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In the midst of legal drama between It Ends With Us co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, Bethenny Frankel is stepping in to dish on the off-putting vibes she got at the film’s premiere.
Frankel took to TikTok on Wednesday (Jan. 8) to share “the craziest story” from the premiere, which she attended with someone she works with who she named as Danielle, per Page Six. The Real Housewives of New York City alum, who initially feared she would be “canceled” for divulging her story, said she was “excited” for the event and to see the movie, and shared that after walking the carpet, she learned “there’s an hour between the carpet and the premiere.”
“Now maybe that happens. I’ve never seen that happen,” she added.
After noting that an hour is not an ample amount of time to grab dinner but is too long to “stand there in stilettos,” Frankel said she saw one of Lively’s team members, who she felt was “a little distant and a little icy” to her.
“Just, there’s something that I’m like, wow ok,” she continued. “In other circumstances, this person is not this way. It was slightly off-putting to Danielle and I. We both noted it.”
Once she and Danielle returned to the theater after going to get margaritas, Frankel said she saw Anna Wintour, and then saw Baldoni, who someone reminded her was on her Just B podcast.
“He’s in this, like, one line and we say hello to each other,” she recalled. “I didn’t remember who he was. I don’t know why. He was very nice.”
Frankel explained that Baldoni was “in this one theater,” and that naturally she assumed they would be watching the film together in the same theater for the premiere.
“Usually — not usually, always, unless it’s a weird different screening, the premiere is in one giant theater and there might be, like, an overflow theater,” she explained. “But here, like, he’s in one theater, something’s going on somewhere else, I saw Anna walk this way. So they take us and they put us all the way to the left in this theater where like, nobody was in this theater.”
She claimed that “it was strange” and that “it felt like everybody was separated.” She insisted that “the vibe was off.”
“What I didn’t tell anybody because I was like, we’ll be canceled, was we left,” she revealed. “Because the vibes were not vibing. Like wasted hair, makeup, outfit to go to the city, drink a margarita in a mason jar, take a bucket of popcorn, take two bites, see Anna Wintour, see Justin Baldoni, and left to go back to Connecticut. Like, talk about blue balls. So something was definitely awry from the jump and it was palpable.”
She reiterated her fear of being canceled for leaving early, noting that you “don’t go to the premiere, walk the carpet and leave,” but recalled telling her publicist that “the vibes were not vibing.”
“It felt like I was doing something wrong, but it felt like I was also doing something right,” she confessed. “Something was fucked.”
Lively filed a legal complaint against Baldoni late last year, alleging sexual harassment and that he and his associates ran a smear campaign against her. Baldoni has since denied the claims, and filed a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times for libel and false light invasion of privacy after they published a story about Lively’s claims against him, per Variety.
On Monday, Lively’s legal team issued a statement to People claiming, in part, that “this is not a ‘feud’ arising from ‘creative differences’ or a ‘he said/she said’ situation.”
It Ends With Us is streaming on Netflix.
