Taylor Swift reportedly subpoenaed in Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni lawsuit

Taylor Swift’s dependable whitethorn marque a cameo successful “It Ends With Us” — the 2024 movie present embroiled successful ineligible drama — but a typical for the popular prima says that’s wherever her engagement successful the movie ends.

Swift was reportedly subpoenaed by the ineligible squad of the film’s manager and star, Justin Baldoni, successful his lawsuit against his co-star and Swift’s friend, Blake Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and Lively’s publicist, according to TMZ and different outlets.

The ineligible saga erupted precocious past twelvemonth erstwhile Lively accused Baldoni, on with his team, of orchestrating a smear run against her aft she reported on-set intersexual harassment. Baldoni filed a countersuit alleging that Lively’s accusations are baseless and person caused superior harm to his career, estimation and idiosyncratic life, further escalating the high-interest ineligible brawl.

In a connection to The Times connected Friday, a spokesperson for Swift denied that the vocalist had immoderate level of engagement successful the movie beyond agreeing to licence her opus “My Tears Ricochet” to beryllium utilized successful the trailer and a scene.

“Taylor Swift ne'er acceptable ft connected the acceptable of this movie, she was not progressive successful immoderate casting oregon originative decisions, she did not people the film, she ne'er saw an edit oregon made immoderate notes connected the film, she did not adjacent spot ‘It Ends With Us’ until weeks aft its nationalist release, and was traveling astir the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest circuit successful history,” the spokesperson said, alluding to her record-breaking Eras Tour.

“Given that her engagement was licensing a opus for the film, which 19 different artists besides did, this papers subpoena is designed to usage Taylor Swift’s sanction to gully nationalist involvement by creating tabloid clickbait alternatively of focusing connected the facts of the case,” the connection continued.

Swift’s sanction became a portion of the speech erstwhile documents Baldoni’s squad published online alluded to a “a famous, and famously close, person of Reynolds and Lively.” Lively and Swift person been friends for much than a decennary and person collaborated professionally successful summation to making high-profile societal appearances together, similar astatine past year’s Super Bowl.

Baldoni’s squad alleges that Reynolds and the unnamed “megacelebrity friend” “pressured” him to judge changes Lively made to the script.

Lively, according to the documents published online, allegedly sent a connection to Baldoni referring to herself arsenic the quality “Khaleesi” from “Game of Thrones,” and Swift and Reynolds arsenic her “dragons.”

“My dragons besides support those I combat for,” Lively allegedly texted Baldoni. “So truly we each payment from those gorgeous monsters of mine. You volition too, I tin committedness you.”