Khaberni - New and exciting details have been revealed about the ongoing legal dispute between actress Blake Lively and director Justin Baldoni, the star of the movie "It Ends With Us," where the court lifted the secrecy on text messages exchanged between Lively and her close friend Taylor Swift, which included sharp descriptions towards the director.
The unveiled messages showed that Lively described director Justin Baldoni as "the clown" and "the foolish director of my movie," while she was asking Swift to support a revised version of the screenplay.
Swift arrived at Lively's home while Baldoni was there, and her friend asked her to endorse the modifications even without reading them fully, according to documents defending Baldoni, as reported by "People" magazine.
In response, Swift enthusiastically said, "I'll do anything for you," which later led Lively to describe her as "the greatest friend in the world ever," adding that Swift "made up things about me and the filming, and confirmed she would act as I wish (like a puppet), and this clown believed everything."
In a related context, Blake Lively's legal team responded that the messages displayed lack necessary context, pointing to the actress's testimony which clarified that "I sent the screenplay to Taylor while I was on my way to her apartment because Justin was still there, and I asked her to read it without pressure."
Other documents uncovered a supposed message from December 2024 in which Swift said about Baldoni: "I think this rascal knows something is coming because he pulled out his little violin," while Lively's lawyers deny that the message refers to the New York Times article that published details of the legal lawsuit on the 21st of the same month.
Despite her name appearing frequently in legal documents, a spokesperson for Swift in May 2025 confirmed that the singer "never set foot on the set, did not participate in any creative decisions, and did not see the movie until weeks after its public release," while her role was limited to licensing a single song "My Tears Ricochet."
It is worth mentioning that the legal battle began in December 2024 when Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni for sexual harassment and retaliation, which he denied and responded with a counterclaim of 400 million dollars rejected by Judge Lewis Leyman in June last year, with the trial scheduled to start on May 18, 2026.
