Ryan Reynolds is a man who has it all. The handsome star of Deadpool has professional success and personal fulfilment, four children and a beautiful wife, Blake Lively. He has carefully curated an image as the A-lister next door, the Hollywood golden boy who bought a failing British football club, the serious actor with a very un-luvvie-ish line in self-deprecating wit. What follows is a cautionary tale. It’s what happens in a litigious society when famous people fall out. And it could probably be summed up in three words: “lawyers get rich”.
The trouble started on the set of Lively’s latest film, It Ends with Us. Lively has complained that she suffered “mental pain and anguish”. She is suing the director and her co-star,