Ryan Reynolds Name-Dropped ‘Depp’ In Texts About Blake Lively’s Legal Feud

The Marvel star referenced Depp whereas discussing the actor’s earlier lawsuit along with his ex-wife, Amber Heard.

Johnny Depp is not the one high-profile determine drawn into the Full of life-Baldoni dispute, as Ben Affleck was additionally just lately talked about in court docket paperwork that exposed an e mail allegedly despatched to him by Full of life.

Forward of Full of life and Baldoni’s trial showdown, extra business massive names have surfaced within the swimsuit via newly launched authorized paperwork.

The most recent seems to be Johnny Depp, who was name-dropped by Full of life’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, in textual content messages he despatched to his expertise agent, Warren Zavala, in August 2024.

Within the texts, Reynolds was discussing PR methods with the agent in response to what gave the impression to be a transfer by Baldoni to sway public opinion amid tensions between him and Full of life on the time over their film “It Ends with Us.”

“It is this man’s unbelievable ego. It seems like he is laying a entice if her reality surfaces whereas selling a story digitally,” Zavala mentioned within the textual content about Baldoni, per TMZ.

Reynolds then responded, saying, “Yeah. However actually, somebody is simply gonna inform a journalist the true deal, and it is gonna blow up in his face.”

Because the dialog continued, Zavala described Baldoni as a “fraud sh-t weasel” and hoped for him to be “uncovered.”

He then despatched Reynolds a hyperlink to a narrative about Baldoni and Full of life feuding over the ultimate edit to “It Ends With Us,” and added the comment, “That is all spin. I feel we let it burn.”

Nonetheless, Reynolds, in a bid to precise his disapproval of Zavala’s technique, then name-dropped Depp and referenced his notorious feud with Heard.

“How’d that work out for Depp??” Reynolds mentioned, to which Zavala replied, “Not properly. Cratered each of them finally.”

Each Reynolds and Zavala additionally additional blasted Baldoni within the messages, utilizing phrases like “egoistical sh-t weasel” and “human rounding error.”

Just lately, Ben Affleck additionally appeared to have been talked about within the Full of life–Baldoni swimsuit, per US Weekly.

This emerged from new court docket paperwork claiming that Full of life despatched Affleck an e mail in Might 2024, wherein she appeared to hunt his help relating to her edit of “It Ends With Us.”

Within the message, she claimed that she was in a “bake off” with Baldoni and threw shade on the filmmaker, together with claiming that he was in a cult.

Full of life not solely requested Affleck for notes or concepts on her reduce, but additionally urged him to have his then-wife, Jennifer Lopez, watch the movie and share her opinions.

It stays unclear whether or not Affleck finally helped Full of life, however the absence of any follow-up response from him has seemingly led many to take a position that he snubbed the actress.

The most recent court docket look in Full of life and Baldoni’s case befell on Thursday, Jan. 22, throughout which legal professionals for either side got an hour to current their arguments earlier than presiding Choose Lewis Liman.

The 2 at the moment are scheduled to move to trial on Might 18, 2026, greater than a month later than the initially set date.

Full of life is suing Baldoni for sexual harassment and an alleged focused smear marketing campaign, which she claims occurred throughout and after the filming of their film.

The actress is in search of roughly $160 million in damages, a determine based mostly on alleged misplaced earnings for herself and her manufacturers, in addition to reputational hurt.