Is Megyn Kelly Proper About ‘Serial Fraudster’ Blake Vigorous?

The conservative commentator didn’t pull any punches on an episode of SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Present, the place she made it fairly clear that she was backing Justin Baldoni within the ongoing authorized drama.

She didn’t hesitate to name Vigorous a “serial fraudster” and a “fairly sh-tty individual” whereas noting that the “Gossip Lady” alum “completely ruined her personal model” by beginning “a struggle she can not win.”

“I’ve but to see one in all her complaints borne out. In truth, the entire ones I’ve seen have been undermined by [Baldoni’s] hardcore proof in textual content messaging and so forth that places a very totally different gentle on her horrific allegations,” Kelly continued. “You then see what she truly mentioned and wrote. It’s extremely totally different.”

“After I was within the conferences, I used to be like, I’m simply right here to be the actor and I’m right here to get the gig. I wouldn’t reveal that I wanted to have authorship to really feel fulfilled,” Vigorous defined. “And I really feel for them, it felt like a rug pull, and also you’re making an attempt to insert your self into one thing we didn’t rent you to do.”

She went on to say,  “Typically I had the director, writers, producers who would welcome that when I used to be in a position to supply that, and generally I had individuals who resented that, as a result of they only employed me to be the actor.”

Kelly didn’t hesitate to name out Vigorous for her controversial feedback. “She’s a serial fraudster,” Kelly mentioned on her podcast. “That is known as fraud. If you fake you need to do the one factor and you may do the factor they’re hiring you for, however all alongside you’ve gotten secret plans to do one thing very, very totally different that is above your pay grade.”

“She lastly ran into somebody who was weak sufficient and never well-known sufficient to cease her. This Justin Baldoni, most individuals had by no means even heard of him — he’d been in, like, one sequence. He definitely wasn’t at Ryan Reynolds–degree fame, by no means thoughts Blake Vigorous, and he or she bullied him into giving her the film the place she did her personal reduce,” she added.

In his lawsuit, Baldoni claims that two totally different variations of “It Ends With Us” had been created. Though his edit allegedly scored increased with check audiences, Vigorous’s edit was the one utilized in theaters. Baldoni claims that Vigorous had used numerous threats as a way to get her model used, akin to threatening to drag a Taylor Swift track from the trailer and threatening to boycott the movie’s press tour.

Kelly additionally criticized Vigorous for the “nerve” that she needed to attempt to blame her “two minutes of dangerous publicity” on Baldoni, saying, “None of it was simply resulting from the truth that she looks as if a fairly sh-tty individual.”

Vigorous was closely criticized for selling her personal hair merchandise, non-alcoholic drinks, and different manufacturers whereas she was purported to be promoting the movie. She additionally made glib feedback like “Seize your ladies, put on your florals” to the theater, which many took subject with, because it undermined the movie’s critical message of home violence.

In response to the backlash, Vigorous and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, allegedly drafted a “assertion of contrition” that they wished Baldoni and his manufacturing firm, Wayfarer Studios, to launch, basically taking full accountability for Vigorous’s feedback. Clearly, they refused.

In the course of the podcast, Kelly mentioned, “She does appear as if an Amber Heard to me,” referencing Heard’s extremely publicized 2022 trial. In 2018, Heard wrote an op-ed describing her experiences as a home violence survivor. Though she didn’t point out her ex-husband, actor Johnny Depp, instantly, he sued her for defamation and was awarded $15 million in compensatory and punitive damages.

Baldoni is at present suing for $400 million, alleging that Blake Vigorous, Ryan Reynolds, and their respective groups, tried to destroy his status by spreading “grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored data to the media.” He’s additionally suing The New York Occasions for libel, claiming they “cherry-picked” and stripped “essential context” from textual content messages that they revealed as a way to make a stronger case for Vigorous.

Now that Baldoni has created an internet site to indicate the allegedly unedited variations of the textual content messages, the general public has an opportunity to determine for themselves who’s telling the reality. As a lot as I don’t often agree with a number of what Megyn Kelly has to say, she is correct right here. The textual content messages Baldoni has posted have poked holes in nearly all of Vigorous’s harassment claims, and her personal admission of a “secret plan” to take over motion pictures she’s forged in has solely made folks extra skeptical of her intentions when she determined to file this lawsuit.