In this episode, I speak with reporter Rick Feddick, who tells the story of how he was almost killed by Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, and how they conspired to take him down in order to cover up the crime.
00:01:27.280I'm Sashdi Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller, and your voice of reason in a town built on the illusion.
00:01:33.620In this episode, I have a very special person here with me who agreed to come on camera to tell this story.
00:01:42.480The story is so crazy that if you told me a few years ago, I would never have believed it.
00:01:50.460But from what we know now, there are so many similarities and parallels to what happened to Rick Feddick as at what happened to Justin Baldoni.
00:02:23.580And I'm going to show it to you why Rick is telling his story.
00:02:26.440Thank you, Rick, so much for coming on here to tell your insane story.
00:02:32.660When we were on the phone the other day, I was like, I cannot believe what happened to you.
00:02:37.780So can you take us back to the moment that triggered everything that came after, including Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively?
00:02:48.240So my interaction with Blake and Ryan has gone back, you know, probably 15 years.
00:02:57.320I've been basically working out of Vancouver.
00:03:00.740I have been assigned to a few other, like Sudbury, Ontario, to work on them.
00:03:09.820Basically, my situation happened with Ryan, fabricating a situation that happened between me and him in the parkade of a hotel that he was staying at.
00:03:23.580So the situation that day was I wasn't even working on Ryan.
00:03:50.720And the situation was I drove into the parkade following Naomi.
00:03:56.320And where she was going to have to, where she parked, where she was going to have to walk, she was going to walk, have to walk by me where I was in my car.
00:04:05.740So I looked in my rearview mirror and Ryan Reynolds was behind me in his vehicle.
00:04:10.920So I don't know if he was following me or what, but when I saw him in my rearview mirror, I drove all the way down to the bottom of the parkade.
00:06:29.480And in doing so, it gave, uh, Ryan enough time to get in front of my car and kind of do what, you know, police say when they tell you to put your hands on your car.
00:06:41.960Well, he thought he was Deadpool and he thought he was going to stop the, you know, the, my car type thing.
00:07:47.920Um, uh, he was, you know, trying to, he thought, you know, he thought he was strong enough to stop a car from moving forward.
00:08:00.020And my, what I did was, is I just took my foot off the brake and let my car move very, you know, slowly, slightly, not, no, no force or anything like that.
00:08:15.280Just as, as slow as a car can move forward.
00:08:50.620He got, and he got irritated and, and mad and, um, finally gave up and punched the, punched the car and, and then moved to this driver's side.
00:09:02.120And as I was driving by him slowly, um, he tried to punch out my window, um, you know, uh, forcefully, um, I, you know, I felt like he was trying to break it.
00:09:14.780Um, and, um, so I drove away and as I was driving away, he tried to chase me up, uh, up, up the last little ramp there before the exit.
00:10:08.940Um, well, the courts, the, the crown, the crown prosecutor, they protect it.
00:10:15.720Um, I've tried to get it, um, but it's outside of the protection period.
00:10:21.220Um, the only way I could get it would be as if actually, uh, um, as if, um, you know, something came up that, that I needed that video for evidence type thing.
00:10:33.640Um, so there is, the whole thing's on video.
00:10:36.580When my lawyer saw it, like he was blown away with, you know, seeing the video, he said like, who's hitting who here?
00:10:43.240You know, like it, it's almost the opposite.
00:10:46.580And the lawyer looked forward to, you know, going to court and showing the video.
00:10:51.040He thought he would have it thrown out just by showing the video of, of how untruthful Ryan's statement was to the police.
00:10:57.840So how did Ryan explain what happened?
00:11:01.600Ryan, um, when you say, how did Ryan explain?
00:11:36.980Um, that day, like I said, I don't know, um, what was going on with him, but, um, I was working on Naomi Watts.
00:11:45.140Um, and, you know, um, even my car that I was driving, um, it was a new car and we later found out that, uh, that, uh, an illegal search was done on my car.
00:11:59.080Um, um, Brian's brother is an RCMP officer and, um, they did, uh, searches on my license plates, um, and, uh, which were illegal.
00:12:11.280Um, so, you know, it's, um, him getting, you know, a favor, you know, or, or getting, you know, um, illegal information.
00:12:22.980You know, it's, a lot of it is so similar to what they, you know, how they started out with, you know, um, this Justin Baldoni, um, stuff.
00:12:32.640I kind of feel, you know, a lot of it's similar.
00:13:19.400And, um, so they worked out a deal with me to come in at three o'clock on, on the Sunday.
00:13:27.100But in between that, I chatted with a criminal lawyer about the situation.
00:13:32.700And he told me that he would call the police and work out a deal with them that he would bring me in on the Monday, on Monday morning business hours.
00:13:40.740Um, that wasn't good enough for the Vancouver police department.
00:13:44.480My, my lawyer tried to call them, left the messages.
00:13:48.160Uh, they didn't want to deal with him.
00:13:50.960Um, my lawyer advised me not to go in at three o'clock and, um, he would, you know, work things out with them, but that didn't happen.
00:14:00.540Um, on Sunday afternoon, the officer that arrested or that called me that were given to this case that wanted to arrest me, uh, called me and said, like, where are you?
00:14:12.300And I said, well, my lawyers were trying to call you, um, to work things out with you, um, to come in tomorrow.
00:14:39.000Um, they wanted me to spend the night, you know, type thing.
00:14:42.380They, they had their, their, uh, their motives, whatever they were, you know, whatever they wanted to do.
00:14:49.360Um, you know, uh, so, um, I didn't go in at three o'clock.
00:14:55.700Like I told them I would, and, uh, I was waiting for the lawyer, but next thing I'd had, um, so I lived in a suburb of Richmond, BC, which is about half an hour outside of Vancouver.
00:15:06.740And the Richmond RCMP showed up at my door with a megaphone and, you know, on a megaphone, you know, scaring the neighbors, scaring the kids, you know, telling or yelling through a megaphone, Richard Fettick, please come out with your, or come out with your hands up, you know, uh, all this type of stuff.
00:15:26.740And, uh, I was in the house, I called the lawyer and, um, I said, listen to this.
00:15:33.380I said, you know, uh, they're, they're coming written.
00:15:37.020They've got Richmond RCMP here to arrest me.
00:15:40.280Um, they, they, you know, do you want me to answer the door?
00:17:04.520They pulled me out, took me in a, in a, one of those interrogation rooms with video and, you know, recording me and all this kind of stuff.
00:17:12.500And, you know, um, never been in jail.
00:17:15.720Uh, I was nervous, uh, you know, like.
00:17:21.200So, um, well, like I said, it was probably spent about an hour of them trying to play good cop, bad cop with me.
00:17:27.560One leaving, one stay, you know, type stuff.
00:17:30.920But, um, I just did told them I didn't have a comment.
00:17:35.520You know, they went over, um, what they call a CPAC report where, where, um, you know, reports are made about a person.
00:17:44.900Um, they talked about a helicopter incident back in the day when Twilight was in town shooting, where I forced a helicopter pilot to go below the ceiling, but they're allowed to, which was untrue.
00:17:57.080You know, um, they tried to get me to admit to, um, admit to it.
00:18:02.880You know, um, just a bunch of chasing in the dark type stuff, right?
00:18:08.300So Ryan, after this, I remember going back to that a little bit, because he said that he was hurt and it was even a story in the media about that.
00:18:17.100He was like hurt or his knee, knee was hurt.
00:18:20.860And then he was on the second stay, right?
00:18:25.720He said that he, that he made, that I made contact with him, that he rolled off the car, which is not true.
00:18:33.060If you saw the, the, the video, the surveillance video, he punches, physically punches my car, gets out of the way.
00:18:39.880And then physically, like really with all his, you know, with all his might tried to punch out my, my driver's side window.
00:18:47.540So, you know, like I was, I was looking forward to going to court to show the video and then having access to the video, but you know, they chose not to go.
00:20:12.560Did they give you a reason for dropping it?
00:20:14.980They were like, we done harassing you now.
00:20:18.180We going on to the next person kind of thing or.
00:20:21.340No, well, unfortunately the system is set up, you know, I have a couple of friends that work in VPD and the way the system is set up that it hurts you.
00:20:33.440You know, all the money that I spent, you know, I spent $125,000 on lawyers, on two different lawyers.
00:20:40.140I had a lawyer for three months and then a lawyer for two, for a year and a half, two years, you know, to go through the motions of, of a fake, you know, seven day trial or whatever, eight day trial, whatever it was scheduled for.
00:21:00.860And that was basically, that is a strategy used.
00:21:04.260So Ryan and Blake basically defamed me, slandered me.
00:21:09.960And once it gets past, uh, I think it's, uh, 12 months, um, you cannot go after somebody for defamation, slander, or any of that.
00:21:20.440So I strategic, I think strategically that they held onto it that long so that, you know, I, I wouldn't be able to, plus it, it buries that video of, of the incident between me and Ryan.
00:21:44.700So they write, both Blake and Ryan wrote letters to the police or to the court to explain, to try and defame you there and to try and portray you as a terrible person.
00:23:33.180Ryan is like, uh, you know, a creature of habit.
00:23:37.100Um, there was only two places Ryan could go when, when he left the hotel out the highway back to Toronto or to a strip mall that had a huge, uh, movie theater.
00:23:48.440And as I told the other paparazzi that I was working with, or photographer that I was working with, um, I would bet that weekend was a, um, movie release with, uh, Jason Damon.