As the courtroom showdown between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni barrels toward its May 18 trial date, Ryan Reynolds is stepping in with his clearest public statement yet: he says he has “never been more proud” of his wife.
Speaking during a Today interview that aired on Sunday, April 19, Reynolds addressed the legal battle for the first time in months after being asked how his family has handled the fallout.
“You really see the illusion behind so much of this stuff, digital life versus real life,” Reynolds said.
Then he got more direct. “I have never in my life been more proud of my wife. People have no idea what is really going on.”
He added that Lively has handled the ordeal with “that level of integrity” in everything she does.
Reynolds’ comments arrived just over two weeks after a judge dismissed 10 of the 13 claims Lively filed against Baldoni and several other defendants. The court tossed her sexual-harassment, defamation and conspiracy claims, but allowed her retaliation and breach-of-contract allegations against Wayfarer Studios to move forward.
Behind the scenes, there are signs the couple may be planning for life after the trial. According to Realtor.com, Reynolds and Lively have discussed relocating to the United Kingdom, where Reynolds already has deep ties through his ownership stake in Wrexham A.F.C.
According to those reports, the pair believes a move overseas could give them more privacy after more than a year of headlines, lawsuits, and leaked text messages.
The possibility of a move comes after months of increasingly bitter revelations from the It Ends with Us dispute. Unsealed texts showed Baldoni privately complaining that Lively was “setting me up for a trap” during arguments over intimate scenes.
Other filings included Baldoni’s claim that Reynolds “ambushed” him during a meeting at the couple’s New York apartment.
Actress Jenny Slate, who appeared in the film, also entered the conversation through unsealed messages in which she described the production as “really gross and disturbing” and called Baldoni “a fraud” and “the biggest clown.”
Lively first sued Baldoni in December 2024, accusing him of sexual harassment and claiming he and his associates orchestrated a campaign to damage her reputation after she complained about conditions on set.
Baldoni denied the allegations and later filed a $400 million countersuit against Lively and Reynolds. That case was dismissed last year.
