lively’s authorized grievance in opposition to Baldoni, which accuses him of inappropriate conduct on the set of It Ends With Us, a movie adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel.
According to the grievance, Baldoni allegedly confirmed Lively nude images, mentioned his previous struggles with porn habit, and made feedback in regards to the forged and crew’s genitalia.
In response, Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, dismissed the allegations as “utterly false, outrageous and deliberately salacious with an intent to publicly damage and rehash a story within the media.”
“These claims are utterly false,” Freedman instructed Page Six. “It is shameful that Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such critical and categorically false accusations.”
