Ryan Reynolds Apologises For Plantation Wedding With Blake Lively: “Shame Works In Weird Ways”

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s wedding fell into a controversy soon after they realised that the ceremony took place at a former plantation. The actor has apologised about his plantation wedding with Lively.

The ‘Deadpool’ star exchanged vows with Lively in 2012 at Boone Hall Plantation in South Carolina, but Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively later regretted not giving the site’s devastating history more thought. The plantation features nine slave cabins.

Ryan Reynolds, in an interview with Fast Company, said, “It’s something we’ll always be deeply and unreservedly sorry for. It’s impossible to reconcile. What we saw at the time was a wedding venue on Pinterest. What we saw after was a place built upon devastating tragedy. Years ago, we got married again at home — but shame works in weird ways. A giant f—king mistake like that can either cause you to shut down, or it can reframe things and move you into action. It doesn’t mean you won’t f— up again. But re-patterning and challenging lifelong social conditioning is a job that doesn’t end.”