Blake Lively Accused of Wearing Blackface in Resurfaced Video Amid Justin Baldoni Lawsuit
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With all eyes on the three ongoing lawsuits, people are digging deep into Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni‘s pasts. The actors may have done some questionable actions, with the Gossip Girl star making the rounds with a racist accusation.
Blake Lively and her husband are currently embroiled in a legal battle with Justin Baldoni after the actress filed a complaint against him for sexual harassment and The New York Times wrote about the case. In response, the It Ends With Us director sued the news outlet and Blake Lively for the accusations against him.
All eyes are on the two actors, and a clip of Blake Lively is making the rounds which is making people raise their eyebrows at the actress’ past.
Did Blake Lively wear blackface?
In a resurfaced video of an interview with MTV News, Blake Lively and Justin Long were talking about anecdotes that made them “geeky” in high school when they were promoting their 2006 film Accepted. Blake admitted that she wore a lot of bronzer and wore an afro to impress her high school crushes.
“My best friend and I when we were in 10th grade had like crazy crushes, we’d drive around like stalking these guys,” she told the outlet. “We decided one night to go to the arcade where they were and I put bronzer all over myself and a Scary Spice ‘fro so I think they’d think I was a Black girl, so I could stalk them and my friend dressed up as this goth girl and we literally sat outside their houses.”
Justin Long later quipped, “So that makes you sweet and charming, you’re still hot.”
Lots of netizens criticized the actors on her admission. “How does bronzing your skin to look black as well as putting on an Afro wig constitute ‘geek’?” one person posted on X. Other fans are saying that the campaign might be distracting away from the fact that Blake’s case focuses on sexual harassment. “Okay but this still doesn’t give that man the right to sexually harass her,” another person posted on X. “I’m sorry but nothing is going to make what he did to her okay.
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds previously apologized for having their wedding at Boone Hall, a former plantation, in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, on September 9, 2012 amid the Black Lives Matter protests. “It’s something we’ll always be deeply and unreservedly sorry for,” they said in a statement. “It’s impossible to reconcile. What we saw at the time was a wedding venue on Pinterest. What we saw after was a place built upon devastating tragedy. Years ago we got married again at home—but shame works in weird ways.”
