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Candace Owens reacted to allegedly receiving a subpoena from Blake Lively’s legal team.
“I am, in a word, elated,” Owens, 36, quipped on the Tuesday, July 1, episode of her eponymous podcast. “I am, in another word, honored. It feels like a graduation ceremony of sorts for me and all of my podcast listeners. It’s beautiful [and] it’s reflective. We have had many times together going through this lawsuit. [There have been] many nights that I spent marking the lawsuit up with my pen, making little notations, stickies [and] trying to comprehend everything that was happening.”
Lively, 37, named her It Ends With Us costar and director, Justin Baldoni, in a lawsuit late last year, claiming that he sexually harassed her and tried to destroy her reputation on the set of the 2024 film. Baldoni, 41, vehemently denied the accusations before filing a $400 million defamation suit against Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds. Lively and Reynolds, 48, denied the claims before the filing was dismissed last month.
TMZ reported earlier on Tuesday that Lively’s legal team sent subpoenas to Owens, Perez Hilton and Andy Signore, requesting that they hand over any communications with Baldoni’s camp. (One of Owens’ social media posts commenting on the drama was mentioned in the lawsuit, though the political commentator previously claimed that she wasn’t involved in the litigation.)
According to Owens, she only found out about the subpoena through the media and has still yet to be formally served.
“I am reading about my life live because I haven’t received anything,” she claimed on her podcast. “As of right now, I still cannot tell you anything [about the documents] because no process server has arrived at our door. … How could us covering the lawsuit that has already been filed [mean we’re involved]? We have nothing to do with your lawsuit. It’s our right to cover pop culture [and] whatever it is that we want as reporters.”
Owens further stressed that she “has nothing to hide” and decided to unofficially subpoena herself while recording her podcast.
“I was like, ‘Let me go through my phone and see,’” Owens said. “I’m going to show you guys the first time I’ve ever even texted Blake Lively, like, the actual name ‘Blake Lively’ in my phone.”
Owens held up screenshots of her text messages, revealing that she first mentioned Lively’s name in a January 2019 conversation with an unnamed friend.
“I mentioned Blake Lively, and I have two eye-heart faces, like, I’m making love eyes at her,” Owens said. “That doesn’t seem like a smear campaign from 2019. And then, behind that, the first time that I use her name is [a message] on August 20, 2024.”
Owens said that she was “looking at rings” with another pal, mentioning that Lively’s pink diamond rock was “flawless.”
“I have not spoken about Blake Lively from 2019 to August 20, 2024, and here is [another] message chain between me and Skylar, my producer,” Owens said. “I write, ‘Monologue will be on DNC.’ Then I write, ‘Shmuley will be a story.’ … As an afterthought, ‘We should cover Blake Lively, as well. Very viral at the moment.’ Then, I just say, ‘Let’s do top three or five cringe,’ and we end up doing an episode of the top five cringe moments from the DNC because they were just weird.”
Owens stressed that she did not further mention Lively aside from those brief instances.
“I am just so offended, more than anything, that someone would think that I would accept payment to say something that I don’t believe in or that I would accept payment to say things without telling my followers that,” she said. “I am beholden to no one [and] I just say exactly what I am thinking at any moment of the day.”
