Blake Lively’s Awkward Interview Sounds Worse With New Context

Despite having her own hit movie out at the same time as her husband Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively is having a rather unlucky week. Reports of a feud between her and co-star/director Justin Baldoni have circulated online. On top of that, she faced criticism for her handling of the marketing of her movie, which features a significant domestic violence storyline—a fact that many seem unaware of.

As with many rumors, internet sleuths began to re-examine Lively’s past interviews and press cycles. This has brought some controversial moments from the former “Gossip Girl” actress back into the spotlight.

While promoting her 2016 film “Cafe Society” (directed by Woody Allen), Lively and Parker Posey were doing media rounds when Norwegian reporter Kjersti Flaa congratulated Lively on her “little bump.” At the time, Lively was pregnant with her second child. She quickly responded to the interviewer with, “Congrats on your little bump!” which was met with an awkward laugh.

This week, Flaa uploaded the video to her YouTube channel titled “The Blake Lively interview that made me want to quit my job,” which has now amassed over a million views, not counting its rounds on Twitter and TikTok. Flaa told The Daily Mail that the comment was “traumatizing” and made her rethink her career. “To be honest, it hurts because I obviously wasn’t pregnant and I could never get pregnant. So to me that comment was like a bullet,” Flaa explained. She mentioned that for much of the interview, Lively and Posey continued to talk to each other instead of addressing her. Online fans argued that Flaa shouldn’t have commented on the pregnancy at all.

Flaa said she had been asked to do the interview for her job, and the ordeal made her feel like a “complete failure.” She added, “It was such a traumatizing experience to me. I was there to do a job, and they made sure to make it as difficult as possible for me to do that. I was invited to meet them. It certainly did not feel like that. I felt belittled and ignored, and it made me question if I ever wanted to do these types of interviews again.”

Despite this ordeal, Flaa has since gone on to interview notable stars like Robert De Niro and Morgan Freeman, proving that keeping her job was, indeed, a good decision.

Source: Page Six, The Daily Mail