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Megyn Kelly Says Blake Energetic ‘Ruined Her Brand’
The conservative commentator didn’t pull any punches on an episode of SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show, where she made it pretty clear that she was backing Justin Baldoni in the continuing legal drama.
She didn’t hesitate to call Energetic a “serial fraudster” and a “somewhat sh-tty person” while noting that the “Gossip Girl” alum “absolutely ruined her own brand” by starting “a fight she cannot win.”
“I actually have yet to see certainly one of her complaints borne out. In actual fact, all the ones I’ve seen have been undermined by [Baldoni’s] hardcore proof in text messaging and so forth that puts a very different light on her horrific allegations,” Kelly continued. “Then you definately see what she actually said and wrote. It’s extremely different.”
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Blake Energetic Has A ‘Secret Plan’ To Take Over Movies
“After I was within the meetings, I used to be like, I’m just here to be the actor and I’m here to get the gig. I wouldn’t reveal that I needed to have authorship to feel fulfilled,” Energetic explained. “And I feel for them, it felt like a rug pull, and also you’re attempting to insert yourself into something we didn’t hire you to do.”
She went on to say, “Sometimes I had the director, writers, producers who would welcome that when I used to be in a position to offer that, and sometimes I had individuals who resented that, because they simply hired me to be the actor.”
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Megyn Kelly Has A Harsh Response For Blake Energetic’s ‘Secret Plan’
Kelly didn’t hesitate to call out Energetic for her controversial comments. “She’s a serial fraudster,” Kelly said on her podcast. “That is called fraud. Once you pretend you need to do the one thing and you will do the thing they’re hiring you for, but all along you might have secret plans to do something very, very different that is above your pay grade.”
“She finally bumped into someone who was weak enough and never famous enough to stop her. This Justin Baldoni, most individuals had never even heard of him — he’d been in, like, one series. He definitely wasn’t at Ryan Reynolds–level fame, never mind Blake Energetic, and she or he bullied him into giving her the movie where she did her own cut,” she added.
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In his lawsuit, Baldoni claims that two different versions of “It Ends With Us” were created. Although his edit allegedly scored higher with test audiences, Energetic’s edit was the one utilized in theaters. Baldoni claims that Energetic had used various threats in an effort to get her version used, akin to threatening to drag a Taylor Swift song from the trailer and threatening to boycott the film’s press tour.
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Blake Energetic Blamed Justin Baldoni For Her Bad Publicity
Kelly also criticized Energetic for the “nerve” that she needed to try accountable her “two minutes of bad publicity” on Baldoni, saying, “None of it was just because of the indisputable fact that she looks as if a somewhat sh-tty person.”
Energetic was heavily criticized for promoting her own hair products, non-alcoholic beverages, and other brands while she was imagined to be promoting the film. She also made glib comments like “Grab your girls, wear your florals” to the theater, which many took issue with, because it undermined the film’s serious message of domestic violence.
In response to the backlash, Energetic and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, allegedly drafted a “statement of contrition” that they wanted Baldoni and his production company, Wayfarer Studios, to release, essentially taking full accountability for Energetic’s comments. Clearly, they refused.
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So Is Megyn Kelly Right About Blake Energetic?
In the course of the podcast, Kelly said, “She does seem like an Amber Heard to me,” referencing Heard’s highly publicized 2022 trial. In 2018, Heard wrote an op-ed describing her experiences as a domestic violence survivor. Although she didn’t mention her ex-husband, actor Johnny Depp, directly, he sued her for defamation and was awarded $15 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
Baldoni is currently suing for $400 million, alleging that Blake Energetic, Ryan Reynolds, and their respective teams, attempted to destroy his popularity by spreading “grossly edited, unsubstantiated, latest and doctored information to the media.” He’s also suing The Recent York Times for libel, claiming they “cherry-picked” and stripped “obligatory context” from text messages that they published in an effort to make a stronger case for Energetic.
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Now that Baldoni has created a web site to indicate the allegedly unedited versions of the text messages, the general public has a probability to make a decision for themselves who’s telling the reality. As much as I don’t often agree with numerous what Megyn Kelly has to say, she is correct here. The text messages Baldoni has posted have poked holes in just about all of Energetic’s harassment claims, and her own admission of a “secret plan” to take over movies she’s forged in has only made people more skeptical of her intentions when she decided to file this lawsuit.
