Here’s Where Blake & Taylor Stand Amid The It Ends With Us Lawsuit
In March, sources said Taylor was “not happy” about being brought into the “legal mess.”
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s It Ends With Us feud is far from over — even if certain players involved wish that it was. On March 19, a source told Us Weekly that Taylor Swift is not “happy” about being dragged into the lawsuit after text messages connecting the Eras Tour singer to the case were leaked. However, a Page Six source is now saying Swift and Lively are on “good terms again.”
ICYMI, back in January, a source denied any rumors of tension between Swift and Lively. “There’s no truth that this has hurt their relationship,” a source told Us in January. “They are still close friends.” But that March, another Us Weekly insider claimed that Swift, who is the godmother to Lively’s children, “wasn’t happy with being brought into the legal mess.”
On April 7, things seemingly changed again when an insider told Page Six that the longtime friends put their issues behind them after Lively apologized. “It was important to Blake to be on good terms again with Taylor. It was never her intention to hurt Taylor or cause any harm to their friendship,” the source said.
“Blake missed their friendship, and she hopes they can put this whole thing behind them,” they added. It seemed to have worked. Per the insider, Swift “appreciated” the apology and “felt it was genuine and heartfelt.” The source continued, “[Taylor] has no hard feelings and is ready to move forward.”
Swift’s name has been brought up more than once in relation to the lawsuit. In Lively’s original complaint, which was published in the New York Times in December 2024, she accused Baldoni of launching a smear campaign against her. In those docs, alleged texts between Baldoni and his team of crisis PR experts mention Swift. “Our team can also explore planting stories about the weaponization of feminism and how people in BL’s circle like Taylor Swift, have been accused of utilizing these tactics to ‘bully’ into getting what they want,” one text read.
Baldoni’s January lawsuit against Lively also seemingly referenced Swift. His suit claimed that Lively enlisted the help of her husband Ryan Reynolds and her “megacelebrity friend” to pressure Baldoni into using Lively’s script for the film’s rooftop scene. The friend in question is likely Swift. (In one screenshot of texts between Lively and Baldoni, the name of this mysterious friend is not redacted — and Baldoni refers to this person as “Taylor.”)
Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, also discussed Swift’s role in the case. “I don’t know that we’re going to depose Taylor Swift or not,” Freedman said on a Feb. 5 episode of TMZ’s Two Angry Men podcast. “I think that that’s gonna be probably a game time decision. I don’t know that that decision’s been made.”
“Anyone that reasonably has information that can provide evidence in this case is going to be deposed,” he added at the time. “I mean, for sure.”
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