Ryan Reynolds is protective of his daughter, James Reynolds. According to a report from Us Weekly, the actor revealed that a former friend betrayed him by selling photos of his baby.

"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," he shared in the October 2015 issue of GQ magazine.

"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.'"

The person who tried to sell photos of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' daughter is said to be a very good friend whom the "Green Lantern" star knew almost all his life.

"Somebody I grew up with, yeah. Somebody I've known, who's been one of my closest friends, for 25 years," he said.

"It was like a death. It was like one of those devastating things to find out."

The former friend was eventually confronted by Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds regarding their daughter's unauthorized photos.

"It was a pretty strongly worded conversation," the movie star said.

"[He did it] just for money. 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."

Since the ordeal, Ryan Reynolds said that he has been trying to move on.

"I kind of got in front of it, which is good," he said. "But it was a slightly dark period. A bad couple of weeks."

Aside from their ordeal regarding unauthorized photos of baby James, Ryan Reynolds shared that he is hands-on with his daughter. According to a report from People, the hunk actor does not even get the help of a nanny.

"It's just us right now, and I love it," he said.

"I have no problem waking up five times in the middle of the night and changing diapers, and as exhausted as you get."

"I [also] have this stupid grin on my face all the time," he joked.