{"id":5936,"date":"2025-05-02T11:29:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T11:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/blake-lively-says-fear-keeps-us-silent-and-discusses-struggles\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T11:29:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T11:29:35","slug":"blake-lively-says-fear-keeps-us-silent-and-discusses-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/blake-lively-says-fear-keeps-us-silent-and-discusses-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively Says Fear &#8216;Keeps Us Silent&#8217; and Discusses Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/blake-lively\/\"><strong>Blake Lively<\/strong><\/a> spoke about experiencing a \u201cpretty intense year\u201d amid her ongoing legal drama with <em>It Ends With Us<\/em> costar and director <strong>Justin Baldoni.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI have had a pretty intense year,\u201d Lively, 37, said during a Thursday, May 1 appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/late-night-with-seth-meyers\/\"><i>Late Night With Seth Meyers<\/i>.<\/a> \u201cThis year has been full of the highest highs and lowest lows of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lively also touched on the \u201cfear\u201d she believed many women feel when it comes to speaking up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI see so many women around afraid to speak, especially now, afraid to share their experience,\u201d Lively said. \u201cFear is by design, it\u2019s what keeps us silent.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/blake-livelys-public-moments-since-filing-it-ends-with-us-lawsuit\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 400 225'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Breaking-Down-All-of-Blake-Livelys-Public-Appearances-Since-It-Ends-With-Us-Drama-Started.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C1333px%2C753px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all\" data-srcset=\"\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Breaking Down All of Blake Livelys Public Appearances Since It Ends With Us Drama Started\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Breaking-Down-All-of-Blake-Livelys-Public-Appearances-Since-It-Ends-With-Us-Drama-Started.jpg?quality=40&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/blake-livelys-public-moments-since-filing-it-ends-with-us-lawsuit\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Blake Lively&#8217;s Public Appearances Since Her &#8216;It Ends With Us&#8217; Legal Drama<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tBlake Lively has stepped out in the spotlight only a handful of times since she began her legal drama with her It Ends With Us director and costar, Justin Baldoni. In December 2024, Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, accusing him of sexual harassment, creating a \u201chostile work environment, causing her \u201csevere emotional distress\u201d while [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">She continued: \u201cBut I also acknowledge that many people don\u2019t have the opportunity to speak, so I do feel fortunate that I have been able to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The actress, who shares four children (James, 10, Inez, 8, Betty 5, and Olin, 2.) with her husband<strong> Ryan Reynolds,<\/strong> said that she wanted to be positive around their kids despite the drama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cNo matter what day I am having, I have to be Disneyland for them. It\u2019s the best, it\u2019s chaos,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The actress appeared on the talk show to promote her upcoming movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/another-simple-favor-release-date-cast-plot-and-how-to-watch\/\"><em>Another Simple Favor<\/em><\/a>, which premiered via Prime Video on Thursday, May 1.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3969983\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:150%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-expand=\"600\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-3969983\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1000 1500'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/blake-lively-says-she-had-a-pretty-intense-year-2212967409.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Blake Lively Says She Had A Pretty intense Year\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/blake-lively-says-she-had-a-pretty-intense-year-2212967409.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/blake-lively-says-she-had-a-pretty-intense-year-2212967409.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/blake-lively-says-she-had-a-pretty-intense-year-2212967409.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=47&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/blake-lively-says-she-had-a-pretty-intense-year-2212967409.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/blake-lively-says-she-had-a-pretty-intense-year-2212967409.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/blake-lively-says-she-had-a-pretty-intense-year-2212967409.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/blake-lively-says-she-had-a-pretty-intense-year-2212967409.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/blake-lively-says-she-had-a-pretty-intense-year-2212967409.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/blake-lively-says-she-had-a-pretty-intense-year-2212967409.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/blake-lively-says-she-had-a-pretty-intense-year-2212967409.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/blake-lively-says-she-had-a-pretty-intense-year-2212967409.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Blake Lively.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">(Photo by Aeon\/GC Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lively has been on the film\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/a-simple-favor-director-denies-blake-lively-anna-kendrick-feud\/\">press tour alongside costar<\/a> <strong>Anna Kendrick<\/strong> and husband <strong>Ryan Reynolds<\/strong>. While attending a series of events \u2014 most recently, the film\u2019s premiere and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/how-ryan-reynolds-backed-blake-lively-at-time-100-gala\/\">TIME 100 Gala<\/a> in New York City \u2014 Lively has stayed tight-lipped about her ongoing legal situation with <strong>Justin Baldoni<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Lively filed a lawsuit against her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/it-ends-with-us\/\"><em>It Ends With Us<\/em><\/a> costar and the film\u2019s director Baldoni, 41, in December 2024 \u2014 accusing him of sexual harassment on the movie\u2019s set and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/justin-baldoni-and-blake-livelys-legal-battle-heats-up-again\/\">orchestrating a smear campaign<\/a> amid the press tour. Baldoni has continued to vehemently deny the accusations, subsequently filing a lawsuit of his own against Lively, Reynolds, 48, and her publicist, <strong>Leslie Sloane<\/strong> claiming defamation and extortion. (Lively and Reynolds have denied Baldoni\u2019s allegations and Sloane has asked for her name to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/blake-livelys-publicist-asks-for-removal-from-justin-baldoni-lawsuit\/\">removed from the suit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Despite not making any direct comment on the legal drama during recent events, Lively did appear to allude to the situation while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/blake-lively-alludes-to-justin-baldoni-legal-drama-at-time-100-gala-i-have-so-much-to-say\/\">speaking at the TIME 100 Gala<\/a> on April 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have so much to say about the last two years of my life, but tonight is not the forum,\u201d she said while celebrating her honor as one of the magazine\u2019s most influential people. \u201cWhat I will speak to, separately, is the feeling of being a woman who has a voice today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lively introduced her mother, <strong>Willie Elaine McAlpin<\/strong>, to the crowd as a survivor of \u201cthe worst crime someone can commit against a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMy mom never got justice from her work acquaintance who attempted to take her life when she was the mother of three young kids years before I was born,\u201d the actress continued, recalling her mom hearing that a \u201csimilar circumstance\u201d happened to another woman while listening to the radio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of hearing that woman speak about her experience, instead of shutting down in fear and unfair shame, my mom is alive today,\u201d Lively continued. \u201cShe was saved by a woman whose name she\u2019ll never know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cWe don\u2019t let our daughters know, but one day we break their hearts by letting them in on the secret that we kept from them as they pranced around in princess dresses, that they are not and will likely never be safe at work, at home, in a parking lot, in a medical office, online \u2014 in any space they inhabit physically, emotionally, professionally.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/blake-lively-says-fear-keeps-us-silent-and-discusses-struggles\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Lively spoke about experiencing a \u201cpretty intense year\u201d amid her ongoing legal drama with It Ends With Us costar and director Justin Baldoni. \u201cI have had a pretty intense year,\u201d Lively, 37, said during a Thursday, May 1 appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers. \u201cThis year has been full of the highest highs [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/blake-lively-says-fear-keeps-us-silent-and-discusses-struggles\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"reaction":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"reaction","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reaction?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}