Taylor Swift is cited as a witness by Justin Baldoni’s lawyers in his judicial battle against Blake Lively | People

The legal, media and public battle between the actor and director Justin Baldoni and also actress Blake Lively has been giving up and having several important secondary among the shadows. Now, one of them has become very main in the story, even more for who he is: singer Taylor Swift, one of the most followed artists in the world. This Friday it has been known that Baldoni’s lawyers have officially summoned Swift as a witness in the future trial among actors reasons for their differences in filming the film Break the circlewhich will initially take place in March 2026.

The actor’s lawyers have confirmed the citation to the media TMZ and People. Although Swift has not spoken, a singer’s spokeswoman has done so, who has sent a message to both of stating that the artist has nothing to do with the movie, beyond giving one of her songs –My Tears Ricochetfrom his 2021 album Folklore– For the soundtrack of the tape. The same spokesman accuses the representatives of Baldoni, 41, of wanting to create media noise with the citation and to bring out to Swift, something they have been doing for months on the occasion of the close relationship of the artist with Lively, 37.

“Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this film, she was not involved in any decision regarding her casting or creative, I do not believe the score of the film, never saw a previous version of it or made any note about the film,” says the statement, which contradicts what is previously argued by the Baldoni team. “He didn’t even see Break the circle Until weeks after its public launch, and was traveling all over the world for 2023 and 2024 leading the biggest tour in history, “said spokesman, referring to his tour The Eras Tourwhich managed to be the largest collection of history, with 149 concerts, 10 million viewers and 2,000 million dollars of income that expanded from March 2023 to December 2024.

“The connection Taylor had with this movie was to allow the use of a song, My Tears Ricochet “the spokeswoman explained. “Since their participation was the granting of a song for the film, something that other 19 artists also made, this judicial citation is designed to use the name of Taylor Swift and thereby attract the public interest through the creation of clickbait by the tabloids, instead of focusing on the facts of the case. ”

It is true that the name of Swift, 35, can involve media attraction, but Baldoni and his lawyers know the importance of that trick to maintain the case in the candlestick, at least during these months that are missing, almost a year, for the view. The drip of names can increase, because some US media pointed a few days ago when actor Hugh Jackman, without apparent connection with the film and the case, could also receive said citation, an unconfirmed end. The citation implies that Swift or its legal representatives should declare in the trial, unless a judge decides not, for lack of interest, excess witnesses or any other cause.

Baldoni’s legal team shows – but with a way of proceeding and filtering them very conscious – that Swift could have some kind of relationship with the film. Lively (in addition to the protagonist of the film, also a producer) and Swift have been friends for years; In fact, the interpreter of Cruel Summer He is a godmother of the three older daughters (but not the room, a child) that Lively has with the actor Ryan Reynolds. They share together exits, dinners and vacations. However, since the case of Break the circle They have not seen them together, and Swift has not spoken about it, although it does not usually do it with respect to almost any issue; In fact, months ago it is not seen in public.

Baldoni has already brought out Swift at the beginning of the entire media-judicial soap opera. The actor and director explained in a lawsuit that during a meeting in the house of New York in Lively to talk about a scene that had to be rewritten, Reynolds appeared, but another celebrity was also present (which was later learned that it was Swift), which defended the version of the scene rewritten by Lively. In addition, always according to her version, Baldoni explained that after that tense rewriting Lively sent her a text message in which she said she was Khaleesi and that, like her, she had “a few dragons”, in a reference to fiction Game of Thrones. “For better or worse, but in general for good. Because my graduates also protect for what I fight. So we all win with these monsters of mine. You also, promised,” I wrote in the message, which seems in good tone to be accompanied by emoticons of smiling faces.

In addition, on the red carpet of the premiere of Break the circlethere was some more reference to Swift that would imply it, even if it is laterally, in the film. Actress Isabela Ferrer, who plays a younger blake Lively in the romantic drama, was asked by the middle cameras Extra If “Taylor had some influence when obtaining the role.” “Yes,” he replied, “it was helpful in the audition process, something I discovered after getting the role. I loved it. I have no words.”

At the end of December, Lively demanded Baldoni for sexual harassment and accused him of orchestrating a huge and millionaire public discredit campaign, through a long article published in The New York Times. He affirmed that he tried to destroy his reputation, but before his self -esteem and his trust, with numerous attacks on the filming set by Baldoni, who made fun of his physique, told him about alleged infidelities or told him his addiction to pornography in a relationship to which she, according to the article, had to set limits per contract, demanding that he did not continue to add sex scenes. At 10 days, Baldoni contradicted Lively, as well as the New York newspaper, which demanded 250 million dollars for making a “decontextualized and manipulative” narrative of the facts. And accused her of being the one who created a campaign to sink him with “false allegations of abuse to unilaterally take the control of production.”

Since then, the lawyers of each party have been filtering more and more data, rugged and juicy details, dropping famous names so that the story became bigger. In fact, Baldoni’s lawyers wanted to create a website to hang mutual documents and accusations. Until last January, the judge said enough: he asked them silence, decided to join all the demands and set a date for the trial, on March 9, 2026. But in the remaining months, it does not seem that this silence will last too long.