Blake Lively addresses workplace safety in remarks at Time 100 Gala

Blake Lively was honored at the Time 100 Gala on Thursday, where she alluded to her ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni and paid tribute to her mother.

Blake Lively was honored at the Time 100 Gala on Thursday, where she alluded to her ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni and paid tribute to her mother. “I have so much to say about the last two years of my life, but tonight is not the forum,” the “It Ends With Us” star and producer, who was featured among the magazine’s “Most Influential People of 2025,” began her remarks at the event in New York City’s Lincoln Center. “What I will speak to, separately, is the feeling of being a woman who has a voice today,” Lively continued. She then introduced her mother, Willie Elain McAlpin, and said with her “urging and unwavering bravery” that her mother had encouraged her to share that McAlpin is a survivor of “the worst crime someone can commit against a woman.” “My mom never got justice from her work acquaintance who attempted to take her life when she was the mother of three young kids years before I was born,” Lively said. It was another survivor’s courage to share her account on the radio, Lively explained, who helped her mother.