Candace Owens celebrates the dismissal of most of Blake Lively's claims against Justin Baldoni
Candace Owens podcast commentary on the resolution of the Justin Baldoni vs. Blake Lively lawsuit.
Summary
Candace Owens celebrates what she frames as a major victory for truth following the near-total dismissal of Blake Lively's lawsuit against Justin Baldoni. She argues the case was never simply a Hollywood dispute but a story about the abuse of power by those connected to the highest levels of celebrity culture, specifically citing Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds's proximity to Taylor Swift as a source of unchecked influence. Owens credits internet sleuths, TikTokers, and attorney Brian Freedman's public-facing legal strategy — including a website publishing the full response — with turning the tide of public opinion and ultimately the legal outcome. A key moment Owens highlights is Baldoni being placed in the basement of his own film premiere, forced to watch from below while others attended above, which she presents as the clearest illustration of the deliberate retaliation campaign against him. She also congratulates Melissa Nathan by name alongside Freedman and Baldoni for their roles in the outcome. She concludes that the settlement, reached two weeks before trial, represents a win for Baldoni and a humiliating loss for Lively.
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Celebrating the Outcome of the Justin Baldoni Case
Candace Owens: We have to celebrate today, as promised, that major win for truth. Many people, as I said at the top, wrongly assumed that this was just some Hollywood case regarding Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, but it was not. Justice was served for Justin Baldoni. This was about power. "I'm big, you're small. We're best friends with Taylor Swift. We are at that level where we can do whatever the hell we want."
We started following the case, and Brian Freedman, the lawyer, did the greatest thing you could possibly do when he filed his response. He created an entire website and allowed us to read it. And my jaw hit the floor — my jaw hit the floor — at how unbelievably evil what they were doing was.
Justin Baldoni acquired the rights to a movie and cast her because he thought she would be perfect. And I bet he has one solitary regret. She just gave him hell and decided she wanted to try to get the rights — and would have been successful were it not for us meddling kids. Shout out to Steph with the Deets, all of the TikTokers, all of us that just stayed on top of it and realized we were watching evil.
Her and Ryan Reynolds, her husband, had kind of climbed the ranks, and graduated to a class of "Taylor Swift is our best friend — we will do as we please." So it arrived as a moment where we kind of knew we were at the end.
On April 2nd, a judge dismissed 10 out of 13 of Blake Lively's allegations that she made against Justin. I just want to comment really quickly on the idea that she suffered retaliation. That was why we covered this — the retaliation — because she just thought, "We have it in the bag. We will bully this guy out of Hollywood."
Just to recap: the retaliation and bullying that Justin Baldoni suffered — were it not for us internet sleuths that picked this up — this is literally Justin Baldoni's premiere, and they put Justin Baldoni in the basement of his own premiere. He had to watch it from the basement. Look at him sitting there — they're sitting on Dani water. It's not even good water. It's Dani water. It's not even drinkable water.
And so this felt amazing to see that they have now settled the lawsuit. Of course, that's supposed to make everybody think they both won. This is not true. We all know Justin Baldoni won this lawsuit. He did. He won it in terms of PR. He would have won it literally. There was nothing left for her to win — just two weeks before the scheduled trial date, they ended the legal dispute.
She should have ended it much sooner, but she was completely delusional — high on power, high on Taylor Swift — and she lost both Taylor Swift and the respect of the public. And that is the perfect sentencing, by the way, for a narcissist who thinks that power and money is what wins the game. What this case proved was that truth wins.
So congratulations, Justin Baldoni. Congratulations, Melissa Nathan. Congratulations, Brian Freedman. Congratulations to the TikTokers that did this thing. There were so many TikTokers — I feel like we should have an awards ceremony where we just give ourselves awards for this one. We won. There's that. Mischievous and deceitful, chicanerous and deplorable.