How Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are Coping During Their Justin Baldoni Legal Battle

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00:00As Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds continue to battle it out against Justin Baldoni,

00:04insiders are revealing how Hollywood's power couple are coping behind the scenes.

00:09A source tells us in this week's cover story,

00:11"...it's been difficult. They never thought it would end up like this.

00:15They're trying to be positive and support each other.

00:17There are good days and bad days for both of them."

00:20And there's no end in sight as Lively and Baldoni continue to duke it out.

00:24On February 28th, a judge declined portions of Lively's subpoena

00:28for Baldoni's phone records, and during a pretrial hearing on March 6th,

00:32attorneys for Lively and Reynolds asked that access to their text messages

00:36be limited to Baldoni's legal team.

00:38Amid all the back and forth, Lively's mental health has been suffering.

00:42A source tells us,

00:51Now, according to the first source,

00:52Lively and Reynolds weren't expecting Baldoni to fight back so hard.

00:56The actors garnered strong support online,

00:58and the comments toward Lively have been harsh.

01:01A source tells us she's human and can only take so much public stoning.

01:05Blake wishes people would wait and see how things pan out in court

01:09before making judgments.

01:10The source adds that Lively and Reynolds feel the backlash is over-the-top, saying,

01:21But Lively and Reynolds have no intention of backing down

01:24and continue to remain a united front, with the source adding,

01:30The whole experience has been devastating for Blake and Ryan,

01:34but they're not running away from it, and they know what really happened,

01:37and they're going to stand up for themselves.