Ryan Renolds covers GQ magazine

Ryan Reynolds has revealed how he caught one of his closest friends trying to sell private pictures of his daughter to the media.

The actor has said that he cut the friend  whom he’d known for 25 years  out his life after discovering the devastating betrayal shortly after the birth of baby James.

Speaking to GQ, Reynolds revealed that he found out the trusted friend had been shopping pictures from the delivery room at the hospital around to tabloids.

Reynolds and wife Blake Lively fiercely protected their daughter following her arrival in December have only shared glimpses of the little girl on social media – so realizing a trusted friend was attempting to make some fast cash was ‘shocking’, the Green Lantern actor said.

‘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 worked out.’

‘It was a slightly dark period. A bad couple of weeks,’ the 38-year-old told the magazine. ‘It was like a death.’

Aside from dealing with betrayal of a friend, Reynolds said that he has really taken to fatherhood, and is still marveling over how completely dedicated he is to his little one.

 ‘I’ve learned that an inordinate amount of clichés are completely true,’ he said in a new interview with the magazine. ‘Like, there is this kid here that I would walk through fire for. Or maybe not fire. Like, a very hot pavement, I’d walk through. A shag rug.’

Ryan’s life with Blake and James in their home in upstate Bedford, New York – where their $2.35 million, 4,753 square foot house includes a renovated barn and a porch – seems completely idyllic. But Ryan said that he didn’t have it quite so perfect growing up, explaining that his relationship with his father wasn’t ‘easy’.

However, he added, he doesn’t think that having examples of good fathers in your life is necessary to being one yourself. It’s really just about being there for your kid – which Ryan believes he’s doing a good job at.

‘I’m surprised how patient I am with it,’ he said. ‘I feel like I could sometimes have a bit of a short fuse, but there’s just been this weirdly endless supply of patience.

‘I have no problem waking up five times in the middle of the night and changing diapers, and as exhausted as you get, I have this stupid grin on my face all the time. And that’s not because I have a nanny or something like that. It’s just us right now, and I love it.’

Being new to fatherhood has also given him the the ‘profound’ realization of how much his own parents did for him. There was a time when they did everything that he is now doing for James ,changing diapers in the middle of the night, getting no sleep, and so on and understanding that has given him even more respect for his mom and dad.

But just because he’s more than happy to dote on his daughter doesn’t mean he’s going to be one of those parents who acts like his offspring are the center of the universe.