Washington, April 25 -- Amid Blake Lively's ongoing legal battle with her 'It Ends With Us' co-star and director Justin Baldoni, the actress and her husband Ryan Reynolds made a rare appearance together at a recent event.

Lively talked about her mother, Willie Elaine McAlpin, and shared that her life was "influenced most" by McAlpin, who she said was the "survivor of the worst crime someone can commit against a woman," reported People.

"My mom never got justice from her work acquaintance who attempted to take her life when she was the mother of three young kids years before I was born," she said.

She added that her mother credited a woman whom she heard speaking about a "similar circumstance" on the radio for saving her life, as per th...