The lawsuit between Lively and It Ends With Us director Baldoni has been quiet for a couple of weeks since it was revealed that the 41-year-old claimed the actress had ‘set up a trap’ during the making of their film in bombshell new text messages, which were unsealed in court.
But now, the tables have turned as Lively’s own correspondence has be partially released, with Swift’s alleged explicit response to the conflict also being made known.
Back in 2024, everything seemed to be going well between the pair as they worked on the Colleen Hoover-inspired movie together. However, things began to seem fishy when the promotional tour began, as the actors were never in the same interview nor pictured together.
After the films release in December, Lively filed a bombshell lawsuit which accused Baldoni and his production company Wayfarer Studios of sexual harassment and retaliation, claiming he and his team had launched a ‘smear campaign’ against her.
The trial for Lively’s suit against Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios won’t take place until May 2026, and more things continue to come to light.
One of those things is that apparently, Swift called the director a ‘b*tch’ in a text message to her pal, Lively, prior to the suit.
The information was alleged after Lively’s team wrote to Judge Lewis J. Liman on 20 January, per PEOPLE, in response to Baldoni’s legal team’s motion for summary judgment.
In the filing, portions of alleged text messages between Swift, 36, and Lively, 38, show instances where the two appear to talk about Baldoni, the case, and also before the lawsuit was filed in early December 2024.
“I think this b*tch knows something is coming because he’s gotten out his tiny violin,” Swift allegedly wrote.
However, Lively’s lawyers have apparently responded that the ‘quoted language appears in the cited source,’ the text ‘does not support Defendants’ assertion’ that the pair ‘privately discussed the forthcoming New York Times article’ that broke the news of the legal battle on 21 December.
Allegedly, other messages showed that Lively asked Swift to endorse script revisions ‘even without having read it,’ says Baldoni’s legal team.
At this point, it is alleged that Swift responded: “I’ll do anything for you !!”
Lively’s lawyer has since denied that Swift was endorsing the script, stating: “Lively respectfully refers the Court to the cited source for its complete contents and disputes any summary or interpretation inconsistent therewith.”
However, it is alleged that after her bombshell meeting with Baldoni and Swift, where the director claimed the ‘Cruel Summer’ singer had attempted to convince him to accept a revised version of the script that Lively had written, Lively told Swift she was ‘so epically heroic today and she ‘recapped every moment’ to hubby Ryan Reynolds.
She added in her message to Swift: “I kept remembering stuff – You making s**t up about me and lenses. And referring to yourself as my doll. This clown falling for all of it. But also resisting it. You are the worlds absolute greatest friend ever.”
However, Lively’s attorneys referred back to Lively’s testimony which claimed she ‘sent Taylor the script on her way to my apartment because Justin was still there, and I asked her to read them’.
“I told her she didn’t have to, I didn’t want her to feel pressured to do that, but I hoped that she would.”
Swift’s legal team has also pushed back on the May 2025 subpoena they received from Baldoni’s team, with a representative saying in a statement: “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, and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history.”
“The connection Taylor had to this film was permitting the use of one song, ‘My Tears Ricochet’,” the rep added, claiming Baldoni’s team of using Swift’s name ‘to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case’.
Other texts released appear to show Swift telling Lively she ‘won’ and ‘did it’ on the day her lawsuit was made known to the public, telling her she ‘f**king helped so many people who won’t have to go through this ever again’.
In response to the group chat, where support was being given to the actress, Lively appears to have said: “I love you so much. I would not be ok through any of this if it weren’t for you.”
