Bethenny Frankel He knew there was something wrong with him And it ends with us Premiere, even if you don't know what it is at the time.
Five months later, Frankel, 54, has a better idea of what happened. Around the time of the film's New York City premiere, rumors began swirling of a rift between its stars. Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
Lively, 37, has filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, 40, alleging sexual harassment during filming. Baldoni has denied these allegations and, in a A lawsuit against New York Times Over her reporting on the controversy, she claimed Lively pursued a “strategic and manipulative” smear campaign against him.
Baldoni's lawyer also said that… She plans to sue Lively On behalf of his client.
But none of that was public knowledge when Frankel walked the red carpet at AMC Lincoln Square in August 2024. The Real Housewives of New York City alum Go to TikTok On Wednesday, January 8, to share her strange experience with her followers.
“I have the craziest And it ends with us It started with a premiere story that I had completely forgotten about and now I'm putting the pieces together. “And I'm going to share something with you. I didn't tell anyone because I thought it would get me cancelled.”
The story starts off innocently enough, with Frankel describing her pink dress and then finding a weird hour-long break between the red carpet and the actual movie screening. To kill time, she and her friend Danielle had some margaritas, and even caught up with her Anna Wintour.
When they returned to the theater, they met briefly with Baldoni, who… He appeared on Frankel's “Just B” podcast Two years ago.
Then it got weird. Frankel recalls seeing Baldoni enter a theater and following him, assuming that was where the show was.
Updated 12/31/21 at 11:30 PM ET: Justin Baldoni was one of 10 plaintiffs filing a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times following its reporting on actor Blake Lively after she sued him for sexual harassment. The plaintiffs in the suit, which also includes publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Appel as well as It Ends With Us (…)
“Always, unless the show is weird and different, the first show is in one giant theater and there might be a packed theater. But here, it's in one theater, and there's something going on somewhere else.” So they took us and put us all the way to the left in This theater where no one was. “I felt like everyone was disconnected.”
Baldoni Lively has since been charged By trying to prevent him from the film's premiere even though he was also directing the film. In his lawsuit against timesBaldoni claimed that he and his family were “taken to a separate theater” to see the film after Lively left.
“What I didn't tell anyone because I was like, 'We're going to be cancelled,' is that we left because the emotions weren't high,” Frankel continued. “Wasted hair, makeup, clothes to go to town, drink a margarita in a mason jar, grab a bucket of popcorn, have two bites, see Anna Wintour, see Justin Baldoni, then leave to go back to Connecticut. Talk about blue balls.”
“I remember calling my publicist and saying, ‘Emotions aren't that high, we're leaving,'” she concluded. “I felt like I was doing something wrong, but I felt like I was doing something right. There was something there.
