Holly Wainwright

Claire, does the fact that Blake Lively stepped onto the Met Gala carpet the minute that happened signal that she sees this as victory or that she'd like to pretend the whole thing didn't happen?

And how the hell does she move forward from here?

I look beautiful.

manufacturing an orchestrated campaign yes because that is the thing that i will take away from this mess the most is that seeing the messages between baldoni's press people and him about ways that you can use and manipulate social media to um dent somebody's reputation is not just like when you see suddenly start seeing everywhere lots of tiktoks around of like

Look at this interview with this person.

Doesn't she come across a bit like this?

But there can be a lot more behind it.

And this is also things that were pointed out about Amber Heard during the Amber Heard, Johnny Depp case, that there can be a really orchestrated dark arts going on there.

And certainly the examples that were pinging back and forward between Justin Baldoni and his reps suggested they knew that.

So here's my challenge to your strategy.

Be public, give them things to talk about.

Because she can't get away from this narrative now for some time.

It's been years of it.

Every time she opens her mouth, there's a lot of people invested in, you're a terrible person, as you say.

So they're just going to find ways to say that over and over again in the way that the internet is now very invested

in hating Blake Lively, just in the way that the internet's very invested in hating Meghan Markle.

It doesn't matter what she does, what she says, where she goes.

You can't win that game.

This is why I think her best strategy is to go away.

For a few years.