Journalist Who Went Viral for Criticizing Blake Lively Denies Being Part of Justin Baldoni’s Alleged Smear Campaign: ‘I Would Never Do That’

variety.com:

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Norwegian journalist Kjersti Flaa has denied involvement in a smear campaign that was allegedly orchestrated by “It Ends With Us” director and actor Justin Baldoni against his co-star Blake Lively.

Over the summer, Flaa reposted an old interview to her YouTube channel with the title “The Blake Lively interview that made me want to quit my job.” The video, which went viral and has amassed nearly 6 million views since August, was filmed in 2016 while Lively was doing press for Woody Allen’s “Cafe Society.” Flaa said Lively’s “dismissive” behavior during their sit-down contributed to “the most uncomfortable interview situation I have ever experienced.” “I have nothing to do with Justin Baldoni and his smear campaign against Blake Lively that was reported on by The New York Times today,” Flaa captioned a video that was posted on Sunday to her Instagram page. “There are conspiracy theories out there accusing me of being paid by his PR team to help with their smear campaign.

None of this is true.” In the video, she added that she’d been “reading through the lawsuit and I see there’s been so much dirty work going on behind the scenes.

And I just wanted to say I have nothing to do with it. When I read the text messages that was going back and forth between Justin Baldoni’s PR team, I was as shocked and appalled like everyone else.