“I have so much to say about the last two years of my life, but tonight is not the forum,” Blake Lively said in her speech at the Time 100 Gala on Thursday night.

Lively was honored by Time magazine as one of the most influential people of the year. Over the past several months, coverage surrounding the actress has largely been focused on her ongoing legal battle with her It Ends With Us co-star and director, Justin Baldoni.

However, Lively’s focus of the night was honoring her mom, who survived an attack that threatened her life by a work acquaintance. “What I will speak to separately is the feeling of being a woman who has a voice today,” Lively said. “My life was influenced most by my mother sitting here tonight, Willie Elain McAlpin.”

“My mom never got justice from her work acquaintance who attempted to take her life...