Why Blake Lively made reporter fear being ‘blacklisted’ after interview: ‘I couldn’t react’

A journalist didn’t want to respond to Blake Lively’s uncomfortable comments during an interview because she feared being “blacklisted” by nan movie industry.

Entertainment newsman Kjersti Flaa reflected on the resurfaced 2016 sit-down with Lively and character Parker Posey successful an exclusive question and reply pinch Page Six this week.

“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 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.”

While Flaa noted that she didn’t needfully want different chance to question and reply nan “Gossip Girl” actress, she said that Lively useful pinch group successful precocious places.

“You know, she has a publicist, and past they talk and past they blacklist you,” Flaa theorized. “That’s really it works, right?”

Due to her worries astir being ostracized from immoderate early question and reply opportunities, nan writer said she conscionable spot her tongue.

“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 unfair advantage Lively had complete her during their uncomfortable conversation.

“A journalist who wants to proceed doing these benignant of interviews, you conscionable person to, you know, judge these terms,” she said.

In 2016, Flaa interviewed Lively and Posey while nan actresses were promoting their movie “Café Society.” Since Lively was pregnant astatine nan time, Flaa congratulated her connected her “little bump,” prompting nan prima to deed back, “Congrats connected your small bump.”

Flaa, taken aback, tried to push connected pinch nan question and reply by asking them astir their movie wardrobe. But Lively appeared offended by nan mobility and clapped back, “Everyone wants to talk astir nan clothes, but I wonderment if they would inquire nan men astir nan clothes.”

From there, Lively and Parker had a full speech pinch each different without letting Flaa get a connection in.

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

Flaa called nan interview a “really traumatizing experience.”

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

Despite nan online backlash aft Flaa resurfaced nan video successful 2024, Lively allegedly ne'er 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.

Instead, Lively subpoenaed Flaa during her ineligible conflict pinch “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni. (Lively sued nan director successful December 2024 for intersexual harassment and different claims and Baldoni responded pinch a $400 cardinal countersuit accusing her and hubby Ryan Reynolds of defamation, extortion and creating a smear run against him. Both denied immoderate wrongdoing.)

In June 2025, Baldoni’s countersuit was tossed, though he won a triumph past period erstwhile nan judge dismissed 10 of Lively’s 13 allegations against him, including intersexual harassment, conspiracy and defamation.

Last week, Lively and Baldoni announced they had reached a settlement. Neither statement won immoderate money from nan ineligible war, though they each had to salary millions successful ineligible fees.

With nan suit not going to trial, Flaa said she missed retired connected nan opportunity to speak retired connected nan stand.

“I was benignant of looking guardant to conscionable flick holes successful everything,” she said.

Reps for Lively and Posey didn’t instantly respond to Page Six’s petition for comment.