Bryan Freedman
Appearances
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
I'm great. And it's great to see you. And I'm so happy for all your success.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Yeah, that was a one-of-a-kind moment, wasn't it?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
True. And also the kind of husband Doug is I strive to be. And he's such a great man. He's such a great writer. He's such a great person. And I'm so happy that he's yours because, you know, you deserve that kind of love. Truly.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Well, what you don't know is a lot, right? Because Blake Lively's dominated the media. What they did was they worked with the New York Times. Republicists worked directly with the New York Times. They shared illegally obtained text messages. They shared those together. They concocted a complaint that they filed with the Civil Rights Division.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
They omitted texts that would have provided context, texts that were in the exact same string that would have provided context of what was really going on. And in fact, they actually removed emojis from texts that show that there was satire and there was joking around by the PR crisis agents.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
I mean, the PR crisis agent was brought in because actually Blake Lively's publicist, Leslie Sloan, was planting stories negative to Justin and, and all Justin wanted to do. And it's all through the text messages. If the New York times apparently reviewed a thousand or more pages of text messages, they would have seen it. Justin never wanted to hurt her, never wanted to be negative to her.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
He wanted to protect the film. He wanted to protect himself and he wanted to protect her from making negative allegations about him that were made up. And that they're proving in this case that that you can see in late July before Melissa Nathan, the crisis PR person, was hired. You can see Leslie Sloan planting stories. We have evidence of it. The young kids would call it receipts.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
We call it evidence, and it's all over the place. There are text messages that refute every single thing in that complaint. And it's just disgusting when you go after someone, you try to destroy their life, and actually the evidence shows something different. Blake Lively was no victim here. She was in control. She was in power, and she took over this film.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
I've never seen it before in my 30-plus year career in Hollywood. And an executive producer is below a producer in the film world. An executive producer signed up to be an executive producer, and that's it. And an actress. And that's what she was supposed to be. As the time progressed in this film, she decided that she wanted to be a producer. She applied to be a producer.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
She went and got the dailies. She started to make edits. She wanted to be part of the editing team. There were people hired, like human beings actually hired to do the editing job. who had done work as editors. She wanted to be part of that team. The next thing you know, she took over the editing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
She started making threats that she wouldn't promote the movie, that she wanted to be in control of marketing of the movie, that she would do nothing in terms of promotion unless she was the actual editor. She came up with her own cut of the film, which is, you know, you have a director who has a cut and she had a competing cut of the film.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And for an executive producer to have a competing cut of a film is incredibly bizarre. But when she starts threatening people and saying, I'm not going to promote the film, I'm not going to do anything unless you use my cut. that's when it starts to be awfully, you know, awfully incendiary.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And, you know, and the concern really is that she used these allegations of sexual harassment and she used these allegations of bullying to try and leverage her position so she could be the de facto director in the case. And, you know, as you'll hear in the voice note, as you'll see in the evidence, she had Justin...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
sitting in a basement in his own movie with his friends and family during the premiere of the movie, which should have been the biggest night of his career. He was sitting in the basement while she was not allowing him to be part of the premiere.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Let's break down what the sexual harassment is. I mean, we've just been through the Me Too movement. We've heard all sorts of serious allegations of sexual harassment that are really meaningful to victims and really important and whatnot. Blake Lively, if she was sexually harassed, to such a degree in this film and in this situation, she wouldn't have returned to the film.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And, you know, and they had sat down and they had talked about what her complaints were. The unfortunate thing is she actually didn't read the book and didn't understand what the book was about. And as a result of that, you know, the complaints are things like she, you know, he had gone into her trailer when she was breastfeeding, to which there are text messages that address that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
There were complaints that Jamie Heath, Justin's partner, had shown pornography. If you look at the actual complaint that they filed, it says that that's pornography. What Jamie Heath showed her was a still video of a home birth because they were discussing a scene about birthing. And, you know, that's not pornography.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And if you get down to the specific allegations, I mean, what this film was about was about domestic violence. This film was about sex scenes that involve, you know, rough behavior and domestic violence and serious issues like that, that, you know, and at every turn to the extent that Justin, you know, anybody felt uncomfortable in any way on the film, Justin took responsibility for it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Um, they, they, in fact, they met at Ryan Reynolds house, um, in New York. Um, they went over a 17 point list of things. They had come to an agreement, although Justin and Jamie did not agree that these things, you know, that were spoken about were warranted at all. They said, well, of course we won't come into your trailer when, you know, if you don't want us to, of
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
of course we won't do these things. And they're really simple concepts and simple things. And even in their own complaint, they admit that ever since they met in January, that everything ran smoothly for the rest of the set. And then all of a sudden, when Blake Lively decides that she's not going to do any type of press with Justin, she's not going to let him at the premiere.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
She's not going to be seen in a photo with him in any kind of the press. She decides that, you know, and all of a sudden the fans, you know, people aren't stupid out there. They're looking and seeing that, oh, hold it. You know, the entire cast has unfollowed Justin. And there's no explanation for it. There's not even an email. And hold it, they're not together in any of the marketing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Why is that? Is there something going on with the two of them? And then you start to see the stories planted by Leslie Sloan. You start to see them on August 8th, and it's very clear what's being planted. There are evidence for all these points. There are text messages for all these points.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And unlike any case that I've handled in my entire career, it's the one case we're going to put every single text message, every single document, everything on a website for everyone in the public to read, come to their own conclusions. And they can determine whether or not there was sexual harassment here, there was a smear campaign, or there was retaliation.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Because we have proof and receipts that absolutely and unequivocally show this is not true.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Well, remember that there was actually no allegation of sexual harassment until the lawsuit was filed. I mean, that's when the allegations of sexual harassment came up. They didn't come up before them.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Well, that's right. But I mean, in terms of the public, she raised them in the 17 point memo. They had agreed to to 17 points that they would agree that there were simple points that everybody would go back and she would return to work. There's a signed document saying they work things out in the actual lawsuit itself. It says everything went fine from then on.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
So, you know, and the question really is, why was crisis PR brought in? Crisis PR was brought in because there were negative stories about Justin that were being leaked to the media, not about sexual harassment. There were negative stories about Justin being brought in saying no one likes him. He's been a problem on set. You know, stories like that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And Crisis PR was brought in to say, this won't be good for the film. Crisis PR was also brought in because there were negative stories about Blake Lively. Not that Justin created, but that existed out there. I mean, fans and media can be brutal. They go back through your history. They go back and look and say, what interviews have you given before? How have you treated people?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Are you promoting the film in a way where you're promoting your hair care products and in a way that's not true and genuine as far as domestic violence is concerned? They go back and they see those videos. They bring them out organically. That's not Justin doing that. That's not Justin's crisis PR doing it. In fact, what he wants is a successful movie. He wants to protect the movie.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And all through the text messages, you'll see over and over and over again him saying, I don't want to hurt her. I want to protect her. Let's give her what she wants. Let's help her. That's what he's doing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
It's actually worse than that because the first text in that whole chain is a reporter who is saying to Melissa Nathan, is showing her the article for the first time. You can tell that this is the first time that Melissa Nathan sees the article. She says, what? Blake Lively, could Blake Lively be canceled? I mean, she's seeing it for the first time and saying, wow.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
I mean, this looks like it's me, but this is not me. And you can tell that this is the first time Melissa Nathan has learned about this. She forwards this. That piece with the reporter to Jen Abel. So Jen Abel knows that Melissa Nathan is learning about it for the first time. She knows she's saying this isn't me.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
She knows that she doesn't want this to be her and that's not what they're trying to do. And she sends it to Jen Abel and Jen Abel looks at it and makes a joke. And, you know, with with an upside down emoji, that's sarcasm. They remove the emoji. They remove the piece about the reporter showing that Melissa saw it for the first time then and obviously couldn't be a part of it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And they remove the rest of the text messages showing that they're joking around. I mean, it's absolutely appalling what they did. And if the New York Times is correct by their own response, we've done incredible reporting. We've done complete and accurate reporting. We've reviewed thousands of pages of text messages and documents and other things. And we stand by our story. Really?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Well, if you really reviewed these, then you would have reviewed those text messages and you would have known or should have known that this was actually all satire and that Melissa Nathan could have never planted that story because she didn't know about the story and she learned about it for the first time from the reporter and denied it right away.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And there's a plethora of text messages throughout saying this is not what they want to do. And Justin instructing them We're not planting stories. We're not using bots. None of that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Sure. And I think, you know, we all need to understand what crisis PR is about. Right. So they give options and they provide options of how they can clarify things, how they can correct things, how they can change things, how they can put things out there that are true and positive about someone.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
The difference here is that Justin never authorized anything, and actually there's nothing that was done that was nefarious or in any way was any type of smear campaign. And in fact, it's just the opposite. I mean, you would expect someone who's actually worried about himself, worried about the film, frankly worried about Blake Lively's own reputation and the effect on the film.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
to be prepared to have someone just in case something comes out that is negative about them. It is negative about the film or anything else. It's not like, like it's all a part of Hollywood. Everyone has crisis, a PR team that they can bring in that might help that the question isn't whether, you know, someone came in and said, we have options. The question is how,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Was anything done that was untoward or were articles placed or anything else? And what you see in the complaint, if you carefully look at it, the only article that they even claim that was placed was this one article. Is Blake Lively about to be canceled? And there's unequivocal proof in there.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
There are text messages that were left out of the complaint purposely, that were left out of the New York Times article purposely, that completely refute that either Melissa, Jen, or anyone else, Justin, had anything to do with planting that story or even knowing about that story before they learned about it. See, this is my problem.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Right. It's actually even worse than that. It's it's not just that they can't prove or don't have any evidence to show that it was done. There's actual evidence. There are text messages. There are receipts that absolutely show Blake Lively's publicist, Leslie Sloan, placing, you know, actual stories and hit pieces about Justin in the Daily Mail. and in TMZ.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And we have texts with the actual reporters that show that this is exactly what's going on.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
That's exactly right. And then you have Blake's person actually in an exchange with the Daily Mail reporter changing a story completely to go from was Blake Lively difficult on the set to change that into does the cast and crew all hate Blake? Justin, I mean, that's when you start to talk about a smear campaign. You start to look at it from that standpoint.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And for the New York Times not to have looked at those text messages, not to have caught them, not to have bothered to ask questions about them is just the reckless disregard for the truth.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
But let's actually break it down, because what you and I would do, because you're a great lawyer and and and if you weren't amazing at what you do, you would be the best lawyer in town. That's for sure. So let's break it down. So the first thing they say and you went over it was this. The plan wasn't sufficiently aggressive for him. You'll find the word aggressive in the complaint.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
What you won't find is the word aggressive in the text message because he never wants something that's aggressive. He wants something that's protective. And there's a big difference. Aggressive means you're going to go out and attack. Protective means if something comes out, I want to make sure I'm protected.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
So he says the plan doesn't look sufficiently protective to me, meaning that you got all these attack things in the plan. I don't want to attack anyone. Right. I just want to make sure there's not attacks on us. Everything in his words is protection, not planting stories, not doing anything offensive, not doing anything with bots or anything like that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And then, you know, as you as you walk through that text message string, it's so taken out of context because what they're saying is we can't put this in writing to him. Right. They can't put it writing to him because he's expressed over and over and over again. He doesn't want to go on the offensive. He doesn't want to start offensively. attacking anyone. He wants to actually protect her.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
He actually wants to protect the film, and he wants to protect himself from negative press. That's exactly what he wants to do. He wants to be protective. That's all through there. They realize that if they give him a plan that's an attacking plan or saying, we're going to bury her or anything like that, he's going to say, we're not hiring you. We don't want anything to do with this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
That's what they're talking about. This is all taken out of context. And if they would have included other text messages, you would have seen that to be the clear intention. It's easy to pluck and hand and cherry pick certain text messages that say certain things. But this is nothing. And let's talk about the Haley Bieber text, right? What he's talking about is this is what we need.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
We don't need to do this. We need actually people to come out and say she's a bully if that's what happens, right? Like people will come out naturally, organically and say that, right? Nobody planted the Hailey Bieber story. That was from a fan who put that out there. What he's saying is what we need is, as a protective plan, is that people come out and tell the truth.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And if Blake Lively is a bully, that they're going to come out and say that. That's what he wants as a plan, not to plant stories or anything else. As a matter of fact, that's belied by all of the texts that he's sent, right? Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
It's actually not retaliatory. It's actually it's called providing a defense. It's called like the United States of America. Apparently, some people think they can just make any allegation they want. And you can't say, no, that's not true. And you can say, no, that's not what happened.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
But there's no public allegation at that time that he's engaged in any type of sexual harassment or anything like that. So this whole idea of the smear campaign has nothing to do with that. It has to do with the protection from whatever she is going to say about him. And in fact, she used all of this to take over the film.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And what he's complaining about, frankly, is sitting there having as a director, having a film taken away from him, having editors who are real human beings, right, who like have lives, you know, not being able to see the actual film, you know, at the premiere, even at the premiere, they're going to see the film they edited for the first time because she took over the editing. Right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
These are the things that are being complained about. Right. And is he allowed to deny that he sexually harassed her? Absolutely. It's the United States of America. You can deny it. There's not there's not a smear campaign going on because she made those allegations. There's a protective campaign that's in existence if needed.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
in case she starts to say things like, oh, well, he was a terrible director, or everybody hated him on set, or he shouldn't have never been in the position he was in, or he did a terrible job, anything that was negative like that, or the film wasn't proper or appropriate, or even bring your florals, you know, bring your friends. Like, like we're going to do domestic violence, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
We're going to a domestic violence movie and, and, and she wants to turn it into a Barbie set. So like, those are the things that he wants to protect. He wants to protect her, frankly, even from her own, you know, kind of a lack of social, um, proper graces in knowing what this film is about and not turning it into a sideshow that it's some party. There's a message here.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
He always cared about the message. He wanted to protect the domestic violence victims and that community. And that's who he is as a person, and that's who he is as a filmmaker. And at the end of the day, he was willing to give up all of these rights to her because of her threats and because he thought the message was more important than his own, frankly, his own career.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Into oblivion, Megan. Wait till you see this lawsuit.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
I'm just going to tell you, you're going to have to wait and see. It's coming up soon. But it's all going to be based on evidence. It's not going to be just a lawsuit. It's going to be the kind of lawsuit that is full of evidence, admissions, documents, which prove exactly what she did and how she bullied her way through the process to take over the movie.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
and used her PR people to try and destroy Justin. And that's what it's going to be, you know, essentially about. But there will be a number of causes of action. There's a number of different defendants here. Stephanie Jones will be all over this complaint. That is the PR agent who was supposed to be working for Justin Baldoni.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
There's there's, you know, Leslie Sloan, who's another PR agent, will be part of this lawsuit. That was Blake Lively's. Blake Lively will be sued. And, you know, and we're carefully considering other people that will be sued also. And some of it is a surprise. Ryan Reynolds, for sure.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
I mean, you know, shocking everybody, shocking Sony, shocking the production staff. It's the first time they're hearing it. And, you know, Justin handles that really, really well and doesn't want to say she's a liar or doesn't want to say that's inappropriate or doesn't want to say that's part of someone else's job. And, you know, and he treats her very well about that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
But, you know, what Ryan Reynolds, you know, has seemingly done He's used his power and influence to not only help Blake Lively take over this movie, but he's used it on Deadpool and to make fun of Justin Baldoni.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
What I make of that is that if your wife is sexually harassed, you don't make fun. of Justin Baldoni. You don't make fun of the situation. You take it very seriously. You file HR complaints. You raise the issue. And you follow a legal process. What you don't do is mock the person. and turn it into a joke. Um, it's, there's no question it relates to Justin.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
I mean, anybody that can watch that, watch that, the, the hair bun, you know, the, the, you know, the, the comment about the pregnancy. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's pretty obvious what's being done, but again, like if, if somebody is seriously sexually harassed, you don't make fun of it. It's a serious issue.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
I would say all of it did not generate with this PR team. I mean, you know, since I've been involved in this case, I've gotten... 50 either texts or emails or things to my firm's website, you know, more than 50 actually about this was my experience with Blake Lively. We weren't allowed to talk to her on the set. We weren't allowed to ask for an autograph.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
We were, you know, instructed, you know, this way or that. We were treated like this. I mean, and, you know, these things aren't coming because we're doing an investigation. These are completely organic. These are based on people's real life experiences. In fact, you know, we've come across evidence that, you know, shows that even her own representatives, you
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
knew that she was threatening and mean and tough and wanted to get her way. This is not something that we wanted out there. It's not something that Justin wanted out there. In fact, it hurts the movie. It doesn't help the movie. And Justin knew that. And Justin's, you know, this was about... you know, domestic violence and getting the message across.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
I mean, I'll just give you, you know, a couple of examples. You know, in April and May of 2024, you know, when Blake Lively got her own cut of the movie, Justin said, you know, in a text message to his editors. The editors and director isn't allowed to look at an actress cut? Got it. Well, here we go. We will keep taking the high road.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Even when Justin Baldoni's, his version, his cut of the film, the Baldoni cut, I'll call it, scored significantly higher than Blake Lively's cut. And still Blake Lively's cut was the one that was chosen. He still didn't do anything publicly about that. And that was the one chosen because of the threats made by Blake Lively.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
In fact, we have a source that tells us that some of the cut that she had has some of Baldoni's version in it. I mean, in June of 2024, Blake Lively took over the marketing for the film. Again, there's nothing negative in the press or anything else like that. And Justin just wants to take the high road. Blake is is in June of 2024. Blake's cut is chosen to be shown at Book Bonanza.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And Justin and his and his editing team haven't even seen it. I mean, they haven't even seen it. And that's in a text message that they're not allowed to. Justin is shut out. He's giving notes as a direct as as as a studio, not as a director. He has not seen the locked cut of the film in July of 2024.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And in August 5th of 2024, Justin invites the editors to the premiere, but they can't be in the same room with Blake. Justin replies, we won't be in the same room. I was asked not to even come to the premiere. And the editors say, it would be very hard for me to sit and watch the final film for the first time at the premiere. And Justin replies, okay, yeah, I haven't seen it either.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And that's when you get to the voice note. And even in September of 2024, without criticizing Blake at all, he says to the editors, one day we'll finish our cut together. I would, of course, love to show the world the beautiful version we did. And he says in September of 2024, the purpose of the movie, the amount of women who feel seen. That's why we did this. And it worked.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And, you know, there are statistical scores on the movie showing that Justin's version, the Baldoni cut, scored higher than Blake Lively's cut.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Yes. And notwithstanding, you know, because of her threats that she wouldn't market the film, that she wouldn't do publicity, that's why her cut was released.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
I mean, the public's not stupid, not stupid, right? They see this and, you know, everybody is their own investigative journalist and everybody has their own point of view. And the domestic violence community, I feel like, was outraged over it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
and um and and again you know this wasn't something that justin pointed to like it was something justin wanted to help with but he couldn't help with it because she had already taken over the marketing campaign it was her marketing campaign at that point the um going back to sort of the underlying dispute between the two of them
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
So so let's be really clear about what this 30 point list was. This 30 point list was never provided to Justin or Jamie or anyone else. Never. And I challenge anyone to find an email or a text message where it was provided to them at all. As a matter of fact, they category it's written in such a way it says no more, no more, like presuming that it happened already.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
The only thing that was provided to them in writing was the 17-point list, which included things that they wouldn't do anyway. If this 30-point list was so important and that they had never seen or heard before, frankly, that showed up for the first time in writing in the complaint of all things. If that was so important, why didn't they say no?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Unless you sign the 30-point list, we're not coming back. The 17-point list were natural, normal things that they wouldn't do anyway. The 17-point list is a ruse. Putting things in there like no more presupposes it happened before. This is part of just the absolute misrepresentation of what the truth is. It's just not true. That 30 point list never shown to them.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Love to take that one on. You know what? Documents don't lie. People do. So let's go to the footage. Let's take a look at the footage and let's see exactly what it shows. And, you know, let's talk about the film. Like, we're not making, you know, Bugs Bunny here, right? Like, this is a film about domestic violence. This is a film about sexual scenes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
This is a film, you know, and if Blake Lively, you know, had objected to that, you know, why didn't she stop in that moment and say, enough? That's it. I'm not doing this. She doesn't need the money. She doesn't need any of that. I mean, this is so taken out of context. And there's footage on all of this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
So you'll be able to see how Blake Lively reacted to it, what she said as a result of it, how she reacted after that scene, you know, as she was walking away from that scene. There is footage of all of that. So all of this will come out.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
You know, this is lawyers writing things in such a way that, you know, is as salacious as possible to try to have someone, you know, make up for their own, you know, problem with their own reputation. And she wants an excuse. She wants to blame him for that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
So, Megan, when was this? Was this after the 17-point list was agreed to?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Well, let's put it this way. If it was and her complaint says everything was fine moving forward, you have a little bit of a discrepancy in the document itself. But again, you know, the greatest part of these complaints about onset behavior is this is all filmed. This is, you know, there's no surprises here. This is all going to be on tape.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And the truth is all going to come out of exactly what happened. And Ms. Lively does not strike me as someone, you know, who's not in a position of power, right? She is controlling her own destiny. And trust me, she's not someone who was taking advantage of any step of this project, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
You know, there is a complaint filed with the Civil Rights Division that is signed under penalty of perjury as a representative of Blake Lively that this is true and correct. And that complaint says this was Jamie Heath showing her pornography. That take, I mean, I wish we could show the picture, but you know. We're going to. That's not pornography.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And it's part of the artistic creativity of a birth scene that they're talking about. And it's not like he even played the video for her. It's the screenshot of the first screen. It's anything but pornography. So to swear under penalty of perjury that everything's true and correct and to call that pornography is going to really be an interesting deposition, isn't it?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
I mean, you know, my prediction is that this is going to get worse and worse for Blake Lively. And the reason it's going to get worse and worse is people are going to be more comfortable telling the truth. And what this is about is really the truth. And she's put Jamie Heath and Justin Baldoni in this position of being called sexual predators, sexual harassers.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
They have no choice but to go all the way. No choice. So, you know, we're going to go all the way. And the unique thing, again, in this case is going to be we're going to put every single text message out there. We're going to put every email out there. We're going to put every document out there that's relevant to the case, not something that's disrespectful or otherwise would embarrass Ms.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Lively, because that's not what we want to do. But we want to make sure that people have the facts and and people can make their own determinations as to what happened. Sure, could people have felt comfortable during filming? Absolutely. It's an uncomfortable situation at times when you have sex scenes and when you have domestic violence issues, then that's what you're talking about.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
You know, but but Justin is the kind of person that takes responsibility for it, that if he knows about something that someone feels uncomfortable with, he's willing to change. He's willing to take responsibility for it. That's what that's who he's about. Right. He's not a sexual predator, not even close. And for her to weaponize that and use that to take over this film.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
makes me question what's really going on. And this power couple and this power dynamic are using that power to be able to try and really destroy someone's life. Both Jamie and Justin are married. They have lives. Justin has children. They have to listen and read about this. It's terrible. It's terrible for their careers. Their careers are over unless we fight back.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And we will fight back like no one has ever fought back.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
I don't know because I don't know the facts of whether he's he's responsible or not. But certainly coincidence is an indicator of truth.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
I think they're suffering because they filed a lawsuit. that is slowly being shown to be a fabrication. I think that's where they're suffering. And I think that had they not filed the lawsuit, they wouldn't be suffering. And it's only going to get worse because as we unearth every single document and we put it out there for the public to see the truth, That's where the real suffering is.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
And they had no business trying to destroy people's lives. But when you back someone in a corner, give them no option and call someone a sexual predator and make up that there's a smear campaign. What do you expect? People aren't just going to kowtow to them because they're a power couple.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Secrets of Disgusting Media, and Explosive New Details About Blake Lively, with Billy Bush and Bryan Freedman | Ep. 977
Thank you. And so good to see you. I really appreciate you as a person and just love you so much, truly.