Megyn Kelly says that Blake Lively tried to drag her into her headline-grabbing legal tussle with Justin Baldoni.
Kelly unloaded on Lively during her show on Thursday, ripping the actress as a “pathetic, untalented, narcissistic bully” while touting a courtroom win in Lively’s ongoing legal clash with Baldoni.
The former Fox News star said her team successfully fought off subpoenas from Lively’s camp, which had sought Kelly’s private communications as part of Baldoni’s lawsuit.
“She backed down and has now missed the deadline to pursue her harassment of me and my team any further,” Kelly declared on her SiriusXM show on Thursday.
“We gave her absolutely nothing. Not one document, not one record, not one communication.”
Kelly framed the victory as a First Amendment issue, blasting Lively’s attorneys for even trying.
“No world would I ever, ever allow my team’s communications to be turned over to a third party,” she said.
Kelly claimed Lively cannot accept that public criticism of her has grown organically, and instead imagines a smear campaign orchestrated by Baldoni.
Kelly mocked the idea, saying she didn’t need anyone’s influence to conclude Lively is “a terrible person.”
She rattled off a list of grievances from people who had allegedly clashed with Lively over the years.
Barbara Suzman, an assistant director on “A Simple Favor,” supposedly said Lively was the reason she quit the film industry. A former “Gossip Girl” staffer claimed Lively mistreated co-star Leighton Meester while acting dismissive toward fans.
“She’s a narcissistic, liar, bully, brat,” Kelly said.
“Blake Lively acts like an unlikeable bully brat who cannot believe any of that negative press could be genuine.”
Kelly also said Lively accused Baldoni of parachuting a friend into the role of an obstetrician in “It Ends With Us” just so the friend could see her genitals during the medical filming.
Separately, Kelly accused Lively of trying to seize control of the production. She claimed Lively leaned on her “dragons” — Ryan Reynolds and Taylor Swift — to shield her from accountability.
Despite the star’s glossy image, Kelly insisted Hollywood insiders know the truth.
“This is yet another entitled, nasty Hollywood snob who thinks she is untouchable,” she said, vowing never to “back down to the likes of Blake Lively.”
Kelly ended the tirade with a jab: “If you’re not speaking out against her, you must be on her payroll.”
A spokesperson for Lively told The Post: “At no point in this litigation has Ms. Lively served a subpoena on Megyn Kelly.”
“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,” the rep for the actress told The Post.
“Seeking evidence through discovery is a normal part of the litigation process and is in addition to overwhelming amount of evidence already compiled in the form of Melissa Nathan’s own text messages, the recently exposed Katie Case email describing Jed Wallace’s services, as well as the invoices showing he was paid for those services, and Baldoni’s own requests on what he wants his team to do.”
Kelly accused Lively of playing word games, telling The Post: “Typical Blake Lively – once again obfuscating to try to avoid embarrassment for her own inappropriate behavior.”
“She subpoenaed the company that until recently employed me and my show staff, asking for documents, communications, contracts etc. about her, Justin Baldoni and their lawsuit, specifically naming me and my show in the subpoena,” Kelly said in a statement.
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