Taylor Swift, Blake Lively friendship strong despite claim Justin Baldoni lawsuit tearing them apart: insider

Taylor Swift and Blake Lively ne'er spell retired of style, adjacent with a lingering $400 cardinal lawsuit.

As a study surfaced that the "Reputation" vocalist was stepping backmost from her longtime relationship with Lively, 37, sources confirmed to Fox News Digital Wednesday, "This isn't true."

Lively filed a intersexual harassment suit successful December against Justin Baldoni, his Wayfarer workplace and erstwhile PR reps. The aforesaid time Lively filed her suit, Baldoni filed a $250 cardinal suit against the New York Times for a December nonfiction astir the alleged smear campaign. 

Baldoni, 41, apologized to his co-star successful a six-minute connection seemingly sent aft the brace met to sermon a now-infamous rooftop scene from the movie successful which helium claimed successful ineligible documents that helium felt pressured by Lively's husband, Ryan Reynolds, and Swift to usage Lively's rewritten country for the film.

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Blake Lively and Taylor Swift's relationship was called into question amid Justin Baldoni's $400 cardinal suit against his "It Ends With Us" co-star. (Getty Images)

Weeks later, Baldoni past named Lively and Reynolds successful a abstracted $400 cardinal defamation lawsuit successful which helium accused the Hollywood powerfulness mates of attempting to hijack "It Ends With Us" and make their ain narrative.

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In an effort to amusement however Lively allegedly took power of the movie's production, Baldoni's ineligible team claimed successful documents that the histrion utilized her relationship with Swift to endanger him. While moving connected the film, Lively insisted connected rewriting the rooftop scene. Baldoni had been hesitant astir the thought but told Lively helium would "take a look astatine what she enactment together," according to the complaint.

Afterward, Lively invited Baldoni implicit to her New York City home, wherever the histrion said helium felt Swift and Reynolds pressured him into utilizing the rewritten scene. "Later, Baldoni felt obliged to substance Lively to accidental that helium had liked her pages and hadn’t needed Reynolds and her megacelebrity person to unit him," the ailment said.

Justin Baldoni named Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds successful a $400 cardinal lawsuit. (Dia Dipasupil/FilmMagic)

"… I truly emotion what you did. It truly does assistance a lot. Makes it truthful overmuch much amusive and interesting. (And I would person felt that mode without Ryan and Taylor [emoji] You truly are a endowment crossed the board. Really excited nd [sic] grateful to bash this together," Baldoni's substance read, according to the complaint.

Lively shared a lengthy response, successful which she referred to Swift and Reynolds arsenic "dragons" who support her.

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"Both Ryan and [redacted] person established themselves arsenic implicit titans arsenic writers and storytellers extracurricular of their superior gig – conscionable singing oregon conscionable acting oregon [redacted] conscionable directing. I'm truthful fortunate to person them arsenic originative barometers," Lively's text, included successful the complaint, read. "But besides to person them arsenic radical who prop maine up and marque definite I'm seen for each I can, and bash offer. Because they cognize firsthand each I contribute. They besides cognize I'm not ever arsenic bully astatine making definite I'm seen and utilized for fearfulness of threatening egos, oregon fearfulness of affecting the easiness of the process. They don't springiness a s--- astir that. And due to the fact that of that, everyone listens to them with immense respect and enthusiasm. So I conjecture I person to halt worrying astir radical liking me."

Baldoni not lone starred successful the movie adaptation of the novel, helium besides directed the movie. (Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

Baldoni believed "the connection could not person been clearer," according to the lawsuit. "Baldoni was not conscionable dealing with Lively. He was besides facing Lively’s ‘dragons,’ 2 of the astir influential and affluent celebrities successful the world, who were not acrophobic to marque things precise hard for him."

Lively elaborate allegations of intersexual harassment, retaliation, intentional affliction of affectional distress, negligence and much made by Baldoni and movie shaper Jamey Heath successful a ailment archetypal filed with the California Civil Rights section and aboriginal successful national court.

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Some of the issues allegedly addressed astatine an "all-hands" gathering earlier filming began included nary much showing nude videos oregon images of women to Lively, nary much notation of Baldoni’s erstwhile "pornography addiction," nary much discussions astir idiosyncratic experiences with sex, nary much descriptions of their ain genitalia, nary much adding enactment scenes extracurricular what was successful the archetypal script, nary much discussions astir Lively’s value oregon deceased begetter and more.

Blake Lively kissed Justin Baldoni connected the acceptable of "It Ends with Us" successful January 2024. (Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

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However, Baldoni insisted Lively "falsely" accused him successful an effort to repair her estimation aft the fallout astir the movie's property circuit aft she took power of the film.

Baldoni's ineligible team claimed Lively had nary grounds of a deliberate smear run and alternatively worked to repair her estimation by accusing the histrion and others of intersexual harassment.

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Judge Lewis J. Liman ordered a proceedings acceptable for March 9, 2026. An primitively scheduled pretrial league for Feb. 12 was rescheduled for Feb. 3.