Cd. De México.- Federal judge Lewis Liman ruled on Wednesday that Justin Baldoni can officially access private messages between Blake Lively and Taylor Swift related to the production of breaking the circle, in the midst of the legal battle that the actor and producer with the actress faces.
The resolution, released in judicial documents obtained by New York Post, rejects Lively’s motion to protect conversations with Swift, 35. According to the judge, Baldoni’s application is valid, since Lively, 37, said the singer was aware of complaints about the work environment during the film’s filming.
The judge stressed that only messages related to the film or the legal dispute can be reviewed, and that the access will be covered by a protection order to avoid filtering to the press. The Lively Legal Team had offered to deliver all the relevant documents, except the messages with Swift, in exchange for Baldoni to deliver all the audiovisual material linked to the film and complete communications mentioned in his complaint. Baldoni rejected the agreement.
In a statement, Lively spokesman accused Baldoni’s team to seek to exploit Swift’s image since August 2024, when the Wayfarer crisis public relations firm included the singer in a “scenario planning” document and described it as “hasting.”
In addition, she denounced the efforts to involve the artist as a distraction to the accusations of sexual harassment and reprisals faced by Baldoni. On May, Swift was summoned as a witness by Baldoni’s legal team, but the citation was withdrawn on the 22nd of that month after a statement of her representative, who flatly denied any participation in the project. “Taylor Swift never stepped on nor did the film see until weeks after its premiere, “he said then. The countercount of 400 million dollars that Baldoni filed against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds includes an alleged conversation where she referred to Swift and Reynolds as her” dragons “, and itself as” Khaleesi “. Key in the couple’s penthouse in New York, where it was discussed to rewrite a controversial scene of the film. In parallel, the friendship between Lively and Swift seems to have deteriorated. A source cited by Daily Mail assured that Swift has cut ties with its former friend, who is a godmother of her three daughters, claiming to feel “betrayed” and “exploited. He sued for sexual harassment on the set of breaking the circle and allegedly orchestrating a discredit campaign against him. The trial will begin in March 2026.
