Journalist recollects ‘traumatising’ second Blake Vigorous left her uncomfortable with remark about her physique

The Blake Vigorous lawsuit might have settled out of court docket, It Ends With Us might have launched two years in the past now, however the public saga involving the controversy surrounding the movie continues to roll on.

Vigorous and her co-star and director Justin Baldoni received right into a public feud after the movie’s launch, with Vigorous accusing Baldoni of operating a smear marketing campaign towards her.

Vigorous alleged that detrimental tales have been planted on the web by Baldoni’s disaster PR staff – which she claimed included renewed curiosity in a really awkward 2016 interview the place she confronted a journalist.

Kjersti Flaa, 53, interviewed the Gossip Lady actress for the movie Café Society, and introduced on Vigorous’s wrath when she stated ‘congratulations in your little bump’ to an at-the-time pregnant Vigorous.

Vigorous responded passive aggressively saying the identical factor again to her, with the journalist not being pregnant on the time herself.

Issues received extra awkward from there when Flaa tried to alter the topic to asking in regards to the costumes on the movie, with Vigorous questioning if the boys on the movie can be being requested about their garments.

Blake Vigorous’s interview with Kjersti Flaa is a masterclass in self-sabotage. 🙄
Demeaning & impolite over a easy wardrobe query and a being pregnant congratulations that was public on the time.
Basic case of ego outgrowing the expertise.😎 pic.twitter.com/MsHQWp1jGS

— Hanz (@fashionistaera) January 26, 2026

Vigorous then started speaking to her co-star Parker Posey, who was additionally within the junket interview, and ignoring Flaa.

Flaa reshared this clip amid the controversy with Vigorous and Baldoni breaking out in late 2024, and has claimed the incident ‘traumatised her’.

Chatting with PageSix in a brand new interview, Flaa stated she was ‘in shock’ in the course of the interview, including: “As a journalist, you all the time need to take the excessive highway, you recognize?

“So once I was sitting there, I couldn’t react to what they have been doing to me in a way of like leaving or speaking again to them or doing something like that, as a result of I knew if I did, then I might by no means get alternatives like that once more.

“Not that I essentially wished to interview Blake once more, however, you recognize, she has a publicist, after which they discuss after which they blacklist you. That’s the way it works, proper?

“So I simply sat there after which I began getting increasingly more annoyed and indignant and upset and all these feelings as a result of I used to be like, I couldn’t consider they have been really doing it. I used to be simply in shock.”

Flaa added that it was a ‘actually traumatising expertise’. She had been one of many first names subpoenaed to talk on the potential civil trial by Vigorous, and would have needed to take the stand if it had gone forward.

Talking in a earlier interview with the Each day Mail, she stated: “For her, that is an orchestrated smear marketing campaign towards her and he or she believes individuals nonetheless love her.

“It is so delusional. She actually actually believes this … that is the tragic factor in all of this. In her wildest creativeness, she can’t fathom that individuals don’t love her.”

Beforehand, Flaa advised LADbible why she launched the footage of their interview.

Apparently, it simply occurred to return on the time it did, as she famous: “Every week in the past, I used to be contacted by one other reporter who had simply gotten his interview confiscated at a press junket.

“He requested me if it had ever occurred to me and we began evaluating notes. I remembered the horrible interview I had with Blake Vigorous that I by no means wished to share with anybody as a result of the expertise had traumatised me a lot.

“However after speaking to him, I made a decision to place it on my YouTube channel. I feel it’s about time that individuals behaving badly in Hollywood will get known as out for it. It’s not okay, even if you’re wealthy and well-known.”

LADbible reached out to the representatives of Blake Vigorous for remark.