Blake Lively ‘traumatized’ reporter during ‘uncomfortable’ interview: ‘I was just in shock’

Blake Lively near a journalist “traumatized” aft their uncomfortable interview successful which nan “Gossip Girl” alum clapped backmost astir her body.

Entertainment newsman Kjersti Flaa recalled the now-viral 2016 sit-down pinch Lively successful an exclusive question and reply pinch Page Six Monday.

“It was a really traumatizing experience,” Flaa said.

Flaa was interviewing Lively, who was pregnant astatine nan time, and her “Café Society” co-star Parker Posey. When Flaa congratulated Lively connected her “little bump,” nan character awkwardly deed back, “Congrats connected your small bump.”

When Flaa tried to alteration nan taxable and inquire astir their wardrobe successful nan movie, Lively fired back, “Everyone wants to talk astir nan clothes, but I wonderment if they would inquire nan men astir nan clothes.” Lively past proceeded to person a afloat speech pinch Posey, efficaciously ignoring Flaa, who was expected to beryllium starring nan interview.

“I was conscionable sitting location like, ‘Oh.’… I didn’t really understand each that. And past erstwhile I asked nan adjacent mobility astir nan costumes, [they] turned to each different and conscionable disregard me. That’s erstwhile I started, you know, emotion like, ‘Oh my God. They’re really doing this.'”

Flaa admitted that she was “in shock” complete really she was being treated by Lively.

“I was conscionable sitting there. At first I was like, wow, this is really uncomfortable,” she said.

When she started to consciousness for illustration Lively and Posey were ganging up connected her, Flaa said she knew she couldn’t respond because she wanted to protect her career.

“As a journalist, you ever person to return nan precocious road, you know?” she said. “So erstwhile I was sitting there, I couldn’t respond to what they were doing to maine successful a consciousness of for illustration leaving aliases talking backmost to them aliases doing thing for illustration that, because I knew if I did, past I would ne'er get opportunities for illustration that again.”

Flaa said she was fearful of being blacklisted from immoderate early question and reply opportunities.

“Not that I needfully wanted to question and reply Blake again, but, you know, she has a publicist, and past they talk and past they blacklist you. That’s really it works, right?” she claimed. “So I conscionable sat location and past I started getting much and much disappointment and angry and upset and each these emotions because I was like, I couldn’t judge they were really doing it. I was conscionable successful shock.”

Flaa pointed retired nan “power dynamic” astatine play while interviewing an A-lister for illustration Lively.

“A journalist who wants to proceed doing these benignant of interviews, you conscionable person to, you know, judge these terms,” she said, adding elsewhere, “Everyone who’s done these benignant of interviews and been successful those benignant of situations, knows really overmuch unit you person successful a business for illustration that.”

Flaa was 1 of nan group subpoenaed by Lively successful her ineligible conflict against her “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni. Lively sued Baldoni in December 2024 for intersexual harassment and retaliation, among different claims. The “Jane nan Virgin” prima responded pinch a $400 cardinal countersuit, accusing Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, of defamation, extortion and orchestrating a smear run to destruct his reputation. Both sides denied wrongdoing.

Baldoni’s countersuit was tossed in June 2025 and past month, nan judge threw retired 10 of Lively’s 13 allegations against him, including intersexual harassment, conspiracy and defamation.

Last Monday, Baldoni and Lively announced that they had reached a settlement, with neither statement winning immoderate money.

While Flaa told Page Six that she wasn’t judge what she would person said connected nan guidelines if location had been a trial, she noted, “I was benignant of looking guardant to conscionable flick holes successful everything.”

For Flaa, it would person gone a agelong measurement if Lively had conscionable reached retired pinch an apology.

“Blake had each opportunity to correct this incorrect because she intelligibly knew very good that this question and reply existed and sewage retired location and thing happened,” Flaa said, wondering wherever they would beryllium coming if she had conscionable “reached out” to make amends.

Lively and Posey’s reps did not instantly respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.