A rep for Ryan Reynolds is coming to his protection after personal textual content messages from the actor have been made public amid the authorized battle between Reynolds' spouse, Blake Vigorous, and her It Ends With Us director and costar Justin Baldoni.

"Sure, Ryan received concerned — what husband wouldn’t help his spouse and the mom of his kids?" a rep for Reynolds instructed Puck Information.

"He noticed his spouse preventing day by day to face up in opposition to sexual harassment in a personal and respectful manner, solely to face retaliation for doing so," his rep continued in an announcement. "If something, Ryan appears like he wasn’t offended sufficient. He passionately believes in and can get up for the essential proper to a secure office freed from harassment and retaliation for his spouse and others. Then, now and all the time."

A few of Reynolds' texts that had been not too long ago launched as a part of the continued authorized proceedings embody one despatched in August 2024 to his WME agent, Warren Zavala, in accordance with PEOPLE. On the time, Vigorous and Baldoni's film It Ends With Us was launched to huge success on the field workplace, as hypothesis mounted about potential drama among the many director and forged.

"I'm tremendous annoyed as a result of it is a second wherein Blake needs to be celebrating. She made this unbelievable win occur," he allegedly wrote on the time, including, "She WILLED this weekend into actuality. Baldoni and these different buckets of dumb-dumb-juice needs to be acknowledging the hypothesis and gossip themselves. They need to be leaping in entrance of it in essentially the most full throated, unqualified manner. Now."

Reynolds allegedly went on to say that Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios crew had "made a giant f—ing mess" and Vigorous "shouldn’t be subjected to some eye-roll-y narrative of the 'controlling bitch.'"

In a distinct unsealed textual content trade from July 2024 to a WME govt, the Deadpool star allegedly additionally referred to Baldoni as a “thoroughbred, predatory fraudster” and an “inexplicably poisonous mess," amongst different issues.

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"As said all alongside, and mirrored in our purchasers' motions, in addition to in messages from Sony discussing Ms. Vigorous’s behaviors, the proof doesn’t help the claims as a matter of legislation," Bryan Freedman, an legal professional for Baldoni, instructed EW when reached for remark concerning the unsealed paperwork. "A easy learn of the newly launched message exchanges makes the reality abundantly clear. We stay assured within the authorized course of and clearing the names of the entire Justin Baldoni events."

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In December 2024, Vigorous's authorized battle with Baldoni started when she filed a criticism with the California Civil Rights Division, wherein she accused the It Ends With Us director and star of sexual harassment on set and alleging that he organized a smear marketing campaign in opposition to her earlier that 12 months. She filed a lawsuit in opposition to Baldoni and his manufacturing firm, Wayfarer, in New York federal court docket shortly afterwards.

Baldoni later responded together with his personal $400 million lawsuit in opposition to Vigorous, Reynolds, and their publicist Leslie Sloane, claiming defamation, civil extortion, invasion of privateness, and breach of contract. His countersuit was finally dismissed in June, after Choose Lewis J. Liman dominated that Vigorous's claims couldn’t be thought-about defamatory.

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