Megyn Kelly has a bone to select with Blake Energetic.
The previous Fox Information anchor, 54, revealed she doesn’t know why the actress, 37, was part of the Time 100 listing of influential individuals in 2025 amid her ongoing authorized battle with Justin Baldoni.
“It’s a ridiculous joke. She shouldn’t be there,” Kelly advised the Every day Mail on Thursday. “She has no influence over anything.”
Kelly’s feedback come on the heels of Energetic attending the Time gala on Thursday together with her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and mother, Elaine.
Inside, the star of “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” gave a poignant speech, addressing a previous trauma her mother had gone by way of.
“I have so much to say about the last two years of my life, but tonight is not the forum,” Energetic started, alluding to the authorized feud with Baldoni, 41.
“What I will speak to separately is the feeling of being a woman who has a voice today, and since I could speak, because of the pain, cautions and fight of the many women who have paved the way, and the men who stood beside them. Millions I will never know the name of.”
She continued, “Because every life, every act, big or small, affects another. … My life was influenced most by my mother, who’s here with me tonight, an eternal optimist who’s always leaving me messages, hoopin’ and hollerin’ sayin’, ‘life’s just a bowl of cherries.’”
Regardless of Elaine’s sunny disposition, Energetic has seen her mother undergo powerful occasions.
“But, at her urging and unwavering bravery, she wanted me to share with you that she is a survivor of the worst crimes someone can commit against a woman. I’ve watched her conceal her raw and undeserved shame my entire life, so, as her daughter, being asked to share this today is monumental. If we name it, we change it.”
In December, Energetic sued the “Jane the Virgin” actor, making claims of sexual harassment — which included allegedly strolling in on her utilizing a breast pump and talking about his previous porn habit. She additionally accused him of orchestrating a retaliatory smear marketing campaign towards her.
Baldoni, who was her co-star and director of the 2024 drama “It Ends With Us,” denied the allegations and filed his personal defamation swimsuit towards her, Reynolds, 48, and their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s agency, Imaginative and prescient PR Inc.
Each Energetic and Baldoni denied the claims.
The hit film premiered over the summer time and relies on a novel by Colleen Hoover a couple of home violence relationship between their characters.
A trial date has been scheduled for March 2026.
Throughout Energetic’s speech on the Time 100 Gala, she mentioned that being known as “influential” was “a significant responsibility.”
“How we use that matters,” Energetic added. “Who and what we stand up for, and what we stay silent about, what we monetize versus what we actually live, matters.”
Nevertheless, Kelly doesn’t purchase it.
“I think she launched a fake ‘Me Too’ allegation against him [Baldoni], and she’s lived to regret doing so because virtually every allegation she’s made has fallen apart,” she alleged to Every day Mail. “And so, for her to be doing so, to try and ruin a man over absolutely nothing is a scandal.”
The Submit reached out to Energetic’s rep for remark.
After Energetic’s Time recognition was introduced, the “Gossip Girl” alum took to social media to share her gratitude for making the listing.
“It’s an honor to be acknowledged on the @time 100 list for 2025🤍🙏🤍 To be written about by the great @sherrilynifill is not something I take lightly. Her work has shaped our nation,” she wrote through Instagram on April 16. “WHO SHE IS — as a human, woman, mother, leader, fighter, healer, empath, risk taker and dream maker — has shaped my heart and also my stamina to never stop believing in a future that’s better and safer for everyone.”
She added, “Thank you @time And thank you @sherrilynifill for one of the most surreal and meaningful moments of my life in this honor. My 10-year-old self is pretty blown away right now.”
