Taylor Swift’s circle of friends seems to have taken a significant blow as it’s rumored she has ended her long-standing friendship with Blake Lively amidst increasing legal tensions with Justin Baldoni.

But the 35-year-old pop superstar has seemingly grown apart over the years from multiple friends from whom she once seemed inseparable.

Reports suggest that in addition to Blake, Taylor has distanced herself from model friend Karlie Kloss, past rival Katy Perry, and actress Jaime King, all previously close companions.

The alleged fallout with Blake follows an exclusive report by DailyMail.com, which claims the 37-year-old Gossip Girl actress threatened to reveal private, embarrassing text messages unless Taylor publicly showed support in Blake’s ongoing dispute with her It Ends With Us co-star and director, Justin Baldoni.

Last week, a representative for the hitmaker issued a blistering statement denying any involvement in Blake’s on-set drama with Justin after his legal team subpoenaed her text messages to use as potential evidence in his $400 million defamation suit against Blake, her husband Ryan Reynolds and her publicist in response to the sexual harassment lawsuit she previously filed against him.

As Taylor threatens to be drawn even further into her ex-friend Blake’s legal issues, DailyMail.com takes a look back at other former friends who didn’t stand the test of time.

Taylor’s towering model friend Karlie Kloss

Taylor and Karlie, 32, seemingly became the closest of friends beginning sometime around early 2012, the year that Taylor released her blockbuster album Red.

The two towering blondes showed off their strong connection later the following year when Taylor performed at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, and she made a repeat appearance in 2014 that culminated with her and Karlie holding hands as they walked the runway in black lace.

For years, the Shake It Off singer has been the subject of unfounded fan rumors claiming she has had romantic relationships with some of her female friends, and her closeness with Karlie seems to have set off her most parasocial fans.

Days after she walked the Victoria’s Secret show with Karlie, Taylor tweeted: ‘As my 25th birthday present from the media, I’d like for you to stop accusing all my friends of dating me #thirsty,’ she wrote.

The two continued flaunting their friendship proudly in 2015, when they posed together on the cover of Vogue.

Later that year, Karlie proved she was a major member of Taylor’s squad by booking a supporting role in her Bad Blood music video.

The two continued to make public appearances together through the next year, with Karlie often making a splash with the earlier edition of Taylor’s squad, which they documented via numerous social media posts. 

But Taylor’s most overzealous fans began to wonder if the friends were growing apart beginning around 2017, when Karlie was seen spending time with Kendall Jenner on the fourth of July, instead of hanging out with Taylor like she did the year before. 

Some fans viewed Karlie spending time with her fellow catwalk fixture as a personal affront, as Kendall is the half-sister of Kim Kardashian, who was at the time married to Taylor’s longtime nemesis Kanye West and had joined in on his feuding with Taylor over the years. 

Although Karlie continued to drop stray social media posts to celebrate Taylor’s birthdays and claimed they were still friends in interviews in subsequent years, the two were rarely pictured together aside from a 2018 Instagram photo Karlie shared of the two posing backstage at one of Taylor’s Reputation World Tour stops. 

Many fans took her connections to people Taylor has feuded with or had falling-outs with to be evidence that their friendship had fizzled out. 

In early 2018, Karlie was spotted spending time with Taylor’s former friend Katy Perry as the two were in the midst of a since-quashed feud, and in 2019 she was spotted grinning ear-to-ear in a photo with former music manager Scooter Braun, who had become infamous for being part of a deal to buy up Taylor’s early master recordings. 

The move later led her to launch her massively successful project to rerecord her pre-Lover albums. 

Ironically, it was Karlie’s 2023 attempt to enjoy Taylor’s live show that convinced many fans that the two were not on good terms.

She caught one of Taylor’s massively popular Eras Tour shows in Los Angeles — but her seats were up in the stands, rather than in the VIP area that she would have once been expected to sit in. 

Taylor’s fellow pop star Katy Perry

Taylor and Katy Perry’s friendship has taken a circuitous route, as they went from good friends to feuding ex-pals before patching up their tattered relationship.

Although the two never appeared to be as close as some of Taylor’s other friends, she and the I Kissed A Girl singer were spotted hanging out several times beginning in 2009, and they periodically shared friendly posts about each other on social media. 

One of the earliest signs that Taylor had attached to a new pal was a 2009 tweet in which she wrote, ‘I love Katy Perry. I think I’m going to hang her poster on my wall now.’

‘You’re as sweet as pie!’ a gushing Katy replied. ‘Let’s write a song together about the subject we know best… for my new record. It’ll be brilliant.’

A year later, when Taylor was promoting her album Fearless, Katy made a surprise appearance for the two to perform a duet of her song Hot N Cold, but a hoped-for co-written song never materialized. 

But the first cryptic hints that things had soured between the friendly acquaintances came about in 2014 as Taylor promoted her 1989 single Bad Blood. 

In an interview with Rolling Stone at the time, Taylor admitted the song was inspired by another female performer. 

‘For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not,’ Swift said in the interview. ‘She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, “Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?”‘  

She added that the person ‘did something horrible’ that made them ‘straight-up enemies.’ 

Surprisingly, Taylor clarified that it didn’t involve cheating or romances, but instead was purely business-based. 

‘She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me,’ she explained. ‘And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational — you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So, now I have to avoid her. It’s awkward, and I don’t like it.’

The interview alone might not have made it obvious that Taylor was referring to Katy, but the day after it was published, the California Gurls singer tweeted, ‘Watch out for the Regina George in sheep’s clothing…,’ referring to the Mean Girls character played by Rachel McAdams.

Katy left little doubt about what she was referring to when she later added, ‘If somebody is trying to defame my character, you’re going to hear about it.’

Then, in a 2015 Telegraph profile, Taylor confirmed bluntly that she was feuding with Katy when she said she was ‘never going to talk about her’ in her interviews. 

‘I have my friends. I have my enemies,’ she added.

In 2017, during an appearance with James Corden on Carpool Karaoke, Katy bluntly admitted that she and Katy were feuding, and even explained their issues.

She claimed that three of her regular backup dancers had accepted an offer to join Taylor’s tour with her blessing, as she wasn’t yet on an album cycle.

But when Katy started planning her own tour around a year later, they allegedly shared their plans to leave Taylor’s dancing entourage in the near future — and were promptly fired. 

‘Honestly, it’s really like [Taylor] started it and it’s time for her to finish it,’ Katy said in the same segment, admitting that she would ‘100 percent’ drop their beef in exchange for just a text-message apology.

Taylor may not have been ready to extinguish the feud just yet, as her 2017 album Reputation was believed to feature more veiled digs at Katy, including in the lyrics and video for her song Look What You Made Me Do.

While it’s not clear if Taylor made any behind-the-scenes attempts to smooth things over with Katy, In May of 2018 the Teenage Dream singer left a (literal) olive branch in Taylor’s dressing room at the Phoenix stop of her Reputation Tour, along with a hand-written note. 

‘This means so much to me,’ Taylor said in a short Instagram video in which she revealed the gift, though she kept the message private.

The two made the cessation of hostilities official in 2019, when Katy joined Taylor in the video for her song You Need To Calm Down while dressed as a hamburger. 

Since then, the two have shown nothing but friendly displays in public and on social media, though Katy has never appeared to be as entwined with Taylor’s social life as other squad members. 

Taylor’s actress friend Jaime King

Once of Taylor’s lower-profile friendships has been with the Sin City actress Jaime King, 46.

The two reportedly struck up a friendship after meeting at a post-Golden Globes party in 2014, and Jaime subsequently became a regular fixture in Taylor’s squad from then on despite being a decade older than the pop genius. 

Their connection was apparently strengthened, as Jaime’s then-husband Kyle Newman went on to direct Taylor’s Style music video the following year.

They were reportedly so close after just a year that the Hart Of Dixie actress asked Taylor to be her son Leo’s godmother in 2015.

But shortly afterward, Jaime’s public appearances with Taylor began to dry up, and the two haven’t not been pictured together in recent years.

In March of this year, a source told The Sun that Taylor and Jaime ‘do not speak’ regularly anymore and are no longer ‘close,’ though what caused them to allegedly drift apart is unclear.

However, the actress has reportedly struggled with substance abuse in recent years, and earlier this year a judge granted her ex-husband full custody of their children after she failed to complete a rehabilitation program.

Despite their weakened relationship, The Sun’s source claimed their is ‘still love’ between the two, and they said Taylor would never hesitate to help Jaime’s children if they were in need.

Brief friendship flings with Dianna Agron and Hailee Steinfeld

Taylor has also had friendships that burned brightly for only a short time.

Beginning in 2011, she and the Glee star Dianna Agron were seen hanging out, and she became a regular part of Taylor’s squad by 2012.

That was the year Taylor released her massively successful album Red, and fans detected multiple hints in the song lyrics and packaging that seemed to allude to her friendship with the actress.

But in 2013, unfounded rumors of a romantic relationship between the began to spread in response to a fake article that spread on social media.

The two were still seen together in public a few times afterward, but the last time they were photographed interacting was at the 2014 American Music Awards.

That year, Taylor also released the Alice In Wonderland–themed breakup song Wonderland on a deluxe edition of her hit 1989 album, which led to fan chatter that the song may have been inspired by Dianna, as she had previously spoken about her love for Lewis Carroll’s absurdist children’s novels. 

By the time Taylor filmed her video for the 1989 single Bad Blood in 2015, the actress was not included among the squad members featured or named in the video.

But Sinners star Hailee Steinfeld was, after they got close at the same Golden Globes after-party where Taylor met Jaime King in 2014.

Hailee was regularly pictured with Taylor throughout 2015, as she made a habit of bring her evolving squad with her to awards shows and even to her own concerts.

But the True Grit actress seemingly disappeared from the pop star’s entourage almost as quickly as she joined it.

Despite that, there don’t appear to have been indications of a falling out, and Taylor reportedly made a point to ‘like’ a 2024 Instagram post in which Hailee announced her engagement to Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen.

The move stood out to fans, as she is selective about what she offers a ‘like’ to on social media.