Actor Ryan Reynolds says he was betrayed by a lifelong friend who `had been shopping pictures` of his daughter James.

`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,` Reynolds told GQ magazine in its October issue, reports aceshowbiz.com.

"I kind of got in front of it, which is good. But it was a slightly dark period. A bad couple of weeks. Somebody I grew up with, yeah. Somebody I've known, who's been one of my closest friends, for 25 years,` he added.

The 38-year-old says he and his friend had "a pretty strongly worded conversation" afterwards.

"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. They're just, like, my closest family and my closest friends", he said.