Blake Lively and Taylor Swift’s unsealed text messages indicate the moment when Lively’s It Ends With Us drama started to impact their friendship.
“I have no reason to ask, but I donno [sic], I’ve been feeling like I should … is everything OK? I felt like a bad friend lately because I was such a sad sack who only talked about my own s*** for months,” Lively, 38, wrote in a text message to Swift, 36, in early December 2024, according to court documents unsealed on Tuesday, January 20. “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.”
Lively added that she spoke to husband Ryan Reynolds about it and he advised her to ask Swift directly about her concerns.
“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 continued. “Just want to make sure all is good.”
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Swift responded saying that Lively was “not wrong, but it’s also not a big deal.” She noted that she was tired while traveling for her Eras Tour, which wrapped the same month as the tour.
“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,” the pop star replied. “Yes there has been a lot of Justin [Baldoni] stuff but I’ve been through things like this before and I know how all consuming it is.”
Swift admitted that she felt like Lively’s last few messages came off as business-like.
“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,” Swift texted. “And 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.”
Swift added that in addition to feeling geographically “distanced” from Lively, she also felt detached emotionally amid the actress’ ongoing lawsuit against Baldoni.
“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! That’s just caused a little distance,” she wrote. “And you don’t need to apologize. Just come back please.”
Lively acknowledged that she had “become digitally paranoid” amid the lawsuit and “didn’t realize” her tone shifted in her personal conversations.
“So yeah, I’ve been texting like I’m writing. Not like me talking. I didn’t realize that until you pointed it out, but I see it,” Lively wrote. “On top of that, I’m over packaging simple things bc I’ve felt so deeply misunderstood that I don’t trust my judgement of myself anymore… This f***ing guy and what he did to me gave me an identity crisis. Legitimately.”
Lively ultimately apologized and confessed that her bond with Swift wasn’t the only relationship that the lawsuit affected.
“The thing that spooked me most in all this though, wasn’t the bad guys being bad guys. It was the good guys, my lifelong friends -allies to women- who quietly dipped,” she responded. “And so I’m probably being over the top with my friends who stayed because I’ve never felt more alone.”
Lively and Baldoni worked together on the 2024 film It Ends With Us. In December 2024, Lively sued Baldoni accusing her costar and director or sexual harassment and orchestrating an alleged smear campaign against her.
Baldoni has vehemently denied the allegations and subsequently countersued Lively. Baldoni’s lawsuit was dismissed by a judge in June 2025. Lively’s case remains ongoing and is headed for trial in May.
According to the unsealed documents, Swift and Lively spoke her potential next steps in December 2024. At one point in their conversation Swift shared an article about Baldoni and wrote, “I think this bitch knows something is coming because he’s gotten out his tiny violin.”
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Amid Baldoni and Lively’s legal battle, Swift’s name has been brought up on multiple occasions, with Baldoni accusing Lively of using Swift and her other A-list friends to leverage power over him when it came to the direction of the movie.
A source previously told Us Weekly in May 2025 that Swift and Lively’s friendship was “strained” amid the drama.
“Their friendship is not what it used to be,” the insider told Us.
That same month, Swift was subpoenaed. Her rep told Us in a statement at the time, “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.”
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