Blake Lively defends ‘intensely criticized’ Justin Bieber’s ‘healing’ Coachella 2026 performance

Blake Lively passionately showed her support for Justin Bieber after his viral back-to-back Coachella 2026 performances.

The actress re-posted a video from Instagram user djangodegree, who called Bieber the living embodiment of “The Truman Show,” and criticized people who have no empathy for entertainers just because they’re famous.

The hit 1998 film told the story of Truman Burbank (played by Jim Carrey), who was unaware he was the star of a reality show. The IG user explained that after Bieber posted videos of himself singing on YouTube as a child, hoping to get famous, he got more than he bargained for and lived in a fishbowl during his adolescent years and well into his ’20s.

“So many people we loved have been hurt and never come back to themselves. We watch it happen every time,” Lively wrote atop the clip.

“And the collective looks back when it’s too late with empathy that was missing at the time. Shocked everyone treated someone’s most painful days as entertainment.”

Lively said this type of treatment still happens today for money, clicks and viral fame.

“The collective – often unintentionally – ravaging the health of an entertainer because everyone feels a right to them for being in the public eye,” she continued.

“Seeing @lilbieber meet that with healing was stunning,” she continued, referring to his Coachella performances.

Bieber, 32, was the headliner at this year’s Coachella, and his weekend one performance was controversial. His set included singing snippets of his greatest hits off a laptop, which some fans criticized as “lazy” given his $10 million payout for the back-to-back weekend gigs.

However, during weekend two, he brought out special guests like SZA, Big Sean and Sexxy Redd, and even serenaded longtime superfan Billie Eilish during “One Less Lonely Girl.”

Meanwhile, Lively recently received support from her husband, Ryan Reynolds, amid her legal battle with Justin Baldoni.

“People have no idea what’s really going on, you know?” the actor told Willie Geist during a live taping of “Sunday Sitdown,” when asked about how he and Lively are coping with the fallout of the nasty legal battle.

Reynold gushed that he has “never in [his] life been more proud of [his] wife.”

“And I’ve just never in my life been more proud of someone with that level of integrity that brings that with them and carries that with them in everything that they do,” he said.