Ryan Reynolds Requests To Be Dropped From Justin Baldoni’s Lawsuit In Blake Lively Case

Ryan has asked a judge to drop him as a defendant in Baldoni's  $400 million defamation lawsuit.

Hollywood couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have been making the headlines since their legal battle against Justin Baldoni. In recent updates, Ryan has asked a judge to drop him as a defendant in Baldoni’s  $400 million defamation lawsuit. He claimed that the actor’s arguments against him had no legal bounds and amounted to hurt feelings. Here’s the full story about their legal battle.

Ryan Reynolds Asks To Drop Out Defamation Case

According to the document, which was submitted on Tuesday and acquired by CNN, the complaint Baldoni filed against Reynolds and his wife Blake Lively is based on two instances in which Reynolds reportedly referred to Baldoni as a ‘predator,’ although nothing in Baldoni’s suit indicates that Reynolds did not believe this to be accurate.

“Mr Reynolds genuinely, perhaps passionately, believes that Mr Baldoni’s behaviour is reflective of a ‘predator,'” according to Reynolds’ declaration. Reynolds further states that “calling someone a ‘predator’ amounts to a constitutionally protected opinion.”

Reynolds’ lawyers also say that Baldoni’s “thin-skinned outrage over a movie character” – alluding to the Nicepool character in Reynolds’ Deadpool & Wolverine film – does not even pretend to be tied to any legal claims and is simply Baldoni alleging that he has hurt feelings. In the move, attorneys for Lively and Reynolds argued that while Blake Lively sued Baldoni and his business associates for se*ual harassment and retaliation, Reynolds had nothing to do with the case and had only been involved as a supportive spouse.

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Their lawyers claim that Reynolds is only named as a defendant in Baldoni’s suit because Steve Sarowitz – a defendant in Lively’s case against Baldoni and his team, one of Baldoni’s business partners at his production company, Wayfarer Studios, which produced and co-financed It Ends With Us with Sony -promised to spend up to $100 million to ‘ruin’ Ms Lively and Mr Reynolds, according to the filing.

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First Published: March 19, 2025 2:39 PM