Who is Elaine, Blake Lively’s mother, to whom the actress paid tribute after the controversy with Justin Baldoni

Blake Lively participated in the magazine gala Time In New York, accompanied by her husband Ryan Reynolds, to be rewarded as one of the “100 most influential people of 2025”. During the event, he released his first public declaration after the release of the film It ends with us (2024) and the consequent legal battle with his co-protagonist and director Justin Baldoni, who denounced for sexual harassment and defamation. “I have a lot to say about the last two years of my life, but it’s not the right time tonight,” he said. However, he took the opportunity to pay homage to his mother, the actress and manager Willie Elaine Mcalpinwho in the past had been the victim of harassment by a colleague who almost cost her life.

Willie Elaine Mcalpin was born on 11 June 1947 in Tarzana, California. Despite having studied acting and attempted luck in Hollywood, she never managed to make a career. It has therefore become a talent manager, a training that he would have exploited to help his family grow in the sector. In 1966 he married Ronald Otis Lively, known as Ronnie, from whom he had three children, all actors: Lori Lively, Jason Lively And Robyn Lively (known for his roles in Twin Peaks And Karate Kid). In 1979, after thirteen years of coexistence in California, the two divorced and Mcalpin remarried with the well -known actor Ernie Lively, who after the wedding adopted Elaine’s three children. Subsequently, the couple had two other children actors, Eric and Blake. Ernie also changed her surname to Lively (she was born Ernest Wilson Brown) to uniform it to that of all brothers. Together, the two held an acting course, which Blake and his brothers attended as children so as not to stay with a nanny.

In 2021, Ernie died of a heart attack. In your free time, Elaine loves to travel and help people, so much so that it is part of several non -profit associations in support of war veterans. Lively defines her as a deeply optimistic woman, as well as her greatest source of inspiration: “My life was very influenced by my mother, who is with me tonight, an optimistic eternal that always leaves me messages, repeating continuously:” Life is rosy “”.

“My mother never had justice from her colleague who tried to take her life when she was already the mother of three young children, a few years before I was born,” said Blake Lively to the Gala audience. The actress explained that, while she was returning home in the car, her mother heard the experience of a woman who had been harassed “with suffering and wealth of details on the radio”. That testimony helped her following her to save himself from his own attacker. «Today my mother is still alive because that woman has not remained silent out of fear, or for an unjustified shame. She was saved by a woman she will never know her name. I am alive, and I’m standing here with all of you to receive this prize, thanks to a woman who never knew the name. I am here, my mother is here, because that woman not only survived, but she had the courage to tell how she did ».

The star of Gossip Girl He concluded his intervention by talking about the superpower of the female triumph. “I touched him, I tightened his hand. I am contemplating it in this room right now. These are the Happy End that we must see as women and girls. We can get to the end live, physically and emotionally, and we will do it, we do it, and we are successful. Even when it seems impossible. Even when we suffer a lot. Never underestimate a woman’s ability to endure pain. Life is rosy ».