I was a runner on Gossip Girl and Blake Lively gave me the silent treatment just for saying hello to her - and she acted like a bully to the crew

Blake Lively has been accused of being a ‘mean girl’ on set ‘bullying people’ as if she was still in ‘high school’, a former runner on Gossip Girl has revealed.

Ewood, 38, encountered the under-fire actress when the beloved television show was filming a few episodes in Paris in the summer of 2010.

It was the budding producer's first time working on a set, where his main role was delivering water bottles to Blake’s trailers as well as her co-star Leighton Meester.

Despite being greeted warmly by Leighton, the assistant producer, then 23, claims he was given the ‘silent treatment’ by Blake after simply saying ‘hi’.

‘Unfortunately, my experience with Blake was not good. She came across as a bully,’ he told MailOnline.

‘When fans wanted to take pictures with them, Leighton was always available, but Blake didn’t have the time,’ he added.

‘With the crew it was more the way she was speaking to them like she was a toddler. If she was not having what she wanted she would start making a scene. Just being disrespectful and rude.’

The allegations come as the 37-year-old actress is in the midst of a bitter legal feud with her It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni.

Blake had accused Justin of sexual harassment in a bombshell legal document filed in December.

The actress said Justin had body shamed her on set before orchestrating a smear campaign against her to damage her reputation.

Blake’s attorneys said the director and his team displayed 'callous disregard and disrespect for a woman advocating for the most basic workplace protections against sexual harassment’.

Yet her director denied the allegations before hitting back at Blake, and her husband Ryan Reynolds, accusing the Hollywood pair of defamation and extortion in a whopping $400million lawsuit.

In months that followed, a number of all interview clips of Blake have resurfaced, including one where she made a ‘cruel and inappropriate joke’ about her co-star Leighton being born in prison.

In another, a journalist accused the actress of being so ‘rude’ in an interview that it left the reporter ‘traumatized’ and wanting to ‘quit’ the industry.

Ewood’s alleged uncomfortable experience with Blake took place when Gossip Girl took to Paris to film the opening episodes of season four.

He had been working as a young volunteer runner over two days when cast and crew were travelling across the French capital to film scenes.

‘I had always been very interested in working on films and TV shows, so I studied hard. It was a dream of mine to be on this set,’ the producer turned singer explained.

‘It was only when I arrived on set that I realised it was for Gossip Girl. There were loads of fans outside as most of the shooting was at specific tourist spots in Paris.

‘This took place in July 2010 when Gossip Girl was a household name. The show was so powerful - even celebrities and actors were watching it. It was huge.

‘I was working across the various white trailers, providing water, moving equipment around and things like that, which is when I first saw Leighton Meester.

‘She was the first person I saw and I said hi to her, to which she replied and that was it. Then I saw Blake and I said hi to her as well. She didn’t respond or give any acknowledgement, it was as if I did not exist.’

Ewood spent the next few days working around the trailers, worrying that he was not meant to have said hello.

After that he claims his job became ‘difficult’ with Blake acting ‘disrespectfully’ towards him, ‘making jokes and making fun’ of him in what he said was a ‘really passive aggressive way’.

‘Whenever I had to go near Leighton’s trailer it was really easy. There was no animosity or anything. But when I had to go close to Blake’s it was very difficult,’ he said.

‘I was never told not to speak to actors. But I don’t even think I was having a conversation with her. I was just saying hi, trying to be nice.

And the way Leighton was acting was so nice to everyone, even the fans around and other people from the crew. She was so lovely to be around but Blake was just a nightmare.

‘I witnessed the way she was talking to other people on set, crew, other actors and it just wasn't a good vibe.’

When filming wrapped, Leighton asked him what his plans were now and when Ewood told her he wanted to be a singer she told him that was ‘great’ and wished him good luck. He did not speak to Blake, he said.

‘What is funny that on the show her character was never really portrayed as a mean person - that was Leighton’s character. In real life Leighton was amazing and still is, but Blake was the mean one in real life,’ he added.

Since Blake’s row with Justin broke out, Ewood, who is currently working on a documentary about suicide prevention, decided to speak about his treatment.

He claims others who have worked with Blake for longer periods of time have also had bad experiences with her but are too ‘scared’ to speak out.

‘I am not trying to bash Blake Lively, I am just talking about my experience and the fact I saw her acting like a bully,’ he added.

‘This has nothing to do with Justin Baldoni, this happened in 2010. Way before Justin Baldoni.’

‘There is a reason why so many people coming from different places all over the word still have the same experience of her - what does that say? All of us have had the same kind of experiences with her.’

Alleged tensions between Blake and Leighton have been well documented over the years, with sources closest to the actress claiming the pair never saw eye to eye.

Gossip Girl's executive producer Joshua Safran told Vanity Fair in 2017, 'Blake and Leighton were not friends.'

'Blake is very much in the moment. Blake knows what's happening. You talk to Blake on a very contemporary level, and she would be like, 'I'm doing this thing tonight. Have you been to this restaurant?''

Leighton, in contrast, had a 'very removed and very quiet' demeanour, and that 'after her scenes were done, she would wander the stage,' Joshua said.

Elsewhere, New York Magazine quoted sources in 2008 saying the duo tended to 'avoid each other like the plague' while filming the series.

The rivalry escalated to the point that other Gossip Girl cast members reportedly had to 'choose sides'.

A publicist for Lively commented on the professional relationship in Harper's Bazaar in 2017: 'Blake and Leighton have never been best friends, and never professed to be. Blake goes to work, does her job, and goes home.'

While the cause of the alleged unfriendliness between the pair is unknown, Blake came under fire after making a 'cruel and inappropriate' joke about Leighton being born in prison.

In a resurfaced clip, which has spread on social media in light of the lawsuit, Balke is seen siting next to Leighton, 38, and the rest of the Gossip Girl cast, as she declares: 'Well, some of us started in a cage.'

As Blake delivers the savage joke, she waves her hand in Leighton's direction.

After her quip fails to amuse the audience, Blake adds: 'Come on, it was a joke! Lord have mercy.'

Earlier this week, Justin’s legal team made more court filings which accused Blake and Ryan of hypocrisy after asking for some details of the case to be made private.

Lawyers for Justin said in Tuesday's court filing that they were 'surprised' by Lively asking the court to shield more 'material and relevant evidence' from the public 'given how actively [she and her team] have publicized and litigated [her] claims in the media.'

His attorneys accused Blake of leaking details from 'the otherwise confidential administrative complaint' she entered in late December to the California Civil Rights Department

Lively, Reynolds and their publicity teams have rattled off a series of 'bold statements' to news outlets in an effort to 'rehabilitate her tarnished image’, lawyers added in the court filing.

They also noted that Reynolds even spoke about the scandal in a 'planned skit' during the highly-viewed SNL50 special earlier this month (in which he and Lively were panned on social media as tone-deaf).

Meanwhile, Lively's legal team said in a February 20 court filing that due to 'violent' messages she had received amid the public scandal, she was petitioning the court for enhanced protection, Fox News Digital reported.

Lively's attorneys cited a specific written threat that rattled a 'witness known to publicly support Ms. Lively,' in threatening 'that the witness's family would be sexually assaulted and killed unless the witness agreed to "make a statement and give the truth."'

Blake filed the 80-page civil rights complaint with the California Civil Rights Department against Baldoni December 20, before officially filing a federal lawsuit on December 31.

Justin and his reps have said in response to the lawsuit that Lively twisted the meaning of text messages and mislead the public about their interactions while making the motion picture.

Since then Justin’s team released a website which includes private communications such as text messages that were included in court filings detailing his interactions with the Hollywood power couple over the making of romantic drama.

He claimed in court filings they made efforts to usurp and undermine his input as the director of It Ends with Us.

The website, which is live online at thelawsuitinfo.com, comes amid a spate of high-profile litigation between the collaborators on the film, which was a hit at the box office last August.

The site went live days prior to the first hearing, ahead of a trial with a starting date of March 9, 2026.