Journalist Kjersti Flaa has set the record straight behind why she has shared her "nightmare" interview with Blake Lively now, eight years after it took place.
The interviewer said it was a "coincidence" that it was released at the same time as rumors swirl around the actress and her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni.
It is claimed that Lively, 36, and director Baldoni, 40, didn't get along behind the scenes and that the latter "fat-shamed" her, while she has received criticism for how she has been promoting the film, not in line with it's serious subject matter.
But Norwegian-born Flaa has told TMZ that she was unaware of "this other controversy" when she went public with their 2016 conversation via YouTube on Saturday.
The four-minute long upload entitled, The Blake Lively interview that made me want to quit my job, has quickly amassed 1.6 million views and more than 7,600 comments.
Flaa said she was initially "ashamed" of their "uncomfortable" chat but exposed what had happened following a conversation with another journalist.
While her full interview was not shared by TMZ, she explained in a video: "It's kind of a coincidence that it happened now, because I was contacted last week by a reporter that said, he's just done a press junket and his interview was confiscated afterwards.
"He asked me, 'Have you ever experienced anything like that?' And I said, 'No, I've never got my tape confiscated, but of course I've had very unpleasant experiences'."
Flaa continued: "We started talking about the Blake Lively interview and you know, I've never uploaded that to YouTube because I was kind of embarrassed by it.
"I felt, you know, in that situation, a little ashamed at first as I didn't know what happened. I didn't know what I said that was so bad that made her and Parker [Posey] behave like that.
"I think it's important to let people know that these things go on sometimes and maybe it [will] help or prevent it from happening again."
When someone asked if she'd seen "this other controversy" and suggested it was "funny" she'd shared the interview now in the midst of it, Flaa said she "hadn't."
She said she'd only watched It Ends With Us but "had no idea about all the other stuff" and "can't really comment on it" as she wasn't there.
Lively and Posey, 55, had been promoting Woody Allen's Café Society when Flaa suffered "the most uncomfortable interview situation [she'd] ever experienced."
Writing alongside the clip, she said: "Is it not OK to congratulate someone on their pregnancy or to ask another woman about costumes she is wearing in a film? Let me know what you think."
Flaa had started the interview by saying to a then-pregnant Lively, "Congrats on your little bump," to which the latter repeated back to her, seemingly not appreciating the remark.
When asked whether she enjoyed wearing the offering's 1930s costumes, Lively responded by asking if they would ask their male co-stars the same, which Flaa said she would.
Flaa went on to later explain to DailyMail.com of Lively's initial retort: "[Her comment] left me almost paralyzed. To be honest it hurts because I obviously wasn't pregnant and I could never get pregnant so to me that comment was like a bullet. I didn't know how to react."
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