Blake Lively's Utter Disrespect, SJP Alone on Mother's Day, and HBO's "Euphoria" Gets Backlash from OnlyFans

Summary

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan

Episode: Blake Lively's Utter Disrespect, SJP Alone on Mother's Day, and "Euphoria" Backlash from OnlyFans
Date: May 12, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Maureen Callahan digs into three provocative pop culture stories:

1. The Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni lawsuit, featuring an exclusive interview with journalist Shasti Flaw, who reveals Lively’s on- and off-camera behavior and the chilling attempts to silence media voices.
2. A critical, witty take on Sarah Jessica Parker’s “alone on Mother’s Day” Instagram post and the performativity of celebrity.
3. A blistering analysis of HBO’s Euphoria, focusing on the increasing backlash from sex workers and concerns over cultural impact, with special attention to the treatment of women on and off screen.

Throughout, Callahan brings her signature smart, irreverent, and unfiltered commentary, tackling industry hypocrisy, digital media suppression, and the normalization of sexual humiliation in contemporary culture.

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Part 1: Blake Lively v. Justin Baldoni Lawsuit & the Press Junket Incident

Guest: Shasti Flaw (host of the Flossometalk podcast)
Timestamps: [01:04] – [27:24]

Key Discussion Points

• Background on the Case

  • Blake Lively settled her lawsuit with Justin Baldoni just before the Met Gala.
  • A 2016 interview (conducted by today’s guest, Shasti Flaw) resurfaces and goes viral, shining a light on Lively's "mean girl energy." ([03:25])

• Press Junket Incident Breakdown ([06:03] – [14:06])

  • Audio replay of the viral 2016 interview where Shasti congratulates Lively on her pregnancy.
  • Lively responds with a body-shaming retort:
    • “Congrats on your little bump.” – Blake Lively, [06:51]
  • Lively and Parker Posey freeze out and mock the interviewer, reinforce a hostile environment, and evade professional questions.

• Shasti Flaw’s Experience

  • Describes the surreal, aggressive nature of the encounter:
    • “It’s unreal that people behave like that. These are grown up women... grown up women who do this to someone else.” – Shasti, [12:58]
  • Reveals that, unusually, her tape was not confiscated, suggesting Lively’s team saw her rudeness as normal.

• The Aftermath & Culture of Suppression

  • Lively’s legal team subpoenaed over 100 journalists and creators, including Shasti, attempting to access private accounts and information.
    • “She subpoenaed me… to get access to my Google and… credit card number, everything.” – Shasti, [21:52]
  • The tactic was to silence critics and chill coverage, even targeting creators with tiny followings.
  • Subpoenas were often not properly served, creating legal and financial stress for those targeted.

• Maureen’s Assessment

  • Draws parallels to Lively’s “crisis management” and image-rehab attempts at the Met Gala ([15:17]), contrasting public graciousness with private aggression.
  • Nails Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds as “well-matched... two vicious little bitches. Just my opinion.” – Maureen, [10:37]

Notable Quotes

• “She thinks she’s better. She’s an actress. She memorizes lines for a living… may or may not have an involvement with Harvey Weinstein... Reportedly, allegedly. Just my opinion.” – Maureen Callahan, [09:41]
• “All bullies, they can’t take it. She tells on herself.” – Maureen, [25:34]
• “Everything that she’s done so far has backfired on her, if you ask me.” – Shasti, [26:05]

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Part 2: Sarah Jessica Parker’s Mother’s Day Post & Cultural Housekeeping

Timestamps: [29:34] – [39:40]

Key Discussion Points

• SJP’s Loneliness Performance ([29:34])

  • Sarah Jessica Parker posts about being alone at her Amagansett beach house on Mother’s Day, hinting at both her affluence and isolation.
  • Maureen skewers the “passive aggressive, humble brag” in Parker’s haiku-esque caption:
    • “Slept almost seven hours. Period. Woke, period. Made a fire. The beach is quiet. All alone. No children... No cats, no laundry. Momentarily At Sixes and Sevens... Like ballast.” – Maureen reading SJP, [29:49]
  • Points out the irony of Parker’s self-styling as a “sprightly 900 year old heroine” who laments her kids’ absence like “she’s never around. Just my supposition.”

• Carol Radziwill & Celebrity Scandals

  • Radziwill’s Instagram “outfit of the day” as a 60+ year-old, prepping for return to the Real Housewives franchise; Callahan mocks the performativity and provides deep-dive nostalgia.
  • Proposal for a “celebrity scandals of yore” segment, with examples like Bieber’s Anne Frank House guestbook gaffe and Schwarzenegger’s housekeeper scandal.

• Offbeat Listener Feedback

  • Trouble spotter calls out Tom Hanks’ odd hobby on Conan—keeping single lost objects—evoking a running cultural conspiracy joke about Garth Brooks and serial killers:
    • “I’m not saying I think Tom Hanks is a serial killer. I frankly don’t think he has the kind of time required. But I have always detected a lot of rage in Tom Hanks.” – Maureen, [37:19]

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Part 3: Euphoria, OnlyFans, and the Boundaries of Exploitation

Timestamps: [40:07] – [54:55]

Key Discussion Points

• Euphoria’s Final Season – A Cultural Low Point

  • Maureen launches into a scathing critique of creator Sam Levinson and HBO for enabling what she terms “degrading pornography” disguised as prestige TV.
  • Targets repeated humiliations of Sydney Sweeney’s character (Cassie):
    • “This little piggy went to the market… dressed up like a piggy, creating onlyfans content, sucking her own toes. Most recently seen dressed up as a baby.” – Maureen, [41:20]
  • Draws link to Sweeney’s real-life reported selling of bathwater to fans.

• Industry and Performer Responsibility

  • Points out that other cast members (notably Maude Apatow) are not subjected to similar demeaning scripts:
    • “She’s the only one who’s not humiliated this way. Wonder why.” – Maureen, [41:46]
  • Suggests either Sweeney is willfully ignorant of the impact, or is being misled into thinking the work is “empowering.”

• Sex Workers’ Backlash

  • Quotes actual OnlyFans performer Sydney Leathers, who notes that Euphoria’s content is more extreme than what OnlyFans even allows:
    • “There’s so much they have her [Sydney Sweeney] doing that is not even allowed on OnlyFans.” – Sydney Leathers via Variety, [47:45]
  • Especially critical of age play, infantilization, and humiliation scenes, noting these violate the product’s own community standards.

• Sam Levinson’s Response and Industry Enabling

  • Levinson’s attempts to defend the content as absurdist commentary fall flat; Maureen eviscerates his justifications and calls into question HBO’s “artistic” defense:
    • “Sam, you’re a hack. You’re a fucking hack.” – Maureen, [49:44]
  • Discusses Zendaya’s rumored feud and visible discomfort with Levinson’s direction:
    • “She’s in heels. She’s running away from the guy [Levinson].” – Maureen, [50:42]

• Broader Cultural Critique

  • Stresses the danger of normalizing sexual humiliation for young women, viewing it as the most toxic kind of cultural messaging.

Notable Quotes

• “This is the normalization that a certain cohort of men want girls and young women to think is real... It’s very fucking dangerous.” – Maureen, [45:13]
• “HBO is selling the kind of porn that even OnlyFans can’t sell.” – Maureen, [47:25]

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Memorable Moments & Quotes

• "[Blake Lively] thinks this is over for her now that she's quote-unquote settled with Justin Baldoni. I got news for Blake. Not over at The Nerve, not by a long shot." – Maureen, [01:04]
• “I think they're two peas in a pod. I think they're two vicious little bitches. Just my opinion.” – Maureen, [10:37]
• “It was just a horrific experience… Should I just walk up, stand up and just leave? They would punish me for doing that.” – Shasti, [13:31]
• “All bullies, they can’t take it. She tells on herself.” – Maureen, [25:34]
• “This episode again aired on Sunday night… The title, I couldn't make it up. This little piggy. Know who the piggy is? It's Sydney Sweeney’s character, Cassie.” – Maureen, [41:13]
• “HBO is selling the kind of porn that even OnlyFans can't sell.” – Maureen, [47:25]
• “Sam, you’re a hack. You’re a fucking hack.” – Maureen, [49:44]
• “Me Too was not so we could wind up with this cultural slop.” – Maureen, [54:44]

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• Interview with Shasti Flaw, press junket incident – [06:03] – [14:06]
• Description of the legal harassment by Blake Lively’s team – [20:59] – [26:05]
• Live breakdown of SJP’s Instagram post – [29:34] – [31:27]
• Euphoria/OnlyFans cultural critique – [40:07] – [54:44]
• Sydney Leathers on OnlyFans vs. Euphoria – [47:45]
• Sam Levinson’s “defense” of his show – [49:25]
• Zendaya’s red carpet escape – [50:42]

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Tone & Style

• Smart, sharp, skeptical, often profane, unapologetically direct.
• Leans into humor, sarcasm, and brutal honesty to expose hypocrisy and cultural missteps.
• Uses personal anecdotes, cultural deep dives, and direct quotes to keep dialogue lively and accessible.

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Conclusion

This episode of The Nerve is a must-listen for anyone interested in media ethics, celebrity culture, and the ongoing battle for authentic, ethical representation in entertainment. Maureen Callahan and her guest provide not only gossip and hot takes, but valuable insight into how fame, power, and new media interact in sometimes chilling ways. The critique of Euphoria stands out as a cultural call-to-arms for more responsible storytelling and the rejection of exploitation as “art.”

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[Maureen Callahan]

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[Shasti Flaw]

Thank you so much. I love your intro. I feel really honored to be on your show. I've been following your coverage on this as well. And you dig deep into Ryan Reynolds as well.

[Maureen Callahan]

Oh, yeah, we're not going to let Ryan go. We're not letting that guy go. Before we begin, and thank you for the kind words. I want to make sure I have the pronunciation of your name correct because

[Shasti Flaw]

it sounds a tiny bit off.

[Maureen Callahan]

But you know, tell me how, tell me how I was off.

[Shasti Flaw]

Shasti.

[Maureen Callahan]

Shasti. Yes, Shashti. Okay, I got it. It's in. In. We Irish have a similar issue with. There's a name, Siobhan, that is not spelled at all the way it's pronounced. So I'm. I'm glad because I was looking up how to pronounce your name, and I was getting variations on it. So.

[Shasti Flaw]

Yeah.

[Maureen Callahan]

Shasti. Okay, we're going to begin with the interview clip that went round the world and then some. This is you interviewing Blake and Parker Posey for. During the press junket for a Woody Allen film called Cafe Society. You would think that Blake, who clearly loves to think she's brilliant, really smart, married to a brilliant guy, might think there are other talking points that she would be grateful have not been addressed yet by you. But no, you had the temerity she. Shasti. To congratulate Blake on her announced pregnancy. Here we go.

[Shasti Flaw]

First of all, congrats on your little bump.

[Maureen Callahan]

Congrats on your little bump.

[Blake Lively / Parker Posey (Interview Clips)]

What about my bump? You've got two nice ones, and these.

[Maureen Callahan]

They are kind of bumps, aren't they?

[Blake Lively / Parker Posey (Interview Clips)]

No, not bumps. The lovely lady lumps.

[Maureen Callahan]

Check it out. Thank you. Thank you. So, Blake, my. My inter. I can only imagine what you were thinking in that moment. In my interpretation, Blake takes so much umbrage that you have dared to notice she's expecting and congratulate her on it that she turns to you and says, congrats on your bump. Like, you know, like, you're gonna suffer for this. You're gonna pay. I'm gonna remark upon your body, which is a big no, no, Blake. And then Parker interjects herself and. And then Blake turns her attention over to Parker and refuses to look in your direction, which is the height of rudeness. Please, Shasti, tell us what was going through your mind when. When. When this. This began.

[Shasti Flaw]

Oh, my God. So many things was going through my mind. First, when she said, congrats on your little bump, I was really taken aback, and I was like. And it didn't really register at first. Cause I was like, did she just say that? You know, you're just sitting there and being in those press junkies. You know, there's a lot going on, and there's a lot of pressure. There's cameras where publicists, all these people around you. So you're sitting there being really alert all the time. And then, of course, when I started asking about the costumes, and she basically said, you know, would she ask a man that? And I was like, yes. Why wouldn't I ask a man about the costume? Because I'm, like, a sexist. So what went through? Combined, I was like. First I was like, she's kidding. Okay. This is her sense of humor. And then it Started getting really uncomfortable because, as you know, they ignored me throughout the entire conversation.

[Maureen Callahan]

Yeah, we're gonn show other parts of that interview, but for the troublemakers, could you describe what it's like circa now? I mean, I know 2016, it was about 10 years ago, but when you're interviewing actors, actresses as part of a press junket, typically, you know, the days of long form celebrity profiling, the gay talises of the world, it's over, it's done. They basically put you in a hotel room and it's the journalists cycling in and out of a room. It's the talent that just sits there. Everything is kind of a softball. Nobody's out to get anybody. Everybody has a job to do. Everybody's a professional. And what struck me from the jump with this interview was how mean and nasty what a vicious little piece of work Blake Lively is. You rarely see that during a junket.

[Shasti Flaw]

No, because most people understand that when there are cameras on you, you should behave nicely, you know, and to journalists. Why would you be rude to a journalist? It's like, it's a dumbest thing. Like, okay, if you think she's better

[Maureen Callahan]

than you and I, of course that's what it is. She thinks she's better. She's an actress. She memorizes lines for a living, knows how to hit a mark, and may or may not have an involvement with Harvey Weinstein to get her career off the ground, Reportedly, allegedly. Just my opinion, but she's better than you and me.

[Shasti Flaw]

But you know what I found really interesting about this whole scenario is that they actually let me keep the tape because most of the time when celebrities are not behaving the way they should in an interview, the publicist will step in and not give you the tape. So you will not leave that press junket with the actual interview. But they left me keep it. Which says a lot about Blake and her publicist as well. Probably Leslie Sloan thinking this is normal. This is just Blake being Blake. This is completely normal. And I think that is really. Yeah. Something to also think about.

[Maureen Callahan]

Yes. And I think again to think about how well matched and well suited Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are. I think they're two peas in a pod. I think they're two vicious little bitches. Just my opinion. We're going to look at this part of the interview in which you recover very nicely. Because as you said, you're shocked. You're like, you're in this room. Lights, cameras, everybody has a job to do. You're on. And she insults you and you're still trying to absorb whether that was deliberate or hopefully it's just a strange sense of humor. But then you recover and you ask the both of them, hey, this was a period piece. And by the way, not for nothing, Blake Lively loves nothing more than getting dressed up, as we just saw over at the Met gala. Again, you have the gall shirsta to ask about Shasti. Sorry. To ask about the clothes, the costumes in this film. We're going to look at this and then I want you to talk to us again about what was going through your mind. Here we go.

[Shasti Flaw]

Did you guys love wearing those kind of clothes that you.

[Maureen Callahan]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Shasti Flaw]

And you know, working in digital, no

[Blake Lively / Parker Posey (Interview Clips)]

one wants to talk about the clothes, but I wonder if they would ask the men about the clothes.

[Shasti Flaw]

I would.

[Maureen Callahan]

I love hoj Jesse's.

[Blake Lively / Parker Posey (Interview Clips)]

That's what I'm saying. His.

[Maureen Callahan]

His wardrobe was again, Blake refusing to

[Blake Lively / Parker Posey (Interview Clips)]

look at Shasty high waisted pants.

[Maureen Callahan]

He's so great.

[Blake Lively / Parker Posey (Interview Clips)]

I would wish men wore high waisted pants. Still, the father with his, with his, his tank top.

[Maureen Callahan]

So good. It's just like Parker's no better. Her body language is totally closed off.

[Shasti Flaw]

There's so much warmth of everything, you know?

[Maureen Callahan]

Yeah.

[Blake Lively / Parker Posey (Interview Clips)]

It's not just the, the women that have the clothes, but I feel like the women get the conversation.

[Maureen Callahan]

We know that Blake.

[Blake Lively / Parker Posey (Interview Clips)]

Detail with everybody. Yes.

[Maureen Callahan]

It was amazing to look at.

[Blake Lively / Parker Posey (Interview Clips)]

And then the white suits.

[Maureen Callahan]

Yes.

[Blake Lively / Parker Posey (Interview Clips)]

And then you notice in la, like everybody's in cream colors and all the men are wearing like white and cream. And then you get to New York and it's a little bit more browns and moodier. And Susie really told such a story.

[Shasti Flaw]

Yeah,

[Maureen Callahan]

I just sort of let that drone on so that the audience could get a sense of, of how long those two droned on about a bunch of nonsense bullshit just to make you feel excluded from the very interview you were conducting for their shitty fucking movie.

[Shasti Flaw]

Yeah, I mean, it's, it's interesting. I mean, I watched it so many times now and every time I. It's almost like I feel sorry for myself there because I remember you should. I was like, you know, it, it is so unreal that people behave like that. These are grown up women. And as you say, Parker Posey was there. She was like in her 40s. It's not like they're 20 years old or like teenager or high school girls. They're actually grown up women who do this to someone else. And. Yeah, I don't know what more to say about it. It was just a horrific experience and I kind Of I was sitting there thinking in my head, you know, should I just walk up, stand up and just leave? I, I was thinking that, but you know, when if you do that, they would punish me for doing that.

[Maureen Callahan]

Exactly.

[Shasti Flaw]

So I was thinking, I'll just sit here. They did cut the interview shorter because I was supposed to do this for two TV stations, actually one in Norway and one in Germany. And so I was supposed to have 10 minutes altogether, but they cut it short. So I got like four minutes or whatever.

[Maureen Callahan]

So you got punished basically because she and Parker Posey were being high school mean girl bitches to you. Parker Posey was no better there. She could have actually turned that around and or done something to acknowledge you and what you were there to do. We showed this not to revisit what I'm sure is, is not pleasant for you, but I want to show the through line to now. That was in 2016, long before any of this. This is Blake at the Met gala on Monday. These lip syncing reels have been going viral. They are all over social media. This is Blake doing what she thinks is crisis management and image rehab. That's just my opinion. I don't know why else you would show up after settling with the guy within hours. And let's look at. This is a. I believe this is a deaf woman who is giving her lip reading of what Blake is saying to the male attendants on this staircase trying to help her look good. Here we go. Thank you.

[Shasti Flaw]

Can I give you a.

[Maureen Callahan]

Wait, can I just give you this for one second?

[Shasti Flaw]

Thank you.

[Maureen Callahan]

You guys can just leave it that way if you want. It'll trail behind me. Yeah, thank you. Sorry, sorry, guys. Hold, hold on one sec. Do you mind fluffing that? I'm so sorry. Perfect. Perfect. That's great. Thank you. Sorry. They work so hard. I have to make it nice. I'll be there soon. I'm standing all over this thing.

[Shasti Flaw]

Oh, my God.

[Maureen Callahan]

Jasty, talk to us. Tell us your interpretation of everything that was going on in that little scene.

[Shasti Flaw]

Well, she's very sorry about everything though. I think she's like, now she's on her best behavior, obviously. And I watched that other interview she did as well on the red carpet where she's saying she' very shy and all that, but her whole appearance there, I mean, I'm sure you were shocked as me when you saw her actually attending them at Couldn't believe it. The audacity. I was like, this is not real. I thought it was AI at first. I was like, that's not her. She can't be doing that.

[Maureen Callahan]

No, we were doing a live stream and I was. I was in the live chat with our troublemakers, and one said, maureen Blake is at the Met gala. I thought it was a joke. And then another one came in and another one. It was clearly a DEFCON 1 situation. But I'm gonna say I disagree with you a little bit with the. When she's on the, on that red carpet and her arm goes out like this and she says, you could just let it go. It'll trail behind me, you know, like God forbid, the train, which is already like a pile of like Kleenex, it looks like not splay properly down the cascade, down the steps. It made me think, Shasti, of this great pop cultural artifact, because I do think that Blake and this other figure befouling our culture have a lot in common. I would like you to take a look at this and tell me if you see any similarities. Here we go. This is Meghan Markle with Harry on a walkabout in the wake of Queen Elizabeth II's death. And again, this was a moment where Meghan had. She was going to try to make herself look relatable and personable and warm. And what does she do? After a British citizen hands her a bouquet of flowers, a male aide comes to take them from her and she snaps at him visibly. She's like, you know what you could do? You could just take it and go over there. Oh, thank you, thank you. I see the cameras on me now. Thank you.

[Shasti Flaw]

Well, at least she's trying to be nice when the cameras are there.

[Maureen Callahan]

I mean, it is such a low bar, is it not? Those of us who work in the media, we have got to push back and say, enough is enough. This is some horseshit.

[Shasti Flaw]

You know what? For me, Meghan Markle is just like, she's not even interesting because I feel like I'm just so over her that I feel like she doesn't even deserve to be talk. Talked about at. But yes, I think you're right. There are some similarities there for sure. But yeah, I think at least she's nice to journalists, isn't she? I mean, who, Megan?

[Maureen Callahan]

Yeah, well, she doesn't really give many sit down interviews anymore for broadcast. You know, she prefers print. But, you know, we saw it. I don't know how much of With Love Meghan you watched, but I don't know. I don't know, like, if you caught her snapping at like her makeup artist for daring to like, taste a little bit of some jarred edible she had behind her back. You know, it is walking a tightrope to be in the presence. I want to run. This is also from your interview with her, which I thought this is the thing that says it all. Blake on Image versus reality when it comes to celebrities. Here we go.

[Blake Lively / Parker Posey (Interview Clips)]

That's the thing, you know, as far as, like, relating to it personally, that you see, you know, you have these ideas of people that you're fans of, and then you meet them and get to know them as a person. And oftentimes you're such a greater fan of them as a person than you are as the person that people feel like they know. And that's always. That. That's always nice and refreshing when you see that.

[Shasti Flaw]

Yeah.

[Maureen Callahan]

Parker's got her hand over the. Over the chair arm, practically stroking Blake's leg. You know, as Blake's going on and on about how awesome it is to meet famous, because usually they're even better than you would hope they would be. And she is a living testament to being the absolute fucking living worst this side of Meghan Markle. The west coast of America has Meghan be fouling it. And the east coast of America has Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds be fouling it.

[Shasti Flaw]

Yeah, I mean, at least she gave an answer to this. I was like, wow, she's answering a question. And then when I listened to it afterwards, because in that moment, I was just like. I just wanted to leave. I was like, okay, yeah, it makes a lot of sense that people believe that she's much nicer in person when they actually meet her. Which, yeah, as you know, that didn't really happen to me as I was sitting there.

[Maureen Callahan]

I don't think it happens to most people.

[Shasti Flaw]

Oh, no. So, I mean. Yeah, I don't know what to say.

[Maureen Callahan]

Did you get a sense when you were sitting with her? I mean, I realized you were in shock because it really is highly, highly unusual for. For. For an actor to be so rude to a journalist in an interview like this. But did you get a sense of. Of a dark energy with her that she was really capable of, of. Of the kind of explosive accusations she was going to level at, like a Justin Baldoni?

[Shasti Flaw]

Oh, gosh, I don't know what they actually did to this poor, poor man. I don't know if you think anyone's capable of doing something like that. I. I was so shocked. And as you know, they accused me as well in that New York Times article to be part of this underground untraceable smear machine, and which I wasn't but, you know, to think that someone's capable of that. I don't know. I, I, I, no, I didn't think so. I mean, I, I could never think that anyone would do something like that, like, what they did in general, and, and then afterwards, just go to the Met Gala to support survivors.

[Maureen Callahan]

It's like, did her accusations against you ever require you to hire a lawyer?

[Shasti Flaw]

Yeah. So she subpoenaed me like she did with over a hundred other journalists and content creators to get access to my Google and my YouTube, my phone number, my credit card number, everything. So, yeah.

[Maureen Callahan]

What did you. How did the subpoena. In America, they have to physically find you and put the subpoena in your hands and say, you have been served. How did that happen for you? And when.

[Shasti Flaw]

So that's the thing. What they did was really sneaky. So what they did, they didn't subpoena me personally. They subpoena my Google accounts, my YouTube.

[Maureen Callahan]

What?

[Shasti Flaw]

Yes.

[Maureen Callahan]

They can do that.

[Shasti Flaw]

Yes. So I was, I got a. Received a text message from Andy Signer over at Popcorn Planet saying, hey, have you been subpoenaed, too? I'm like, what do you mean? I was in Spain. I was like. And then I went through my emails, and I was like, oh, there is an email from Google here. And it says, like, something about Blake Lively. And I was really confused. And he's like, I've been trying to call her lawyer's office to see if this is actually real. And they got hold of them, and they said that, no, they didn't know anything about it. And then after a while, they kind of admitted that it was real.

[Maureen Callahan]

Her lawyers said it wasn't real.

[Shasti Flaw]

Yeah, they.

[Maureen Callahan]

And then how long, how much time elapses before they're forced to concede that it is real?

[Shasti Flaw]

So one of the people working in the office of her lawyer's office said that we don't know anything about this. Andy actually did. He did a video about it when he was calling them live to see how they responded. And of course, they used that against him afterwards, that he wasn't allowed to record them, whatever. But then I think it was maybe the next day or something that we realized it was real. So a lot of people probably never found out that their Google account was subpoenaed, because I heard later on that it took people a week or two weeks to realize that they were actually subpoenaed as well, because it didn't happen the traditional way. Some, some people, like Andy and I think Candace Owens and Paris Hilton, they Got like different subpoenas as well, on top of that, like to. For their personal emails and phones and everything like that that they had to fight, which added, again, I mean, it's crazy.

[Maureen Callahan]

The idea, again, like, if you're not American, the idea that a celebrity could attempt to subpoena you and access all of your information to get access to your reporting or your sources is verboten. It is beyond. It is not constitutional. This woman is out of her mind. How much did it cost you in legal fees and what kind of fear were you in until this resolved itself?

[Shasti Flaw]

Well, you know, I. First I was like, I can do this myself. I can use AI or whatever. But then I had one of the members of my audience reach out to me and say, my husband is a lawyer. Do you want to talk to him? So I spoke to him and he was like, I can represent you. And of course, you know, things like that cost up to $10,000. So it's not a joke for, you know, for most people when you have to deal with something like that and you are basically forced to hire an attorney. I know that some content creators did it by themselves. One of the people who was subpoenaed, she had one follower on YouTube. So what? Yes. So it was obvious what they were trying to do. They were just trying to scare and silence people who were talking about the case.

[Maureen Callahan]

So, yeah, the case that she publicized with what seemed like a bought and paid for feature in the new investigative feature in the New York Times at the end of 2024, alleging all kinds of false behavior against Justin Baldoni and that, like all bullies, they can't take it. She tells on herself. She turns around and she thinks the answer is to try to suppress alternative media in the digital lane. You fucking trick. Now you're really in for it. She's really in for it now, don't you think?

[Shasti Flaw]

Yes. I mean, everything that she's done so far has backfired on her, if you ask me. And every evidence that she brought forward in this case really proved the opposite of what she was trying to prove. Every time she's like, look at this. This is what happened. And everyone's like, well, you know, that actually proves what you did to Justin. Like, all of this that she has done so far has proved her smear campaign against Justin and Jamie Heath and the other people involved. I mean, we have not seen any evidence yet of any smear machine, as they're calling it. So.

[Maureen Callahan]

Yeah, well, I, I can. You know, Blake is married to an actual arsonist. Psycho arsonist Ryan Reynolds who burned his elementary school down to the ground in Canada and joked about getting away with it in the fairly recent past. And she is a career arsonist and she tried to burn down Justin's career but really, really she's burning down her own. And we love love loved having you here and we hope she that you will come back.

[Shasti Flaw]

I will for sure. It was so much fun being here and I do as I said I do follow you. I love how you were just so brutally honest all the time. It's very shame pathology.

[Maureen Callahan]

I can't help it. Talk to you soon.

[Shasti Flaw]

Love it. Thank you.

[Maureen Callahan]

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We are back now before we get to all of your incredible, original, insightful, hilarious feedback, we have some cultural offender housekeeping to attend to. The minute I saw this, I forwarded it directly to our beloved Marlena. Sarah Jessica Parker, on Instagram this weekend. Saturday posts an image video that she clearly took on her iPhone of a fire raging in a fireplace. And she wanted us all to know that she was out at her beach house in Amagansett. On the water. At the beach. Just so in case you don't get it, it's Long Island. It's on the water. But no, she's on the fucking water. And artfully arranged in front of this fireplace, her reading material, her New Yorker magazines, her back issues, her novel, whatever the fuck it was. And she posts and she's like, she. This is one of the most passive aggressive, humble brags. I mean, it's like a Jet Li martial arts move for the ages. She wanted us to know that she was luxuriating in her fire at the beach on a. On a. On a kind of raw weekend. And yes, it did happen to be Mother's Day weekend. And she was alone because all three of her children were traveling all together somewhere off on some kind of adventure, and her husband was in the city working. So she was alone on Mother's Day. Alone on Mother's Day. So not only is she trying to rub her wealth and. And. And her toggling between her luxurious homes and everyone's faces and her. Her. All of her leisure time that she can spend reading, but. But she's also her. Her ungrateful children, who were probably raised by the nannies while she was out trying to, like, hustle any other iteration of sex in the city she could get off the ground. They don't have time for her on Mother's Day because she's never around. Just my supposition. Just my guess. And you know, a childless SJP on Mother's Day really shouldn't be that surprising because she is, after all, 900 years old. She is our favorite sprightly 900 year old heroine. So, you know, no kids for her. Okay. Marlena asks me if I want to roll it. Why not? Let's do it. I'm going to read her caption, which is so insufferable, written almost like a haiku, except it's got like eight lines. Slept almost seven hours. Period. Woke, period. Made a fire. The beach is quiet. All alone. No children, who are all together on a special weekend away with one another. My husband has two shows today. No cats, no laundry. Momentarily At Sixes and Sevens. See, she's our favorite sprightly 900 year old heroine. She references. She references. Sixes and Sevens. Continuing. Found my reading material. Like ballast. Oh stop. Like ballast. I've heard about these types of days. I suppose I will remain in my nightgown. X comma SJ fuck. I'll the way off. Next, an IG post from the widow Kennedy Carol Radziwill. Carol on May 1, showing off her outfit of the day. This woman is in her 60s, I believe. And she also gave a link in her bio to break down each piece. And she's posing like she thinks she's a fucking supermodel. The caption Casual Fridays with ellipses. Well, she's coming back to the Real Housewives of New York City reboot. As a friend of so we've got her. Our eyes on her. We had another piece for B Block, but in the interest of time we are going to have to revisit it on Friday and it is a banger. Okay, a few emails from you guys. I'll never forget seeing a meme online about celebrity scandals a few years ago. We're still getting favorite celebrity scandals in the wake of our contest for a signed copy of Rob Shooter's book. And there are so many and I'm kind of thinking the nerve should institute like kind of a regular segment that would be reoccurring not every week, but like celebrity scandals of yore. And we could really go deep because there are so many great ones and I can't believe I forgot this one. Truly iconic, as Troublemaker Caroline says, the message Justin Bieber left in the guest book at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. The Anne Frank House, as we all know, is literally where Anne Frank lived in hiding from the Nazis until she and her family were captured and Anne Frank was taken to a concentration camp where she died. And it's now a museum. Justin Bieber visited the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam and wrote in the guest book. Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Ann was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a Belieber. A Belieber. A believer in Justin. The Beliebers. The Portmanteau, a hilarious moment in the 2013 cultural zeitgeist. I will tell you. Troublemaker Caroline, when I read that, I thought it was apocryphal. I thought somebody made it up. I thought not even a child star can be that fucking thick. Maureen. I can't believe nobody dropped this one. The Austrian bodybuilder who emigrated to America, learned English got himself into motion pictures to become one of the most bankable stars in history, actually married into America's quote unquote royal family of the Kennedys, parlayed that into becoming governor of California, which is why he married and let's get real, then sent all of that crashing down when it was revealed he had impregnated the family housekeeper while his own wife, Maria Shriver, was also pregnant. Now that is a deep dive for the ages. Hello, fellow troublemaker. I wanted to share something with you that made my skin crawl when I saw it. And if you can find what I'm talking about, please let me know. So we're going to do a dive and see if we can find this. This troublemaker says, years ago while watching Conan o', Brien, Tom Hanks was a guest. And Conan brought up an odd hobby that Tom had and asked him to elaborate. Again, this is just this troublemaker's recollection. The odd hobby was that Tom liked to take pictures of, quote, random objects he comes across in his travels, such as the odd single mitten or shoe or glove, all singles of a pair, one la one left behind. They laughed kind of. And it felt like he, Tom, was trying to downplay something to nothing. In all seriousness, as I watched that, I literally felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Now, I understand what you're intimating here. We have for quite some time on an early, early, early nerve and we've never gotten around to it. But you know, there's a very stubborn conspiracy theory that's almost funny, but does kind of hold itself in the culture that Garth Brooks is actually a serial killer. And if you were to line up Garth Brooks's tour dates and cities with missing persons, the coincidental missing persons to wherever he's been performing is wild. And I think that's what this troublemaker is getting at here. And you know, I'm not saying I think Tom Hanks is a serial killer. I frankly don't think he has the kind of time required. But I have always detected a lot of rage in Tom Hanks. I think he has a lot of rage. Anyway, keep your feedback coming. Email me at maureenvilmakehairmedia.com or DM me on Instagram @maureen callahanrider or at the nerve show. Remember to subscribe to the Nerves Substack, our weekly email. Go over to thenerveshow.com to sign up for that. Up next, apparently we are not done with Sydney Sweeney, Sam Levinson euphoria and what it is doing to the culture because what just aired on Sunday night's episode is apparently too much for actual women on OnlyFans. We are doing it. We are getting into it. We will see you in a minute. If you're someone looking to lose weight but you're not interested in painful weekly injections with scary side effects, there is an alternative a weight loss supplement called Lean. The doctors at Brickhouse Nutrition created Lean for frustrated dieters with 10 or more pounds to lose. 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See vrbo.com trust for details. We are back. The final season of Euphoria on HBO cannot end soon enough. You know, at least HBO had the good sense to cancel the Idol after one season when the culture revolted in just utter disgust. Sam Levinson was behind the Idol. Sam Levinson is behind Euphoria. In my opinion. Sam Levinson hates women, is a pornographer hiding behind cinematography, proving himself as some sort of visionary director. The guy is making young women do all sorts of nudity and engage in all manner of sexual humiliation on his show. To what end, I have no idea other than his own gratification. And again, as I said, the first time we did Euphoria on the Nerve, which was for the premiere, I think, especially the Women at HBO really need to ask themselves some hard questions and why they're propping this shit up in the culture. And I'm beginning to wonder about Sydney Sweeney because she has enough power where she could. She could say, there's no fucking way I'm doing this. If you notice, as a troublemaker pointed out to me, Maude Apatow, who is the daughter of Judd Apatow, is a cast member. She's a young woman on this show. She's the only one who's not humiliated this way. Wonder why Sydney Sweeney really, really, really, she should have a real conversation with her management and her agents, because this is not helping her. I'm really beginning to think that either she's not bright enough to realize what this guy is doing to her, or that she thinks that this is somehow empowering and is just going to get her all manner of brand deals and movie deals because she's being made to act in degrading pornography here. Degrading. This episode again aired on Sunday night, season three, episode five. I think there's like 10 episodes in this season. It cannot end soon enough. The title, I couldn't make it up. This little piggy. Know who the piggy is in the title? It's Sydney Sweeney's character, Cassie. She's dressed up like a piggy, creating onlyfans content, sucking her own toes. Most recently seen dressed up as a baby. We're going to take a look now. This sot we cut. It's a little bit long, but it's necessary to see not just the lengths to which Sam Levinson will go to humiliate girls and women. And if I were his wife, I'd be taking a second, third, fourth fucking look at the guy you married. If you have children with this guy, if you have daughters with this guy, I would advise you to run. Here we go. This little piggy went to the market. This little piggy stayed home. This little piggy ate a big, big meal. This little piggy ate none. This little piggy went wee, wee, wee

[Blake Lively / Parker Posey (Interview Clips)]

all the way home within 24 hours of Brandon Fontaine tagging Cassie.

[Maureen Callahan]

I'd like to thank all my fans for watching and subscribing. I hope you enjoy. It's just me, Cassie.

[Blake Lively / Parker Posey (Interview Clips)]

She had 17,000 new subscribers.

[Shasti Flaw]

Slide your hand forward. Yes.

[Maureen Callahan]

Maddie worked her to the bone. I want to see more ass.

[Shasti Flaw]

Yeah, yeah, hook it up.

[Maureen Callahan]

Hello, it's your favorite dream girl. Just be Coyote. Just being filmed. Masturbating in bed. Her filthy underwear then put into FedEx packages to be mailed to her paying customers. Jumping rope without a bra, plunging bodysuit. You want to spend the night in the hole.

[Blake Lively / Parker Posey (Interview Clips)]

Specifically, specific positions to focus on specific body parts.

[Maureen Callahan]

Microphones rubbing up against her breasts. Do you want to hear my others

[Blake Lively / Parker Posey (Interview Clips)]

want to jerk off instructions?

[Maureen Callahan]

Want to be told what to do to be humiliated? You fat little. I'm very, very disappointed in you. Let me see you play with your daughter tiny little penis. Or to humiliate her. I'm not going to fart in a jar for $700. You fart in the jar, he's not going to know the difference.

[Blake Lively / Parker Posey (Interview Clips)]

Okay, but the most common request is

[Maureen Callahan]

that they wanted Cassie to say their name. Connor, you're going to punish me. Joshua Robert Hunter, Army Cass. And her cinematographer videographer, comes in to find her passed out on her bed with a moving vibrator left on the floor. The reference to selling farts in a jar is clearly a callback to the actress herself, Sydney Sweeney, selling her used bath water to fans for hundreds of dollars. This is a negative in the culture. And the part where she's doing the. The whispering the ASMR thing into a prosthetic ear and saying, oh, you're going to punish me? You're gonna. That's really fucked up. That's fucked up messaging for women. This is the normalization that a certain cohort of men want girls and young women to think is real. That that's just sex play. That that's just consensual sex play. Being punished, being beaten, being choked out. It's not. It's very fucking dangerous. It's very fucking dangerous. Daily Mail. Sydney Sweeney goes topless and sucks toe in shock Euphoria scenes as fans slam, quote, disturbing show. Now, Variety spoke to an actual OnlyFans creator named Sydney Leathers, who the culture has seen before. Sidney says to Variety, there's just a lot that's ridiculous and cartoonish about Euphoria. She's been on OnlyFans since 2017. Sydney says. Sydney Leathers, that is, says, quote, there's so much that they have her Sydney Sweeney doing that is not even allowed on only fans. That should tell you something. Even an actual porn site is like, that's too fucking much. We would never allow that. Ever. Sydney Leather says the age place stuff where Sydney Sweeney is dressed as a baby in a diaper. Credit card processors have very strict rules that you have to abide by. And the rules are getting stricter all the time. That would never fly. It flies over at hbo, make no mistake. It's just. It's A transaction only fans at least is honest about what they're doing. HBO is selling the kind of porn that even only fans can't sell. We first met Sidney Leathers when Anthony Weiner, who used to be married to Hillary's top aide Uma Abedin, was running for mayor in New York City after he was caught in a sex scandal for the ages. You know, and he was like, give me another shot. I'm reformed. Sidney Leathers blew up his spot right before election day. She went public. She said, hey, guess what? This perv has been sexting with me the whole time. Here she is on Howard Stern in 2016. Take a look.

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I think I am a little bit angry with him. What pissed me off was him on the campaign trail saying, oh, I've changed, and trying to act like he has this perfect marriage now and everything's just peach.

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[Maureen Callahan]

Yeah. I was like, I am proof that you have not changed.

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You know what I. I fantasize about, actually. If you did go to confront him,

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I think we should. Let's do it. I'd be like, Carlos Danger, meet Mrs. Danger. Mrs.

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Yeah, that would be perfect.

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I'm ready to do it.

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I'm ready to do it. So Carlos Danger was Anthony Weiner's nom de plume, his nom de porn plume, and Sydney Leathers that night. If you have not seen the documentary Wiener, I implore you, treat yourself. Treat yourself. You have not lived until you have seen a sex worker named Sidney Leathers chase a front running a one time front runner for New York mayor through the bowels of a McDonald's in downtown Manhattan on election night. You haven't lived. Okay. Sidney Leathers says what's going on? On euphoria is too much for her and her. Her fellow sex workers over on Only Fans. That should say something. Here's Sam Levinson's response to the criticism he's getting. This is not a bright guy. Not a bright guy. Sydney Sweeney's Cassie dressing up like a dog to have sex on Only Fans and with her husband in the show played by Jacob Elordi. Here's, here's here. Here's the artistic reason Sam's going to try to shovel at us for making Sydney Sweeney dress up like a dog. And Sydney Sweeney really like you got you better you. If you. You know what it's one thing if you think this is art, like, if you're that fucking dumb, if you really think this is art. But think about the girls and women who are being trained to think that this is normal, that women dressing up as household pets, as dogs. He had her putting her face in a dog bowl and licking water. He's saying, I regard you as. This also tells us what Sam Levinson thinks about dogs. Now that I think about it, you know, I think the guy's a danger all around. Sam Levinson to the Hollywood Reporter. Sydney Sweeney as Cassie, quote, has got her dog house and her little dog years in the nose. And that has its own humor. No, it doesn't. My aside. No, it does not. Sam continues. But what makes the scene. What makes the scene is the fact that. The fact that is redundant. You never say it. You just say, what makes the scene is that our housekeeper. The fact that never use it is the fact that her housekeeper is the one filming it. What we wanted to always find is the other layer of absurdity. There's no absurdity here, man. Straight up porn. What we always wanted to find is the other layer of absurdity that we're able to tie into it so that we're not too inside of Cassie's fantasy or illusion. The gag is to jump out to break the wall. So he thinks the thing that elevates this from porn to cultural commentary and art is that her housekeeper is the one being made to film her. It's not. Sam, you're a hack. You're a fucking hack. You. Here is Zendaya, the other star, who is currently being made to play a drug mule and who is shot very unflatteringly. The lighting. She's always dirty, she's always filthy, she's always in mortal danger. You just got to shove packets of dope. Upper rectum or what? You know what I mean? He fudgeing hates women. This is Zendaya getting pulled away from Sam Levinson on the red carpet at the Euphoria season three premiere. Here she is, you can see her. She turns around and Sam's right there and he's going, come here, come here, come here. And Zendaya's turning around her arms. She's like, what? What? What? And her handler grabs her and she's like, running away. She's in heels. She's running away from the guy. Per Radar Online exclusive. New Zendaya Feud. A lister clashing with Euphoria boss over his fixation on raunchy scenes. Raunchy isn't strong Enough. A word. Published April 20, 2026 By Aaron Tinney this feud, according to the Radar Report, dates back to 2023 and the Idol. The Idol, a source familiar with the production told us. Radar reports quote, make no mistake, this is a new Zendaya feud. She has been clashing with Sam Levinson over his fixation on raunchy scenes, which filled the Idol and have always been a trademark of euphoria. We began the show with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds trying to destroy the career of Justin Baldoni. And we end the show with a pornographer and I think a dangerous misogynist. Just my opinion. HBO Hollywood propping this guy up as a visionary. Fucking do something. Okay, me too. Was not so we could wind up with this cultural slop. That does it. That does it for our Tuesday edition of the Nerve. Come back and see us tomorrow for a super fun, gossipy nerve at night. If you haven't already, go check out our substack our weekly [e-mail] and be sure to subscribe. It really helps the show to grow. Plus, we've got Nerve merch. Go grab something for yourself or a fellow [e-mail] and we will see you back here tomorrow night at the Nerve, where you will never guess what we're about to say next.

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