Megyn Kelly has slammed Blake Lively amid her lawsuit against her It Ends With Us director and costar, Justin Baldoni, calling her a “serial fraudster” and a “rather s—-y person.”
The controversial conservative commentator dug deep into the legal saga on Thursday’s episode of SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show — and it was clear from the outset that she is firmly on Baldoni’s side.
“My own position is [Lively] absolutely ruined her brand,” Kelly said. “She has started a fight she cannot win. She does appear like an Amber Heard to me.”
She continued, “I have yet to see one of her complaints borne out. In fact, all of the ones I’ve seen have been undermined by [Baldoni’s] hardcore proof in text messaging and so on that puts a totally different light on her horrific allegations. Then you see what she actually said and wrote. It’s very different.”
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Kelly then showed a clip from Lively’s appearance at the 2022 Forbes Power Women’s Summit, in which the Gossip Girl actress admitted that she has caused friction with collaborators in the past for taking on an acting role only to later reveal that she needs to have “authorship” over the project and do more than act in order to “feel fulfilled” in her work.
“She’s a serial fraudster,” Kelly declared. “That’s called fraud — when you pretend you want to do the one thing and you’ll do the thing they’re hiring you for, but all along you have secret plans to do something very, very different that’s above your pay grade.”
She continued, “She finally bumped into someone who was weak enough and not famous enough to stop her. This Justin Baldoni, most people had never even heard of him — he’d been in, like, one series. He certainly wasn’t at Ryan Reynolds–level fame, never mind Blake Lively, and she bullied him into giving her the movie where she did her own cut.”
Baldoni asserted that two different versions of It Ends With Us were created during production — one that he led as its director and another spearheaded by Lively — in his December lawsuit against The New York Times. He claimed that Lively’s cut ultimately ended up in theaters — despite his version’s test screening allegedly scoring higher with audiences — after Lively threatened to boycott the film’s promotion if hers was not selected.
Kelly added that Lively had the “nerve” to try to blame her “two minutes of bad publicity” on Baldoni, saying sarcastically, “None of it was just due to the fact that she seems like a rather s—-y person.”
Representatives for Lively did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly‘s request for comment.
In December, Lively lodged a complaint against Baldoni with the California Civil Rights Department in which she accused him of coordinating an online smear campaign against her. She later sued Baldoni, his studio Wayfarer, and his PR representatives Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel in New York federal court that month.
Baldoni, in turn, filed a countersuit against Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, in January in which he accused them of defamation and extortion.
A trial is set for March 9, 2026, but a federal judge recently warned both parties’ attorneys that the date could arrive much sooner if their legal drama continues to play out in the press.
Baldoni is also facing a breach of contract lawsuit from his former publicist, while Lively was sued by a Texas publicist earlier this month for defamation.
Watch Kelly discuss the stars’ lawsuit in the video above.
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