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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Entertainment
Heather Saul

Ryan Reynolds claims close friend betrayed him in the worst way

Talk of the town: Blake Lively with her husband, Ryan Reynolds (AFP/Getty)

Ryan Reynolds has compared finding out a close friend of 25 years was allegedly attempting to sell pictures of his newborn child to something as devastating as a death.

The Green Lantern actor described his shock at discovering a former friend had been “shopping pictures’ of his baby during an interview with GQ magazine.

Reynolds married the actress Blake Lively in 2012 and the pair welcomed their first child, a daughter, in December. 

He said only his closet friends and family had been sent intimate pictures from inside the delivery room, making the alleged betrayal all the more painful. 

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“I kind of got in front of it, which is good,” he explained. “But it was a slightly dark period. A bad couple of weeks.

"It’s a pretty narrow group of people that I would send photos like that to. They’re just, like, my closest family and my closest friends: ‘Here’s us in the delivery room!’

"It was like a death. It was like one of those devastating things to find out.”

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