Anyone following the Blake Lively drama?

Like someone mentioned earlier, the movie director hired a crisis public relations manager (who was also hired by Johnny Depp) and suddenly everybody is talking about what a bitch Blake Lively is. Sounds like Justin Baldoni is getting his money's worth. I like Blake Lively, but I don't expect anybody to be funny, sweet, and entertaining all the time.

Thank you!!!
Every time someone recommends that garbage Verity book, I want to scream. 

Just liking these posts is not enough...Verity was horrible!

And Lily Bloom the florist??? UGH!! 

Amen! I enjoy reading all types of books, but I flat out could not understand the love for Colleen Hoover. I mostly listen to audiobook now, and I tried a couple of her books. Awful.

As far as the Blake Lively thing - eh... she certainly did have some snarky responses. But I did watch something that showed how edited these TikTok videos are that are making her look awful. They are clipped to be very out of context and not showing the full interaction. This can be very damaging and spin a whole different story.

Here's the deal, she was on Gossip Girl and there was a ton of behind the scenes drama with her involved.

She married Ryan Reynolds on a plantation. (BTW, I love Ryan Reynolds. Or the persona I see of him. He may be a complete ass that I don't know about and when I hear he is, I will change my mind.)

The co-star has a back issue and had consulted with his doctor on weight to be lifted to not aggravate it. He was not fat shaming her but trying to find out what he could safely lift. Either using someone else or to figure out assistance.

She had announced her pregnancy before the interview, so people knew. The interviewer asked about it. Snarky or not, her reply fell flat. Now we know why as the interviewer is infertile.

I feel like maybe she is trying to have the snarky comebacks that her husband has. He is able to pull it off, she doesn't.

She has projected herself as Ms. All American Good Girl. Sorry, but I don't buy that anyone is all good, all the time.

It is not a rom-com. The movie deals with DV.

Don't even get me started on CoHo. I DID throw Verity across the room when I finished it. I read It Ends With Us and just didn't know how to feel about it. I decided I just didn't want to read any more of her books. She has had her own controversy in the last year or so, so I feel even better about my decision.

Why do I know what I know you ask? My DD is the deep diver of all deep divers and goes down all the rabbit holes to get information and form opinions. She has always liked BL. She said over the weekend, she is just not sure how she comes out of this for the better. My DD is also the fair is fair, people make mistakes kind of person. I feel for her to have the feelings, there is probably a bit more fire than smoke to this situation.

No, just don't!! And if you do, make sure you remove all breakables from the reading area.

I heard about this about a week ago but ignored it. Well, now y'all made me go read the NYT article about all of this And truthfully, I don't follow celebrity "stuff" so you all had a big PEA influence on me!

To me, her books read like a teenager wrote them. Don't waste your time when there are so many wonderful books out there waiting to be read.

My Sweet Audrina freaked me out more than Flowers back when was 14. 😂

I'm about halfway through right now. I really don't remember much of it. It was my favorite Andrews book at the time, I remember that, followed by Heaven.

Ha! My friend did the same thing to me with the twilight books!

I thought the clips I saw from the interview showed her in a poor light. The snarky answer to the baby bump wasn’t a big deal to me but her and the other actress lose along only to each other as if the interviewer wasn’t there….thats mean girl freeze out behavior. Was it just an exhausted, off day? Maybes I don’t follow her enough to have an opinion on that. I was turned off enough by the behavior to not like it but not enough to form more of an opinion than that. I am sure it’s irritating to be asked the same inane questions but like plenty of people do it at there jobs without the grace to be snarky back. I think as a society we idolize celebrities to the point where we extend them far more leeway than we would anyone else. Imagine a waitress giving a snarky retort when asked for the fifth time in an hour what salad dressings are available when it’s right there on the menu. She wouldn’t get a tip and people would be posting mean yelp reviews. If society can feel compassion for the Blake livelys of the world, being tired and pregnant, maybe we can extend that to everyone.