There’s one major Flaa in Blake Lively‘s bid to win back public affection!
Now that Blake has officially settled her nightmare It Ends With Us lawsuit with Justin Baldoni outside of court, the actress is said to be hard at work hatching a plan to “rehab” her “mean girl” image. But there’s one person for certain who won’t be buying any of it… Kjersti Flaa.
If the name rings a bell, it’s because she’s the Norwegian interviewer who once congratulated Blake on her pregnancy during a 2016 chat, but was met with nothing but attitude… Blake responded, clearly annoyed, by condescendingly congratulating Kjersti on her bump — despite the fact Flaa was NOT pregnant.
And things just got worse from there when Kjersti later revealed the interaction made her want to “quit” because in reality, she’s sadly incapable of getting pregnant, and that she felt “publicly humiliated” by the comment.
Kjersti has been an outspoken critic of Blake’s throughout all the It Ends With Us drama and was even set to testify on behalf of Justin’s studio, Wayfarer Studios, in court against the Simple Favor actress. But that will no longer be happening since the embattled co-stars settled their lawsuit, and Kjersti isn’t happy.
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During an interview with the DailyMail.com published on Monday, the interviewer started off by ripping Blake’s surprise appearance at the Met Gala, which was just hours after news broke of the settlement:
“It’s mind-blowing to me that she would [attend the Met Gala despite everything going on]. But I think she wanted to clog the internet with stories about her at the Met Gala and what she was wearing, it was an attempt to try to drown all the negative news.”
She continued:
“This is what she and Ryan Reynolds have been doing over and over again, they try to manipulate [the internet] and the public by pushing out stories that are friendly and pro–their narrative. The audacity and guts that she had to stand there in front of all these people and say, ‘Hey look at me in this dress.’ I was shocked that she did that. I think it says a lot about her.”
Oof. Kjersti went on:
“In her reality, she still cannot believe that people don’t like her. That’s why she went to the Met Gala. For her, this is an orchestrated smear campaign against her and she believes people still love her. It’s so delusional. She really truly believes this … that’s the tragic thing in all of this. In her wildest imagination, she cannot fathom that people don’t like her.”
DAMN! Kjersti is laying it down! Blake really hurt her!
During the heat of her legal battle with Justin, Blake accused Kjersti of participating in an alleged smear campaign organized by Jusitn’s team, and even tried to subpoena Google to access information about the interviewer’s account in an attempt to prove Justin contributed to the virality of her painful pregnancy bump interview. However, the subpoena was ultimately withdrawn and Wayfarer Studios responded:
“’Lively has not put forward any evidence to suggest the ‘little bump’ video is not genuine, or that Defendants had any contact with the reporter in the video.”
Blake went on to try and prevent Kjersti from being able to testify in court against her as she felt the jury would “draw adverse conclusions about her character” based on the video. And on that front, the interviewer told DM:
“I wasn’t surprised by [Lively objecting to me testifying], it makes a lot of sense that they wouldn’t want me [to testify]. They accused [Justin’s production studio’s team] of amplifying the video and using it to smear her and I was planning to tell the truth about what actually happened. I had nothing to do with the smear campaign. I could basically prove the opposite of what she was trying to prove. I was the only person who had access to the analytics and could see what really happened to that video. I could see there was no one who amplified that video — YouTube shows you where all the traffic is coming from. I was going to reveal a lot of things that I’m sure they were not happy about.”
Would have for sure been a mic drop moment! And surely a sobering one for Blake!
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Kjersti noted she’s “disappointed” she now won’t be able to testify:
“I was looking forward to it. I was looking forward to telling my side of the story and support what I believe very strongly is the truth here.”
However, she believes Blake agreeing to settle was her own way of waiving a white flag after having 10 of her 13 claims thrown out last month:
“She knew she had a weak case. I think she was advised by everyone to let it go. It would have been so humiliating for her to lose and you never want to look like a liar in front of a jury.”
However, while Kjersti may not be a personal fan of Blake’s, she isn’t ruling out a comeback for the actress — and even offered some words of wisdom:
“My advice to her would be to stay low for a couple of years if she wants a chance to come back and do anything in Hollywood again. I think in Hollywood, everything is just about money. And if [a movie studio] believes she can make money on a project they will consider working with her. But who wants to work with her now? Maybe a studio would risk it but what kind of director wants to work with her? Who wants to put themselves through that? She is toxic and right now the public is not ready to take her back.”
Whew! What do YOU make of Kjersti’s assessment, Perezcious readers? Let us know in the comments down below!
[Images via Kjersti Flaa/YouTube, Variety/YouTube, & Phil Lewis/WENN]
