Ryan Reynolds’ rep has addressed the discourse regarding his unsealed text messages in wife Blake Vigorous’s ongoing legal battle against Justin Baldoni.
“Yes, Ryan got involved — what husband wouldn’t support his wife and the mother of his children?” a rep for Reynolds, 49, said in a press release to Us Weekly on Tuesday, January 27. “He saw his wife fighting every day to get up against sexual harassment in a non-public and respectful way, only to face retaliation for doing so.”
The statement continued, “If anything, Ryan seems like he wasn’t offended enough. He passionately believes in and can get up for the essential right to a protected workplace freed from harassment and retaliation for his wife and others. Then, now and all the time.”
Puck News was first to report. Us has reached out to Baldoni for comment.
Reynolds’ comments come one week after documents in Vigorous’s lawsuit against Baldoni, 42, were unsealed, revealing private text messages and emails sent by Reynolds, Vigorous, 38, Baldoni and more with regard to the case.
In a single instance, Reynolds allegedly reached out to Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana Barroso, for help through the height of Vigorous’s tension with Baldoni while filming It Ends With Us. The Deadpool star referred to Baldoni as a “malignantly vein, sociopathic FAUXminist” and asked the couple in the event that they would consider watching Vigorous’s version of the movie, which is an adaptation of the Colleen Hoover best-selling novel of the identical name.
“No worries either way. We’d LOVE to get your well earned pov,” Reynolds wrote in an alleged May 2024 group chat with Damon and Barroso. “And in case your girls need to see it on the massive screen at B’s family and friends screening Saturday at 6pm, they’re obviously most welcome!” (Damon and Barroso share three daughters: Isabella, 19, Gia, 16, and Stella, 15.)
Reynolds also made a quip at Vigorous and Baldoni’s on-set feud.
“At some point, we’ll make a movie in regards to the movie. And we will’t wait to let you know all about it,” he continued. “The stories are already finding their place within the pantheon of legendary Hollywood Insanity.”
Vigorous, for her part, chimed in to share her alleged experience working with Baldoni.
“This movie nearly killed me,” she wrote within the apparent messages. “The director/costar/producer/financier/head of the studio (yes all one person) had zero experience, but the excellent news is he also has no taste and an infinite ego, but only because he’s in a cult and believes he’s our century’s prophet. I wish even one in every of this stuff was hyperbole.”
Reynolds went on to throw shade at Baldoni in a letter to Hoover, joking that she was under the weather because her body was purging her experience with Baldoni.
“Even though it is likely to be your body ridding itself of any residual Baldoni,” Reynolds quipped. “I’d somewhat be puking in a gulag than hijacking performative feminism while practicing personal growth catch phrases within the mirror.”
After the documents were unsealed, Vigorous’s legal team addressed the brand new evidence.
“As we head to trial, only Ms. Vigorous’s claims against the defendants remain. The Court dismissed Wayfarer’s retaliatory countersuit in its entirety last June. The newly unsealed evidence accommodates never-before seen testimony, messages, and evidence from quite a few eyewitnesses backing the claims in Ms. Vigorous’s lawsuit,” the statement read. “The evidence includes Ms. Vigorous’s own testimony describing the harassment she faced, in addition to recent evidence from quite a few women describing their very own disturbing experiences. The newly unsealed evidence shows the concerns of Ms. Vigorous and others were documented in real-time as early as Spring 2023, and Wayfarer understood them as ‘sexual harassment’ concerns. The evidence also documents how Wayfarer refused to analyze, but as an alternative attempted to ‘bury’ Ms. Vigorous and others who spoke up through retaliation.”
Baldoni’s legal team also released a press release, “As stated all along, and reflected in our clients motions, in addition to in messages from Sony discussing Ms. Vigorous’s behaviors, the evidence doesn’t support the claims as a matter of law. A straightforward read of the newly released message exchanges make the reality abundantly clear. We remain confident within the legal process and clearing the names of all of the Justin Baldoni parties.”
Justin Baldoni and his legal team are arguing that Ryan Reynolds’ motion for dismissal needs to be denied. Based on court documents obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, April 3, Baldoni’s attorneys argued that Reynolds, 48, “pretends that the Wayfarer Parties’ First Amended Grievance (the ‘FAC’) fails to set forth any basis for his liability and that […]
Vigorous and Baldoni’s legal drama began in December 2024 when the actress accused her It Ends With Us costar of sexual harassment and orchestrating an alleged smear campaign against her. Baldoni has vehemently denied the allegations.
Following Vigorous’s legal motion, Baldoni countersued his costar and Reynolds. Baldoni’s lawsuit was dismissed in June 2025. Vigorous’s case stays ongoing and is scheduled for trial in May, but after the lawsuit’s documents were unsealed earlier this month, Baldoni’s lawyers appeared in court requesting for Vigorous’s case to be dismissed, per NBC News. Judge Lewis Liman will determine if the case will move forward.