Megyn Kelly has lashed out at Blake Lively again amid the actress’ high-profile legal battle against her It Ends With Us director and costar, Justin Baldoni.
In a 14-minute tirade on Thursday’s episode of her SiriusXM program The Megyn Kelly Show, the outspoken conservative commentator called Lively “entitled, nasty, elitist” and “pathetic”; Kelly also claimed that she had been “targeted” by a subpoena from Lively’s attorneys but “fought her subpoena and won.”
“She actually tried to get the confidential and proprietary materials my team and I used for any and all stories about her,” Kelly said. “Because Blake Lively was unable to fathom that yours truly had developed a genuine revulsion toward her on my own.”
She added, “This is how narcissistic this woman is. She actually thinks I needed to get paid by Baldoni’s team to say negative things about her. News flash, Blake: I came to those conclusions totally organically. Don’t give away your power, sweetheart. It was you — it was all you who made me unable to stand you. No man had anything to do with it.”
Kelly concluded, “No one has to pay me one dime to say negative things about you. I do it because I believe them and because you really are terrible.”
Reached for comment by Entertainment Weekly, a spokesperson for Lively didn’t address Kelly’s more incendiary comments but denied her subpoena claims. “At no point in this litigation has Ms. Lively served a subpoena on Megyn Kelly,” the rep said in a statement.
Blake Lively at the ‘Another Simple Favor’ premiere in New York.
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The statement added, “Ms. Lively is continuing to pursue discovery in order to prove her case that Justin Baldoni, Jed Wallace, Melissa Nathan and the Wayfarer Parties’ retaliated against her for speaking up against the harassment she and others experienced on set, as alleged in her complaint.”
Lively’s team also said that “seeking evidence through discovery is a normal part of the litigation process.”
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Lively and Baldoni starred together in It Ends With Us, an adaptation of the best-selling Colleen Hoover novel, last year, and subsequently became embroiled in a legal dispute. Lively has accused Baldoni, who also directed the movie, of sexual harassment and launching a smear campaign. Baldoni has launched a countersuit, alleging defamation and extortion.
As for Kelly, this isn’t the first time in recent months that she’s has gone after Lively. In February on her show, Kelly called the actress a “serial fraudster” and a “rather s‑‑‑‑y person,” and declared that she had “ruined her brand” with the Baldoni feud.