This is going to get nasty really quickly.

Scarlett Johansson officially filed for divorce from husband Romain Dauriac on Tuesday, and requested physical custody of their daughter Rose Dorothy, 2. Her ex is now responding to her filing, and begging her to reconsider her actions in order to avoid a nasty court battle.

"It is indeed unfortunate, especially for our daughter, that Scarlett filed in court and made our personal differences so public. I would implore her to withdraw her action promptly and to go back, as uncomfortable as it might be, to the negotiating table. We are the parents of a lovely daughter whom we will continue to co-parent for many years and share her joys and sorrows as only a parent can," Dauriac said in a statement via his lawyer Harold Mayerson.

The big problem? Johansson is based in the United States, and her former spouse is based in France.

"He would like to move to France with his daughter and Ms. Johansson does a lot of traveling. It will be an interesting process," Dauriac's attorney told Page Six.

We guess the journalist didn't care about the A-list starlet's plea for silence on the matter.

"As a devoted mother and private person and with complete awareness that my daughter will one day be old enough to read the news about herself, I would only like to say that I will never, ever be commenting on the dissolution of my marriage. Out of respect for my desires as a parent and out of respect for all working moms, it is with kindness that I ask other parties involved and the media to do the same. Thank you," Johansson said in a statement via her rep just hours before Dauriac's response.

She better pray a judge doesn't Kelly Rutherford her!