“Among other things, Reynolds argued that it is “substantially true” that Baldoni is a predator, as Baldoni himself has confessed on podcast appearances to “crossing boundaries” in his younger days due to his addiction to pornography. “It would be perverse to permit Mr. Baldoni to build an entire brand — complete with a podcast, Ted Talk, and books — off of his confessions of repeatedly mistreating women, only to turn around and sue Mr. Reynolds for $400 million for simply pointing out in private what Mr. Baldoni has bragged about in public,” the motion argues.” More on reddit.com

There are many reasons including extreme hubris, arrogance and narcissism. But in my opinion the straw that broke the camel’s back was the failed promotion campaign of the Lively parties. On Ryan Reynolds own Instagram page you can see many hate comments on his August promotion of the movie. Those comments all date back to August. It was the weird interview promotion with Hugh Jackman, Brandon Sklenar and his mother. The same also happened to Blake’s promotion. It was seen as a tone deaf fashion show with inappropriate product placement of her hair and alcohol brands. While Baldoni himself was getting very good press. The Lively parties legitimately were thinking that Justin Baldoni had started a smear campaign. I am convinced that this is what they really thought. It was unthinkable to them that they could get organic bad press. And you can even see in the amended complaint that Ryan Reynolds had the audacity to ask the Wayfairer Studios to take responsibility for it by issuing an apology that Ryan Reynolds himself has written. The apology was even blatantly mocking Justin Baldoni by using the words “man enough” which is also the name of a book and podcast that Justin was involved in. Justin Baldoni and Wayfairer Studios saying no to that was what made Ryan Reynolds snap. Surely he was also jealous of Justin Baldoni. But he really was not able to take the bad criticism which he himself was 100% responsible for. In his world he would not be anyone that would be openly criticized by the public. And thus he wanted revenge. And he thought he would be getting away with it no problem. That’s the kind of arrogance and hubris we are dealing with and I think that those are the most astounding and appalling elements in this entire saga. More on reddit.com

As a lawyer this is laughable. Cannot overstate how incredibly normal and commonplace it is to file a motion to dismiss lmao. He's clearly going hard af in the court of public opinion, giving direct quotes to TMZ is crazy More on reddit.com

I mean, they could have come up with Nicepool without Baldoni even existing. Dude is a bit of a walking stereotype. More on reddit.com