Justin Baldoni's Texts After Being Confronted by 'Angry Husband' Ryan Reynolds Revealed: 'They Are So Convinced It's Real'
- - Justin Baldoni's Texts After Being Confronted by 'Angry Husband' Ryan Reynolds Revealed: 'They Are So Convinced It's Real'
Elizabeth RosnerNovember 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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In newly surfaced texts, Justin Baldoni describes a January 2024 meeting at Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s apartment
The actor wrote that it was a “traumatic” confrontation
Baldoni claims Reynolds scolded him over allegations raised by Lively, leaving him “emotionally paralyzed"
Justin Baldoni alleges he was “ambushed” by Ryan Reynolds in a private confrontation that left him “emotionally paralyzed,” according to newly surfaced text messages in the ongoing legal battle involving Blake Lively and the production of It Ends With Us.
In court documents obtained by PEOPLE, Baldoni's text messages exhibited in the filing detail a tense and highly personal meeting that took place at Reynolds and Lively’s New York City apartment in January 2024.
The encounter, he claims, was triggered by allegations raised by costar Lively and became so intense that Baldoni describes feeling emotionally frozen.
The message, dated Jan. 5, 2024, was sent to actor Rainn Wilson. In it, Baldoni, 42, reflects on what he says happened the previous night, just one day before filming was set to resume after the end of the Hollywood strikes.
"Ryan was talking to me like a five-year-old and scolding me,” Baldoni wrote. “They essentially said that Jamey [Heath] and I are not who we claimed to be and that for us to have a podcast is unsafe because it makes people feel like we are safe.”
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Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Justin Baldoni
According to Baldoni, Reynolds read from a phone a list of allegations, many of which were loosely based on events but “taken completely out of context.” He said the words “creepy” and “abuse” were used to describe his behavior and that he was given a written apology to read aloud — but was unable to go through with it.
The director said in the texts, "It's hard to feel so much of what they believe about me is false because they are so convinced that it's real. ... I was emotionally paralyzed, which is something I haven’t experienced in years."
He continued: “My brain was struggling because what I wanted to say and do was run and blow this whole movie up because I feel this was so unjust. And yet, the only path forward was to acknowledge her and Ryan’s feelings and apologize and take the wrath of an angry husband — yeah, I couldn’t even do that correctly. I prayed and prayed and prayed for the words and they didn’t come, so I felt abandoned by God in that moment — even though I know that’s not what happened.”
“We were told this was the worst experience of her life,” Baldoni added, referring to Lively. “And others have witnessed this behavior… the behavior on our set was creepy.”
PEOPLE reached out to reps for Reynolds and Lively for comment.
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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds on Feb. 16, 2025
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According to Baldoni, he asked the trainer how much Lively weighed due to a scene in which his character would need to lift her and because of his history of back problems. He says the trainer relayed the question to Lively, who then told Reynolds, prompting the confrontation.
The January 2024 meeting was recounted in Baldoni's complaint filed in January 2025, in which his lawyers alleged, "Reynolds launched into a tirade, berating Baldoni in what Baldoni later described as a 'traumatic' encounter, stating he had 'never been spoken to like that in his life.' "
At the time, his lawyers characterized the alleged exchange as an "inappropriate and humiliating berating of Baldoni — delivered, perhaps intentionally, as other celebrity friends were coming in and out of their penthouse."
Then, his attorney Bryan Freedman told Page Six that Reynolds was “angry,” “stern” and “impassioned” during the meeting with Baldoni, but clarified that Reynolds did not “aggressively berate” him: "The definition of berate is to scold or criticize angrily."
In Lively's lawsuit, her lawyers discussed the January 2024 meeting, saying Lively chose to have Reynolds there as her representative and they all "discussed in detail the inappropriate conduct that Ms. Lively, her employees, and other cast and crew experienced at the hands of Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath."
On June 9, a judge dismissed Baldoni’s $400 million countersuit accusing Lively, Reynolds and their publicist of extortion and defamation, as well as his separate $250 million defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.
Lively's case against Baldoni is set to go to trial in March 2026 in the Southern District of New York.
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