The Megyn Kelly Show
The TRUTH About Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, Potential CBS Lawsuit, and Russini Scandal, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1313
08 May 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and happy Friday. We are learning that Blake Lively's settlement with Justin Baldoni was an even bigger disaster for the actress than we thought. We have the details.
Plus, a top CBS host is reportedly out at the network and is, we are told, getting ready to sue and fight the new Barry Weiss regime. Plus, Don Lemon says he might run for president. Could we be that lucky? Joining me now to react to this and so much more here in the Red Studio is Maureen Callahan. She's host of The Nerve, which you can find right here on the MK Media Podcast Network.
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Chapter 2: What was Blake Lively's Met Gala appearance about?
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brooklynbedding.com, promo code M-E-G-Y-N. So good to see you. It's so good to see you. There's been so much happening and I've been like, I'm dying to talk to Megan. I know. I feel like, let's start with the Met Gala because we both reacted to it, but we haven't talked to each other about it.
And we have to start with Blake Lively because she's pretending that she got a massive victory in this settlement with Justin Baldoni this week when it's exactly the opposite. She didn't get... One dollar. Now she's making noise about wanting to sue for her attorney's fees. So we'll see how that goes for her. But honestly, even if she were to get those, it would just restore what she spent.
It's not a victory. It's not a win. It's not damages. Right. That she's getting for being allegedly wronged, as she's been claiming for all this time. So the day of the settlement, she thought that she would appear at the Met Gala and it would be her triumphant, you know, spike the ball moment, Maureen.
And instead, she humiliated herself by snapping out this poor male valet who was fluffing the train of her dress and let the mask down yet again on what a nasty person she is. Plus, there's more. But before I get to the sound we're going to play, you tell me your thoughts on that. It feels very Markle-y, Markle-a-vellion would be my portmanteau for this.
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Chapter 3: How did Taylor Swift factor into Blake Lively's lawsuit?
Machiavellian, Meghan Markle-esque, right? Because it makes me think of that moment. Remember after the Queen died and Harry and Meghan did that very strained walkabout with William and Catherine? Yeah. Megan was receiving a bouquet of flowers from a regular British citizen and a male handler came around to take them and she turned and she snapped at that guy. She was like, you're doing it wrong.
It's like, that's it. It's like, oh, you're trying to help me at like $8 an hour. You're doing it wrong. I think that mask, it's very difficult to keep it affixed for a very long time. It's also extremely delusional to think that this is going to be a victory lap. Your husband's not there. He has begun leaking to the press, or at least it seems his camp has. It certainly does.
That he's been wanting her to settle. She just won't listen. Hey, he's just an innocent bystander here, which, you know, he's not. And then she gets to the top of the staircase and is interviewed by Lala Anthony for Vogue. And she says, you know, I just, I have this little handbag with me and my four children. Let's watch that. That's the latest sound. Watch.
This is a Judith Lieber bag, and we were trying to find a piece of famous, iconic art to put on and make it look like it was in a frame. And then I said, would you actually, if you're going to make it custom, would you do my kids' art? So my kids each painted a painting, a watercolor painting. So each of my four kids...
did this that is so special so i have them with me because i'm shy too so i just like to like got the kids have my kids with me they're like i probably could have fit them under my dress it's like my little comfort so yeah well i hope you have the best time thank you so much you too oh my god what a farce
The last refuge of the scoundrel, hiding behind your children. Not for nothing. I mean, again, this is so, this is so let the meat cake. Like a Judith Lieber bag retails for about 5K. Like that clutch is like 5K. So, and then, so she's so wealthy, she can deface it with her children's water. They're not just painting Megan with acrylics. We're doing watercolors.
We've got little Monet's running around. And it also reminds me, remember when Angie and Brad finally got married, which was like literally they were like on the way to splitting up. But it was like, let's see if marriage will help this. Yeah, sure. It always does. That and having a kid. Exactly. And then they released the photos to people.
And Angie's wedding dress had been defaced with the scrawls of her children. Do you remember that? We haven't had Debbie. Debbie's way ahead of us. She's got it. Let's see. She knew it. Okay, keep going. So you can see, it's like, those are the scrawlings of, like, the child army on her. Yeah, yeah. Oh, my gosh. I don't think I've ever seen that before. Oh, yes. Okay.
So, you know, it's been done before. Like, there's nothing original. And so Blake would also have us believe she's just very shy. That was crazy. In this tulle confection that has taken up the entire... Met Gala steps. I mean, I refer to it as like her territorially pissing all over the Met Gala. This is mine now. Only me. I am the victor.
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Chapter 4: What are the allegations against Ryan Reynolds regarding his past?
And it didn't end well for Blake Lively, even in that relationship either. No, that relationship is done. I have...
Read, I think, very reliable reporting that Blake thinks that she can salvage this relationship with Taylor and that she can potentially get an invite to that wedding, which is taking place in New York City, which is where Blake and Ryan have their four or five point seven million dollar Tribeca loft. Yeah. That plus a massive estate. It's either in Bedford or Northern Connecticut.
Yeah, exactly. I mean, they have so much money. And Taylor Swift, a self-made billionaire, and this is how they're talking to each other, how they're throwing their weight around, but also like the disgusting kind of like over-the-top effusiveness about how amazing each of them are to each other. It talks like that. They're so, I just feel like they're so arrested. Like it feels very junior high.
You know, it's very, it's just, it's like, it's uncomfortable to read. You point this out. I actually didn't know that. You report, you say reports are that Lively, who named Swift godmother to three of her four children with Reynolds, is not even on the guest list for Swift's summer wedding in New York. So she's not even going to make the guest list.
And she's named Taylor godmother to three of her four children. I'm sorry, but that's weird. I agree. That's star fucking. That's what that is. Uh-huh. Right? Like, I'm going to get the most famous woman I know, and I'm going to make her be tied to my family forever by giving her this honored role. I mean, most people go with family for those things.
I mean, you might go with somebody who you're really close with for God's sake. Sure. But three out of the four, because you have no other friends other than this friend with whom you obviously just have a surface level relationship because it ended over these texts in the Baldoni case. Right.
I mean, if you're really, really friends with somebody, you're there with them for the really difficult stuff and you take culpability for your bullshit. But Taylor can't do that because it's a ding to her image. Yeah. You know, I mean, I don't know how they got her out of being deposed. Do you remember that? I know how. How? Because she didn't want anything to do with this case. Right.
Quite clearly. And I think they basically struck a deal where they said, give us the texts. Oh, and we'll leave you alone. Oh, and this is, you know, allegedly reportedly Maureen. But yeah, they they didn't want to harass Taylor, but they did want to see those text messages and they got them.
And I think she was very unhappy with the way that Blake was writing about her and talking about her and actually threatening that she might be a part of this lawsuit. Like, I think she was irritated that her name was thrown around so loosely by her dear, dear friend and mother of her godchildren, Blake Lively.
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Chapter 5: What is the controversy surrounding the Dianna Russini scandal?
They don't even know him. They don't know him. He was like a fan who felt bad for her because he obviously just took her side probably because of the race issue and gave her a place to stay when they fled the horrors of...
buckingham palace and she made him the godfather to her child what the hell like they didn't even know him and to your point they didn't know him and now he's facing uh major lawsuits from men who are accusing him of sexual harassment and or worse that's So know who you are naming the godfather of your children.
It's the kind of thing you would know if you actually knew the person, as opposed to just he's rich and he's famous, and I want my very famous son to be connected to this famous man. Here he was right around the time, Tyler Perry, on being named the godfather. It's not 10. This is from, I think—
We'll call and we'll chat and we'll talk about silly things. And they were pretty serious on the phone. I go, okay, what's going on? They said, well, we'd like for you to be Lily's godfather. I go, well, I'd take a minute to take that in.
Right, because we know each other.
I'd be honored. I'd absolutely be honored. And I got off the phone, took it all in, and then I called them back. I go, hold on a second. Does this mean we got to go over there and do all of that in the church with them and figure all that out? Because I don't want to do that. Maybe we can do a little private ceremony here and let that be that. And if you have to do it there, then it's okay.
He knew. He knew what they were doing. It's overly familiar. It's an inappropriate boundary crossing. He's also, though, saying there, I think he's completely out of line saying, does this mean if you want me to be the godfather, do I have to go over there? to England, to the royals, to the palace, to the Church of England with them, which is very disrespectful.
It's a depersonalization of the royals. He's basically saying, I'm all in with Meghan's version of events, which is that they're horribly racist. And not only that, Meghan and Harry rubber-stamped him saying this in the Netflix doc. Oh, yeah. Well, they they themselves in their Netflix doc said the whole country that voted for Brexit was racist.
I mean, that is what they say in that piece, that their countrymen are racist if they wanted Brexit. They wanted that for England to leave the UK. So why wouldn't they put him on display? So Blake Lively now is back threatening. No sooner did she declare victory in this lawsuit, which is just such a blatant lie. Trust me. I mean, like.
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Chapter 6: How does Lauren Sanchez Bezos's appearance impact public perception?
Explain why you call him that. When Ryan Reynolds was a teenage boy, he burned down his elementary school in Canada to the ground. This was an arson fire. He set it in the middle of the night. The school was like over 100 years old. It went up like that. He has given varying, he's a psychopath, I believe. He's given varying accounts of this story.
In one, he just meant to set fire to like a wing of it. In another, Megan, there's another version of this story in which he just was, he set fire to a tree. I could, when I hear that, like, I could cry. Like, who would set fire to a tree? I know. To a living thing, you know? Oh, but it was just a tree and then it went up and then he- Who knew?
So we, if anybody out there doubts this, we at The Nerve have dug up the contemporaneous reporting. with a front page from the Canadian province of the school ablaze. It was leveled. All of the students had to go take classes for months and months and months at various community centers. He admits that he did this? Ten years later. He gives another interview.
He's not a huge star yet, but he's coming up and he's asked about this. And we have the reporting as well. We have shown the physical paper. He says, yeah, you know, I did that. I did do that. You know, I just I just I got away with it. I got away with it, and I just hope some poor schmuck isn't sitting in jail for what I did. Oh, my God. Mm-hmm. That is a psycho-arsonist. Mm-hmm.
To say nothing of, then, he and his director or co-director on Deadpool, I think the most recent Deadpool... his and Blake's daughter has a role in the movie and she's behind those masks. So it's unclear why he insisted it had to be the daughter.
And the line of dialogue was, it was basically like, hey, Deadpool, when I want your opinion, I'll smack that dick out of your mouth or I'll smack my dick out of your mouth. And he this is on the commentary for the DVD, the bonus content, Brian and this guy, Sean, I believe Sean Levy, if I'm correct.
They're laughing about it and they're laughing at how his then eight year old daughter kept saying, Daddy, I don't want to do this. I don't want to say this dialogue. I don't want to. And they're laughing and he's like, yeah, so we made her do it between like 50 and 500 times. Like he's a piece of shit, this guy. He's a piece of shit. Maureen, we've talked about this.
There is, it's very rare that there's a huge delta between the character of the husband and the character of the wife. It's very rare. I mean, that's why I really believe in that saying, show me who you love and I'll show you who you are. Exactly. Show me who your friends are and I'll show you who you are. So it's not surprising to me.
The odds of him being this great, terrific, kind-hearted, good man and her being this insane, malignant narcissist are extremely, extremely rare. They'd be divorced already. I agree completely. And if they do get divorced, trust me, it will be because Ryan is trying to salvage his career. Paramount has already dropped 30%.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of Sharyn Alfonsi's potential lawsuit against CBS?
Yeah, right, right. Maybe just spend more time with her. with her? Instead of doing every Hulu, Amazon, Netflix project that gets thrown across your desk? Literally with Nicole Kidman. She's an everything. Yes. Maybe spend more time with her. Not at the Met Gala. At home. Across the dinner table from one another. Actually talking about life. Maybe that. Try that.
Same for Amy Griffin, by the way, who was also there. The one who clearly, we've talked about her, clearly very clearly stole another woman's sexual assault memories and tried to pawn them off as her own recovered memories after using MDNA and got a bestselling book, The Tell, out of it, which we now believe were lies. And not only that, they made her one of the Time 100, which is such a joke.
For what? For what? Her recovered memories, which, as it turns out, per The New York Times, appear to have been stolen from a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. And now she shows up to at the Met Gala, of course, which is just, you know, her money could buy her entrance there in a year. But again, her husband's money, her husband's money. There's nothing.
Again, we have people at this Met Gala between Amy Griffin and Lena Dunham, two people who have leveraged false accusations, it seems, against men. In print. And then propped up by the mainstream media industrial complex. Amy Griffin has been propped up by Oprah Winfrey, by Gwyneth Paltrow, by Reese Witherspoon, by the Today Show. She's swanning around like she doesn't have a care in the world.
She's a psychopath. This guy that she's accused is an actual man living in a town where everybody knows who he is. He's a pseudonymous in the book. Mm-hmm. But everybody in town is Mr. Mason. She doesn't give a shit. She doesn't care that she took what should be considered most sacred. Another woman's recovery. Sorry, not recovered.
Another woman's sexual assault as a minor child by the hands of another teacher, by the way, it should be clear, not Mr. Mason. Correct. Stole that, appropriated it for herself, and then shrouded it all in recovered memories brought upon by a guided MDMA trip so that if she's ever accused of making this up, she has the convenient excuse, well, I was high out of my mind. Yeah. I didn't know.
I didn't realize. But honestly, if you read that New York Times article, which is very telling, it's just the old phrase. It talks about how she went. This is a woman, Amy Griffin, who's married to the richest man in New York and they have billions.
And she wrote this book, Good Tell, a couple of years ago, claiming it all came back to her, how she was raped repeatedly by a teacher, Mr. Mason in Amarillo, Texas, where she grew up. One of the richest girls in town, one of the most privileged with an intact family. Those are not the girls this happens to.
Sadly, they always pick on the weak girls from families that are broken up because they know that they don't really have a solid home life to go home and complain about it to. But in any event, she claimed it happened to her. And then the New York Times started doing a deep dive on her. After the nerve raised questions about whether any of this was true.
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Chapter 8: How does the podcast discuss the dynamics of celebrity relationships?
Or he'll talk to them in ways he just doesn't talk to male guests. Like he'll roll his eyes at a female guest, and he would never do that to a male. But I just love – I love that Bill – It's so funny. Like when he says something like it's just lurking behind, you know, Bill's podcast is just about Bill's perseverations on not getting laid in high school and college.
I think that's really the root of his misogyny. He's super, super proud of himself that his girlfriend is something like 40 years younger than he is. Is that Al Pacino's sloppy seconds? Is this the woman I don't know who she is, but he's pretty quick to tell you that he's dating somebody that much younger than he is. I mean, he loves that fact. So again, like how, how pro women.
So on his podcast, this most recent one we did, he was like, he was castigating the women of L.A., for thinking that they could approach a Bill Maher and expect to level up by dating him. And he literally says, you know what? You're not that special. All you have to offer is you're cute and you're a dime a dozen. And why don't you try cracking a book?
And it's like, where's this guy looking for women? Like on Pornhub? Yeah, there's a lot of very smart. Not Grindr. That's a whole other. That's how you look for women, right? That's that's no, that's for gay men. Yeah.
But, you know, but I'm just saying, he's not, it's not like he's looking, he's not a Ted Turner looking for, even if it's, you know, in some ways cosmetic, I'm sure their relationship was real on many levels. The fascinating thing about Ted and Jane, I was thinking about it this morning, they both have said that they were like the loves of each other's life. Yes.
I would bet they really did connect very deeply on their very broken childhoods. Yes. And- And she sounds like she was willing to mother him. Oh, yeah. She knew he needed it and she was willing to give it, but it was never enough. Like, no matter what she gave him, he was still going to philander. And, you know, she's a strong, proud woman. At some point, maybe you can't look past it.
You know, she clearly tried. But after 10 years, let's face it, after that... you're at the point where you're either making a deeper connection or you're splitting, you know? And it sounds like she looked around and said, this is too exhausting. He's just, he's not worth it. Or too humiliating or he got somebody pregnant.
Like something happened where like you just cannot come back from it, you know? Or he got caught maybe with somebody under, you just never know with these guys because it's never enough. Like the dopamine hits, they stop hitting. And I think that's why we see so much like truly scandalous behavior happening
where they're ramping up, they're constantly pushing boundaries and almost like daring the culture to catch them. I don't know. I know so many women over the course of my life who really think it's the be all end all to bag a billionaire, to land a man with a shit ton of money. And I know some men who have a ton of money
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