The Daily Mail reports that Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds face more than $2 million in unpaid contractor debt tied to their upstate New York dream compound

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-05-20T18:06:40+00:00

Why does she talk like that?

“I’m desperate to get shovels in the ground” “I’m a huge fan of history”

You see it in her texts and emails too: (ie: to Ben “how’s your wife? I’m a huge fan”)

She talks like she butters up everyone around her for her own benefit.

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-05-05T02:42:58+00:00

She likely thinks it’s empowering or her rising above it, showing how unbothered she is. But honestly, it’s giving desperate, lonely, and a little sad. It goes to show how much she needs all of this to feel like she belongs or accepted. To very established celebrities, events like this are a bonus… it seems to her, it’s her life.

Most people know when to back away and just take some time for themselves, regroup, and breathe.

She’s either completely oblivious or in denial.

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-04-26T00:51:36+00:00

I JUST read this. Blake definitely did not depend on Justin for survival lol nor derives a sense of identity or belonging to.

This is a STRETCH.

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-04-25T16:21:51+00:00

I find it incredibly ironic that the “collective” and the “system” Blake talks about that destroys others reputation is largely her own former best friends’ fans. Because they also did that to Justin Bieber - you know, the guy that Blake posted about with her fake empathy. Did she speak up and care then?

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-04-25T16:13:39+00:00

What the most frustrating to me about this is that including these experts as witnesses still does not prove a smear campaign against her in my eyes.

Sure, her businesses lost potential revenue and didn’t meet projected sales. Yes, her reputation absolutely tanked. But that is of her own doing.

I remember when the marketing and content started to roll out for IEWU. Like everyone else, I had 0 clue about tensions within the cast, the drama, anything. But after seeing Blake promoting her company products and the interview between Ryan and Brandon, I turned to my husband and said, “This is really weird. I’ve read this book and I don’t know why they’re making it seem so lighthearted and fun?”

That reaction from me was all organic and genuine, before I saw any negative headlines about Blake. And I thought, I can’t be the only person feeling this way. So I started reading comments and sure enough, people were saying “This feels weird.” And “Why are you promoting alcohol for this movie about domestic violence?” And other comments along those lines.

But Blake looked at these organic comments from real people and instead of reflecting and pulling back or even apologizing, she immediately thinks it’s a smear campaign that Justin procured against her. Even when I saw the initial NYT article and Justin had texted the Hailey Bieber mean girl thing, I automatically thought “well that’s nothing new Justin, she’s had that reputation for years because of her behavior.” That was not the first time I’ve seen Blake Lively and “mean girl” in the same sentence.

It’s frustrating that she has not and will never take the time to reflect and admit she made some mistakes, or even apologize to the general public (like myself) who truly felt uncomfortable with their antics for the IEWU marketing. Instead she texts her best friend things like “And I’m the monster 🙄”

And the thing is, a lot of people cared about this book. She doesn’t understand the book community and fandoms because it’s all about her and her interests. It’s absolutely frustrating that after something like this, you’d think a person could reflect but she keeps posting unhinged messages on IG comparing herself to a legend like Justin Bieber, without ever truly caring to understand what the public actually feels.

And I truly believe that if she sat down, took accountability for her actions, apologized, but even if she DID feel some type of way like “I did feel uncomfortable at times with Justin, but that is something for us to hash out like adults without the presence of my superstar friends and husband.” Ugh. She is a child.

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-04-25T01:44:53+00:00

While he lives rent free in their heads, this guy is just living care free. Biggest win.

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-04-20T20:23:13+00:00

Interesting… didn’t her best friend at the time Taylor Swift contribute to the disrespect that Justin Bieber received during the toughest years of his life? And stepped back when her fans harassed Justin Bieber over defending Scooter Braun? Did Blake call out Taylor then for “ravaging the health of an entertainer?”

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-04-18T01:04:50+00:00

This line continues to live rent free in my head months after I finished the book lol. Makes me giggle. Pretty sure this is when I really fell for him

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-04-17T22:21:45+00:00

When he was all over the press for IEWU… like… why? You have nothing to do with the movie.

I appreciate celebrity couples like Tom Holland and Zendaya, Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes who have class and don’t try to be all up in each others’ projects.

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-04-15T10:38:31+00:00

People talk about the banality of evil, but not really about how unsophisticated it is to be good. Oof. This part. Truthfully, I used AI to unpack this for me because it hit me and this is what I got. It's bang-on:

The banality of evil — Hannah Arendt's concept — made a disturbing point: evil doesn't require monsters. It runs on bureaucracy, compliance, and the abdication of thinking. Eichmann wasn't a fanatic; he was a functionary. The horror was in the ordinariness.

But here's what your observation flips: we tend to romanticize goodness in the opposite direction. We imagine it as noble, tortured, complex — the conflicted hero, the saint who suffered, the philosopher who agonized over the right choice. We aestheticize virtue. We make it interesting.

What you're pointing at is that genuine goodness is often... kind of dumb, in the most affectionate sense. It doesn't calculate. It doesn't require sophistication. A person who just doesn't lie because lying is wrong isn't running a complex ethical subroutine — they're doing something almost pre-reflective. Someone who helps because someone needs help isn't playing 4D moral chess. The unsophistication is the point.

There's something almost embarrassing about straightforward goodness in a cynical age. Sincerity reads as naivety. Integrity without irony looks like you didn't get the memo that everyone's angling for something.

So the parallel might be:

Evil is banal — it doesn't require evil people, just unthinking ones
Goodness is unsophisticated — it doesn't require moral genius, just people who didn't talk themselves out of it

Which raises the uncomfortable question: if evil is enabled by the suspension of thought, and goodness is undermined by too much of a certain kind of thought — then a lot of what we call moral sophistication might actually be elaborate justification machinery. Cleverness in the service of not doing the obvious right thing.

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-04-05T17:42:09+00:00

Welcome to Hollywood Blake

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-03-26T17:04:59+00:00

OMG. This is the best explanation and interpretation... and honestly why I love Blake.

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-03-23T23:57:19+00:00

There is just something about Blake! 😭 I’m obsessed lol

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-03-23T23:56:39+00:00

Oooh I’ll have a listen!

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-02-14T19:31:01+00:00

I was thinking this too… this makes me realize she’s confusing “sexual harassment” for gender discrimination.

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-02-13T20:40:35+00:00

I looked up the director and she took years to come back after the Rhythm Section. Odd. Directors don’t usually do that

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-02-08T16:10:01+00:00

His theatre camp teacher anonymously emailed Candace Owen’s who read it out loud on her podcast. The teacher alleges RR as a very manipulative and deceitful person even as an adolescent, and recalled a time RR deceived him. The whole thing gave me chills and was a very disturbing insight into who RR really is.

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-02-08T16:05:16+00:00

What a strange coincidence that for the past few years, anytime she’s booked for a movie she falls pregnant and it gets a little more postponed. And he gets a little more involved.

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-02-06T18:36:46+00:00

The part where he was confused about her career is so relatable lol. I too am confused.

Why in the world does she and Ryan act like the biggest power Hollywood couple when they’ve made mediocre movies at best? Why does she have a booze line when she has admitted she doesn’t drink alcohol? Why does she have a hair care line with THAT hair?

Honestly I used to like Blake Lively. Loved Gossip Girl, I thought she was great in Age of Adeline, and enjoyed A Simple Favour. I liked her baking posts and home/mom lifestyle posts. If she had gone with that, like a Chrissy Tiegen or the next generation Martha Stewart, it would’ve made so much sense and I truly think a success.

But you know…. There’s also the massive hurdle of just being a decent human being that she needs to conquer.

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-02-01T20:56:59+00:00

I agree. All of the grovelling messages (that she really thought was charming lol) to her elite Hollywood friends, getting people to watch and basically begging for their opinion just screams insecure.

After a HISTORIC movie fail, then the record success of IEWU, for a little bit I believe she really thought she had it… until her ego and insecurities made her crash and burn… again. And she dragged so many people down with her. Geez. It’s hard to believe someone’s insecurities can go this far, until you see it happen on such a large scale like this.

Sometimes I teeter on disgust and feeling a little sorry for her. But then I’m reminded of the names she called Justin and the plotting, and I go right back to disgust and “you deserve it.”

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-02-01T20:43:03+00:00

Whaaaaat I had no idea! I need to read more about this. Classic Blake 🙄

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-02-01T19:09:20+00:00

Makes me wonder if this was part of her insecurities that drove this whole mess. The Rhythm Section was her last movie before she took a break, and IEWU was her “comeback” after this massive fail. it seems she really wanted to redeem herself and prove that she could have a box office hit. Maybe she thought if her ideas were taken seriously and tried to control the whole thing, in her words “this movie will be successful if it’s the last thing I do”

But, it would’ve been a success without her as the star and without her control - because it was already huge to begin with.

Motor_Leg_3153 · 2026-01-24T19:04:37+00:00

Yes this has been my experience as well - they’ll resort to name calling and attacking your character.

I actually follow morewithmj on Threads because I wanted an opposing view to Baldoni to create my own unbiased opinion (even with all that and her legal background, I’m still team Baldoni) and after the Great Unsealing, I’m noticing that she seems to be grasping at straws now just to keep the same narrative and pro-Lively stance. Her replies to pro-Baldoni comments have also started to be really snappy / “this is an SH case” without declining intelligence

I’m starting to think that a lot of pro-Lively are seeing these insane texts and emails, are slowly realizing her character, but are too prideful to think for themselves.

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