The entertainment reporter who nearly “quit” her line of work after a “nightmare” Blake Lively interview went viral for all the wrong reasons claims the actress has yet to apologize.
Kjersti Flaa — who, in 2016, complimented a then-openly pregnant Lively on her “little bump,” only for the star to sarcastically throw the comment right back — took to her YouTube channel Monday to elaborate on the experience.
Flaa, who has since revealed she is infertile, explained that it took her “a while to actually get over it.”
“It affected me for a while ’cause it made me nervous when I was interviewing other people after that. And I blamed myself for it for a long time ’cause I felt like I did or said something wrong,” the celebrity journalist, 51, shared.
Flaa said that’s the “reason” she “waited so long” to post a clip of the sit-down, which took place alongside Lively’s “Café Society” co-star Parker Posey.
Flaa insisted she “hadn’t read up on all the other controversy” surrounding Lively and her new movie, “It Ends With Us,” when she uploaded the “uncomfortable” and “horrific” interview, saying it was merely a “coincidence.”
Flaa felt Lively, 36, was putting out “mean-girl energy” during their chat, elaborating that it made her feel “left out or bullied.”
She went on to thank the thousands of people who have contacted her with messages of support since the sit-down made its rounds.
Lively, she claimed, is not among them.
“No one came out and apologized, and they probably told her, ‘Don’t come out [and say sorry], don’t react, don’t do anything. We’ll take care of this for you. We’ll just say that it’s the journalist’s fault and that you were offended by her and then we’ll just plant some other good, positive stories,’” Flaa hypothesized, adding, “I think that’s the problem.”
Flaa feels many Hollywood A-listers “don’t own up to their mistakes because they’re afraid that it’s going to backfire or that it’s gonna make them look bad,” noting, “It’s time to change that.”
“I think if Blake Lively would have come out in front of this,” she argued, “things would have been very different.”
Reps for Lively have not yet responded to Page Six’s repeated requests for comment.
