Is Megyn Kelly Right About 'Serial Fraudster' Blake Lively?

Actress Blake Lively has been facing some serious skepticism after she accused her "It Ends With Us" costar and director Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment.

After revealing her "secret plan" to take over any movie she's cast in and the revelation that she may not have told the truth about a lift scene being used in the film, many are questioning her motives for filing the lawsuit, which has caused Baldoni to file a countersuit of his own.

The conservative commentator did not pull any punches on an episode of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Show, where she made it pretty clear that she was backing Justin Baldoni in the ongoing legal drama.

She didn’t hesitate to call Lively a “serial fraudster” and a “rather sh-tty person” while noting that the “Gossip Girl” alum “absolutely ruined her own brand” by starting “a fight she cannot win.”

"I have yet to see one of her complaints borne out. In fact, all of the ones I've seen have been undermined by [Baldoni's] hardcore proof in text messaging and so on that puts a totally different light on her horrific allegations,” Kelly continued. “Then you see what she actually said and wrote. It's very different.”

While she was attending the Forbes Power Women’s Summit in 2022, Lively claimed that she had a “secret plan” to take over any movie that she’s cast in, which has often caused friction with some of her directors and costars.

“When I was in the meetings, I was like, I’m just here to be the actor and I’m here to get the gig. I wouldn’t reveal that I needed to have authorship to feel fulfilled,” Lively explained. “And I feel for them, it felt like a rug pull, and you’re trying to insert yourself into something we didn’t hire you to do.”

She went on to say,  “Sometimes I had the director, writers, producers who would welcome that once I was able to offer that, and sometimes I had people who resented that, because they just hired me to be the actor.”

Kelly didn’t hesitate to call out Lively for her controversial comments. "She's a serial fraudster," Kelly said on her podcast. "That's called fraud. When you pretend you want to do the one thing and you'll do the thing they're hiring you for, but all along you have secret plans to do something very, very different that's above your pay grade."

"She finally bumped into someone who was weak enough and not famous enough to stop her. This Justin Baldoni, most people had never even heard of him — he'd been in, like, one series. He certainly wasn't at Ryan Reynolds–level fame, never mind Blake Lively, and she bullied him into giving her the movie where she did her own cut,” she added.

In his lawsuit, Baldoni claims that two different versions of “It Ends With Us” were created. Although his edit allegedly scored higher with test audiences, Lively’s edit was the one used in theaters. Baldoni claims that Lively had used various threats in order to get her version used, such as threatening to pull a Taylor Swift song from the trailer and threatening to boycott the film’s press tour.

Kelly also criticized Lively for the “nerve” that she had to try to blame her “two minutes of bad publicity” on Baldoni, saying, “None of it was just due to the fact that she seems like a rather sh-tty person.”

Lively was heavily criticized for promoting her own hair products, non-alcoholic beverages, and other brands while she was supposed to be advertising the film. She also made glib comments like “Grab your girls, wear your florals” to the theater, which many took issue with, as it undermined the film’s serious message of domestic violence.

In response to the backlash, Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, allegedly drafted a “statement of contrition” that they wanted Baldoni and his production company, Wayfarer Studios, to release, essentially taking full accountability for Lively’s comments. Clearly, they refused.

During the podcast, Kelly said, “She does appear like an Amber Heard to me,” referencing Heard’s highly publicized 2022 trial. In 2018, Heard wrote an op-ed describing her experiences as a domestic violence survivor. Although she didn’t mention her ex-husband, actor Johnny Depp, directly, he sued her for defamation and was awarded $15 million in compensatory and punitive damages.

Baldoni is currently suing for $400 million, alleging that Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and their respective teams, attempted to destroy his reputation by spreading “grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored information to the media.” He’s also suing The New York Times for libel, claiming they “cherry-picked” and stripped “necessary context” from text messages that they published in order to make a stronger case for Lively.

Now that Baldoni has created a website to show the allegedly unedited versions of the text messages, the public has a chance to decide for themselves who is telling the truth. As much as I don’t usually agree with a lot of what Megyn Kelly has to say, she is right here. The text messages Baldoni has posted have poked holes in almost all of Lively’s harassment claims, and her own admission of a “secret plan” to take over movies she’s cast in has only made people more skeptical of her intentions when she decided to file this lawsuit.

With the trial not scheduled until March 2026, there is still time for Lively to reach a settlement before we all start questioning why she said her kids are "playing with explosive devices."