Blake Lively was named one of ‘TIME’ magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2025.

Blake Lively can’t seem to catch a break.

The famed actress was once again belittled by social media users after she gave a speech at the TIME100 Gala about her mother, Willie Elaine McAlpin, being assaulted by a former colleague well before Lively was born.

Source: MEGAThe actress delivered a speech about her mom while at the TIME100 Gala on April 24.

Lively began her monologue by alluding to her messy legal battle with It Ends With Us director and costar Justin Baldoni, stating: “I have so much to say about the last two years of my life, but tonight is not the forum.”

Instead, the Gossip Girl actress wanted to share “the feeling of being a woman who has a voice today.”

Source: MEGABlake Lively’s mom welcomed three children from her first marriage prior to giving birth to the actress.

Lively then admitted she’s been “influenced most” in life by her mom, 77, who was present at the annual event — which took place at Jazz at the Lincoln Center in New York City on Thursday, April 24 — alongside The Age of Adeline star’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, 48.

Noting how her mother was the “survivor of the worst crime someone can commit against a woman,” Lively revealed: “My mom never got justice from her work acquaintance who attempted to take her life when she was the mother of three young kids years before I was born.”

Source: MEGABlake Lively’s late father, Ernie Lively (née Brown) died in 2021.

McAlpin, who goes by Elaine Lively, was previously married to a man named Ronnie Lively — whom she shares kids Lori, 58, Jason, 57, and Robyn Lively, 53, with.

She later married her late husband, Ernie Lively (née Brown), who took her last name before welcoming Blake and her brother, Eric, 43.

Continuing with her story, Blake said her mother was only able to move forward from her assault after a woman on the radio opened up about a “similar circumstance” to the one she had been through.

“The woman painfully and graphically shared how she escaped. And because of hearing that woman speak about her experience instead of shutting down in fear and unfair shame, my mom is alive today. She was saved by a woman whose name she’ll never know,” The Shallows actress stated, calling womanhood a “pact that privately we must show others how to survive, literally or spiritually.”