How 'It Ends With Us' Director Is Dragging Taylor Swift into Blake Lively Lawsuit Drama

It looks like Justin Baldoni may have some "Bad Blood" with Taylor Swift now, too.

On Thursday, Jan. 16, attorneys for Baldoni filed a $400 million lawsuit in the Southern District of New York with various claims against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds regarding the making of the 2024 film It Ends With Us.

Swift was not listed among the defendants, which include Lively, Reynolds, their publicist, Leslie Sloane, and Sloane's PR firm Vision PR, Inc., but somehow, the "Anti-Hero" singer still wound up getting dragged into the messy drama.

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The lawsuit, obtained by Parade, includes a myriad of claims against Lively and Reynolds, including allegations of civil extortion and defamation. One point in the filing accuses Lively, Baldoni's co-star in the film, of "inserting herself into the production process in intrusive ways beyond the scope of her contractual entitlements."

According to Baldoni's lawyers, that's where Swift came in.

During one incident described in the filing, Baldoni claimed Lively sent Baldoni a draft of the "rooftop scene" in the film that "drastically differed from what had been written originally."

Baldoni, who was "hesitant" about Lively's changes, "thanked Lively for her passion," while letting her know that the scene would likely end up as a combination of the original version and Lively's version.

However, according to the suit, Lively allegedly texted Baldoni to say that his feedback "didn't feel great" for her, Reynolds or Swift, who the lawsuit describes as a "megacelebrity friend."

In one of his text messages, screenshotted in the filing, Baldoni told Lively, "Also was working on rooftop scene today, I really love what you did. It really does hep [sic] a lot. Makes it so much more fun and interesting (And I would have felt that way without Ryan and Taylor)."

In her response back, Lively described Reynolds and Swift as "two of [the] most determined people I know."

"So I think they wanted you and me to see how they felt about the work because they've been by my side for far too many experiences where I've been overlooked," the screenshot of Lively's text reads.

Parade reached out to representatives for Lively, Reynolds and Swift, but did not immediately hear back.

In a statement shared with Parade, Baldoni's attorney Bryan Freedman said, "This lawsuit is a legal action based on an overwhelming amount of untampered evidence detailing Blake Lively and her team’s duplicitous attempt to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and their respective companies by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored information to the media. It is clear based on our own all out willingness to provide all complete text messages, emails, video footage and other documentary evidence that was shared between the parties in real time, that this is a battle she will not win and will certainly regret."

Freedman added, "Blake Lively was either severely misled by her team or intentionally and knowingly misrepresented the truth. Ms. Lively will never again be allowed to continue to exploit actual victims of real harassment solely for her personal reputation gain at the expense of those without power."

The statement continued, "Let’s not forget, Ms. Lively and her team attempted to bulldoze reputations and livelihoods for heinously selfish reasons through their own dangerous manipulation of the media before even taking any actual legal action. We know the truth, and now the public does too. Justin and his team have nothing to hide, documents do not lie."

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