Taylor Swift has found herself connected to the It Ends With Us legal drama thanks to her friendship with Blake Lively — but will Justin Baldoni ask her to take the stand if the case goes to trial?
A source connected to Baldoni’s legal team tells Us Weekly that it would be “next to impossible to serve” Swift, 46, with a summons. The insider adds that the recently released text messages between the pop star and Lively, 38, “speak for themselves, so they won’t need her as a witness.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Baldoni and Lively’s team for comment.
Lively and Baldoni, 41, costarred in the movie adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us, which released in August 2024. Lively later accused Baldoni, who was also the film’s director, of sexual harassment and orcastrating a smear campaign against her that December. Baldoni vehemently denied the allegations and subsequently filed a countersuit, which was then dismissed in June 2025.
Lively’s lawsuit remains ongoing, and is currently scheduled to head to trial in May. Documents unsealed on Tuesday, January 20, and obtained by Us, revealed various depositions, emails and text messages surrounding the legal case, including Lively’s correspondence with longtime friend Swift, whose song “My Tears Ricochet” is featured in the movie.
While speaking about Lively’s potential next steps in December 2024, the singer allegedly called Baldoni a “bitch” who “knows something is coming because he’s gotten out his tiny violin,” with an attached People article titled “Justin Baldoni Reveals He Was Sexually Traumatized by an Ex-Girlfriend When He Was ‘Hoping to Save Myself for Marriage.’”
The text was allegedly sent as Swift was on her way to meet with Lively and Baldoni, who were both present at the Gossip Girl alum’s home, to endorse a revised version of the script. Following the alleged meeting, the twosome texted about how things went, with Lively saying Swift was “so epically heroic today” and that she “recapped every moment” to husband Ryan Reynolds.
Elsewhere in the documents, a conversation between the pair seemingly confirmed that the lawsuit had caused a rift in their relationship.
“I have no reason to ask, but I donno [sic], I’ve been feeling like I should … is everything OK? I felt like a bad friend lately because I was such a sad sack who only talked about my own s*** for months,” Lively wrote in one text message to Swift in early December 2024. “You were generous to not only be the key person there for me during all of it, but also to let me off the hook for being so in it.”
Acknowledging that Swift, who was on her worldwide Eras Tour at the time, was “busy and taxed,” Lively explained that she always wants the “opportunity to be a better friend if there’s something I unintentionally did.” She added that she didn’t expect “anymore” from Swift “ever.”
Swift replied that Lively was “not wrong, but it’s also not a big deal,” agreeing that she is “exhausted in every avenue of my life.” She did, however, note that she had been “feeling a little bit of a shift” in the way Lively spoke to her.
“Yes there has been a lot of Justin [Baldoni] stuff but I’ve been through things like this before and I know how all consuming it is,” Swift continued. “I feel really bad saying anything about this because your texts have been so nice in their intent but your last few … it’s felt like I was reading a mass corporate email sent to 200 employees. And it feels awful to be in any way critical of any way you process what you’ve been going through but I just kinda miss my funny, dark, normal-speaking friend who talks to me as herself.”
Lively said she didn’t “notice” until Swift “pointed it out” that she had been texting like she was writing, not talking, and that she’d become “digitally paranoid” amid the ongoing lawsuit.
“On top of that, I’m over packaging simple things bc I’ve felt so deeply misunderstood that I don’t trust my judgement of myself anymore,” Lively added. “This f***ing guy and what he did to me gave me an identity crisis. Legitimately.”
She noted that she was “spooked” most not by Baldoni, but the amount of friendships she’d lost amid the legal battle.
“My lifelong friends -allies to women- who quietly dipped,” she told Swift. “And so I’m probably being over the top with my friends who stayed because I’ve never felt more alone.”
A source previously told Us about a potential rift between Swift and Lively in May 2025, revealing that the twosome’s friendship “is not what it used to be.” Swift was subpoenaed about the case that same month.
“Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film,” a rep for the singer told Us at the time. “She did not even see It Ends With Us until weeks after its public release, and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history.”
The subpoena was dropped in September 2025.
As for Lively, the actress’ attorney Sigrid McCawley told Us in a Tuesday statement that she remains dedicated to the case as only her “claims against the defendants remain.”
“The newly unsealed evidence contains never-before seen testimony, messages and evidence from numerous eyewitnesses backing the claims in Ms. Lively’s lawsuit,” McCawley continued. “The evidence includes Ms. Lively’s own testimony describing the harassment she faced, as well as new evidence from numerous women describing their own disturbing experiences. The newly unsealed evidence shows the concerns of Ms. Lively and others were documented in real-time as early as Spring 2023.”
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