Ryan Reynolds makes rare comment on wife Blake Lively's ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni

Ryan Reynolds has made a rare comment on wife Blake Lively's ongoing legal battle against her It Ends With Us director and co-star Justin Baldoni.

"You really see kind of the illusion behind so much of this stuff, you know? Digital life versus real life," Reynolds, 49, told Today US in a live Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist.

"I'll just say, I've never in my life been more proud of my wife."

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Lively, 38, and Baldoni, 42, have been embroiled in a tense legal battle concerning allegations of sexual harassment and defamation.

On April 2, a judge dismissed 10 of the 13 claims that Lively filed against Baldoni, although Reynolds suggested the public doesn't understand the full story.

"People have no idea what's really going on, you know?" he continued.

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"And I've just never in my life been more proud of someone with that level of integrity that brings that with them and carries that with them in everything that they do."

The Deadpool star, who shares children, James, 11, Inez, nine, Betty, six, and Olin, three, with Lively, has been unwavering in his support of his wife.

"My wife and kids are everything. I mean that's it, when we finally close our eyes to this mortal dumbshow those are the ones that are going to matter," Reynolds said.

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Unsealed messages between the Hollywood couple showed how Reynolds backed his actress wife during the production of It Ends With Us.

"Yes Ryan got involved – what husband wouldn't support his wife and the mother of his children?," an unnamed Reynolds spokesman confirmed to Puck News in January.

"He saw his wife fighting daily to stand up against sexual harassment in a private and respectful way, only to face retaliation for doing so."

The rep said Reynolds had no regrets about getting involved in Lively and Baldoni's feud saying "if anything [Reynolds] feels like he wasn't angry enough."

While most of Lively's counts against Baldoni were dismissed, she will be taking the remaining three claims to a jury when the schedule trial begins on May 18.

The claims include breach of contract, retaliation and aiding and abetting in retaliation. Baldoni has denied Lively's allegations.

"The last thing I wanted in my life was a lawsuit," Lively said in an April 3 statement posted on her Instagram Story.

"But I brought this case because of the pervasive RETALIATION I faced, and continue to, for privately and professionally asking for a safe working environment for myself and others."

She continued, "I hope the Court's decision shows others that, as unfathomably painful as it is, you can speak up."

Lively hopes that come the May trial, the public will see her not just as a celebrity but also as a fellow human.

"The constant packaging of this lawsuit as a 'Celebrity Drama' is not only irresponsible, but it is by design: to keep you from seeing yourselves in my story.

"The physical pain from digital violence is very real. It is abuse. And it's everywhere."

As for Baldoni, his defence team said in an April 3 statement to TMZ that "the defendants were not afraid of the truth".

"The plan was not only to speak the truth but to also show that same truth over and over again through the presentation of actual evidence."

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