Brett Cooper

And now the texts have come out.

the ones everyone has been waiting for, between Blake Lively and her best friend, Taylor Swift.

And we're gonna get to that, don't worry.

But those texts are only one piece of this huge puzzle, because if you just read that New York Times article, if you just read that initial complaint from Blake Lively, you could very well be convinced that all of this drama, this fighting, was about one thing.

that it was just about sexual harassment retaliation, a man who was using his status as this feminist ally to make a woman uncomfortable, cover up his tracks, and then retaliate against her in the press.

But thanks to the last year and a half and Valdoni's countersuits, the whistleblowers, and now text messages and deposition transcripts that just came out, we know.

that this is actually a much bigger story.

And it's actually something that I called out almost exactly a year ago.

This isn't really about sexual harassment in my mind.

Blake Lively, in my opinion, wanted to take over the production from Justin Baldoni.

She was allegedly willing to go as far as painting him as an abuser in the press.

Now, I didn't know when that started, when she decided that she wanted to take it over, but something had sparked it and she desperately wanted this film.

And we knew this was a pattern in her family, that this had happened before on sets with her husband, Ryan Reynolds.

And if you want all of that information, I will link that episode below where we talked about it again.

This was almost exactly a year ago.

But Blake was angry that test audiences liked Justin's version or cut of the film more.

She was maybe angry that he had the rights to the entire series to make all the movies when she wanted them.

I don't, something happened at some point in this entire production.

She decided that she wanted to push him out.

People on social media then turned her into the villain because they saw right through this.