Taylor Swift Prefered in Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni Litigation on the film conflict “It ends with us”

Pop superstar Taylor Swift was drawn in the escalating legal dispute between the actress Blake Lively and the director Justin Baldoni about the film It ends with usAlthough your representatives insist that your connection to the project is minimal and the summons are an advertising material.

A spokeswoman for Swift, 35, confirmed this week that the singer received a summons to testify in the case, but emphasized that she had not played a creative role in the film and was only involved by licensing her 2020s track “My Tears Ricochet”.

“Taylor Swift never put on the set of this film, she was not involved in casting or creative decisions, she did not evaluate the film, she never saw an editing or made notes about the film,” said the representative, the representative said People. “She didn't even see It ends with us At weeks after his public publication and traveled the biggest tour in history in 2023 and 2024. “

The representative also dismissed the summons as a “boulevard clickbait”, which indicates that it is used to attract the attention of the media instead of fulfilling a legitimate legal purpose. “The connection that Taylor had to this film allowed the use of a song” My Tears Ricochet “. In view of the fact that their participation was to licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document forward is designed in such a way that it uses the name of Taylor Swift to wake up the public interest by creating boulevard clickbait,, Instead of concentrating on the facts of the case, ”the explanation continued.

The case results from a bitter legal dispute between Lively (37) and Baldoni (41), who played and worked through the film adaptation of Colleen Hoovers bestseller novel. In December 2024, Lively submitted a lawsuit in which Baldoni was launched due to sexual harassment, unprofessional behavior on the set and retribution -insertion campaign after it had questioned elements of production.

Baldoni, known for his role in Jane the virgindenied the allegations and submitted a contrast in January 2025, with the defamation, extortion and interference in business relationships. His legal submissions claim that the husband, actor Ryan Reynolds and the members of her publicity team, including Swift, tried to influence the creative orientation of the film.

An important assertion in Baldoni's complaint conversion to a meeting that was allegedly held in Lively and Reynold's Penthouse apartment. According to Baldoni, Swift took part in the meeting and praised a script proposed by LIVELY. Baldoni claims that the praise was a veiled effort to put him under pressure, to accept the revised script.

“Baldoni understood the subtext: he had to adhere to LIVELY's instructions,” the lawsuit said.

The director also quoted an SMS exchange with LIVELY after the meeting, in which he complements her screenplay changes and said that they were “so much more fun and interesting”, and claimed that he “felt so much without Ryan and Taylor”. LIVELY supposedly replied by naming himself “Khaleesi”, an indication of the game of Thrones SWIFT and REYNOLDS described character and Reynolds as their “dragons” and later their “Tanzmütter -Level -Bühnenmütter”.

A source near the situation tells People These other celebrities who were connected to the group – including the actor Hugh Jackman, 56 – can also be invited. “Anyone who had knowledge of this situation will be charged, regardless of their celebrity status,” said the source.

However, another insider denied these claims and explained that neither Swift nor Jackman “go into something” and described the potential lectures as a distraction from the core allegations against Baldoni.

Despite the tension behind the scenes, Swift, Reynolds, Lively and Jackman have all been seen socially together in the past few months. The group was photographed to support NFL games to support Swift's friend Kansas City Chiefs Tight End Travis Kelce. Swift is also the godmother of Lively and Reynolds' four children: James, 10, Inez, 8, Betty, 5, and Olin, 2.

In the course of the legal procedure, both parties remain anchored in their positions. Lively's lawyers confirmed that the actress will testify in the upcoming process. Baldoni's team has now pointed out scenes in the coming position Deadpool & Wolverine Film that they say mocked the person of the director, and refers to a figure called “Nicepool” and the dialogue about intimacy coordinators – an obvious stub associated with the continuous argument.

The process officially entitled ” Lively v. Wayfarer Studios et al.is to begin in March 2026 and include both the original LIVELY lawsuit and Baldoni's advance suit.

The lawyers have not yet published any formal comments on the lectures or the broader developments in the case for both Lively and Baldoni.