Candace Owens denies being part of alleged Blake Lively smear campaign

Candace Owens denies having a link with the current dispute between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.

The conservative commentator downloaded a 43 -minute YouTube video on Tuesday addressing his assignment in the legal battle between the It ends with us COSTAIRES. TMZ indicated that Owens and other media personalities would have been assigned to appear because of their negative coverage of Lively, that the Gossip Girl The actress’s lawyers may believe it be part of a defamation campaign that Baldoni would have orchestrated in public opinion sour on her.

Owens said she had learned TMZ’s assignment and said she was a “deer in the headlights” when the catch contacted her to comment. She also said that she still had not officially received the assignment when recording the video.

Lively representatives did not immediately respond Weekly entertainmentComment request.

The media personality did not deny that it has given an animated negative coverage (noting that it believes Gossip Girl The actress “lies”), but said that “it does not mean anything”, and posted the camera her text messages which mention alive by name.

Owens showed only two messages – one she sent in 2019, complimenting the Ring of Lively and another from August 2024 when she told her producer that her show should cover the clumsy interview of the 2016 actress with Kjersti Flaa who resurfaced in the wake of It ends with us controversial. Owens said that they were the only two messages she had ever sent by their name before the actress filed her trial in December 2024, which means that she could not be part of the alleged Baldoni smear campaign.

“I am so offended, more than anything, that someone thinks that I would accept payment to say something in which I do not believe, or that I would accept payment to say things without saying my subscribers,” said Owens. “In fact, the argument that is generally advanced in the press is that I cannot be checked. This is the problem with me is that I don’t dance for money.”

Owens reiterated that she does not like Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, but said that she had come to this opinion by herself. “I really looked at this trial when everything was released in January, and I just thought that you were a bad person,” she told Lively. “Really, from the bottom of my heart, I think you and Ryan are bad people. There is no one involved, no one has ever been involved to send me to this conclusion.”

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The Lively trial against Baldoni alleges that the It ends with us The filmmaker harassed her sexually during the production of the film and then orchestrated a defamation campaign against her during the promotional campaign of the film. Baldoni denied complaints and filed a complaint against alleging animated defamation. This counter-combination was rejected by a judge in June, and the Baldoni team opted against the refreshment of the prosecution with modified complaints.