Ryan Reynolds is firing back at Justin Baldoni’s $400 million defamation lawsuit against him and his wife Blake Lively, requesting to be dropped as a defendant because Baldoni’s argument against him has no legal bounds and amounts to “hurt feelings.

Justin Baldoni alleged in his initial $250 million defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, filed on the same day as Lively’s lawsuit, that the news publication received a copy of Lively’s complaint ahead of the filing of the complaint, as per Deadline.

Justin Baldoni's attorney Bryan Freedman said in a podcast interview that Baldoni 'wasn't happy' that 'It Ends With Us' faced negative attention upon its release in August 2024. 'The last thing he wanted to see was anything online that would somehow criticize the movie,