Blake Lively & Taylor Swift’s Brutal Texts About ‘Clown’ Justin Baldoni Have Been Unsealed
Newly unsealed documents have revealed that Blake Lively and Taylor Swift called Justin Baldoni a “bitch” and a “doofus” in text messages exchanged back in 2024.
The texts were released as part of Lively’s ongoing legal battle with Baldoni in relation to their work on the 2024 movie, It Ends With Us.
The texts were reportedly centred around a meeting Lively held to discuss the creative direction of the movie, where both Baldoni and Swift were present.
Lively allegedly asked Swift to endorse her vision for the movie, including her script rewrites, ahead of the meeting, despite Swift allegedly having not read the revisions.
“Swift agreed to do Lively’s bidding, texting Lively, ‘I’ll do anything for you!!,” the unsealed documents read.
Lively’s texts with Swift after the meeting, which took place in 2023, were also unsealed, including Lively thanking the pop star for backing her notes on the movie.
“You were so epically heroic today. I recapped every moment to Ryan [Reynolds]. I kept remembering stuff, [like] you making shit up about me and lenses and referring to yourself as my doll,” Lively wrote to Swift.
“This clown is falling for all of it. But also resisting it. You are the world’s absolute greatest friend ever,” the actress added.
In another exchange, Swift and Lively discussed using one of Swift’s songs in the It Ends With Us trailer, saying it was not “strategic” for Baldoni to align himself with the pop star through the promotion the movie.
“If Justin was strategic he would be like ‘no Taylor Swift in the trailer’ because that gives you more power over the film — that’s your ally not his,’” Swift wrote, to which Lively replied “you are so right”.
“He should’ve run from your music … How stupid. This was his only shot at having the appearance of an upper hand,” Lively’s text read.
Yet another text, sent by Swift, sees the pop star call him a “bitch” ahead of The New York Times’ bombshell 2024 investigation into Lively’s claims of the smear campaign against her.
“I think this bitch knows something is coming because he’s gotten out his tiny violin,” Swift texted Lively, per the court docs.
Lively also referred to Baldoni as the “doofus director of my movie” and a “clown” who “thinks he’s a writer now” in other unsealed texts to Swift.
In the same court docs, Lively confirmed the texts were accurate but denied she and Swift ever discussed the NYT article before it hit the press.
Lively also denied the claim that Swift never read her rewrites, saying she “sent Taylor the script” and “asked her to read them”.
Elsewhere in the lengthy legal docs, Bladoni’s lawyers alleged that Lively insulted Baldoni to her famous friends, including Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
Much of Baldoni’s case hinges on the claim that Lively asserted creative control over It Ends With Us by using her high-powered circle of friends to allegedly intimidate Baldoni.
This argument is what first roped Swift into the mess, with Bladoni’s lawyers calling for her to be subpoenaed before the singer’s reps distanced her from the movie.
“Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film, she did not even see It Ends With Us until weeks after its public release,” the representative said.
The unfolding mess has reportedly soured Swift and Lively’s once-close friendship.
All of it is a sub-drama within the broader legal battle that kicked off when Lively sued Baldoni for harassment on the set of It Ends With Us and alleged he orchestrated a smear campaign against her in retaliation to the allegations.
Baldoni countersued, and the legal back-and-forth has continued for the better part of a year.
The case is expected to go to trial on May 18.
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