Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively ‘to skip’ Golden Globes amid Justin Baldoni lawsuit
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Lively is in the midst of a legal battle with her ‘It Ends With Us’ co-star and director Justin Baldoni. Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively will not attend tonight’s Golden Globe Awards, according to reports. Follow the latest updates from the Golden Globes here.
Reynolds’s wife Lively is currently in the midst of a legal battle with her It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni. According to the publication, the couple’s decision not to attend the Golden Globes was made in advance of the recent legal developments.
Lively last month sued Baldoni for both sexual harassment and then orchestrating a smear campaign against her. Details were first made public in a New York Times article. Baldoni subsequently sued the newspaper for libel and false-light invasion of privacy.
A spokesperson for The Times has since told The Independent that they will “vigorously defend against the lawsuit.”. The “role of an independent news organization is to follow the facts where they lead,” the spokesperson said. “Our story was meticulously and responsibly reported. It was based on a review of thousands of pages of original documents, including the text messages and emails that we quote accurately and at length in the article.”.
“To date, Wayfarer Studios, Mr. Baldoni, the other subjects of the article, and their representatives have not pointed to a single error,” the spokesperson added. Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser has said that the lawsuit is one topic she considers off-limits for her opening monologue.
