The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Inside Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and Taylor Swift's SCANDALOUS Texts, and Hoda Kotb Gets MOCKED by NBC Staff
28 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello and welcome to The Nerve at Night. I am your host, Maureen Callahan, and we are getting into it. We are getting way, way, way into the Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds scandal. There was a big, big document dump last week, and you know that I love nothing more than legal documents because they are often... juicy reading.
We've got emails, we've got texts among Blake and Ryan, two major A-list stars that they have dragged into this mess, including, but probably not limited to, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and his wife Lucy, Jennifer Lopez, Bradley Cooper, and of course, Taylor Swift, whose reputation has taken one extremely big ding.
this is also amazing because you're really going to see what goes on behind the scenes and the way these people talk to each other and it's it's it's enough to make you vaguely nauseated okay then we are going to read some of your incredible as always feedback we've got some art we've got some gifts to show and after that we're all going to go for a ride we're all going to go for a communal ride with a recidivist
who refuses to take, I mean, this isn't even a hint anymore. This is an anvil. This is an anvil that her former colleague is literally holding over her head. And she's like, dare me to drop it. Dare me to drop it. I'm gonna concuss you or take you out if you don't leave me the F alone. Okay, troublemakers, are you ready? Are you ready? Let's go.
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Chapter 2: What scandal involving Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and Taylor Swift is discussed?
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And thanks to Miracle-Made for sponsoring this episode. troublemakers this is a gourmet meal this is real real behind the scenes hollywood scandal that i have been dying dying to talk to you about okay huge dump last week i mean this is like um if you're in in entertainment media this would be the equivalent of like
not that Timothy Shyamalama Ding Dong would get this reference because he only gets references that have to do with how long he's been alive. But like when the Pentagon papers were released, when like Watergate blew up, when, you know, the Epstein files are released or the JFK files, like,
And what newsrooms do is like they divide all of that stuff up and they start reading through it deeply because you really got to get you got to find the meat. That is what happened last week with this Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds drop. OK, it went wild and we're still sorting through it. But I can assure you. it's only going to have one outcome. And I'll tell you why as we go through it.
Okay, now this is amazing because we really are getting a real, real good look at how these people talk to each other, how they star F each other, how they ask for help or beg for help as the case may be. Psycho arsonist Ryan Reynolds is all over this shit and you're going to die when you read or I read to you his emails. Okay, now, First, we're going to begin.
Some of these I have to read off of my laptop because the way they're reproduced online, like you can't really print them out. So I've got analog and I've got digital. Okay.
First, I'm going to read an extract of Ryan Reynolds begging Matt Damon and his wife, Lucy, for help with resting control of It Ends With Us from the writer-director star, Justin Baldoni, who presumably, when Blake Lively signed on to this film, she knew that that was the deal, right? This guy's in charge. Well, Blake Lively somehow rested control a version of it where she could do a cut.
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Chapter 3: How did Ryan Reynolds attempt to influence the film 'It Ends With Us'?
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so Blake is recapping every moment to psycho arsonist Ryan I kept remembering stuff Blake writes you making shit up about me and lenses okay so Blake is admitting that Taylor was lying to Justin that Blake was fluent in what lenses a director would use to shoot any given scene okay that is dastardly to me that is nefarious this would be
You know, like if I were writing a book and I hired someone to help me do research and they stole my manuscript and went to my publisher and said, this is my book now. I know how to write this book better than Maureen does. She may have signed the deal with you and you may have paid her, but you know what? It's my shit now. This is my book now. This is like horrific. This is horrific.
Blake continues to tailor and referring to yourself as my doll. I think there's some psychosexual stuff going on with Blake and Taylor. I always have. If you look at those photos of them, there's one where they're like in a nightclub and they're like Taylor's posed up against Blake and Blake's got like her hand on Taylor's thigh and their makeup is the same.
They're always like dry humping at like any given Travis like football game, always holding hands with each other on the way to dinner. What grown woman holds hands with her best friend? I mean, Oprah and Gayle may have some, they may be able to elucidate this for us, but it's all very strange. And I do think, just my opinion, there is a psychosexual dynamic at work here.
Blake continues to tailor about Justin Baldoni, this clown falling for all of it. but also resisting it. You are the world's greatest friend ever. Taylor then begins slow ghosting Blake. And, you know, we can get into that later because it's a lot. It's a lot. But Taylor Swift is more of a corporation than a human being at this point. I'm sorry she is. And Blake Lively became a huge liability.
And so Blake had to go. Blake had to go. And as we discussed with Rob, shooter on Tuesday's nerve, yesterday's nerve. Taylor then changed her phone number. She changed her cell number. So there's no way Blake can get back in touch with Taylor, I wonder if she like changed her email address too. I don't know. I wonder, but we're going to scoot ahead to my favorite artifact.
And again, when the nerve, uh, eventually is given its wing in the Smithsonian, um, we are going to have a framed copy of this email, which is multilayered and it's so good. It's from Blake Lively to Ben Affleck. Now,
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Chapter 4: What controversial texts were revealed in the Blake Lively lawsuit?
That's it. Sean Penn's doing it. Benicio Del Toro's doing it. You know? Okay. This I have to shout out to troublemaker Nathalie. who sent, she's in Paris and she sent me, um, in, she sent me a couple of things, this beautiful, uh, card from the Louvre. And, um, it opens up, it's three dimensional, but inside, inside the, the, um,
you know, the pyramid on top, the I am pay pyramid are wood chips, chips of wood, which is just genius. And then sent me a beautiful, beautiful Christmas card and says to the glorious team at the nerve, wishing us a banger of a 2026 long live the troublemakers of the world. Nathalie, we love you. And she also emailed me a link to a really cute Parisian
designer line and she said i i think this one piece in particular you would love to buy and i bought it nathalie and i'm gonna wear it very soon on a forthcoming nerve okay uh this comes from troublemaker glenda who actually wrapped this beautifully it was so lovely It's a belated Christmas gift. Happy New Year wish. Watching the nerves since day one.
She likes the don't give a fuck matches in a bottle. Those we have two of them. They're fuck around and find out and remaining fucks. And we need to get back to that. You know, we were racing towards the end of 2026, but we need to get back to troublemaker of the month. an hour, fuck around and find out matchbooks.
Um, I thought you may like, and you and the nerve team could use these ones as well. She included the Amazon link. This is a jar from Glenda troublemaker, Glenda from, uh,
georgia in the usa um a jar full of left to give um it's called it's a it's a it's a friend gift it's a funny gift cut out letter piece bad mood vent i haven't even opened it yet i don't know if they they do come out they come right out that's great we can just sprinkle them around like no left to give blake lively your psycho husband All right. Keep the feedback coming.
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