Ryan Reynolds’ Shocking Attempt to Shield Blake Lively Faces Backlash from Furious Studio Chiefs
Sony execs made multiple negative remarks about Lively in private DMs
Despite Reynolds’ best efforts, Sony never released his drafted statement. Moreover, text exchanges between Sony’s top brass, released in January 2026, exposed what the studio truly thought of Lively.
“She did it to herself,” Sanford Panitch, president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, wrote about Lively in August 2024 after she insisted Baldoni be banned from the film’s New York premiere until she had cleared the press line.
“If she just let him come to the premiere, or didn’t make all the cast unfollow him or kick him off the movie, and did what everyone ever has done in show business for time and memorial, which is to protect ‘the show,’ then none of the sleuthing would have happened,” he added, referring to netizens digging into the matter.
“The hair sale at the same time was epic level stupid. She wouldn’t listen. She knows better,” Panitch concluded.
Tahra Grant, Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer for Sony Pictures Entertainment, wrote, “She orchestrated all this drama in a totally unsavvy and amateur way (and basically threatened…Sony) and now is mad it backfired on her.”
In a legal deposition taken by Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, Ange Giannetti, the Sony Pictures executive overseeing It Ends With Us, admitted to calling Lively a “f**king terrorist.”
Reynolds’ remarks drew contradictory statements from insiders
A source close to Reynolds told the Daily Mail that he had simply been trying to protect his wife.
“It is no secret that Ryan believed his wife was being targeted by a crisis PR team hired by Baldoni,” the insider said.
“This is the same crisis team that has been accused of these smear tactics in at least 5 other lawsuits, according to the NYT.”
The New York Times report, which relied heavily on earlier revelations by TheHollywoodReporter, said publicist Stephanie Jones, model Paige Jimenez, and three other women have accused Baldoni’s PR firm of running targeted campaigns.
Another insider retorted that Reynolds’ claim was baseless, as the PR team “had been on board for just six days.”
“These recently unsealed messages show Reynolds pressing Sony to not only publicly blame a newly hired crisis PR team for the backlash against Blake but also supplying the language he wanted the studio to use,” the source said.
“How could it have orchestrated a backlash that predated its involvement? Even a movie star cannot rewrite the timeline. Demanding that a studio repeat an accusation does not make it true, no matter how famous you are.”
In July 2026, Baldoni and his wife, Emily, finally spoke up publicly about the legal drama, saying that “many painful things” were “spoken into existence over the last couple of years,” and that they were now collectively healing from the trauma.
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