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Blake Lively Denies Subpoenaing Megyn Kelly in Justin Baldoni Case After Kelly Rants About ‘Terrible’ Actress

Megyn Kelly claimed that she and her SiriusXM show received a subpoena for “confidential and proprietary materials” related to her coverage of Blake Lively

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After Megyn Kelly ranted about fighting against an alleged subpoena attempt, Blake Lively’s spokesperson said they never issued a subpoena to the media personality
“At no point in this litigation has Ms. Lively served a subpoena on Megyn Kelly,” Lively’s spokesperson said in a statement Aug. 29
Kelly, who shares the same lawyer as Justin Baldoni, suggested that Lively’s legal team believed she “must have been ensnared in Baldoni’s alleged ongoing smear campaign against her”

Blake Lively’s spokesperson is denying Megyn Kelly’s claims that Lively’s legal team issued a subpoena to Kelly amid the ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni.

Kelly, 54, ranted about Lively, 38, during a segment on her SiriusXM podcast The Megyn Kelly Show on Thursday, Aug. 28. The former Fox News host claimed to have been “targeted” by a subpoena from Lively’s attorneys but “we gave her absolutely nothing.”

However, a spokesperson for Lively said in a statement to PEOPLE Friday, Aug. 29, “At no point in this litigation has Ms. Lively served a subpoena on Megyn Kelly.”

Kelly disclosed on her show that she and It Ends With Us director-star Baldoni, 41, share lawyer Bryan Freedman and suggested Lively’s team believes she “must have been ensnared in Baldoni’s alleged ongoing smear campaign against her” based on that connection.

“She actually tried to get the confidential and proprietary materials my team and I used for any and all stories about her,” claimed Kelly, who referred to Lively as “terrible” multiple times during the monologue. “… Blake Lively was unable to fathom that yours truly had developed a genuine revulsion toward her on my own.”

“This is how narcissistic this woman is,” said Kelly. “She actually thinks I needed to get paid by Baldoni’s team to say negative things about her. News flash, Blake: I came to those conclusions totally organically. … It was you — it was all you who made me unable to stand you. No man had anything to do with it.”

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Deadline reported that while Lively’s legal team did not directly subpoena Kelly and her show, they did subpoena Red Seat Ventures, a company that has provided “sales support, production, distribution and marketing branding and sales services for content creators like Kelly,” the outlet reported.

“Ms. Lively is continuing to pursue discovery in order to prove her case that Justin Baldoni, Jed Wallace, Melissa Nathan and the Wayfarer Parties’ retaliated against her for speaking up against the harassment she and others experienced on set, as alleged in her complaint,” Lively’s team said in the statement, adding that “seeking evidence through discovery is a normal part of the litigation process.”

The Another Simple Favor actress spoke out about her legal battle in June, writing on her Instagram Stories, that she felt “more resolved than ever to continue to stand for every woman’s right to have a voice in protecting themselves, including their safety, their integrity, their dignity and their story” after Baldoni’s countersuit against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds was dismissedby the judge.

Freedman described Baldoni as “a person who wants to be vindicated, and that’s all he cares about” during a June interview with TMZ. “He wants the truth to come out, and he wants to do that in the appropriate way,” Freedman said. “He’s waiting for his day in court, where he can speak out to tell the truth.”

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