Recently unveiled text messages between Blake Lively and Taylor Swift have surfaced amid legal proceedings concerning the film “It Ends With Us.”
The messages reveal the two stars exchanging critical opinions about Justin Baldoni, the film’s director and Lively’s co-star, who she is currently suing for sexual harassment.
Legal documents disclose that Lively referred to Baldoni as the “doofus director of my movie,” to which Swift responded with support, stating, “I’ll do anything for you!”
Following a script revision meeting, Lively expressed her gratitude to Swift, calling her the “absolute greatest friend ever.”
In other exchanges, Swift offered Lively advice on incorporating one of her songs into the movie and remarked that Baldoni lacked strategic thinking.
As an explosive piece detailing Lively’s allegations was set to be published by the New York Times in December 2024, Swift told Lively, “I think this b**** [Baldoni] knows something is coming because he’s gotten out his tiny violin.”
The court papers also reveal that Lively bad-mouthed Baldoni to her other famous friends, including Matt Damon and his wife Lucy, and she allegedly told Ben Affleck that Baldoni was a ‘chaotic clown’.
According to court documents, Blake Lively persuaded Taylor Swift to meet with Justin Baldoni to get her way with the It Ends with Us script. Lively described him as a ‘doofus’ and a ‘clown who thinks he’s a writer’
Baldoni is seeking to have Lively’s lawsuit tossed out after filing a summary motion that sets out why Lively’s claims of sexual harassment have no merit
One of the biggest bombshells – in a lawsuit packed full of them – is the claim that Baldoni sexually harassed Lively while filming a dance scene by dragging his lips down her neck and telling her ‘it smells so good’
The texts were revealed in a lengthy court document filed in the federal court in New York in which Lively responded to dozens of claims made by Baldoni.
In the file, Baldoni’s lawyers wrote: ‘On April 12, 2023, Lively asked her friend, the world-famous musician Taylor Swift, for help.
‘Referring to Baldoni as “this doofus director of my movie,” she went on to describe him as “a clown” who “thinks he’s a writer now.”
‘She asked Swift to endorse the revised script she was proposing even without having read it.’
One text to the singer from Lively read: ‘You don’t have to read of course’.
Lively’s side disputed that she asked Swift to endorse the script without reading it, only that she ‘hoped she would’.
Swift and Lively were spotted leaving Bradley Cooper’s home in 2023. The duo seemed at ease as they exited, fueling curiosity about what the gathering might have been about
Baldoni’s team claim that Lively described him as a ‘chaotic clown’ to her friend Ben Affleck
In another part, the court document states: ‘Swift agreed to do Lively’s bidding, texting Lively: “I’ll do anything for you !!”
‘Lively and Taylor Swift met with Baldoni at Lively’s apartment, where Swift endorsed the revised draft. Afterward, Lively wrote to Swift: ‘You were so epically heroic today. I recapped every moment to Ryan [Reynolds, Lively’s husband].
‘I kept remembering stuff. You making s*** up about me and lenses. And referring to yourself as my doll. This clown’, an apparent reference to Baldoni, ‘falling for all of it. But also resisting it. You are the world’s absolute greatest friend ever.’
In their response, Lively’s side disputed that Swift agreed to do Lively’s ‘bidding.’
Baldoni’s lawyers also alleged that Lively ‘told famous friends, including Matt Damon, Lucy Damon, and Ben Affleck that she “rewrote the script. I directed every actor.”‘
Baldoni has claimed that Lively took over the film and rewrote entire scenes with the help of Reynolds.
Lively said she recapped everything Swift had done for her to her husband Ryan Reynolds
According to Baldoni’s lawyers, she [Lively] also did not hesitate to disparage Baldoni among her Hollywood crowd, describing him to Ben Affleck, for example, as a ‘chaotic clown’.
The text to Affleck reads: ‘I ended up rewriting and restructuring the entire script, I also ended up having to direct the movie via the chaotic clown ‘director’/actor/producer/ financier/studio head at the center’.
Lively’s lawyers did not dispute the contents of the message but said that it should be taken in context.
According to Baldoni’s lawyers, Lively also urged her famous friends and Colleen Hoover, who wrote the book It Ends With Us, which the film was based on, to ‘support her version of the film over Baldoni’s’.
Those A-list friends included Matt Damon and his wife Lucy, Ben Affleck, Bradley Cooper, and Swift.
While Baldoni had bought the rights to the book, Sony eventually released Lively’s version of the film amid the furor over the allegations about his on-set behavior.
Baldoni’s lawyers wrote: ‘For instance, in April 26, 2024 messages, Lively and Swift discussed a plan to use Swift’s song in the film’s trailer.
‘Swift wrote: “If Justin was strategic He would be like no Taylor swift in the trailer. Because that gives you more power over the film, that’s your ally not his.”
‘Lively responded: “You are so right… He should’ve run from your music… How stupid. This was his only shot at having the appearance of an upper hand.”‘
In texts on December 4 and 5, 2024, Lively and Swift discussed the forthcoming New York Times article, which detailed in depth Lively’s claims against Baldoni.
According to the court papers, Swift wrote: ‘I think this b**** [Baldoni] knows something is coming because he’s gotten out his tiny violin.’
Lawyers for Lively said that they were not discussing the New York Times article but did not dispute that the texts were correct.
Among other texts in the filing is one that Reynolds sent to his and Lively’s celebrity friends.
The court filing states: ‘On May 17, 2024, Lively and Reynolds pressed Matt and Lucy Damon to support Lively’s cut of the film.
‘Reynolds told them that Baldoni was ‘a malignantly vein [sic], sociopathic FAUXminist with almost no sense of boundaries or shame. I cannot believe he hasn’t gone to jail’.
The filing continued: ‘Seeking a broader audience, Lively conveyed her negative views of the production to Anna Wintour, Vogue’s world-famous editor’.
In one message Wintour appeared sympathetic, saying ‘how hard a situation it was for you’ to make the film
