Blake Lively’s long list of bullying allegations IN FULL

It’s been a brutal few months for Blake Lively – who, in her 37 years, has become accustomed to bagging starring roles and accolades.

Only now the actress is tallying up a rather less attractive score sheet: namely an ever-growing list of bullying accusations leveled against her.

The drama kicked off in December, when she lodged a now infamous lawsuit against Justin Baldoni, her co-star and director for the movie It Ends With Us.

Her lengthy complaint accuses Baldoni, 41, of multiple instances of sexual harassment and claims he worked to destroy her reputation.

Baldoni countersued both Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds for defamation in January. 

While all parties deny the allegations against them, the escalating legal fracas has seen Lively’s name in particular dragged through the mud.

Fans thought her celebrity friends like Taylor Swift would jump to her defense, but the A-lister has had little support, at least publicly.

From historic stories of rudeness and diva behavior to more recent claims from colleagues that Lively is a nightmare to work with, the allegations go back to the early days of her acting career. 

Here, the Daily Mail compiles a full chronological list of all the ‘bullying’ accusations that have reared their head…

Made an intern cry after trying to get her fired

Lively’s apparent issues with everyone from fellow A-listers to interns goes all the way back to her breakout role in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

A former TV intern said she encountered Lively on a press day for the 2005 movie and alleged Lively was ‘terrible’ and made her cry.

Jamie Lee Lardner claimed Lively accused her of treating her like a fan, but the intern ‘didn’t even know her name,’ because this was the actress’s first major role. 

After Lively’s alleged complaint, Lardner said she was yelled at, feared she would lose her job and cried all the way home.

‘This girl has a pattern of flipping the narrative, playing the victim, and then leveraging her status to actually bully and mistreat other people,’ the former intern claimed in a video posted on TikTok. 

‘Poisoning’ her co-stars on Gossip Girl 

When Lively starred as Serena van der Woodsen in Gossip Girl, the hit teen TV show that ran from 2007 to 2012, the bullying allegations appeared to escalate. 

Lively dated her co-star Penn Badgley, who played her on-screen love-interest Dan Humphrey, for about three years, from 2007 to 2010 – but the drama began before they ever got together. 

In a 2009 interview, she confessed she ‘poisoned’ the cast against Badgley. 

Lively said she was ‘so upset’ at his casting that she set about turning everyone against him.

‘At first I was so upset that they hired him,’ she told Glamour magazine. ‘I actually poisoned the whole cast against him. But then they noticed that he wasn’t a jerk and was actually a really nice, charming person.’

She added: ‘Almost immediately I realized that too, but it took me about a week to admit it.’

Lively also made a ‘cruel and inappropriate joke’ about her fellow Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester being born in prison in a resurfaced video. 

Sitting next to her co-star, Lively said, ‘well, some of us started in a cage’. Meester, who played Lively’s ‘frenemy’ Blair Waldorf in the hit TV show, was born while her mother was incarcerated on drug trafficking charges. 

Making co-stars cry 

It wasn’t only her A-list co-stars that were made to feel uncomfortable.

Natalie Knepp went viral on TikTok when she claimed Lively made her cry on Gossip Girl while she was playing the small role of Lexi, even stating that she considered quitting acting after the interaction. 

Knepp said she ‘lied’ about Lively being amazing because she was so ‘powerful,’ and thought she had done something wrong. 

‘I thought it was my fault – I don’t think it was,’ she admitted, after seeing the other bullying allegations. 

Tormenting crew members 

A former Gossip Girl crew member said Lively was rude and claimed she made an inappropriate joke that she was going to ‘pee’ on him while he was getting equipment stored in the bathroom.

A production assistant also opened up about working on the set, and said she was ‘excited’ to meet the ‘star of the show’ during its peak, but quickly received the ‘death glare’ and was ‘scared to even look at her’ during their interaction.

Lively was also accused by a former runner on Gossip Girl of being a ‘mean girl’ on set, ‘bullying people’ as if she was still in ‘high school.’ 

‘Unfortunately, my experience with Blake was not good. She came across as a bully,’ Ewood previously told Daily Mail. 

The assistant producer, then 23, claims he was given the ‘silent treatment’ by Blake after simply saying ‘hi.’

By the time Lively hit the set of A Simple Favor, her behavior was infamous, with plenty of onset antics making headlines. 

Barbara Szeman, an assistant director who worked on the 2018 movie with Lively, suggested the actress was ‘cruel.’

In February, Szeman shared details about her experience of working on the film, after actor Henry Golding shared a poster of the film’s sequel.

‘I worked with you on the first one. My experience with everyone was absolutely amazing, except for a certain someone who is the reason I quit being an AD. Guess who that person is…’ she wrote. 

While she never confirmed the reason, she later wrote: ‘I want to avoid attention around this but I will say she was cruel to many.’ 

Even stylists have been appalled. Hollywood hairstylist Emanuel Miller took to Instagram, after working with Lively on the 2012 movie Hick and accused her of being ‘mindless’ and ‘self-centered’ in since-deleted posts. 

The journalist incident with Kjersti Flaa

Amid the It Ends With Us drama, award-winning journalist Kjersti Flaa, 51, posted a clip on YouTube of an ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘traumatizing’ conversation she had with the actress in 2016.

The viral clip, titled ‘The Blake Lively interview that made me want to quit my job’, showed Flaa congratulating a then-pregnant Lively on her impending arrival. 

‘First of all, congrats on your little bump,’ said California-based Flaa, to which Lively fired back: ‘Congrats on your little bump.’

Flaa told the Daily Mail how the catty response left her feeling ‘paralyzed’ and ‘like a complete failure.’ 

She revealed that the ‘bump’ comment ‘felt like a bullet’ since she can’t get pregnant. The Norwegian reporter felt so ‘belittled and ignored’ that she considered quitting journalism altogether.

Pressuring a reporter into drinking

This awkward run-in with the press was not an anomaly. 

Magnus Sundholm, an LA-based writer for Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, had a ‘sneaky, cheap and disrespectful’ encounter with Lively when she railroaded him into drinking her husband’s gin on camera.

Sundholm was interviewing Lively in 2018, when she whipped out a bottle of Aviation Gin, made by Reynolds’ liquor company, and urged him to drink it during their 10am meeting. 

Sundholm told the Daily Mail that Lively ‘hijacked’ their four minutes together, under the pretext of mistaking his request for a camera ‘shot’ for a ‘shot’ of gin.

He said it felt ‘like an ambush—a carefully planned PR ambush.’ 

According to Sundholm, she played the same unexpected product placement trick on the other entertainment journalists lined up to interview her.

It Ends With Us on set issues 

Despite hiding out from paparazzi, Lively cannot escape relentless allegations of mistreating people – most recently from Talia Spencer, the concept designer for It Ends With Us, who came out in defense of Baldoni, Lively’s co-star and director.

‘I feel, like, maybe Blake smelled his kindness — mistook it for weakness — and tried to take advantage and take power,’ she said in an interview with 60 Minutes Australia that aired last Sunday.

 Spencer continued, ‘there was a massive compromise in terms of Justin’s original vision for the film’ and ‘to see it be overtaken by this was definitely a little bit sad.’ 

Spencer agreed that Lively ‘tried to’ gain control of the movie. 

She defended Baldoni, and recalled thinking that he cared ‘a lot about the vision’ of the movie and was ‘not in it for fame.’ 

Based on Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, It Ends With Us tackles themes of domestic abuse and emotional trauma.

Lively’s biggest issues on set were with Baldoni. 

It recently came out that she had been gunning for her former co-star and even filed a lawsuit  – part of an apparent plan to retrieve damning text messages from his publicist – months before her legal war with Baldoni became public. 

Mocking fans 

Lively’s questionable behavior on sets has also crept into her interactions with fans.

Most recently, Kaitlyn Cooper said she felt Lively’s wrath. In March, the 27-year-old ‘big Blake fan’ was ecstatic to learn she was staying at the same hotel as Lively and took a video of the actress coming out of an elevator at the Hotel 1928, in Waco, Texas. 

But the next morning, Lively allegedly retaliated by following Kaitlyn and her mother to their car and allegedly even noting down the license plate number. 

Cooper claimed someone from Lively’s team also tracked down her social media account and watched her Instagram stories.

She told the Daily Mail, ‘once the [Instagram] stories views from her team, hotel staff and the harassment accounts began popping up, it then became disturbing.’

An earlier alleged victim was self-confessed ‘huge fan’ Catherine Kallon, who posted on Instagram critiquing one of Lively’s outfits in 2018. 

‘It’s suit number 1,356 for Blake Lively’s promotion of A Simple Favor. This time custom pink Ralph Lauren Collection,’ she quipped.

 Lively hit back: ‘Would you note a man wearing lots of suits during a promo tour? So why can’t a woman? Just sayinnnn. No double standards ladies.’

‘I don’t expect everyone to like it. Fashion that creates a difference of opinions is the fun part,’ Lively continued. ‘I totally understand the missed humor. I do the same thing sometimes. Just looking to encourage women to do what men do without being teased for it. Yes, even in a space as material as fashion. It all starts somewhere…and everyone’s voice counts.’

The fashion blogger later told Cosmo: ‘I felt like she just kind of went a little bit overboard…she took it too personally.’