Blake Lively's bizarre texts to Justin Baldoni threaten to expose her 'dragon' husband Ryan Reynolds... for all the famous lovers he's burned

Even by the standards of high-profile Hollywood spats, the interminable brawl betwixt histrion Blake Lively and her co-star, manager Justin Baldoni is capable to warrant different Rocky sequel.

But who would beryllium the villain?

With chaotic accusations and adjacent wilder antagonistic claims being traded neither enactment is smelling of roses.

Lively, 37, accused Baldoni successful an 80-page national suit successful December of bizarre acts of intersexual harassment connected the acceptable of the movie 'It Ends With Us' and of orchestrating a smear run against her.

Baldoni, 41, responded by suing the New York Times for publishing Lively's claims and past by slapping a $400 cardinal lawsuit, alleging defamation and extortion, connected the actress, her publicist and her A-list histrion hubby Ryan Reynolds

And present that Reynolds is being dragged into this confusing crisscross of lawsuits, it's not lone Lively and Baldoni whose behaviour has travel into question.

The Canada-born rom-com leader has ever cultivated a 'Mr Nice Guy' nationalist representation but scratch his shiny aboveground and a seemingly little appealing mentation begins to emerge, on with a agelong way of breached relationships.

Ryan's wounded songbird

Reynolds moved to Los Angeles to prosecute a showbusiness vocation successful his aboriginal 20s and landed his archetypal celebrated woman successful 'Jagged Little Pill' singer, chap Canadian, Alanis Morissette, present 50.

The brace – who, Morissette says, bonded implicit their roots successful the Great White North – met successful 2002 astatine the 27th day enactment of histrion Drew Barrymore.

The glamorous mates graced galore a reddish carpet... with plentifulness of PDAs.

Morissette could hardly incorporate herself successful a 2004 interrogation with People erstwhile she described their 'passionate' relationship, yet immoderate of her statements near fans scratching their heads.

'I consciousness truthful loved by him, successful a trampoline benignant of way,' she said. She besides called him her 'soul brother.'

It each seemed similar a showbiz fairy communicative erstwhile they got engaged successful June 2004, but they'd ne'er wed and - aft a divided and effort astatine reconciliation - the mates called it quits successful a cringeworthy connection claiming they 'remain adjacent friends and proceed to person the utmost admiration for each other.'

In 2008, Morissette wore her bosom connected her sleeve successful songs she wrote for her seventh album, 'Flavours of Entanglement,' successful which, the vocalist revealed, she channelled the sting of that precise nationalist interruption up.

'One step, 1 prayer. I worker on. Stimulating, moving on,' she sings successful the emotionally charged way 'Torch.'

For Reynolds, it doesn't look to person been arsenic overmuch of a struggle.

Within hardly 2 months of that breached engagement Reynolds traded his songstress for a bonafide megastar successful the shapely fig of Scarlett Johansson, 40.

The Scarlett Letter

Reynolds's narration with Johansson did not grounds the aforesaid grade of slobbering PDA that he'd shown with Morissette. In fact, the mates did their utmost to debar the paparazzi.

Fans were shocked that they were adjacent an point erstwhile they announced their engagement successful May 2008 and joined successful September of that year.

Johansson didn't gush astir her chisel-jawed hubby and his unfailing support. Her instrumentality connected their matrimony seemed astir jaded – a acold outcry from the emblematic over-romanticized Hollywood pairing.

'We enactment and past spell location and – I, anyhow – conscionable look astatine the partition for a fewer hours earlier I spell to sleep,' Johansson told Time Out New York soon aft their one-year anniversary.

'Like successful immoderate profession, it's difficult. You privation to marque definite you person clip to put successful your family. It's a challenge, but it's worthy it.'

Soon determination were whispers that Reynolds was 'an overbearing power freak' who expected his much celebrated spouse to 'drop everything and travel to him.'

Johansson, insiders said, was not a instrumentality of this behavior.

The power-couple parted ways successful December 2010, issuing yet different syrupy connection that they were leaving the matrimony with 'love and kindness.'

The sanctimony did small to quell rumours that Reynolds had been envious of his wife's career. She had precocious been named 1 of the world's highest paid actresses astatine the property of 25, portion helium was inactive awaiting his large break.

But, much superior than the jealousy theory, immoderate suggested that his divided from Johansson dovetailed alternatively excessively intimately with a flourishing on-screen concern with Lively.

Reynolds had started filming the Green Lantern movie with longtime person Lively successful July, 5 months earlier helium and Johansson called it quits.

A waitress, who allegedly saw the brace astatine meal unneurotic successful 2010, told the Daily Mail that contempt Reynolds being joined astatine the time, 'They were laughing and flirting. It looked similar a date. If you didn't cognize who they were, you would decidedly presume they were a couple.'

So precise Lively...

Lively and Gossip Girl histrion Penn Badgley had been dating for 3 years earlier they divided successful September 2010. Reynolds and Johansson's interruption up followed swiftly on.

But immoderate proposition that the communal unravelling of his and Lively's relationships was thing little than clean-cut near Reynolds incensed.

In an interrogation with Details mag successful May 2011, helium said, 'There was nary communicative and nary scandal.' And helium railed astatine the press, adding, 'The media was not invited to my marriage, and they're decidedly not invited into the divorce.'

Reynolds said successful the aforesaid interrogation that helium didn't deliberation he'd ever privation to get joined again. It turned retired that Lively would beryllium the pistillate who made him alteration his mind.

The pair's authoritative archetypal day was successful October 2011, 3 months aft Reynolds divorcement from Johansson was finalized.

Speaking connected a podcast, helium said they were already 'friends and buddies' but had ever been dating different people. He aboriginal claimed that they kept successful interaction 'casually' earlier they recovered themselves some moving successful Boston. The proximity led to romance; Reynolds revealed.

The mates wed successful September 2012 – little than 18 months aft Reynolds had truthful publically expressed his doubts astir getting remarried. The lavish ceremonial caused contention due to the fact that it took spot connected a historical plantation successful South Carolina. The newlyweds aboriginal apologized for choosing the venue with links to the enslaved trade.

While the woke mea culpa didn't get the matrimony disconnected to the astir auspicious start, this national appears to person thrived. Their twins, James and Inez, were calved successful 2016 with a 3rd daughter, Betty, arriving successful 2019. Lively delivered their son, Olin, successful 2023.

Thirteen years and 4 children later, it's astir apt harmless to presume that Lively knows Reynolds arsenic well, if not better, than anyone.

So, it's worthy noting that alleged substance messages person surfaced that look to amusement Lively referring to Reynolds and champion person Taylor Swift arsenic her 'dragons', portion she formed herself arsenic 'Khaleesi,' from the Game of Thrones saga.

Fire-breathing and gold-hungry – 'dragons' are hardly the astir flattering analogy for either - but possibly there's a fewer past lovers who mightiness find it fitting for Reynolds 'the bully guy'.