With co-star, and future husband, Ryan Reynolds at The Green Lantern LA premiere.

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RYAN REYNOLDS has revealed that he caught one of his closest friends trying to sell pictures of his wife, Blake Lively, and newborn daughter, James.

"A guy that I'd known for my whole life, one of my closest friends growing up, he had been shopping pictures of my baby around," the 38-year-oldtold US GQ."I mean, I don't think he thought he would ever be caught.But 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!'"

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Fortunately, the actor found out about the situation, which he called "shocking," before the pictures were purchased by any publications - not that stopping their release mitigated the upset at all.

"I kind of got in front of it, which is good.But it was a slightly dark period.A bad couple of weeks," he said."It was like death.It was like one of those devastating things to find out."

Although Reynolds was aware that his friend's actions were motivated by a desperate need for money, it didn't change the eventual outcome.

"Well, I think he'd asked for a cheque enough times where I was like, 'There's no more cheques to be had,'" he said."It was, like, so kind of shocking.There isn't really a conversation to have.It's just, 'Oh, well, now I'm never going to see you or talk to you again, unfortunately.'That's kind of how it works out."

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