It Ends With Us<\/em> cast seemed eager to speak about Baldoni on the red carpet.<\/p>\nRemember, he was not only one of the stars, but also the film\u2019s director. His absence from promotions, and the clear disinterest in discussing him, was very conspicuous.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to me how low people still go,\u201d Reynolds remarked in the texts. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut people are already coming forward,\u201d he continued \u201cand soon enough someone is just gonna go on record.\u201d<\/p>\n
It seems that at the time, he and Lively had not yet reached the decision to file a claim against Baldoni. <\/p>\n
\n\u2018The really smart folks already know\u2019<\/h2>\n
Colleen Hoover responded in agreement \u2014 but she also shared her perspective with Reynolds about Lively\u2019s online critics.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s mind-blowing,\u201d Hoover echoed. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut,\u201d she continued, \u201calso I feel like the loud ones are mostly 13-year-olds who don\u2019t have fully developed brains yet and will be mortified by their thought process a few years from now.\u201d <\/p>\n
As with other, similar cases, a tremendous number of people online have come forward to admit that they regretted being hoodwinked by online caricatures of Lively.<\/p>\n
\u201cGood to hear it\u2019s already beginning to skew away from him,\u201d Hoover added, another apparent reference to Baldoni.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cSurprising it\u2019s mostly girls,\u201d Reynolds remarked. Many expect misogyny to spread most by and among men, but patriarchy is more insidious than that. \u201cAt least, that\u2019s what I\u2019ve seen.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cAnd the really smart folks already know. Although the narrative at the moment is how insanely well the film is performing and how much audiences love it. So\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
A source close to Reynolds spoke to Page Six<\/em>, saying: \u201cIt is no secret that Ryan was trying to protect his wife, who was being targeted by a crisis PR team hired by Baldoni.\u201d<\/p>\nThe source added: \u201cThis is the same crisis team who has been accused of these smear tactics in at least 5 other lawsuits according to the NYT.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though this was from over two years ago, these texts are from the height of the hate campaign against Lively. If Reynolds was standing by his wife this adamantly before <\/em>the public learned the truth about what she experienced on Baldoni\u2019s set, one would imagine <\/em>that the injustices that she faced in and out of court did not sour things.<\/p>\n
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