Blake Lively i taylor swiftThe unsealed text messages indicate the moment when Lively’s End With Us the drama began to affect their friendship.
“I have no reason to ask, but I feel like I should… is everything okay? I’ve been feeling like a bad friend lately because I was such a sad sack that he just talked about my shit for months,” Lively, 38, wrote in a text message to Swift, 36, in early December 2024, according to the 2024 docs. to have been there like that”.
Lively added that she spoke with her husband Ryan Reynolds about it and advised her to ask Swift directly about her concerns.
“I always want a chance to be a better friend if there’s something I’ve done unintentionally. I know how busy and taxed you are, physically, emotionally, practically, so I don’t ever expect more from you,” she continued. “I just want to make sure everything is okay.”
The legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni continues with 181 pages of documents unsealed on Tuesday, January 20. In the documents, obtained by Us Weekly, several members of the cast of It Ends With Us – including Jenny Slate and Isabela Ferrer – were dismissed and hit Baldoni during his testimony. Communications between Lively (…)
Swift responded by saying that Lively “wasn’t wrong, but it’s not a big deal either.” She noted that she was tired while traveling for her Tour d’Epoqueswhich ended the same month as the tour.
“I think I’m exhausted in every way in my life and in the last few months I’ve felt a little bit of a change in the way people talk to me,” the pop star replied. “Yes, there have been many justin (Baldoni) but I’ve been through things like this before and I know what it’s like to consume everything.
Swift admitted she felt like Lively’s last few messages it came off as a business.
“I feel so bad about saying anything about this because your texts have been very nice in their intent, but your latest ones…it feels like I’m reading a mass corporate email sent to 200 employees,” Swift tweeted. “And it feels awful to be somehow critical of any way you’ve processed what you’ve been through, but I miss my funny, dark, plain-spoken friend who talks to me like herself.”
Swift added that in addition to feeling geographically “removed” from Lively, she also felt emotionally detached amid the actress’ ongoing lawsuit against Baldoni.
“I know you feel attacked from all sides for ridiculous reasons so you feel like you have to explain things too much… but that’s me! This just caused a little distance,” she wrote. “And you don’t need to apologize. Just come back please.”
Lively acknowledged that she had “become digitally paranoid” amid the lawsuit and “didn’t realize” her tone had changed in her personal conversations.
“So yes, I’ve been texting like I’m typing. Not like I’m talking. I didn’t realize it until you pointed it out, but I see it,” Lively wrote. “On top of that, I’m overpacking simple things because I’ve felt so deeply misunderstood that I don’t trust my own judgment anymore… This f*cking boy and what he did to me gave me an identity crisis. Legitimately.”
Lively eventually apologized and confessed that her bond with Swift wasn’t the only relationship affected by the lawsuit.
“What scared me most about all of this, though, wasn’t that the bad guys were bad guys. It was the good guys, my lifelong friends – allies of women – who went down in silence,” she replied. “And so I’m probably overreacting to my friends who stayed because I’ve never felt more alone.”
Lively and Baldoni worked together on the 2024 film End With Us. In December 2024, Lively sued Baldoni accusing her co-star and director of sexual harassment and orchestrating an alleged smear campaign against her.
Baldoni has vehemently denied the allegations and has since hit back at Lively. Baldoni’s lawsuit was dismissed by a judge in June 2025. Lively’s case remains ongoing and is headed for trial in may
According to the unsealed documents, Swift and Lively discussed their possible steps in December 2024. At one point in their conversation, Swift shared an article about Baldoni and wrote: “I think this bitch knows something is coming because she got her little violin out.”
Blake Lively’s ongoing legal drama with Justin Baldoni took an unexpected turn by bringing in Taylor Swift. After co-starring in It Ends With Us, Lively sued Baldoni in December 2024 accusing her co-star and director of sexual harassment and orchestrating an alleged smear campaign. In her presentation, Lively claimed that Baldoni called Swift (…)
Amid Baldoni and Lively’s legal battle, Swift’s name has come up several times, with Baldoni accusing Lively of using Swift and her other A-list friends to leverage power over him when it came to the direction of the film.
A source already said so Us Weekly in May 2025, Swift and Lively’s friendship became “strained” amid the drama.
“Their friendship is not what it used to be,” the source said we.
That same month, Swift was cited. His representative said we In a statement at the time, “Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this film, was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, did not score the film, never saw any editing or made any notes on the film. She did not even see It Ends With Us until weeks after its public release, and was traveling the world in 2023 and the biggest tour in history in 2024.”