Jewish TikTok Creator Says Blake Lively's Legal Drama Triggered Online Abuse

A Jewish TikTok creator says she’s been bombarded with anti-Semitic hate and accused of participating in a smear campaign against Blake Lively.

She claims this started after Blake Lively’s legal team cited her social media post in the actress’s high-profile lawsuit against "It Ends With Us" co-star Justin Baldoni.

Nikki Lieberman, 26, who posts under the username “ThickJewishGirl,” spoke to Daily Mail detailing the unexpected backlash she's endured since her name appeared in court filings for Lively’s defamation and sexual harassment complaint.

Lieberman originally posted a TikTok video last August criticizing Blake Lively for remaining silent on domestic violence while promoting the Colleen Hoover adaptation, a film that tackles abuse through the lens of its lead character Lily Bloom’s relationship.

“I am flabbergasted that, with the huge audience that Blake Lively has and all of the press interviews that she's had, she doesn't once talk about domestic violence,” Lieberman said in the now-viral clip.

Months later, her video was referenced in Lively’s legal complaint as alleged evidence of a targeted effort, by Baldoni and his team at Wayfarer Studios, to harm her reputation. Lieberman said she only learned about the inclusion after journalists began contacting her.

She was stunned to discover that Blake Lively’s legal team alleged Baldoni had circulated her video within the production company, insinuating she was either a willing participant or a useful pawn in an orchestrated smear.

“I don’t know what she went through and I don’t know what he went through,” Lieberman said. “But I’m just a random girl with an opinion.”

As the lawsuit made headlines, the vitriol came fast. Lieberman says she was falsely accused of being paid to trash Blake Lively, attacked with misogynistic and anti-Semitic slurs, and even blamed for undermining women who speak out.

“You're the reason people don't believe women,” one user wrote.

Others went further, calling for “another Holocaust” and questioning her motives by referencing Baldoni’s Jewish heritage. “He’s Jewish and your Jewish… doesn’t take a rocket scientist,” one commenter claimed.

Lieberman deleted many of the most hateful remarks, but not before documenting them.

The fallout spilled into her professional life.

After being laid off from a tech job in October (for unrelated reasons), Lieberman says she was rejected by two potential employers who Googled her, and didn’t like what they saw.

“They told me, ‘We don’t need the drama. It’s not a great look,’” she said.

The TikTok video at the heart of the storm followed Lieberman’s attendance at an "It Ends With Us" screening in Highland Park, Illinois, where Baldoni appeared and discussed the film’s heavy subject matter with care and intention. Lieberman praised his words and performance.

“The way he talked about the movie and domestic violence was just beautiful to me,” she recalled.

While her post applauded Baldoni for raising awareness, Lieberman criticized Blake Lively for what she saw as a missed opportunity to speak out on domestic abuse. She said she hadn’t planned for the video to become a flashpoint in a legal war, especially not one that painted her as a willing participant.

Lieberman says she never had any ties to the production or Baldoni, aside from being moved by what she saw at the premiere. Her TikTok channel, where she’s shared deeply personal stories about body image and self-doubt, had never waded into Hollywood controversy, until now.

The unwanted attention, she says, has ironically grown her platform.

“It’s given me the opportunity to use my platform in a way that Blake could have, but never did, to create a community of women who are empowering each other, and to turn a negative experience into something that's actually positive.”

She’s since found new employment and remains resolute in standing her ground.

“I think they thought I was just a small figure in Chicago who wouldn't stand up for herself when falsely accused,” she said. “But here I am: Don’t mess with ThickJewishGirl.”