Candace Owens rejects allegation of involvement in Blake Lively smear campaign: 'I don't dance for money'
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Candace Owens is in no mood for entertaining any rumours regarding her connection to the ongoing legal drama between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
Owens, 35, recently uploaded a 43-minute-long YouTube video to vehemently shoot down the claims that she has become the latest star subpoenaed in the legal drama between the ‘It Ends With Us’ co-stars.
Owen’s befitting reply came as a report emerged claiming that Owens had been ordered to turn over communications with Baldoni and the Wayfarer parties following the dismissal of his $400 million countersuit against Lively.
Alongside Owens, Perez Hilton, and YouTuber Andy Signore were also allegedly subpoenaed after causing a stir with their "Blake bashing commentary," which Lively’s lawyers believe may have been a part of a smear campaign that Baldoni planned to damage her reputation.
Candace Owens was a ‘deer in headlights’ after learning about the subpoena
In her video, Candace Owens claimed that she was a "deer in the headlights" when she learned about the subpoena from TMZ, which contacted her for comments.
She also clarified that she still had not officially received the subpoena at the time of recording the video. The media personality admitted that she had covered Lively negatively, but she said that "that doesn't mean anything."
Owens then went on to show her text messages that specifically mention Lively, according to Entertainment Weekly.
She only displayed two messages: one from August 2024 in which she informed her producer that her show should cover Lively's embarrassing 2016 interview with Kjersti Flaa, which came to light again after the 'It Ends With Us' drama, and another from 2019, in which she complimented Lively on her ring.
"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," the media personality said.
"In fact, the argument that's typically made in the press is that I can't be controlled. That's the problem with me, is that I don't dance for money,” she added.
Candace Owens claims disliking Blake Lively is her own opinion
Candace Owens reaffirmed her distaste for Blake Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, but claimed to have formed that opinion by herself.
"I truly looked at this lawsuit when it all came out in January, and I just thought that you were a bad person," she said, addressing the ‘Gossip Girl’ actress.
"Truly, from the bottom of my heart, I think you and Ryan are bad people. There is nobody involved, nobody has ever been involved in making me come to that conclusion,” she continued.
Notably, Owens has spent the last few months bashing Lively following her lawsuit against Baldoni. In January, she claimed that Lively had "proven herself not to be a kind person and that's largely due to the fact that she is a modern feminist."
Later, she also taunted that Lively was “admitting defeat in a sneaky way” after she dropped her emotional distress claim against Baldoni last month.
