Blake Lively Alleges "Mean Girl" Smear Campaign Worth $300 MILLION in Damages, with Zack Peter

[0:00] Lauren Sanchez Bezos is not a bad person. I actually have like no anger in my heart toward [0:04] her. I think she's kind of absurd and she's fun to mock, let's be honest. But she doesn't seem [0:09] bad to me. Blake Lively seems bad. Blake Lively is trying to ruin the life of a man who did nothing [0:17] to her other than cast her in his movie and try to make her happy. And yet there is no making Blake [0:24] Lively happy. That's what seems clear. There's no making her happy. And when he finally stood up [0:30] for himself, she went legal, went nuclear and tried to smear him in the public. And now we get [0:36] her damage demand, which is out of this world. She's not the only, Lauren Sanchez Bezos is not [0:43] the only thing that was out of this world. She wants $296 million from him. She says this is [0:54] because she suffered the mean girl and bully labels, thanks to his bad behavior. And this [1:02] caused her lost earnings between $41 and $87 million, lost profits on her businesses between [1:10] $39 and $143 million, pain and suffering, physical pain and humiliation in the range of $250,000 to $400,000, [1:21] reputational harm, attributable to alleged defamation to the tune of about $24 million, [1:28] other reputational harm in an amount of approximately $36 to $40 million. And she wants [1:33] punitive damages, meaning they would be trebled, tripled. Whatever she gets in actual damages, [1:39] she wants tripled. And she wants all attorney's fees and costs to be paid for by Justin Baldoni, [1:47] again, because she says that he created an image of her as a bully, a mean girl, and quote, [1:55] tone deaf. And that was all attributable to his retaliatory campaign against her for complaining [2:03] about sexual harassment on the set of their movie, It Ends With Us. He got his PR honchos doing all of [2:09] that. And everybody would have seen the truth, which is Blake Lively is absolutely lovely if it [2:14] hadn't been for the big, bad, retaliatory Justin Baldoni. Thoughts? Yeah, she had a stellar reputation [2:22] before all of this. She never had anybody dislike her, especially after her gossip girl days. I mean, [2:30] it's so insane. First of all, I want to cost her a few more millions. So I'm going to say bully, [2:33] bully, bully, bully, mean girl, mean girl, mean girl, tone deaf. So hopefully that was a few extra [2:38] mil that we can cost her in this alleged smear campaign that I guess we're all part of, even [2:43] though I've repeatedly told the internet and Blake Lively that my disdain for her is purely organic, [2:49] USDA certified organic disdain for Blake Lively. And it goes back years before this, because I used [2:56] to know people that used to work at her preserve company, and they've never had stellar stories to [3:01] share about their experience working for her. And even her career in Hollywood was never stellar. [3:07] She was always known as somebody that was difficult to work with. Those rumors were always following [3:12] her. She was lucky to find someone like Ryan Reynolds, who was so likable and charismatic and [3:18] funny. And I've even said, if he is going to testify at trial, he's probably her best asset. But where [3:24] she's really going to hurt is when she has to sit on, you know, sit up in front of the jury and [3:30] testify before them because she thinks that she's likable. And I believe that she believes that in [3:35] her head. But when the jury actually sees her, tone deaf is going to land. They are going to [3:41] actually see her in her own words, believe this narrative that was crafted about her with this [3:48] smear campaign. It's just ridiculous. And now she wants everybody to feel bad that she lost millions [3:53] millions of millions of dollars in a lawsuit that was purely voluntary. She's continued to push this [4:00] forward. She didn't need to. She put him in the basement and that should have been enough. Put [4:04] Baldoni in the basement and be done with it. But she wanted to end him. And now it's coming back to [4:09] bite her. Yeah. At the premiere of her own movie, she unfollowed him on Instagram. She had the rest of [4:14] the cast unfollow him. And he understood full well what she was doing to him. He hired PR people to [4:20] defend him against her aggression, her mean girl, girl behavior, not the other way around. And that's [4:26] what the jury is going to hear when she gets cross-examined. Meanwhile, here's her husband, [4:31] Ryan Reynolds, sitting down with the Today Show and Willie Geist on April 19th. Listen here, [4:38] SOT 30. The spotlight obviously has its benefits, but it can be hard to. You and Blake for the last [4:44] year and a half have gone through this very public legal proceeding. How have you guys managed that [4:50] as a family? You know, you really see kind of the illusion behind so much of this stuff, you know, [4:56] digital life versus real life. Really, without getting into too much, I'll just say I've never [4:59] in my life been more proud of my wife. Really. People have no idea what's really going on, you know, [5:11] and I've just never in my life been more proud of someone with that level of integrity that brings [5:16] that with them and carries that with them in everything that they do. Do you think that's [5:21] sincere? I think they're so delusional that they believe their own bullshit. And I think [5:27] he's trying to convince himself of that. But I think he has to convince himself of that to make [5:33] this all worth it, considering it's hurting their reputations. It's clearly hurting their bank [5:38] account, which I don't feel sorry for. I mean, you're crying about losing $40 million, but yet you have [5:42] at least $100 million that you've already poured into just this lawsuit alone, which is ridiculous. [5:48] Um, yeah, I don't know if I believe that their marriage is going to sustain this [5:52] because I just, I, there has to be too much stress on them. And if it goes the way, I think many of [5:58] us are thinking it's going to go, which is not in her favor, then I don't know how their marriage [6:03] survives that. I think they'll try to hold onto it as long as they possibly can until they can't [6:08] anymore. Now we know that Blake Lively and or her people watch the Megan Kelly show. Uh, we know that [6:17] because we've heard from them about our coverage and we were subpoenaed by her for this lawsuit. [6:24] They sent us a subpoena demanding all documents related to segments that we had done about Blake [6:30] Lively in response to which we told her to fuck off and won that battle. And so if she's watching [6:38] this right now, Zach Peter, what would be your advice to her? Here we are a month out less than, [6:43] uh, from the start of that trial. My advice to her would be to go on the stand and give us like [6:50] really tell us about the pain that you suffered at the hands of this retaliation campaign. I want her [6:56] to give us Amber Heard tears, give us a performance because the jury is going to laugh her out of that [7:03] courtroom. Uh, she's never been likable. Her interview, I mean, I'm sure right now she's training and [7:09] studying to try and, you know, give her best, um, actress performance. Like this is really going to [7:14] be her Oscar worthy performance, but I don't think she's a great enough actress to be able to pull [7:17] this off. But I want her to cry about her dog stepping on a beat like Amber Heard did. I want [7:23] her to give us all of that. That way the jury can really see who they're dealing with the monster that [7:29] they're dealing with. I, I, I would love to see it, but here's my actual advice. You're, you're, [7:36] you are kind of Blake in the situation that president Trump is in with respect to the Iran [7:40] war. This needs to end, but you need to save face in the process of it ending. What you need is a [7:48] Pakistan, some third party who you can go to, to say you initiate an end to this. And we'll just [7:55] pretend that like you came to me saying we should have negotiations. And because it was such a reasonable [8:01] third party, I said, okay, for you, I'll do it for you. I'll institute a ceasefire and I'll enter [8:05] into the negotiations. Meanwhile, it was you all along. It's fine. Everyone's willing to give you [8:10] this fig leaf just to see this thing come to an end. We don't actually, I mean, it'd be great for [8:15] the media to see this trial to happen, but I think most people would prefer no. It's a spectacle. And [8:19] Justin doesn't, doesn't deserve to be put through this. What you need is a Pakistan. You need some [8:25] third party to come in to say, let me try to save it. And I, I nominate Taylor Swift. She is the one [8:34] who can do it as the former friend of Blake, as somebody who, you know, within the Hollywood crowd [8:40] is universally beloved, could say for the good of both of you, I am going to try to encourage you to [8:47] settle this and put this on. And if, if the power of Taylor Swift can make this thing go away, I think [8:54] the nation would be very grateful. Blake Lively should be on her knees thanking her. She can do it. [8:59] And I think Justin Baldoni would be thrilled if she just dropped her claims. [9:02] And Taylor has the perfect bargaining chip. Here's a wedding invite, take it and shut down [9:08] this lawsuit and Blake will do it. That's the only thing that'll get her because she did have a [9:13] Pakistan though, Megan. And that was judge Lyman gutting her case and throwing out 10 of her 13 [9:19] claims. So she could then be like the laws as against women, you know, the, you know, the protections [9:25] that I should have had aren't there. So, you know what, I'm going to focus my efforts on protecting [9:29] women in the workplace with my new philanthropic efforts moving forward. And that's what she [9:33] should have done. She didn't take the loss. She didn't take the golden ticket opportunity, [9:38] which was to be able to walk away from this and not let her lose. You know, she could say the judge [9:44] threw it out because of a technicality or whatever she wanted to say, she could have spun it and she [9:48] missed that. But now she needs the Taylor Swift invitation, a wedding invite. [9:51] Yeah. I like that. And if she, if she drives a hard bargain, she can ratchet it up to bridesmaid, [9:57] maybe even matron of honor, right? Like it's not in order for me to show you as, as Pakistan, [10:04] as the, um, Henry Kissinger of our time, I'm going to need, I'm going to need a title at this [10:10] wedding. I'm going to need a featured role. I'm going to need to be in the vanity fair or Vogue [10:13] pictures. Um, and everyone's going to have to say nice things about me. Yeah. Why not officiate Taylor? [10:21] This is a golden opportunity for you to look like this benevolent peacemaker. I think everybody wins [10:27] if Taylor plays Pakistan. Um, okay. And that's advice you won't hear on any other program. That's [10:32] a special for the MK show today. Thanks for watching this clip. If you're new here, subscribe. [10:37] We got a whole lot more goodness where that came from. Would love to hear your feedback. 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