Here’s Where Blake & Taylor Stand Amid The It Ends With Us Lawsuit

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s It Ends With Us feud is far from over — even if certain players involved wish that it was. After Lively’s texts with Taylor Swift about Baldoni and the film were unsealed on Jan. 20, the Life of a Showgirl singer reportedly felt “violated” and “exposed.”

“It’s honestly been really hard for Taylor,” a source told Us Weekly on Jan. 26. “Having her texts out there made her feel exposed and kind of violated, like, something private suddenly wasn’t hers anymore. That doesn’t sit well with her.” The texts included discussions about Baldoni’s behavior, Swift calling the director a “little b*tch,” and a tense confrontation about how Lively’s texts started sounding like “corporate email[s].”

Swift’s reported reaction to the latest filing is not a surprise for those paying attention to her and Lively’s friendship over the past year. Back in March 2025, a source told Us Weekly that Taylor Swift was not “happy” about being dragged into the lawsuit after text messages connecting the Eras Tour singer to the case were leaked.

Reminder: Baldoni’s January 2025 lawsuit against Lively also seemingly referenced Swift. His suit claimed that Lively enlisted the help of her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and her “megacelebrity friend” to pressure Baldoni into using Lively’s script for the film’s rooftop scene. The friend in question is likely Swift. (In one screenshot of texts between Lively and Baldoni, the name of this mysterious friend is not redacted — and Baldoni refers to this person as “Taylor.”)

There have been mixed reports about where Swift and Lively stand after that the singer got involved in the legal messiness. “Their friendship has halted,” a source told People in May 2025. “Taylor wants no part in this drama.” Another insider said the longtime friends have been “taking some space,” but are “not no longer friends.”

Baldoni’s team filed subpoenaed Swift in April 2025 before dropping the subpoena one month later. Before that, Swift and Lively’s friendship was reportedly on the mend. At the time, an insider told Page Six that the longtime friends put their issues behind them after Lively apologized. “It was important to Blake to be on good terms again with Taylor. It was never her intention to hurt Taylor or cause any harm to their friendship,” the source said.

“Blake missed their friendship, and she hopes they can put this whole thing behind them,” they added at the time. “[Taylor] has no hard feelings and is ready to move forward.”

However, the affidavit “fractured” the “fragile peace” between them, People’s source said.

Before the legal proceedings were fully underway, a source denied any rumors of tension between Swift and Lively. “There’s no truth that this has hurt their relationship,” a source told Us in January 2025. “They are still close friends.” But that March, another Us Weekly insider claimed that Swift, who is the godmother to Lively’s children, “wasn’t happy with being brought into the legal mess.”

Even before she was subpoenaed and Baldoni’s texts about her reported involvement were leaked, Swift’s name was brought up repeatedly in relation to the lawsuit. In Lively’s original complaint, which was published in the New York Times in December 2024, she accused Baldoni of launching a smear campaign against her. In those docs, alleged texts between Baldoni and his team of crisis PR experts mention Swift. “Our team can also explore planting stories about the weaponization of feminism and how people in BL’s circle like Taylor Swift, have been accused of utilizing these tactics to ‘bully’ into getting what they want,” one text read.