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Look what you made Taylor Swift do, Justin Baldoni.
On Might 9, we discovered that Swift has been subpoenaed as a witness in ongoing — and VERY ugly — authorized battle between Blake Lively and Baldoni… which stems from a serious battle on their 2024 film It Ends with Us.
The celebrity has one thing to say about it, too.
“Taylor Swift by no means set foot on the set of this film, she was not concerned in any casting or inventive selections, she didn’t rating the movie, she by no means noticed an edit or made any notes on the movie, she didn’t even see It Ends With Us till weeks after its public launch, and was touring across the globe throughout 2023 and 2024 headlining the most important tour in historical past,” a spokesperson for Swift mentioned in response to the maneuver.
This rep added:
The connection Taylor needed to this movie was allowing using one tune, ‘My Tears Ricochet.’
‘Provided that her involvement was licensing a tune for the movie, which 19 different artists additionally did, this doc subpoena is designed to make use of Taylor Swift’s title to attract public curiosity by creating tabloid clickbait as a substitute of specializing in the details of the case.”
Swift and Full of life are excellent pals. They’ve attended various Kansas Metropolis Chiefs video games over the previous two seasons.
Full of life, in the meantime, sued Baldoni in December, accusing him of sexual harassment, “disturbing” and “unprofessional” habits on set of the aforementioned movie, together with a retaliatory smear marketing campaign.
Baldoni has denied the allegations and, in January, filed a countersuit alleging defamation and extortion in opposition to Full of life, her husband Ryan Reynolds and their publicity staff.
That is sort of where Swift comes in.
Swift is NOT named as a defendant in Baldoni’s criticism, nor talked about by her full title wherever within the paperwork.
Nevertheless, the Grammy-winning artist is referred to quite a few occasions as verbally supporting one in all Full of life’s rewrites for It Ends With Us throughout a gathering between Baldoni and Full of life at her New York condo.
The submitting claims that Baldoni’s takeaway from the alleged interplay was, “Baldoni understood the subtext: he wanted to adjust to Full of life’s course for the script.”
Swift hasn’t mentioned a phrase in public about her alleged position on this back-and-forth public relations catastrophe.
Lively is reportedly very sorry for getting her combined up in it, although.
In an alleged textual content change following his interplay with Full of life, Swift and Reynolds… Baldoni supposedly informed the actress that her script modifications had been “a lot extra enjoyable and fascinating” and that he “would have felt that manner with out Ryan and Taylor,” including a playful emoji.
Full of life allegedly responded by evaluating herself to Khaleesi from Sport of Thrones, calling her husband and Swift her “dragons” and later her “Dance Mothers stage stage mothers.”
Full of life and Baldoni’s dueling lawsuits are scheduled to go to trial in March.
And Swift might not be the ultimate well-known individual to be dragged into this mess; Hugh Jackman is also served with a subpoena.
“Anybody that had any data of this case can be subpoenaed, irrespective of of their superstar standing,” a Individuals Journal supply mentioned on Friday.
