{"id":398238,"date":"2025-11-23T02:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398238\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T02:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:53:14","slug":"blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-friend-shares-how-theyre-coping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398238\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds&#8217; friend shares how they&#8217;re coping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively shared how they\u2019re handling Lively\u2019s ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni. <\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\">\u201cRyan and Blake have obviously been slightly through the wringer over the last 18 months with all of that business and are still going through that in some ways,\u201d British comedian Humphrey Ker \u2014 who\u2019s an exec on Reynolds\u2019 soccer team with Rob Mac, Wrexham A.F.C. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/theatre\/what-to-see\/humphrey-ker-eton-with-the-princes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the Telegraph <\/a>in an interview published Nov. 13. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt waxes and wanes in the public interest,\u201d he said of the <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/entertainment\/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-drama-it-ends-with-us-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cIt Ends With Us\u201d legal drama.<\/a> \u201cBut things still continue to rumble on in the background.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\">Ker also explained that the pair likes being in Wrexham because they can enjoy a relatively low profile there. <\/p>\n<p>Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds\u2019 friend Humphrey Ker shared how they\u2019re coping amid her legal battle with Justin Baldoni.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Lively and Reynolds have been been \u201cslightly through the wringer,\u201d Ker recently told the Telegraph.  vancityreynolds\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\">\u201cI think what they love about coming to Wrexham is that no one there gives two s\u2014s about [their celebrity],\u201d he told the outlet. <\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\">\u201cWhat they care about is whether he\u2019ll buy them a new center back. It\u2019s an escape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ker, who appeared in the FX docuseries\u00a0\u201cWelcome to Wrexham,\u201d added, \u201cI feel for them.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Ker said visiting Wrexham, where Reynolds co-owns a soccer team, is an \u201cescape\u201d for them.  PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Lively sued her \u201cIt Ends With Us\u201d co-star Justin Baldoni for alleged sexual harassment and retaliation last December.  Variety via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_12-0\">Page Six has reached out to reps for Lively and Reynolds. <\/p>\n<p>Ker\u2019s comments come amid Lively\u2019s ongoing legal battle, which launched when <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/12\/31\/celebrity-news\/blake-lively-sues-justin-baldoni-over-it-ends-with-us-feud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the \u201cGossip Girl\u201d alum sued Baldoni <\/a>\u2014 who directed the domestic-violence themed drama \u2014 for alleged sexual harassment and retaliation last December. <\/p>\n<p>Lively also alleged breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and lost wages in the original complaint. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Baldoni denied wrongdoing and launched a $400 million countersuit against Lively and Reynolds.  vancityreynolds\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>A judge tossed Baldoni\u2019s countersuit in June.  Christopher Peterson \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>Baldoni denied wrongdoing and <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/01\/16\/celebrity-news\/justin-baldoni-drags-taylor-swift-into-it-ends-with-us-legal-battle-as-he-sues-blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-for-400m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fired back with a $400 million countersuit<\/a> against both Lively and Reynolds in January, alleging the couple engaged in defamation and civil extortion. <\/p>\n<p>A judge<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/06\/09\/celebrity-news\/judge-tosses-justin-baldonis-400m-lawsuit-against-blake-lively-ryan-reynolds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> tossed Baldoni\u2019s lawsuit <\/a>out in June. <\/p>\n<p>Lively\u2019s case is set to head to trial in March 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Baldoni detailed an alleged \u201ctraumatic\u201d past encounter with Reynolds amid the escalating feud with Lively, in legal docs.  Nathan Congleton\/NBC via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRyan was talking to me like a five-year-old and scolding me,\u201d Baldoni allged in the 2024 text message.  GC Images<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Baldoni <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/11\/13\/celebrity-news\/justin-baldonis-texts-detail-his-meeting-with-blake-livelys-husband-ryan-reynolds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">detailed an alleged \u201ctraumatic\u201d encounter<\/a> with an \u201cangry\u201d Reynolds amid the escalating feud in documents filed by his company, Wayfarer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRyan was talking to me like a five-year-old and scolding me,\u201d Baldoni wrote in a text to Rainn Wilson, recalling what he claimed took place in January 2024 \u2014 per an exhibit found in legal documents\u00a0obtained by People earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to feel so much of what they believe about me is false because they are so convinced that it\u2019s real. \u2026 I was emotionally paralyzed, which is something I haven\u2019t experienced in years,\u201d Baldoni wrote of the alleged incident. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A friend of Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively shared how they\u2019re handling Lively\u2019s ongoing legal battle with Justin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":398239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[45511,185,11753,174,172,171,53,4519,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-398238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-blake-lively","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-celebrity-friendships","11":"tag-celebrity-interviews","12":"tag-celebrity-news","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-ryan-reynolds","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115596755422840143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}