Blake Lively is supported by Demi Moore and Georgina Chapman after fans turned against her
and Georgina Chapman publicly showed their support for Blake Lively amid her lawsuit with Justin Baldoni.
The Gossip Girl star, 37, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people and looked in good spirits at the gala despite fans claiming it was 'embarrassing' that she had been included.
At the event, she caught up with Demi, 62, and Georgina, 49, with the trio posing for snaps alongside Lively's mother Robyn.
Since Blake's court filing she has been bombarded with hateful messages on her social media.
She has accused her It Ends With Us co-star Justin of orchestrating a smear campaign against her with a PR representative who boasted 'we can bury anyone'.
One person who has turned against Blake was Megyn Kelly, who hit out at the actress following her controversial inclusion on the publication's Most Influential People list.
The 54-year-old conservative journalist blasted Blake and her ongoing lawsuit against Justin in an impassioned rant while speaking to DailyMail.com on the red carpet.
According to Megyn, Blake — who left readers outraged over her TIME100 cover — 'shouldn't be here.'
The red carpet feud erupted amid a new lawsuit filing in Blake and Justin's legal battle in which his production company and his publicist for his film It Ends With Us, Jennifer Abel, accused his embattled former publicist, Stephanie Jones, of allegedly plotting with Blake to cover up efforts to leak Abel's sensitive text messages to the actress.
At the TIME100 gala, Megyn ramped up her attack against the Gossip Girl star, accusing her of 'bastardiz[ing] Me Too allegations' in her quest to sue her It Ends With Us director and costar Justin for sexual harassment, which he has denied.
Justin later followed up by launching a $400 million defamation lawsuit against Blake, her publicist and her husband Ryan — which all have denied as well — and he also filed a $250 million libel lawsuit against the New York Times for its reporting on her allegations.
'It's a ridiculous joke. She shouldn't be here,' she said of Blake.
'I think [Blake has] launched a fake Me Too allegation against [Justin], and she's lived to regret doing it, because virtually every allegation she has made has fallen apart,' Megyn added.
'So for her to be honored for doing that, to try to ruin a man over absolutely nothing, is a scandal.'
Blake has accused her It Ends With Us co-star Justin of orchestrating a smear campaign against her with a PR representative who boasted 'we can bury anyone'
The subject is familiar turf for Megyn, as she reportedly told investigators that she had been sexually harassed by her former Fox News boss Roger Ailes.
Her experiences and those of other high-profile female anchors and reports at Fox were later dramatized in the 2019 film Bombshell, in which Charlize Theron played Megyn with the aid of extensive facial prosthetics.
The Megyn Kelly show host, who showcased her svelte figure in a red sleeveless dress, joked that she hoped to get a selfie with Blake and Meghan Markle 'in the distance' because they had provided her with 'so many hours of content.'
She said TIME was just trying to generate publicity for the magazine by putting 'big stars' on the cover, but it was 'very wrong' to lend its legitimacy to the controversial star.
Megyn joked to DailyMail.com that she wouldn't be making an effort to avoid Blake or Ryan, but she had a 'feeling she's going to be avoid me.'
As for the rumors of a feud between Blake and her Another Simple Favor costar Anna Kendrick, the conservative host was less concerned, as it was Blake's alleged attempts to 'bastardize Me Too allegations against people who don't deserve it' that got her blood boiling.
According to the lawyer, thoroughly investigating the Gossip Girl star's claims was necessary to prevent other future accusers from being tarnished.
She added that even though Blake and Ryan have 'very powerful PR people and lawyers,' it's important to be 'clear-eyed' and to 'call out' claims when they aren't legitimate.
'Otherwise, no one who has actually experienced these things is going to be believed,' Megyn declared.
While Blake was partying with the stars at the TIME100 Gala, Justin's legal battle with her took on a new twist as attorneys for his production company Wayfarer and his It Ends With Us publicist Jennifer Abel filed 14 new claims against his embattled former publicist Stephanie Jones.
They accused Jones of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, breach of contract, defamation and fraud against Abel.
The filings accused Jones, Abel's former boss, of snooping on Abel's company mobile phone for her private messages up until January of this year, then allegedly plotting with Lively to create a subpoena for a 'sham lawsuit' that would cover up that the messages were leaked.
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