Taylor Swift and Blake Lively: What's Really Going On with Their Friendship amid Justin Baldoni Legal Drama (Sources)

Mar. 15, 2025

Taylor Swift; Blake Lively; Justin Baldoni.Photo:Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty; Jeff Spicer/Getty; Gotham/WireImage

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty; Jeff Spicer/Getty; Gotham/WireImage

Taylor SwiftandBlake Lively’sfriendshiphasn’t faltered amidLively’s legal dramawithJustin Baldoni.

There’s been no rift between the singer and actress despite reports of a strained relationship between Swift, 35, and Lively, 37, sources confirm to PEOPLE.

Lively and Baldoni, 41, have been embroiled in legal back and forth surrounding theproduction and releaseof the movieIt Ends with Us, which Baldoni directed and both he and Lively starred in. Swift has yet to publicly comment on the situation.

Taylor Swift and Blake Lively in Las Vegas in February 2024.Steph Chambers/Getty

Steph Chambers/Getty

Baldoni, meanwhile, filed a countersuit of $400 millionin January against Lively, her husbandRyan Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s PR firm Vision PR, Inc. claiming that Lively took measures to control the film,accusing them of defamation and extortion.

He also sued theNew York Timesfor $250 million accusing them of libel, among other claims, over its Dec. 21 article detailing Lively’s complaint against him.

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Late last month, Swift was mentionedinBaldoni’s latest complaint, when Lively referred to the musician as “one of her dragons” in an alleged text exchange following an interaction he describes with Swift at Lively and Reynolds' New York home about a script change.

Baldoni had been “summoned” to meet at the couple’s penthouse where Swift arrived and had “began praising Lively’s script” during his visit, according to the complaint. “Baldoni understood the subtext: he needed to comply with Lively’s direction for the script,” the complaint claims.

He didn’t need “Reynolds and her megacelebrity friend to pressure him,” the complaint states, and in the alleged text exchange, Baldoni told Lively that he liked her changes. The actress then allegedly referred to herself as Khaleesi fromGame of Thronesand called her husband and Swift her “dragons.”

Unless Lively and Baldoni reach a settlement,their trial is scheduled for March 2026.

Blake Lively and Taylor Swift in New York City in December 2023.Gotham/GC Images

Gotham/GC Images

Lively and Swift’s friendship goes back several years. Swift had mentioned the names of Lively and Reynolds' children in her song"Betty"and is also thegodmother to daughters Betty, James and Inez. (The couple also have a fourth child,infant son Olin.)

Most recently in October,Lively and Reynolds, 48, had a double date nightwith Swift and her boyfriendTravis Kelcein New York City.

source: people.com