Kjersti Flaa Clueless About 'It Ends With Us' Beef, Viral Blake Lively Interview Coincidence | TMZ Live - video Dailymotion

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Reporter Kjersti Flaa says Blake Lively's "It Ends With Us" drama wasn't on her radar, or at least it wasn't when she uploaded their cringe interview -- instead, she insists it's pure coincidence.

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00:00Well, the viral interview of Blake Lively from 2016 that was conducted by this reporter

00:07you see here, Kirstie Flaa.

00:09She was interviewing Blake and Parker Posey for Cafe Society, to promote Cafe Society,

00:16when Blake just completely turned on her.

00:21She had made a comment at the beginning of the interview, very innocuously said, congratulations

00:28on your little baby bump.

00:30By the way, and Blake had already said she was pregnant.

00:32She had announced just a couple days before that she was pregnant, and was apparently,

00:35according to Kirstie, about eight months along.

00:38So this was not like, I'm trying to hide my pregnancy.

00:43But it did turn ugly, and everyone has now piled on and said that, look, this is another

00:47sign that maybe Blake Lively isn't who we thought she is.

00:53Whether or not that's, and I gotta say that I thought that the reason that Kirstie reposted

00:58that interview from 2016 was because of all the events with us drama between her and Justin

01:03Baldoni.

01:04Well, we spoke to Kirstie, and she says, no, this was just a really odd coincidence.

01:11I felt a little ashamed at first, because I didn't know what happened.

01:17I didn't know what I said that was so bad that made her and Parker behave like that.

01:24But then I thought, you know, I think it's important to let people know that these things

01:32goes on sometimes, and maybe it can help or prevent it from happening again.

01:38Someone said, oh, it's funny you're doing this now.

01:41Have you seen this other controversy?

01:42And to be honest with you, I hadn't.

01:45Considering how she was acting in front of me, I'm thinking, okay, maybe she wasn't the

01:49easiest person to work with.

01:51But I don't know.

01:52I can't really comment on it because I wasn't there.

01:55If she wants to apologize, that would be amazing.

01:57I think if you behave badly, if you own up to that and own it and say, you know, I had

02:03a terrible day.

02:04I'm so sorry.

02:05And maybe she will learn something from that and not behave like that again.

02:10Of course, that would be very welcoming.

02:12But I don't think it will happen, though.

02:14I don't think it'll happen either.

02:15Oh, good.

02:16I thought she was going to say she was waiting.

02:17No, no, she's not.

02:19She's not holding her breath.

02:20She doesn't think it's going to happen.

02:21And Blake or someone from her team has not reached out since the video went viral.

02:25But to just add a little more context.

02:27So she says that it was purely a coincidence.

02:30And actually, she was talking with a fellow journalist who's a friend of hers.

02:34And he was telling her about how she or how he had this very awkward encounter with a

02:38celebrity that he was interviewing.

02:40And she's like, you know, I actually had something similar happen to me back in 2016 and thought,

02:45you know what?

02:46Like, I never posted the interview.

02:47But, you know, I probably should post it because, you know, there are going to be other

02:51young journalists who might come across this.

02:53And at least it puts the word out there that, like, these things do happen and, you know,

02:58you can kind of get past it and move forward in your career.

03:01And you shouldn't be ashamed if, you know, one of these celebrities isn't being very

03:04nice to you in an interview.

03:05The only weird thing about it is that, you know, the movie was very high profile.

03:11And so when she posts...

03:12So what do you have left of it?

03:13No, no, no.

03:14Oh, it ends with us.

03:15It ends with us.

03:16Yeah.

03:17So, I mean, she is posting it right when this big movie is out.

03:21You could know the movie came out.

03:23Well, not only did she know the movie, actually, Harvey, I asked her about that.

03:27She had actually gone and seen it.

03:29I think she was actually invited to, like, one of the premieres.

03:31Went to a screening, yeah.

03:32So she actually saw a screening of it before it even happened.

03:35So she had seen the movie, was well aware, obviously, of who Blake was, wasn't super

03:40aware of who Justin was, but knew nothing about, you know, the feud and the drama that

03:44was going on between them.

03:45That kind of makes sense.

03:46Yes.

03:47So she didn't know about the feud between Justin and Blake, but she did know that Blake

03:52had a movie out and it triggered her memory to remember, oh yeah, back in 2016.

03:57That makes sense.

03:58That makes sense.

03:59I buy that.

04:00Hi, my name is Tiffany Hunt from New York City.

04:04In this particular instance, Chesty is a journalist.

04:07It's always important to be up to date with what's going on in the world, but we are all

04:12humans and things like this can occur.

04:15And unfortunately, sharing that clip can come off as intentional, considering the negative

04:20feedback that Blake is currently receiving.

04:22What do you think?

04:23What do you think, having watched this 2016 interview?

04:28Excuse me, as I have a dog.

04:32That we figured out.

04:36Looking at the interview, it clearly was a very tense interview.

04:41Me personally, when she opened up, acknowledging that she was pregnant, I thought it was just

04:47a nice, playful way to introduce the interview, but clearly, I think Blake might have been

04:51dealing with something maybe prior to, because we saw her talk throughout the interview.

04:56It was very clear that she felt kind of a way about how media has been portraying actors,

05:02actress people in Hollywood, and we saw that revealed in the interview.

05:06She definitely had a grudge about something.

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