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Blake Lively Settlement Revealed and Damaging Witness Testimony, with Kjersti Flaa - "In The Well" with Mark Geragos and Matt Murphy

June 20, 2026

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In August 2024, entertainment journalist Kjersti Flaa posted a 2016 interview with Blake Lively and Parker Posey to her YouTube channel. The video, in which the two actresses mock Flaa for asking about the costumes in a Woody Allen film, went viral. Months later, Flaa was subpoenaed by Lively’s legal team in the actress’s ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni. On this episode of In the Well, former prosecutor Matt Murphy and criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos walk through why that subpoena was a strategic disaster, what the interview reveals about Lively’s credibility, and how the case has been shaped by what they see as a pattern of overreach by Lively’s lawyers.

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  • 1 (00:04) **Show Open and Host Banter** - Matt Murphy and Mark Geragos catch up after Matt's vacation, sharing photos and stories from a cave diving trip in Palau.
  • 2 (06:29) **Guest Introduction: Kjersti Flaa** - Entertainment journalist Kjersti Flaa joins to discuss the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni legal saga.
  • 3 (07:45) **The Subpoena as a Strategic Blunder** - The hosts and Kjersti discuss how subpoenaing her was one of the dumbest moves in the case.
  • 4 (09:07) **Judge Bench-Slaps Lively's Lawyers** - The hosts discuss a recent court ruling where the judge limited Lively's team to 10 pages after they overreached.
  • 5 (10:10) **The Infamous 2016 Interview** - Kjersti recounts the now-famous interview with Blake Lively and Parker Posey where she was treated dismissively.
  • 6 (16:29) **What Kjersti Was Subpoenaed to Testify About** - Kjersti explains she could testify about the analytics of her viral video, showing the traffic was organic, not a paid smear campaign.
  • 7 (18:43) **Timeline of the Video's Release** - Kjersti clarifies the interview was filmed in 2016 but not published until August 2024, just before the movie's premiere.

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