Blake Lively spoke of living a “fairly intense year” in the midst of his continuous legal drama with It ends with us Costar and director Justin Baldoni.
“I had a fairly intense year,” said Lively, 37, during an appearance on Thursday, May 1 Late at night with Seth Meyers. “This year was full of the highest summits and the lowest stockings in my life.”
Lively also addressed the “fear” that she believed to feel many women with regard to speech.
“I see so many women around fear of talking, especially now, to share their experience,” said Lively. “Fear is by design, this is what makes us silent.”
Blake Lively came out under the spotlight only a handful of times since she started her legal drama with her, he ends with the American director and Costar Justin Baldoni. In December 2024, Lively filed a complaint against Baldoni, accusing him of sexual harassment, creating a “hostile work environment, which made him” serious emotional distress “while […]
She continued: “But I also recognize that many people do not have the opportunity to speak, so I feel lucky that I have been able to.”
The actress, who shares four children (James, 10, Inez, 8, Betty 5, and Olin, 2.) with her husband Ryan Reynolds, said she wanted to be positive with their children despite the drama.
“No matter the day I have, I must be Disneyland for them. It’s the best, it’s chaos,” she said.
The actress appeared in the talk show to promote her next film Another simple favorwhich was presented at first via Prime Video on Thursday, May 1.
Blake Lively.
(Photo of the images Aeon / GC)Lively was on the film Press tour alongside Costar Anna Kendrick and husband Ryan Reynolds. While attending a series of events – more recently, the first in the film and Gala Time 100 In New York – Lively remained close to her continuous legal situation with Justin Baldoni.
Lively filed a complaint against her It ends with us Costar and the director of the film Baldoni, 41, in December 2024 – accusing him of sexual harassment on the film set and Orchestrate a defamation campaign In the middle of the press tour. Baldoni continued to vehemently deny the accusations, subsequently depositing his own action against Lively, Reynolds, 48, and his publicist, Leslie Sloane claim defamation and extortion. (Lively and Reynolds denied the allegations of Baldoni and Sloane asked that his name be costume withdrawn.)
Although he had no direct commentary on the legal drama during recent events, Lively seemed to refer to the situation while Speaking at the time 100 gala April 25.
“I have so much to say about the last two years of my life, but tonight is not the forum,” she said, celebrating her honor as one of the most influential people in the magazine. “What I’m going to talk about, separately is the feeling of being a woman who has a voice today.”
Lively presented her mother, Willie Elaine Mcalpinto the crowd as a survivor of the “worst crime that someone can commit against a woman”.
“My mother never obtained justice from her knowledge of the work that tried to take her life when she was the mother of three young children of the years before my birth,” continued the actress, remembering that her mother had heard that a “similar circumstance” came to another woman listening to the radio.
“When he heard this woman talk about her experience, instead of closing fear and unjust shame, my mother is alive today,” continued Lively. “She was saved by a woman whose name she will never know.”
She added: “We do not let our daughters know, but one day, we break our hearts by bringing them to the secret that we have kept ourselves from them when they rushed into princess dresses, that they are not and will probably never be safe at work, at home, in a parking lot, in a medical office, in line – in any space that they lived physically.”
