EXCLUSIVEBlake Lively accused me of smearing her. My username is 'Thick Jewish Girl' so you can only imagine the disgusting hate sent my way
A Jewish TikTok creator has accused Blake Lively of bringing a 'wave of hate' upon her after she was inadvertently dragged into the legal drama involving the actress and her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni.
Nikki Lieberman, 26, tells Daily Mail in an exclusive interview that she's been subjected to online vitriol, false accusations, anti-Semitism, and even troubles involving her work, after she posted a TikTok video calling out Lively for staying silent on domestic violence during the promotion of the film last summer.
Lively had appeared to shy away from some of the tougher topics dealt with in the movie - which is an adaptation of the best-selling Colleen Hoover romance novel that includes domestic violence plot lines.
Lieberman, under her TikTok handle, 'ThickJewishGirl', weighed in on the controversy in a video expressing disappointment that Lively wasn't raising awareness about domestic abuse to the same extent that Lieberman felt Lively's co-star and director Justin Baldoni had.
'I am flabbergasted that, with the huge audience that Blake Lively has and all of the press interviews that she's had, she doesn't once talk about domestic violence,' Lieberman said in a video posted last August.
Just a few months later, in December, Lieberman, a tech saleswoman, would find her video cited within Lively's bombshell legal complaint accusing Baldoni and his company Wayfarer Studios of defamation and sexual harassment.
TikTok creator Nikki Lieberman has accused Blake Lively of bringing a 'wave of hate' upon her after she was inadvertently dragged into the never-ending It Ends With Us legal drama
Lieberman found one of her TikTok videos cited within the dozens of pages of Lively's legal complaint against Justin Baldoni, and his company Wayfarer Studios, when the actress accused him of defamation and sexual harassment
Lively's suit alleges, among other things, that Baldoni sexually harassed her on set and that he and other company bosses created a hostile work environment and orchestrated a campaign to destroy her reputation. Baldoni has denied the allegations.
Lieberman was surprised to learn that Lively's lawyers claimed Baldoni had circulated her TikTok video within the production company and that another executive flagged it to the studio's digital team.
The insinuation: That her video was either made as part of Wayfarer Studios' alleged effort to smear Lively's reputation or was going to be used to do so.
As Lively's allegations made headlines, Lieberman's TikTok audience quickly skyrocketed as scores of social media commenters concluded that she had been paid to make Lively look bad.
The online hate became increasingly hostile and personal, with some Lively defenders branding Lieberman a woman-hater and hurling anti-Semitic slurs.
'You're the reason people don't believe women,' one wrote. 'You'll eat your words when they find him guilty.'
Lieberman, under her TikTok handle, ThickJewishGirl, had weighed in on Blake Lively's controversial film promotion after attending the August 2024 movie premiere where she posed with Justin Baldoni
In December, Lieberman was shocked to see Lively's lawyers had alleged that Baldoni and his team had helped circulated her TikTok video to publicly smear his co-star
Others, taking cues from Lieberman's TikTok username, accused her of plotting with Baldoni, whose mother was Jewish, in some sort of Jewish conspiracy against the actress.
'He's Jewish and your Jewish… doesn't take a rocket scientist. Especially how Jews in Hollywood threated [people] over Gaza,' one commenter wrote.
Lieberman told the Daily Mail she deleted hateful comments calling for Hitler's return and hoping to incite 'another Holocaust.'
But she shared screenshots of other anti-Semitic comments, including one that read: 'I hope you had an NDA [because] if so you just violated it in the name of gossip. Typical Jewish behavior.'
'It felt like a wave of hate crashing down on me,' she said, adding that her online association with the Baldoni-Lively legal battle also hindered her efforts to find work in the tech industry after she was laid off, for unrelated reasons, from her job in October.
In the August 17 TikTok in question, Lieberman called out Lively for staying silent on the isse domestic violence during the promotion of the film last summer
She later addressed the news in a TikTok video admitting she only learned she had been mentioned in Lively's complaint after journalists began contacting her
'I had two potential employers that I reached out to after being rejected. Both said to be honest, they'd Googled me and it was the first thing to pop out,' she said.
'They told me, "We don't need the drama. It's not a great look".'
Lieberman had attended a premier of It Ends With Us alongside her mother in Highland Park, a northern Chicago suburb where she grew up, in August last year.
Baldoni made a special appearance after the showing and Lieberman says she was moved by his careful discussion of abusive relationships.
She was particularly impressed that, to prepare for the role of an abusive husband, Baldoni had spent time with both victims and perpetrators of spousal violence, as well as mental health workers who counsel them, to, as he said at that premier, 'have the ability to shed a truthful light on the situation that is kept in the dark.'
'The way he talked about the movie and domestic violence was just beautiful to me,' Lieberman now says.
The film, which is based off Colleen Hoover's novel of the same name, follows a woman named Lily Bloom who becomes embroiled in an abusive relationship with a man named Ryle Kincaid
A week after that premier, on August 17, Lieberman gushed about the film on TikTok.
'I truly believe it is one of the best movies ever made. It touches on a very sensitive topic of domestic violence in the best way possible,' she said in her video, before expressing her dismay that Lively wasn't leveraging her stardom to raise awareness about the problem.
It was a one-off for Lieberman, who typically used the social media platform to talk, sometimes with painful honesty, about issues more personal to her.
In one video, she describes how she was bullied in high school for being fat. In another she shares an admission: 'That I'm in my 20s and have no idea what I'm doing.'
Lieberman has since found a new job, which she started earlier this month.
She is the first to admit she has no special insight into the Lively-Baldoni feud or what Lively faced when working with Baldoni and others at Wayfarer Studios.
'I don't know what she went through and I don't know what he went through,' she acknowledges.
Still, she believes she has been treated cruelly by some of Lively's fans.
'I'm just a random girl with an opinion. You'd think they'd have someone else to go after but me. They're really just grasping at straws,' she said.
Lieberman points to the irony that, in attempting to discredit her, the pro-Lively camp has only managed to make her TikTok audience skyrocket.
She says she aims to leverage that attention to discuss issues affecting women.
'It's given me the opportunity to use my platform in a way that Blake could have, but never did — to create a community of women who are empowering each other, and to turn a negative experience into something that's actually positive,' she said.
'I think they thought I was just a small figure in Chicago who wouldn't stand up for herself' when falsely accused. But here I am: Don't mess with ThickJewishGirl.'
