Alexa Nikolas slams Blake Lively over Woody Allen comments

Zoey 101 star and Eat Predators creator Alexa Nikolas called out Blake Lively over her comments about Woody Allen.

In 2016, Blake Lively starred in Woody Allen’s film Cafe Society. It was one of her last films before she was forced out of Hollywood due to her allegations of child sexual abuse. Two years later, Dylan Farrow wrote a heartfelt letter in Vanity Fair detailing the abuse she suffered. During the press tour for the film—the same tour during which she was rude to a Norwegian journalist that has since gone viral—she made several comments about the allegations against Woody Allen.

First, at the film’s opening night screening at the Cannes Film Festival, emcee Laurent Lafitte shocked the audience when he said, “It’s great that you’ve made so many films in Europe, even if you’re not convicted of rape in the United States.” At a luncheon for the film the next day, Blake criticized it, saying, “I think it was a hard thing to swallow in 30 seconds. Film festivals are such beautiful and respectful festivals of cinema and artists, and to have that, I felt like it wouldn’t have happened in the 1940s. I can’t imagine Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby going out and doing that. It was more disappointing to the artists in the room than someone going up there and making jokes about something that wasn’t funny.”

Then, Ronan Farrow, Dylan’s brother, had just published an article in the Hollywood Reporter the day before, titled “My Dad, Woody Allen and the Danger of Unasked Questions,” in which he discussed the culture of support surrounding his father in Hollywood. Blake was asked about it but said she hadn’t read it yet. “I came home and went to bed by the time we finished. I wasn’t involved in it, so I don’t want to talk about something I haven’t read. I think it’s dangerous. It’s definitely something that happens in festivals, in the media these days, when you come to a film festival and people are talking about all sorts of things. You know? It can be really difficult to deal with, I’m sure. I don’t want to talk about something I haven’t read.”

She later gave an interview to the LA Times where she seemingly dismissed the accusations against him. “It’s amazing what Woody has written for women. It’s very dangerous to take on things you don’t know about. I can only know from my experience. And my experience with Woody is that he empowers women.”

A month later, she gave another interview to Hamptons magazine where she raved about him and again called him “very inspiring.”

Alexa Nikolas called out the comments on Instagram, as well as the fact that the soundtrack for “It Ends With Us,” the film Blake is producing, includes music by Alexa’s widely-talked-about abuser, Rhye, who groomed her when she was 16 and he was 33.