Taylor Swift hints at rift with Blake Lively as texts are unsealed in It Ends With Us case

Taylor Swift has hinted at a rift with Blake Lively after texts were unsealed in the It Ends With Us case.

Four months after the release of It Ends With Us, Blake filed a legal complaint accusing her co-star, Justin, of sexual harassment and retaliation.

Justin denied all claims against him and went on to file a $250 million libel lawsuit against the New York Times for their reporting of Blake’s claims against him.

However, in June, the actor made the shock decision to drop his $400 million defamation suit against Blake Lively, after the case was dismissed.

It was previously reported that the 36-year-old pop sensation and the 38-year-old Gossip Girl star had become estranged due to the actress’s intense legal dispute with her It Ends With Us co-star and director, Justin Baldoni.

Additionally, according to E! News, text conversations that were made public on Monday indicate that the duo candidly talked about the detrimental “shift” in their relationship.

Following Taylor’s comment that Blake’s correspondence with her had begun to resemble a “mass corporate email,” the text messages that surfaced in court documents also depict the two lifelong friends attempting to mend their friendship.

Blake’s text read: “I have no reason to ask, but I donno, I’ve been feeling like I should… is everything ok?’ Lively wrote, according to E! News. ‘I felt like a bad friend lately because I was such a sad sack who only talked about my own s*** for months.”

“You were generous to not only be the key person there for me during all of it, but also to let me off the hook for being so in it. I felt so stupid and like it sounded needy and awkward for everyone, especially bc [sic] I can’t explain why I have this feeling,” Blake continued. “I do want to know everything is good, so I’m asking.”

“I always want the opportunity to be a better friend if there’s something I unintentionally did. I know how busy and taxed you are — physically, emotionally, practically, so I don’t expect any more from you ever,” she wrote.

In response, Taylor wrote: “I think I’m just exhausted in every avenue of my life and in recent months had been feeling a little bit of a shift in the way you talk to me,’ Swift admitted. ‘Yes, there has been a lot of Justin stuff but I’ve been through things like this before and I know how all consuming it is.”

“It’s more like… and I feel really bad saying anything about this because your texts have been so nice in their intent but your last few… it’s felt like I was reading a mass corporate email sent to 200 employees,” Taylor admitted.

“It feels awful to be in any way critical of any way you process what you’ve been going through but I just kinda miss my funny, dark, normal-speaking friend who talks to me as herself.”

“I know you feel attacked from all sides for ridiculous reasons, so you’re feeling like you have to overly explain things… but it’s me,’ she wrote. ‘That’s just caused a little distance. And you don’t need to apologise,” as she pleaded: “Just come back, please.”

Blake previously suggested that Taylor had a significant hand in the making of It Ends With Us, going so far as to say Taylor helped with casting decisions and allowed the use of her 2020 track My Tears Ricochet on the soundtrack.

“I mean, honestly, she was with me on this experience the whole time, all throughout it, so she really lived this with me,” Blake shared during a Q&A after a screening last year. “She’s a person who shows up for you, and I’m so grateful to have that love and support.”

However, in May, Swift’s spokesperson pushed back in a statement to DailyMail.com, saying: “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.”

The rep added: “Given that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift’s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.”

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