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Kjersti Flaa and the Journalist Explain That It Wasn’t Part Of
Getty Images (2)Kjersti Flaathe journalist who previously said an interview with Blake Lively made her want to “quit” her job, having denied being part of an alleged smear campaign against the actress.
“Okay, so I have to say something because now I see that things are starting to snowball and people are starting to think I had anything to do with the smear campaign against Blake Lively , which was reportedly organized by Justin Baldoni and his team,” Flaa said through Instagram on Saturday, December 21, adding that she had read through the lawsuit and the alleged “dirty work” going on behind the scenes. “I just wanted to say I had nothing to do with it.”
Flaa said she was “shocked” and “alarmed” by the text messages between Baldoni’s PR team which were included in the lawsuit filed by Lively, 37, on Friday, December 20.
“I would never get involved in anything like that,” he said. “That’s such an insult to me.”
Flaa said she doesn’t want to “be a part of this,” noting that she shared a video of a previous interview with Lively and “that’s it.”
“Just wanted to put it out there,” Flaa captioned her Instagram post. “I have nothing to do with Justin Baldoni and his smear campaign against Blake Lively which was reported by The New York Times today. There are conspiracy theories out there accusing me of being paid by his PR team to help with their smear campaign. None of this is true.”
News broke on Saturday that Lively had sued It Ends With Us costar and director Baldoni, 40, for sexual harassment. In the lawsuit, obtained by Us Weekly after it was narrated by TMZ a The New York TimesBaldoni accused of launch a “social manipulation” campaign. against her to “destroy” her reputation.
Flaa released a longer statement via YouTube on Saturday, explaining that she would “never accept money to compromise my integrity as a journalist.”
“I see how people are trying to make a connection here that I’ve been working with Justin Baldoni’s PR company because it’s too much of a coincidence that my video was posted at that time,” he said, explaining his that “had a bad experience with Blake Lively” and decided to post the video after watching It Ends With Us.
In August, Flaa released a clip of Lively and Parker Posey from 2016 Cafe Society press tour entitled: “The Blake Lively interview that made me want to quit my job.” In the clip, tensions between Flaa and Lively grew after the journalist congratulated the actress on her “little bump” and asked about period costumes in the film.
“When my video came out, it added fuel to the fire against Blake Lively,” Flaa said, claiming she had “no idea what was going on”. on the set oh It Ends With Us.
Blake Lively claims that It Ends With Us costar and director Justin Baldoni allegedly conducted a “social manipulation” campaign to damage her reputation. The news broke on Saturday, December 21, that Lively, 37, had sued Baldoni, 40, for sexual harassment. According to The New York Times, the lawsuit – filed on Friday, December 20 – (…)
Flaa noted that she “never defended” Baldoni. “I don’t know him,” he said. “I never met him. To be honest, I didn’t know it existed until It Ends With Us. So I have no sympathy for any of these people involved.”
Highlighting specific text messages between Baldoni’s PR team in Lively’s lawsuit, Flaa calls the exchange “kind of disgusting.”
“The thing is, I don’t want anything to do with it,” he said. “I know nothing about Justin Baldoni. I don’t know about his PR team. And I would definitely never work with a PR team under any circumstances to put hate out there on the internet against someone, or to smear someone. I would never do that.”
