Justin Baldoni BREAKS SILENCE on Blake Lively

She is out there now having clearly lost this ridiculous attempt at PR rehab, which was her lawsuit, trying to turn her loss into a win by trying to get Justin Baldoni to pay her, we finally have the number, $8 million in legal fees that she claimed she had to expend just to have his one counterclaim for defamation thrown out. She filed 13 claims, 10 of her claims were thrown out. He didn't have to pay legal fees, she didn't have to pay his legal fees for any one of them. He filed one and she got it thrown out. He's got to pay all of her legal fees for this one because of this wacky California law having to do with sexual harassment victims of which she's not one, that claim was thrown out too. But anyway, she claims getting rid of that one claim cost her $8 million. And now we finally have his responsive pleading saying, that's ridiculous. He's not gonna pay her $8 million. And they're pointing he and his team to the New York Times, which also was sued by Baldoni for defamation because they filed this lawsuit that was basically stenciled by Blake Lively. And they got sued for defamation and they got it thrown out. And their legal fees were, I think memory serves me, I don't have a paper in front of me, $200,000, Rob. Cost him $200,000 to have it thrown out. She wants $8 million. So once again, to the end, she looks like a money-grubbing, you know what? Yes. It's shocking to me that you can go through something like this, this really long, drawn-out process and not learn anything about yourself. Blake has exposed everything that I think people whispered about for a long time. People knew in the business that she was really, really awful. They knew that. Whenever in my office, there's an opportunity to interview a celebrity, I try to share the wealth. I try to give it to a different person every time. When I walk into the office, into the newsroom and say, we've got an interview with this celebrity, who wants to interview them? Everybody puts their hand up. The one exception is Blake Lively. Nobody on my team ever wanted to talk to her. Nobody wanted to go to the premieres or interview her on the red carpets because she was awful to them. She was just outright rude to them. And so I think all that has now been made very, very clear. And you would think that Blake would pause and think about that. And this lawsuit now, this is about hurting him. She's really angry that and she's really, really angry. And so what is she going to do? She's going to kick him one last time somewhere where it really hurts in his pocketbook. He does not have the money she and Ryan has. And so she just wants to punish him. But in the process, I think she's going to end up punishing herself again, which has been the ongoing theme of the last couple of months. Every time she, last couple of years, every time she tries to hurt him, she ends up really, really hurting herself. They have padded these expensives. It's ridiculous. Every time she called her lawyer, he has to pay for that. A narcissistic celebrity calling a lawyer for three hours, he's got to pay for that. A question she has that could have been answered in an email or a text. She had to get on the phone and have therapy and talk. And so it's really inflated. It's really wrong. I hope it doesn't stand. There's a really wacky, wacky law in California, which needs to be addressed here. The one thing that I think is in his favour, though, is whatever he has to pay her, she's going to have to pay a lot more in the court of public opinion. She's done. She's absolutely done. Is she considered box office poison now? Poison. Absolute casting directors don't want to meet with her. Would you want a director in a movie if she doesn't like what you're telling her to do? She might say you sexually harassed her. She has said awful things about someone she worked with, none of which were true. And so who's going to ever trust her again? Would you want her in your movie? What about a kissing scene, an intimate scene in the movie? No, no, no. I wouldn't trust her. No. And so she has set herself up now for failure. Let's be clear about this. Her career wasn't that hot. She's not made 20 blockbuster movies. She's not Scarlett Johansson. She's made some really sort of weak films. This film is arguably her most successful film she's ever made. And she blew it. She could have made a sequel. The last two years, instead of talking about this, she could have been talking about her haircare, her products. She could have been selling us moisturiser. She could have been selling us a new movie. She chose to do this. It was her decision. The results have now come out. And it's shocking to me after all that, Megan, she still has to have that final jab, that final petty, pettiness that we all see through. And it might cost him. She should have just walked away. It's like, was this not painful enough? Like, did you not see yourself dragged enough as the bad facts came out about you? Like, finally, it's mercifully over. Walk away. Know when to walk away. It's like a bad gambler. She didn't know when to walk away. Harry's lawsuit reminds me of this so much. It was all based on narcissism. It was all based on, you said something, you wrote something that I didn't like, and now I'm going to go after journalists. Most journalists do not have the resources that we might have. And so it was just, it's messy. Ultimately, though, the good news here is that we all now know the truth. Blake's poison. For the first time since World War Two, our national debt has exceeded the gross domestic product. America's reckless government spending keeps catching up with us. 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Quote, Lively's fee request is so over-inclusive that it sweeps in fees for researching her own liability for perjury arising from her California human rights campaign claim and her Rule 11 motion, which is a motion for sanctions, which the court has already denied fees for. So she's lumped everything but the kitchen sink in here in an effort to recover this $7.5 million in attorney's fees and $500,000 in expenses and costs for a total fee of $8 million. Brian argues and is pleading that the case was overstaffed. They billed multiple lawyers for the same hearings, numerous charges for lawyers conferencing and strategizing with one another, that it was overstaffed and billed more than 7,000 errors by 82 individuals, which is roughly 20 times what is typical in a comparable litigation. And he points out that the New York Times requested $181,000, not even $200,000 in attorney's fees after defeating the same claims. It's unbelievable. Meantime, she's reportedly irate because Justin Baldoni is speaking, Rob. He and his wife, Emily, breaking their silence. They've said nothing for this whole time. To their credit, Blake Lively was at the time 100, but me too, I'm a me too victim. So is my mom, listen to my mom. Me too glory by relation. And here are Justin and his wife, Emily, talking about this experience, SOT 15. We don't even know if this is the right thing to say, but we just know we need to share something. What I will say is that there have been so many painful things that have been spoken into existence over the last couple of years, and that created so much noise and we didn't want to add to the noise. So we just wanted to let the justice system run its course. And the truth and the facts have spoken for themselves. And here we are. We are healing. And if you've ever been through something traumatic, you know that healing isn't linear. It looks different every day. And we have had to rethink for ourselves what is real and what matters. And it's this, it's this kids, it's our family. Yeah. It's our friends. It's our community in there for us. It's our faith. I think we're closer and more devoted and steadfast in our faith than we've had. We've ever been. Wow. So I know, and I know you've got reporting on her reaction to that Blake and Ryan's. First of all, let me just say, that's the way to do it. You put out a video, you sit there, you tell the truth. You're not overlit. You're not overly made up. Two people, it looks like they're in the kitchen or at their home and they're talking directly to the camera and they're saying really beautiful things. If I was Blake Lively, I'd be really worried because that's just the beginning. This is David and Goliath. When this case began years ago, I was, I thought Blake was going to absolutely win this because she's Blake Lively and she's got all the resources in the world and she can sit down and do interviews and her husband's a very famous gentleman too and has a lot of money. Justin Baldoni and his wife have acted, I think, with such grace. That video is just the beginning. I hope they keep doing it. I think it was really smart that they didn't sit down and do an interview. I don't think they want questions at the moment. They just want to say it the way they want to say it. It got picked up by every, every media outlet in the world. That's the way that you do one of these reactions, one of these videos. Blake saw that. My sources tell me she absolutely saw it. She saw it many, many times. Her team will probably tell you she's too busy. She's too glamorous. She's too busy being a mom to pay any attention to this. Don't believe it. She's absolutely lived and breathed this for the last two years. In fact, that $8 million is basically him having to pay her for breathing every day. Literally, every day of her life has been about this trial. I think that's what she's trying to bill him for, which is so ludicrous. But she's watched it. She's watched it several times. She's angry at the minute, my sources tell me. The one that's really angry is her husband, Ryan, who thinks of himself as a PR marketing genius. The fact he was arguably beaten to the punch here, they say in PR, whoever tells their side first is often the one that wins. And so now they're going to be playing catch up. I'm pretty sure at some point they will respond. They haven't responded yet, but you know, Ryan's writing a script as we speak and it will be in the teleprompter and it will be the opposite video to what we just saw. That's such a good point. You can't, now they can't do their own direct to camera, low makeup video. Now they just look like glommers. So yes. And now they've just decided to say, oh, we're silent. That's our powers and our silence. You know, sure. Like, okay, sure, sure. I agree with you. They handled it beautifully. They came across as very classy. And I think it's very interesting and effective to have Emily quietly and expertly slide in the dagger with this sort of a side of disguised as a fight for women. or just leave a comment below, but join the community by becoming a subscriber. We really, really value your input and your support. We may not always agree, but we are always going to talk about it and respect. No BS, no agenda, no fear.