Ryan Reynolds and his legal team filed a motion to dismiss Justin Baldoni‘s complaint against the actor on Tuesday, claiming that his accusations claiming Reynolds called Baldoni “a predator” do not qualify as examples of defamation.
“The entirety of Mr. Baldoni’s case appears to be based on Mr. Reynolds allegedly privately calling Mr. Baldoni a ‘predator,’ but here is the problem: that is not defamation unless they can show that Mr. Reynolds did not believe that statement to be true,” said a statement from Reynolds’ attorneys, Mike Gottlieb and Esra Hudson, to Entertainment Weekly. “The complaint doesn’t allege that, and just the opposite, the allegations in the…