SUMMARY
  • Blake Lively's co-star Leighton Meester has not said anything in her support amid Justin Baldoni drama.
  • Lively and Ryan Reynolds were absent from the Golden Globes while Leighton Meester showed up with Adam Brody.
  • Lively and Meester might have had some bad blood even though they starred as best friends in Gossip Girl.

The behind-the-scenes drama between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni escalated late last year when Lively filed a lawsuit against the filmmaker. The serious allegations outlined in the lawsuit significantly shifted public perception of the situation.

It Ends With Us
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni star in It Ends with Us | Source: Wayfarer Studios

Ever since the lawsuit came to public attention, many of Lively’s co-stars have come forward to express their support for her. However, one person has been notably missing from the list of all those who have stood in solidarity with the actress in this tough time. This person is none other than Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester, who portrayed Lively’s on-screen best friend Blair Waldorf.

Unlike Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, Leighton Meester attended the Golden Globes with her husband Adam Brody

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively in Green Lantern | Source: DC Entertainment

Blake Lively famously portrayed the ‘It’ girl, Serena van der Woodsen, in Gossip Girl, which aired for six seasons for a total of 121 episodes from 2007 to 2012. The show was a huge hit and has since gained a cult following. It has since spawned several TV adaptations and inspired other TV dramas. In fact, it was even given a standalone sequel which failed to capture the magic of the original show.

Leighton Meester played the role of Blair, Serena’s frenemy/best friend. Although Serena and Blair looked like they would remain friends till the end of time, the same cannot be said about the actresses who played those popular characters. There were often rumors about tension between Meester and Lively although most people tried to diffuse any such speculations.

Far forward to this year, Meester has not uttered a word in support of her former co-star amid her drama with It Ends with Us, co-star and director Justin Baldoni. In fact, The Roommate actress appeared alongside her husband Adam Brody at Golden Globes 2025 although she did not star in any projects last year (via Netflix on X). She was there to support Brody who played the lead role in the hit romance comedy series Nobody Wants This.

It has to be noted that both Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds did not show up at the Golden Globes although they both starred in high-grossing films last year. While Lively starred as the lead character in the film adaptation of the novel It Ends with Us, Reynolds appeared in the R-rated blockbuster MCU film, Deadpool & Wolverine.

Do Leighton Meester and Blake Lively really have bad blood?

Blake Lively and Leighton Meester
Blake Lively and Leighton Meester in Gossip Girl | Source: The CW

In an interview with Vanity Fair in 2017, executive producer Joshua Safran confirmed that Meester and Lively did not have the same kind of friendship as they displayed on the scene. He said: “They were friendly, but they were not friends like Serena and Blair.” He insisted that it was because of a difference in personalities that they did not have that much of a strong bond.

Blake is very much in the moment. Blake knows what’s happening. She knows this movie’s coming out, this band is happening. You talk to Blake on a very contemporary level, and she would be like, ‘I’m doing this thing tonight. Have you been to this restaurant?’ Leighton was very removed and very quiet, and, after her scenes were done, she would wander the stage.

In the same interview, actress Michelle Trachtenberg, who played Georgina Sparks in the show, and makeup artist Amy Tagliamonti, weighed in on the fact that there was no rivalry between Meester and Lively. Even so, there is some evidence that things were not entirely amicable between the two.

In a past interview clip posted on TikTok, Lively can be seen joking that Meester is like a pet monkey she owns, and the latter looks rather unamused. In another resurfaced clip from the same interview, Lively takes another jab at the Single Parents actress by claiming that blondes are nicer which earned her a side-eye from Meester. What really went down between them is hard to say, but they definitely seem estranged now.

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