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Ryan Reynolds Apologizes For 2012 Wedding At A Former Slave Plantation

"It’s something we’ll always be deeply and unreservedly sorry for."

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Ryan Reynolds Apologizes For 2012 Wedding At A Former Slave Plantation
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Actor Ryan Reynolds has publicly apologized for hosting his wedding at a former slave plantation.

In 2012, the “Deadpool” actor, and his now-wife, actress Blake Lively, tied the knot at Boone Hall in South Carolina, and the venue offered the kind of idyllic scenery fit for such an occasion, its checkered past as a former slave plantation was not so pleasant. Now, eight years and one massive Black Lives Matter movement later, Reynolds has apologized.

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