Blake Lively offers to do FUNERAL arrangements for fans in bizarre It Ends With Us themed post amid lawsuit

Daily Mail​

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Blake Lively left fans perplexed over her latest social media post as she playfully offered her floral arranging services to fans amid her legal war with Justin Baldoni.
Although she has certainly had her hands full navigating her ongoing lawsuit against her former It Ends with Us costar, 41, the Gossip Girl star, 37, took a much-needed break from defending herself to show off one of her many talents.
'My flowers babies, from seeds, to cutting, to arrangement,' she wrote on her Instagram Story, alongside an innocuous picture of peonies and Russian sage placed into a vase on her dining room table.
In a bizarre move, the mother-of-four, who has an estimated personal net worth of $30 million, joked that she was open for business to create floral arrangements for her followers' 'next graduation, funeral or wedding.'
During her press tour for It Ends With Us last year, in which she a florist named Lily Bloom, Lively shared her love for floristry as a form of 'straight-up peace' to her.
Prior to filing her sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni, who denies all her claims, the Another Simple Favor actress admitted she's 'always thought' of herself as a florist, well before playing one.
'I buy corner store flowers, take them home, reassemble them & give them new life,' she revealed on Instagram. 'Ever since I moved to the city at 19, that's been one of my creative and meditative anchors. It's design, it's interacting with nature, it's a multi sensory joy.'
She continued: 'Whenever I get the opportunity to garden from scratch and assemble fresh arrangements, I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. It's straight up peace. No there's no joke coming. Just me being earnest about flowers. Ugh pure sincerity. I hate it here.'
In an interview with People last August, Lively also reflected on how flowers played a meaningful part in how her husband Ryan Reynolds wooed her.
'When my husband and I first got together, he would send me a bouquet of flowers every week but he would always send a card and it would just be a sentence of something that had happened that week. Something funny or emotional that one of us said,' she gushed. ''It was just a little quote of the week. It was such a beautiful, romantic thing.'
Lively and Reynolds first met on the set of The Green Lantern in 2010 and exchanged vows in 2012.
They're the proud parents of three girls James, 10, Betty, 8, and Inez, 5, and one son - Olin, 2.
Her latest post comes just days after suffered another courtroom blow in her ongoing legal battle with Baldoni.
Earlier this week, a New York judge threw a curveball in her attempt to withdraw her 'emotional distress' claims against the actor
Court filings obtained by the Daily Mail reveal the two parties had been slugging it out over the actress's claims that her co-star had caused her emotional distress, with Baldoni's team demanding she provide proof from her medical records.
Lively's team instead then attempted to quietly drop that element from her blockbuster lawsuit on Friday but, critically, without prejudice – meaning the claim could be refiled at a later date.
She also filed a motion on Monday to block Baldoni's request for her medical records arguing that she voluntarily sought to withdraw the claim in 'good faith to streamline the dispute'.
On Tuesday, Judge Lewis Liman agreed to deny Baldoni's motion based on Lively's decision to drop the claims, however, he also ruled that both sides will now have to negotiate whether her emotional distress element will be dismissed from the case permanently.
In another blow, Judge Liman said even if the claims are not dismissed, Lively's team will no longer be able to produce evidence of emotional distress in court.
The 24-hour legal spat has already seen claims and counterclaims traded by both sides, with Baldoni's team saying Lively is trying to 'have it both ways'.
On Monday, legal representatives for Lively hit back with a furious statement accusing Baldoni of orchestrating a 'press stunt' and saying they had offered to drop the emotional distress claims in 'good faith.'
In a statement released to the Daily Mail, attorneys Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb said: 'Once again this is a routine part of the litigation process that is being used as a press stunt.
'We are doing what trial lawyers do: preparing our case for trial by streamlining and focusing it; they are doing what they do: desperately seeking another tired round of tabloid coverage.
'The Baldoni-Wayfarer strategy of filing retaliatory claims has exposed them to expansive new damages claims under California law, rendering certain of Ms. Lively's original claims no longer necessary.
'Ms. Lively continues to allege emotional distress, as part of numerous other claims in her lawsuit, such as sexual harassment and retaliation, and massive additional compensatory damages on all of her claims.'
Then, in a fiery letter obtained by the Daily Mail, Gottleib and Hudson attempted to have Baldoni's motion to compel medical records dismissed, arguing it was based on 'two brazenly false assertions.'
But that move failed thanks to Judge Liman, with Lively's emotional distress claims now off the table.
Despite the win, Baldoni will still have to defend himself over her other claims which include sexual harassment and the orchestration of a smear campaign against her.
The 41-year-old is also pursuing a $400million countersuit of his own that also claims defamation and accuses the glamorous blonde of damaging his reputation and career.
The legal spat has produced months of negative headlines for Lively who has also had to look on as her friendship with superstar bestie Taylor Swift deteriorates in public, largely due to the singer's fury at being dragged into the case.
Last month, the singer found herself on the receiving end of a now withdrawn subpoena and in the middle of a row over whether Lively had tried to force her to issue a supportive message by threatening to release a decade's worth of text messages.
The former provoked a stinging response from her rep who said the megastar had had nothing to do with It Ends With Us beyond providing a song for the soundtrack.
The statement read: 'Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film, she did not even see It Ends With Us until weeks after its public release, and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history.'
Her spokesperson added: 'The connection Taylor had to this film was permitting the use of one song, 'My Tears Ricochet.
'Given that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift's name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.'