Taylor Swift Is Getting Dragged Back Into the It Ends With Us Legal Drama
Taylor Swift is, once again, getting dragged back into the It Ends With Us legal drama. According to newly unsealed court documents obtained by People, she and Hugh Jackman were allegedly at Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’s New York penthouse on April 25, 2023, when Reynolds apparently confronted Justin Baldoni for “fat shaming” Lively. The alleged incident was revealed in a timeline of events relating to Lively and Baldoni’s dispute, which Jamey Heath — co-founder of Wayfarer, Baldoni’s production studio — reportedly sent to Baldoni’s publicist in a July 2024 email.
On the day of the confrontation, per People, Baldoni went to the couple’s apartment, where Reynolds allegedly “unloaded” on him about “how horrible it was” to ask a woman about her weight, apparently accusing him of “fat-shaming Blake.” Baldoni was “completely embarrassed and apologized” and is said to have shed “some tears,” the documents reportedly state. Swift and Jackman “were also present” at the time of the confrontation, they state. (None of the parties mentioned immediately responded to a request for comment from The Cut.)
A source previously told TMZ that Swift and Baldoni met only once, when she showed up to Lively and Reynolds’s penthouse with no awareness of the circumstances. The source said Swift believed Lively timed the meeting with Baldoni so that Swift and Baldoni would cross paths. “Justin was about to leave after the two-hour meeting as Taylor walked in, and she was introduced to him for the first and only time,” the source apparently said.
This is far from the first time Swift’s name has gotten wrapped up in the two actors’ legal battle. In May, Baldoni’s team subpoenaed Swift — which could have compelled her to testify in court — but withdrew the subpoena soon after. He later won a bid to access Swift and Lively’s text messages relating to the case. In September, a man was arrested for trespassing outside Travis Kelce’s home while apparently attempting to serve Swift with deposition papers on behalf of Baldoni’s lawyers.
A spokesperson for Swift previously distanced her from Baldoni and Lively’s conflict, maintaining that her only real connection to It Ends With Us was allowing her song “My Tears Ricochet” to be used in the soundtrack. “Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film, she did not even see It Ends With Us until weeks after its public release and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history,” her rep said, adding that the subpoena brought by Baldoni’s team was “designed to use Taylor Swift’s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.”
Earlier this month, Baldoni’s $400 million countersuit against Lively was thrown out, apparently after Baldoni’s team missed the deadline to file an amended complaint after the court dismissed the case in June. Lively’s lawsuit, on the other hand, remains ongoing, and is set to go to trial in March 2026.
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