taylor swift has been found connected to the End With Us legal drama thanks to his friendship with Blake Lively — but he will Justin Baldoni ask him to take the position if the case goes to trial?
This is explained by a source linked to Baldoni’s legal team Us Weekly that it would be “almost impossible to serve” Swift, 46, with a subpoena. The source adds that recently released text messages between the pop star and Lively, 38, “speak for themselves, so they won’t need her as a witness.”
Us Weekly Baldoni and Lively’s team have been contacted for comment.
Lively and Baldoni, 41, starred in the film adaptation of By Colleen Hoover End With Uswhich was released in August 2024. Lively later accused Baldoni, who was also the film’s director, of sexual harassment and orchestrating a smear campaign against her that December. Baldoni vehemently denied the allegations and subsequently filed a counterclaim, which was dismissed in June 2025.
UPDATE 5/14/25 at 6:57 p.m.—Blake Lively’s legal team filed a new motion to have Justin Baldoni’s claims about friend Taylor Swift stricken from the record, Us Weekly can confirm. In the letter obtained by Us, Lively’s team noted that Baldoni’s letter was filed without “evidential support of any kind.” “I should (…)
Lively’s lawsuit remains ongoing and is currently scheduled to go to trial in May. Documents unsealed on Tuesday, January 20 and obtained by wereleased several statements, emails and text messages surrounding the legal case, including Lively’s correspondence with longtime friend Swiftwhose song “My Tears Ricochet” is featured in the film.
While discussing Lively’s possible next steps in December 2024, the singer allegedly called Baldoni a “bitch” who “knows something’s coming because she got her little fiddle out,” with an attachment. people article titled “Justin Baldoni reveals he was sexually traumatized by ex-girlfriend when he was ‘hoping to save me for marriage.’
The text was allegedly sent while Swift was on her way to meet with Lively and Baldoni, who were present at the Gossip Girl alum’s house, to endorse a revised version of the script. After the alleged meeting, the two texted about how things went, with Lively saying that Swift was “so epically heroic today” and that she was “capturing every moment” for her husband. Ryan Reynolds.
Elsewhere in the documents, a conversation between the couple appeared to confirm that claim had caused a fracture in their relationship.
“I have no reason to ask, but no (sic) I felt like I should… is everything okay? I’ve been feeling like a bad friend lately because I was such a sad sack that I just talked about my own shit for months,” Lively wrote in a text message to Swift in early December 2024. “You were generous to not only be the key person for me, but also to let me hang in there. So on this.”
Acknowledging that Swift, who was with her all over the world Tour d’Epoques at the time, she was “busy and busy,” Lively explained that she always wants “a chance to be a best friend if there’s something I did unintentionally.” He added that he didn’t expect “more” from Swift “ever.”
Swift responded that Lively “wasn’t wrong, though it’s not a big deal either“, agreeing that she is “exhausted in every way in my life.” However, she noted that she had been “feeling a little bit of a shift” in the way Lively spoke to her.
“Yeah, there’s been a lot of Justin (Baldoni) stuff, but I’ve been through stuff like this before and I know how consuming it is,” Swift continued. “I feel so bad about saying anything about this because your texts have been so nice in their intent, but your last few… it feels like I’m reading a mass corporate email sent to 200 employees. 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, normal-talking-to-me friend.”
Lively said she didn’t “realize” until Swift “pointed it out” that she had been texting as if she were typing, not speaking, and that she had become “digitally paranoid” amid the ongoing lawsuit.
“On top of that, I’m bottling up simple things because I’ve felt so deeply misunderstood that I no longer trust my own judgment,” Lively added. “That fucking boy and what he did to me gave me an identity crisis. Legitimately.”
He pointed out that the most “scared” was not Baldoni, but him amount of friendships he had lost in the midst of the legal battle.
“My lifelong friends — allies of women — who fell in silence,” she told Swift. “And so I’m probably overreacting to my friends who stayed because I’ve never felt more alone.”
A source already said so we about a possible rift between Swift and Lively in May 2025, revealing that the two’s friendship “isn’t what it used to be.” Swift was subpoenaed in the case that same month.
“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 edits or made any notes on the film,” a rep for the singer told Us at the time. “He didn’t even see it End With Us until weeks after its public release, and was traveling the world in 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour ever.”
Taylor Swift called Justin Baldoni a “bitch” who pulled out his “little violin” in an alleged text exchange with Blake Lively. According to documents obtained by Us Weekly, Lively’s lawyers presented a letter to Judge Lewis J. Liman on Tuesday, January 20, showing a text message between Swift, 36, and Lively, 38, at the beginning (…)
The subpoena was withdrawn in September 2025.
As for Lively, the actress’ lawyer Sigrid McCawley he said we in a statement Tuesday that remains dedicated to the case, as only his “claims against the defendants” remain.
“The newly disclosed evidence contains previously unpublished testimony, messages and evidence from numerous eyewitnesses that support the claims in Ms. Lively’s lawsuit,” McCawley continued. “The evidence includes Ms. Lively’s own testimony describing the harassment she faced, as well as new evidence from numerous women describing their own disturbing experiences. The newly disclosed evidence shows that the concerns of Ms. Lively and others were documented in real time from the spring of 2023.”