{"id":301597,"date":"2025-11-22T14:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T14:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301597\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T14:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T14:21:10","slug":"blake-lively-and-ryan-reynolds-friend-speaks-out-amid-justin-baldoni-legal-battle-i-feel-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301597\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds&#8217; Friend Speaks Out amid Justin Baldoni Legal Battle: &#8216;I Feel for Them&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively&#8217;s friend Humphrey Ker spoke about the couple&#8217;s ongoing legal battle in an interview<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It waxes and wanes in the public interest,&#8221; said Ker, &#8220;but things still continue to rumble on in the background&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lively sued her It Ends With Us costar Justin Baldoni in December 2024, kicking off an intense legal battle in the public eye<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A friend of <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/ryan-reynolds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ryan Reynolds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ryan Reynolds<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/blake-lively\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Blake Lively;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Blake Lively<\/a> is offering insight into how they&#8217;ve coped amid their ongoing legal battle with <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/justin-baldoni\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Justin Baldoni;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Justin Baldoni<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">British actor Humphrey Ker, an executive on Reynolds&#8217; and <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/rob-mcelhenney-8404270\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rob Mac;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rob Mac<\/a>&#8216;s soccer team Wrexham A.F.C. who has been featured on the FX docuseries Welcome to Wrexham, briefly spoke about Lively and Reynolds in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/theatre\/what-to-see\/humphrey-ker-eton-with-the-princes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:interview with The Telegraph;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">interview with The Telegraph<\/a> published Nov. 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Ryan 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,&#8221; Ker, 43, said of their headline-making legal battle with Lively&#8217;s It Ends With Us costar Baldoni.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It waxes and wanes in the public interest,&#8221; he continued, &#8220;but things still continue to rumble on in the background.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ker added, &#8220;I think what they love about coming to Wrexham is that no one there gives two s&#8212;s about [their celebrity]. What they care about is whether he&#8217;ll buy them a new center back. It&#8217;s an escape.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;But, yeah,&#8221; said Ker, &#8220;I feel for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Nick Potts\/PA Images via Getty\u00a0 Ryan Reynolds, Humphrey Ker and Rob Mac on May 2, 2023\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"658\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b34c9abb71b228f290995723939f2490.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nick Potts\/PA Images via Getty <\/p>\n<p> Ryan Reynolds, Humphrey Ker and Rob Mac on May 2, 2023<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PEOPLE&#039;s free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Reynolds&#8217; pal and team co-owner Mac, 48, (formerly Rob McElhenney) <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/features\/rob-mcelhenney-kaitlin-olson-wrexham-sunny-falling-in-love-1236404041\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:told Variety;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">told Variety<\/a> in May how <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/rob-mcelhenney-support-ryan-reynolds-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-battle-11739231\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he and wife Kaitlin Olson show support for Reynolds, 49, and Lively;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">he and wife Kaitlin Olson show support for Reynolds, 49, and Lively<\/a>, 38, in &#8220;navigating&#8221; the legal battle. &#8220;We both are just trying to offer our support in any way that we can that doesn\u2019t just simply add oxygen to the fire,&#8221; he said at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In December 2024, Lively sued her It Ends With Us costar-director Baldoni, 41, and others for sexual harassment and retaliation, which he denies. Baldoni&#8217;s $400 million countersuit against Lively and Reynolds, accusing them of civil extortion and defamation, has since been dismissed by a judge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lively and Baldoni are both expected to testify when her case goes to trial in March 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In June, Baldoni&#8217;s lawyer Bryan Freedman told TMZ that <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/justin-baldoni-thinks-judge-dismissing-lawsuit-blake-lively-not-fair-11751884\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the actor-director &quot;wants to be vindicated;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the actor-director &#8220;wants to be vindicated<\/a>, and that&#8217;s all that he cares about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He knows who he is. He knows what he&#8217;s done; he knows what he hasn&#8217;t done. And he wants the truth to come out, and he wants to do that in the appropriate way,&#8221; Freedman said at the time. &#8220;&#8230; He&#8217;s waiting for his day in court, where he can speak out to tell the truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-friend-speaks-out-feel-for-them-11855049\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively&#8217;s friend Humphrey Ker spoke about the couple&#8217;s ongoing legal battle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,26705,447,134,172318,26706,67313,2088],"class_list":{"0":"post-301597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-blake-lively","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-humphrey-ker","14":"tag-justin-baldoni","15":"tag-legal-battle","16":"tag-ryan-reynolds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}