A judge ruled that Justin Baldoni has the right to read the messages between Blake Lively and singer Taylor Swift
By Sofia Torres June 19, 2025
In these times where everything is saved, everything filters and everything becomes content, one would think twice before message Swift about a complicated filming. But no, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni are starring in a more juicy drama than the film that faced them, and now A judge has determined that messages between Blake and Taylor must come to light. Even if they contain emojis, gifs or references to “All Too Well (10 minute version)”.
And when it comes to demands, friendship and pop stars wrapped unintentionally (or so they say), everything can be used as proof. Welcome to the new episode of the most unexpected legal soap opera of Hollywood: break the circle … of trust.
Blake Lively against Justin Baldoni
It all started with what seemed like a dream collaboration. Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni starred in ‘Breaking the circle’, cinematographic adaptation of the Bestseller of Colleen Hoover. But behind the chambers, according to legal documents, not everything was flowers, poetry or redemption.
It was in December when Lively demanded Baldoni (also director of the film) and his public relations team, accusing them of orchestrating a secret campaign to defame it after she lifted complaints about sexual harassment on the set. Baldoni replied with A 400 million dollars contrademand by defamation, which was dismissed several days ago, but not leaving legal debris of swift proportions.
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Should Blake Lively show his messages with Taylor Swift to Justin Baldoni?
Lively tried by all means to keep her best friend out of the law, the unattainable Taylor Swift. He asked Judge Lewis Liman to block Baldoni’s application to access the messages between the two, qualifying the movement as an attempt to attract Swift to the scandal as tactics to improve his position before the media and social networks.
But the judge was clear: the messages They could contain relevant information about working conditions, internal discussions and complaints on the setand therefore must be delivered. Of course, under the order of confidentiality, so that they do not end in Tiktok being the object of analysis of the Fandom.
Friendship between Blake and Taylor
Blake and Taylor were inseparable. Holidays in Australia, Brunchs with Ryan Reynolds, Christmas messages and even cameos from her daughters on the singer’s albums. But since the legal conflict exploded, something changed: neither a photo together, nor a post, nor a subliminal track on Instagram.
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Although there is no official confirmation of a distancing, the low profile of both, at least in terms of their public friendship, has been notorious. And now, with messages under judicial review, silence seems even more significant.
Could it be that the circle of trust broke beyond the set?
The success of ‘breaking the circle’, goodbye, sequel?
Paradoxically, all this drama revolves around a movie that was an unexpected success. ‘Breaking the circle’ raised more than 350 million dollars worldwide with a budget of just 25 million. A performance that would smile at any producer, unless he is fighting for custody of the chats with swift.
The film tells Lily’s story, a young flower lover who fights to get out of an emotional abuse cycle with her new partner, facing complex relationships, wounds of the past and decisions that define her future. Ironies of life: the story was to break toxic cycles and now its protagonists are trapped in a legal one from which they do not seem to be able to leave and that will last until 2026.
It does not seem that, even by Asomo, there will be a sequel continuing the story of Lily (although the novel does have a second part). There is no contract, no agenda and much less will. In Hollywood, circles do not break: they are filtered.
With information from Variety.
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