Amid the rumors of behind-the-scenes drama on her new movie “It Ends With Us,” Blake Lively faced backlash this week after a clip of her acting hostile toward a journalist during a 2016 interview went viral.
Now the reporter from the resurfaced interview, Kjersti Flaa, has said one remark Lively made at the start of the conversation was like “a bullet” and left her feeling “almost paralyzed.”
Flaa reshared the interview with Lively and fellow actor Parker Posey on YouTube on August 10 and titled it: “The Blake Lively interview that made me want to quit my job.”
The Norwegian journalist began the chat by congratulating Lively on her “little bump” and gestured at the star’s visibly pregnant belly.
At the time, the “Gossip Girl” star had been seen in public with her bump, and it had been reported that she was expecting her second child with her husband Ryan Reynolds.
Despite this, Lively sarcastically fired back to the reporter, who was not visibly pregnant, “Congrats on your little bump.”
Speaking to the Mail Online about the interview, Flaa said: “[Her comment] left me almost paralyzed. 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.”
“I felt very uncomfortable throughout the interview, and all I wanted to do was leave and get out of there as fast as I could,” she added.
Flaa also said she felt “belittled and ignored” during the talk, which focused on the film “Café Society.”
She began by asking the stars whether they enjoyed the fashion of the Woody Allen movie, given that it’s set in the 1930s.
While Posey began answering the question, Lively interrupted, saying: “Everyone wants to talk about the clothes, but I wonder if they would ask the men about the clothes.”
Despite Flaa insisting that she “would” have asked the male actors, Lively ignored Flaa and began discussing the best outfits worn by the men in the film while facing Posey.
“It made me feel like a complete failure. I kept going through the interview in my head afterwards, trying to figure out what I had said or done to make them behave like that. It made no sense to me,” Flaa told the Mail Online.
“It was such a traumatizing experience to me,” Flaa said. “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 there so they could promote a movie,” she continued. “I was invited to meet them. It certainly did not feel like that.”
“It made me question if I ever wanted to do these types of interviews again,” she added.
In a separate video interview with TMZ, Flaa said she would welcome an apology from Lively eight years on from the disaster interview.
“If she wants to apologize, that would be amazing. I think if you behave badly, if you own up to that and own it and say ‘You know, I had a terrible day, I’m so sorry’ and maybe she will learn something from that and not behave like that again,” she said.
“But I don’t think it will happen though,” she added.
Lively is currently at the center of a media storm following the “It Ends With Us” promotional tour drama, with multiple reports of a feud between her and her costar, Justin Baldoni.
Amid speculation over what happened, Baldoni has hired crisis PR manager Melissa Nathan to represent him.
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