The pop star has been unexpectedly dragged into the controversial legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. Cited as a witness and mentioned in a demand of US $ 400 million, the singer feels deeply betrayed by her former best friend.
By Writing Things
Taylor Swift It is located in the center of a scandal that never sought to star. The 35 -year -old singer was summoned as a witness in the legal dispute between Blake Lively and Justin Baldonidirector and co -star of It ends with us. And although his participation in the project was limited to authorizing a song for the soundtrack, his name ended up appearing in emails and messages that are today part of the evidence.
It all started in December 2024, when Lively He sued Baldoni for sexual harassment and defamation. In January 2025, he responded with a contrademanda, accusing Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds of having defamed him as well. In that contrademanda he included communications that mentioned Swift as an alleged influential figure in creative decisions. In a leaked conversation, Lively refers to herself as “Khaleesi” and Taylor and Ryan as his “dragons”, hinting at a powerful alliance behind the project.
Celebrating Taylor Swift’s birthday in 2023.
An unexpected betrayal
For Taylor, the coup was double: not only was it dragged to a conflict that does not correspond to him, but he learned that his friend would have facilitated her name as a support without consulting her. It is even mentioned that Swift attended a key meeting on the film in the Penthouse of Lively and Reynolds, something that their surroundings sharply denies. “Taylor arrived without knowing what it was and had no role in production,” said a nearby source.
The singer’s legal team issued a statement clarifying that her participation was limited to the use of the song “My Tears Ricochet” and that he never stepped on the set, was not in casting decisions or opined about the final assembly. They also rejected as “false” the versions that assured that she personally approved the choice of Isabela Ferrer as a young version of the main character.
Lively and Baldoni’s dispute began in December 2024, when the actress sued her co -star in the tape ‘It ends with us’ for sexual harassment.
The friendship between the two has been hard affected. Until recently, they lived a few blocks in Tribeca and Swift is a godmother of the daughters of Lively. Today, that closeness seems a thing of the past. “Taylor feels that Blake has been exploiting his name, and this citation has taken things to another level,” said a source to Daily Mail.
Neither Lively nor his surroundings have given direct statements, although his spokesman hardly criticized Baldoni for “converting a case of harassment into entertainment for tabloids.” Baldoni, on the other hand, insists that the inclusion of Swift as a witness is relevant.
Thus, while Taylor continues his world tour and the success of his latest album, he faces a personal drama that was not in his script: the betrayal of someone he considered family. A painful break that, according to its close ones, left it “completely for the soils.”
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