A fan claims Blake Lively allegedly followed her to her car after they apparently stayed at the same Texas hotel earlier this month.
The 27-year-old hotel patron, Kaitlyn Cooper, spoke with the Daily Mail about the alleged interaction with Lively, 37. The Houston native and her mother were allegedly staying at The Hotel 1928 in Waco when they claim they “caught wind” of the presence of a celebrity guest.
“[A female staff member] told us if we hung out and stuck around we might see this person, so obviously that sparked our interest as it would for anybody,” Cooper alleged in the interview, published on Monday, March 24. “We ended up finishing dinner and went back down to the lobby and sat in the lounge area, just hanging out. And shortly after that, [Lively] walked in.”
Cooper recalled “recording a brief clip” of Lively. “It was nothing exciting,” she told the Daily Mail, explaining that it was just something Cooper wanted to show her friends.
“When she walked in [to the lobby], she was super loud. Her voice was extremely recognizable,” Cooper alleged. “I think she said hi to the two people at the front desk. She looked at us. I believe she spotted us [filming her].”
According to Cooper, she allegedly came face-to-face with Lively the following morning. (Us Weekly has reached out to Lively’s team for comment.)
“We were loading up our car and I heard [someone say], ‘hi,’ and it was a woman’s voice,” she claimed. “I looked up and see [Blake]. She’s got her phone up [like she’s recording me]. Out of instinct, I just said ‘hi’ back, because what do you say?”
Lively didn’t respond, according to Cooper, but allegedly walked around Cooper’s car and appeared to record the entire encounter. Cooper said she was “caught off guard” and “confused” about the alleged interaction. “It’s very paranoid behavior,” she added.
“I was really caught off guard,” she claimed. “She then handed her phone off to her security guy and he did another lap around the passenger side and then they both went back in [to the hotel].”
Months after a reported rift between It Ends With Us costars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, she sued him for sexual harassment. In the lawsuit, which was filed on Friday, December 20, and obtained by Us Weekly after it was reported on by TMZ and The New York Times, Lively accused Baldoni of launching a […]
Cooper spoke about the alleged encounter in a series of social media videos — and has apparently been receiving a barrage of hate online as a result. She told Daily Mail that she’s feeling “disturbed” by the entire alleged encounter. (Cooper has yet to release the alleged video from the parking lot.)
“Some of the responses from complete strangers online have been so harsh,” she added, alleging that “strange views” and messages have been coming through her DMs.
“Once the [Instagram] stories views from her team, hotel staff and the harassment accounts began popping up, it then became disturbing,” she claimed.
