Ryan Reynolds has conducted its first late-night interview since the lawsuit
Ryan Reynolds He sat down for his first TV interview since his wife Blake Lively Fighting against her law It ends with us Directors and Costa Rica Justin Baldoni,start.
this Deadpool & Wolverine The 48-year-old star appears in the episode on Monday, May 12 Stephen Colbert's late performance. Reynolds in Colbert Welcome to Wrexhamit returns to FX on Thursday, May 15th. The documentary follows the climax and trough of the Welsh football team Wrexham AFC, owned by Reynolds.
“It's a mess,” he said. “It's the ecstasy and joy that you live in this world right now. We live in a digital hatred tank.”
The actors praised “concerts, sports and movies and where we gather” as places to cultivate the community. He did not talk to Baldoni about himself and lively legal dramas.
Reynolds was a guest on the “Conan O'Brien Needs Friends” podcast earlier Monday, where he also maintained a lively Baldoni hatred.
Renault and 37-year-old Lively have maintained low profiles since the lawsuit was filed in December 2024, claiming that Baldoni, 41, sexually harassed her, creating a “hostile work environment”, causing “severe emotional distress” and orchestrating a campaign suspected of smearing. Bardoni strongly denied the allegations against him.
Baldoni refuted Lively, Reynolds and her propagandists in January, accusing them of civil blackmail, slander, false privacy violations and more. Lively and Reynolds denied the allegations, while Lively's PR staff asked to remove them from the lawsuit.
In March, Reynolds filed a motion to dismiss Baldoni's lawsuit. According to court documents US Weekly At the time, Reynolds' legal team believed that Reynolds' case “had no confirmed the case that allegedly allegedly defamatory statements.”
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Image; Amy Sussman/Getty Images Hollywood has a lot to say about the ongoing development of Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. Chelsea Handler joked: “It's important to distract yourself in an era like this, which is why I personally thank Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively.” […]
“The whole case of Mr. Bardoni's case seems to be based on Mr. Reynold's private name as Mr. Bardoni “a “predator,” but this is not a problem unless they can prove that Mr. Reynold does not believe that the claim is true,” Mike Gottlieb and Esra Hudson In a statement said us then. “The complaint does not allegate the allegations in this allegation suggest that Mr. Reynold does consider Mr. Bardoni a predator.”
The statement continued: “Mr. Reynolds' wife accused sexual harassment and retaliation in private and numerous complaints, as Mr. Reynold's motion pointed out, Mr. Bardoni publicly stated his past, his past was abuse by women, and offered a comfortable attitude. Over the past year, there have been multiple calls to Ms. Lively and Mr. Reynolds' “bully” and other names.”
Bardoni's lawyers after Reynolds filed a motion for dismissal Bryan Freedman,Tell us In a March statement, Reynolds “was the key player in the program, making Justin slander around Hollywood, making the armed WME a client and trying to destroy Justin’s career, anyway.”
Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni.
Getty Images (2)Friedman added: “Mr. Reynolds is now trying to reduce his clear claim about 'feelings of hurt', sending a clear message to bullying. After lighting a game, Mr. Reynold is now trying to run out of the flames. It doesn't work. It doesn't work. It doesn't work. It doesn't work.
Freedman concluded that his legal team would “not stop” until Reynolds was “responsible for his actions.”
In court documents us In April, Bardoni's lawyers argued that the complaint against Reynolds “based on his direct action and his responsibility as accusations, there are enough facts to support the Wayfarer party's claims against him.”
A Reynolds spokesman responded to the document. us then.
“The main takeaway from the Wayfarer party's motion against Ryan's dismissal of his case was that they eventually realized the obvious flaws in the complaint,” the statement said. “They once again claimed to be defamation without accusing who was defamated, and specifically what was said or how they suffered actual harm.”
The case of Lively and Baldoni is scheduled to be tried in May 2026.
