Hannah Berner is feeling the burn following her appearance on Netflix‘s year-end comedy special Torching 2024: A Roast of A Year.
During Berner’s set, she referenced Blake Lively by calling her a C-word.
“The word c**t was trending this year. I don’t think Blake Lively was that bad,” Berner joked in the special.
The joke came after Lively sued her co-star and This Is Us director Justin Baldoni, claiming he was behind a smear campaign to damage her image as retaliation for reporting him on the set of the film.
Following the special dropping on Netflix, Berner took to social media to clarify that she had taped the show before the news broke out.
“My joke in the Netflix roast was filmed before news of the lawsuit. To be 100 percent clear, I support Blake,” Berner shared on Instagram.
Berner is one of the co-hosts of the Giggly Squad podcast alongside her former Summer House co-star Paige DeSorbo. The comedian is pro-women, continually advocating for and supporting women in the arts and women in STEM.
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In a statement, Lively noted the reason she filed the lawsuit against Baldoni, saying, “I hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and helps protect others who may be targeted.”
Through his lawyer Bryan Freedman, Baldoni said the allegations were “completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publicly hurt and rehash a narrative in the media.”