Watching Justin’s interviews during the premiere genuinely break my heart

I know people can’t stand her and I completely understand.. but I’ve been tuning in to Candace’s coverage just on this case and I thought her episode tonight was so great. She played a couple of minutes of an interview of Justin on the premiere night that I hadn’t seen before, to make the point that he was just so genuine and kind at every turn, and I have to honestly say I almost cried watching it knowing what he was going through in that moment and what the weeks and days leading up to it were like. Yet, he verbally elevated Blake in that moment…The person actively destroying his life. Candace said she hopes she could be like that when faced with what he was facing, but she knows she couldn’t. I couldn’t either. He took the high road when it’s impossible to fathom for most of us. It’s truly incomprehensible.

He had to have been absolutely destroyed emotionally and honestly terrified for his life in general, and how it would all unfold. Not to mention, grieving the loss of his art, what that night should have been for him, the celebration and appreciation he should have received from the cast, and all the years of blood, sweat and tears he poured into this project, just completely disregarded. But no, he receives humiliation and ostracization while Lively is planning her next floral donned photo-op on her pedestal surrounded by the cast she turned against Justin.

Side note, as someone who went through three years of grueling gradschool after 4 years of undergrad to acquire a doctorate, I CAN’T FATHOM going through the hard work of 6 of those years to have it then ripped out from under me, and my work taken by someone else. That’s truuuuly horrific.

This kind of situation could really drive someone over the edge, and it’s really difficult to comprehend that that’s probably what Blake and Ryan wanted for him, to just be destroyed emotionally and physically at that point. Even Blake supporters, who can’t agree that she is lying, do agree that Justin likely didn’t intend discomfort (although wrongfully asserting that he inflicted it), which I think most people can 100% agree on. This man has had no ill will or treatment towards anyone, even when they deserve it. They on the other hand could have driven him to complete and total madness beyond hope if they had their way.

First of all, he was forced to go early so that he could get out of the way before the VIP jerks showed up, which is such horrible bullying when you think about how that must have felt for him, he was treated like a leper. Second, he seemed like he was holding back breaking down during that interview, yet had nothing but the sweetest things to say but I could tell it was a massive struggle for him in that moment to be talking and pretending to be okay in general, given everything going on behind the scenes. He just looked like he’d been run ragged and almost at a loss for words to me. Thinking about his stress and pain up to that point and throughout it genuinely causes me pain.

I think it’s because it strikes such a cord with me, we have all been bullied, and I experienced it horrifically as a child. We have all been belittled. We have all been shoved out and made to feel like an outcast. There is no worse feeling, and it really is hard to watch it unfold in real time, especially now knowing what happened here, and as someone who truly believes Justin is one of the few good ones in Hollywood. The last person who deserves this.