There’s a messy legal fight going on between actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni over the upcoming movie It Ends With Us, and now—unexpectedly—Taylor Swift has been pulled into the drama. But she’s clearly not having any of it.
Recently, Swift received a legal subpoena, which is basically a court order asking her to hand over documents or evidence. Her legal team, who’ve been working with her for over a decade, fired back on May 12, asking the court to cancel the subpoena altogether. Their message was loud and clear: Taylor Swift has nothing to do with this movie or the legal mess around it.
The law firm representing Swift, Venable LLP, argued that the subpoena was not only irrelevant to the case, but also a way to harass and overwhelm people who aren’t even involved. They pointed out that if there are any documents worth looking at, they should come directly from Blake Lively or Ryan Reynolds—not from Swift or her lawyers.
In their words, the subpoena served “no real legal purpose” and was just a tactic to “distract from the facts” and dump unnecessary pressure on someone completely unrelated to the lawsuit.
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are backing Swift’s stance too. In a court statement filed on May 13, they said Justin Baldoni was twisting the legal process and unfairly targeting people outside the actual dispute. They described it as an “abuse of the discovery process”—which is just a fancy way of saying he’s misusing the court’s rules to go after people who shouldn’t be involved.
Swift’s own spokesperson didn’t hold back either. They accused Baldoni of trying to use Taylor’s name as a publicity stunt—to grab headlines and stir up online buzz, instead of focusing on the real legal issues.
So what’s this legal fight all about?
It all started when Blake Lively accused Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment. Baldoni denied the allegations and responded with a countersuit, saying Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds defamed him. He even accused them of leveraging their friendship with Swift to influence the situation.
In court documents, Baldoni pointed to texts where Lively supposedly referred to Swift and Reynolds as her “dragons,” implying they were backing her up behind the scenes and plotting against him.
