Ryan Reynolds has issued an apology for his 2012 wedding to Blake Lively, which took place at former slave plantation, Boone Hall, in South Carolina.
In a recent interview with Fast Company, the 43-year-old 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," he went onto explain, detailing that the couple "got married again" at home several years after their wedding.
"Shame works in weird ways," he continued. "A giant f***ing 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**k up again. But repatterning and challenging lifelong social conditioning is a job that doesn’t end."
Following the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd, Reynolds and Lively donated $1 million to the NAACP Legal Defence and Educational Fund, which fights for racial justice, per Fox News.
Back in May, the couple issued a statement on social media, where they pledged to educate themselves on systemic racism.
"We’re ashamed that in the past we’ve allowed ourselves to be uninformed about how deeply rooted systemic racism is," they wrote.
"We want to educate ourselves about other people’s experiences and talk to our kids about everything, all of it … especially our own complicity. We talk about our bias, blindness and our own mistakes. We look back and see so many mistakes which have led us to deeply examine who we are and who we want to become. They’ve led us to huge avenues of education," the continued.
"It’s the least we can do to honour not just George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and Eric Garner, but all the Black men and women who have been killed when a camera wasn’t rolling."
