Ryan Reynolds held nothing back when discussing Justin Baldoni in private text messages.
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Reynolds → hold → messages
“It’s amazing to me that you can have everybody involved with a production completely run away from a person who is obviously a predator and sociopath and the narrative must first land on why a woman is the problem,” the “Deadpool” star wrote to author Colleen Hoover in an Aug. 10, 2024, text included in newly unsealed court documents obtained by Page Six.
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star → ’ → Page
Reynolds’ wife, Blake Lively, filed a complaint against Baldoni in December 2024, alleging he sexually harassed her while filming “It Ends With Us,” based on Hoover’s novel of the same name.
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It → file → name
Baldoni denied the allegations.
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Baldoni → deny → allegations
“It’s amazing to me how low people still go,” he continued.
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he → ’ → me
“But people are already coming forward and soon enough someone is just gonna go on record.”
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someone → come → record
The messages were exchanged as Lively, 39, faced backlash while promoting the film about domestic violence that Baldoni, 42, directed and starred in alongside her.
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Baldoni → exchange → her
“It’s mind blowing,” Hoover responded.
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Hoover → blow → ?
“But also I feel like the loud ones are mostly 13-year-olds who don’t have fully developed brains yet and will be mortified by their thought process a few years from now.”
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who → feel → process
“Good to hear it’s already beginning to skew away from him.”
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it → hear → him
Reynolds replied, “Surprising it’s mostly girls.
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it → reply → ?
At least, that’s what I’ve seen.
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I → ’ → what
And the really smart folks already know.
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folks → know → ?
Although the narrative at the moment is how insanely well the film is performing and how much audiences love it.
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audiences → perform → it
Hoover, 46, reacted with a heart to his response.
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Hoover → react → response
As the private text messages came to light, a source close to Reynolds told Page Six, “It is no secret that Ryan was trying to protect his wife who was being targeted by a crisis PR team hired by Baldoni.
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who → come → Baldoni
This is the same crisis team who has been accused of these smear tactics in at least 5 other lawsuits according to the NYT.
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who → accuse → NYT
Earlier in the exchange, Reynolds mocked Baldoni’s crisis PR strategy by writing an imagined conversation between the filmmaker and his team.
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Reynolds → mock → filmmaker
“Yeah, when he uses a crisis team like that, you can start to see all the strategy they’ve equipped him with,” he wrote.
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he → use → him
“Crisis team: okay, Justin, all you do is talk about DV and how wonderful Blake is.
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Blake → do → DV
And we’ll handle the online stuff.
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we → handle → stuff
No matter what, you keep up your feminist advocacy.
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you → keep → advocacy
He then wrote Baldoni’s imagined response: “Justin: Namaste.
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He → write → response
Let’s get this bitch.”
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’s → let → bitch
Hoover reacted with a laugh to the message, according to court documents.
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Hoover → react → documents
“And I think the truth about him is already finding its way to the light,” Reynolds added.
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Reynolds → think → light
In a separate Aug. 9, 2024, message to his agent, Warren Zavala, Reynolds described Baldoni as a “human rounding error” while celebrating the film’s success.
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Reynolds → describe → success
Representatives for Reynolds and Hoover did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.
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Representatives → respond → comment
Lively filed a complaint against Baldoni in December 2024, alleging sexual harassment during production and a retaliatory smear campaign.
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Lively → file → production
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