The release of Blake Lively’s private text messages and emails with pals Taylor Swift, Ben Affleck and It Ends With Us costar Brandon Sklenar have sent shockwaves through Hollywood.
Jaw-droppingly candid private messages were released by Lively’s legal team in January 2026 ahead of her court showdown with It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni. Lively first filed a hostile workplace complaint against Baldoni with the California Civil Rights Department in December 2024 and proceeded to sue him in New York City the following month for alleged sexual harassment, retaliation and fostering a hostile work environment.
Baldoni has denied any wrongdoing. The filmmaker countersued Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and others for $400 million in January 2025, though Judge Lewis Liman dismissed his complaint later that year. Still, both parties are gearing up for a trial over Lively’s accusations in May 2026, with the release of private text messages proving to be the biggest bombshell development thus far.
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Keep scrolling for more about the private text messages and how celebrities have responded.
What Is in Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s Text Messages?
On January 20, 2026, Blake Lively’s lawyers filed a letter to Judge Lewis J. Liman where they released batches of private text messages related to the It Ends With Us dispute. These messages offered crucial insight into the power struggle that went on behind the scenes of the 2024 blockbuster.
Much of the scrutiny into these text exchanges revolved around Lively opening up to her friend Taylor Swift about her on-set battle with Justin Baldoni. On April 12, 2023, Lively asked Swift — who was identified in the messages as “Sender/Recip Name Not Available” — to praise her proposed script revisions to It Ends With Us if she crossed paths with Baldoni during a meeting at the Gossip Girl alum’s New York City apartment that night.
Lively referred to Baldoni as her “doofus director” and “a clown” in her messages with Swift and later thanked her friend for being “epically heroic” after the encounter.
“I recapped every moment to Ryan. I kept remembering stuff — You making s*** up about me and lenses,” Lively later wrote to Swift. “And referring to yourself as my doll. This clown falling for all of it. But also resisting it. You are the worlds absolutely greatest friend. I won the lottery.”
This purported meeting took place on the same night as Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, allegedly confronted Baldoni for speaking to his wife’s personal trainer without permission. Baldoni’s lawyers claimed in previous court filings that the conversation was “so aggressive that Baldoni felt he had no choice but to offer repeated (and completely unwarranted) apologies.” (Baldoni claimed that he only approached Lively’s trainer because he wanted to avoid aggravating a back injury while shooting an It Ends With Us scene where he’d have to lift his costar.)
In December 2024, Lively checked in with Swift — now identified as “Taylor” in the messages — about a potential shift in their friendship. Lively admitted she “felt like a bad friend” and acknowledged that Swift must be “physically, emotionally, practically” taxed after completing her Eras Tour.
Justin Baldoni in 2024. Cindy Ord/Getty ImagesSwift replied that Lively was “not wrong” to sense a shift, though she brushed it off as “not a big deal.”
“It’s more like … and I feel really bad saying anything about this because your texts have been so nice in intent but your last few … it felt like I was reading a mass corporate email sent to 200 employees,” Swift continued. “You said the word ‘we’ like 18 times. And it feels awful to be in any way critical of the 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, not like a plural unit.”
Once the two had seemingly squashed the issue, Swift shared a People article about Baldoni titled “Justin Baldoni Reveals He Was Sexually Traumatized By an Ex-Girlfriend When He Was ‘Hoping to Save Myself for Marriage.’”
“I think this bitch knows something is coming because he’s gotten out his tiny violin,” Swift theorized.
Swift asked whether “everything [is] still on track,” seemingly in reference to Lively’s planned legal action against Baldoni or a New York Times article about the dispute.
“Oh yes. A week later tho,” Lively confirmed, with Taylor replying: “His own words, that’s gonna be powerful … It’s the only way to beat liars and hypocrites.”
Another set of texts between Lively and her It Ends With Us costar Brandon Sklenar were sent in the months before the movie’s release in August 2024. These messages include Lively calling Baldoni a “monster” over their behind-the-scenes rift and refusing to allow him to actively promote It Ends With Us.
Shortly after It Ends With Us arrived in theaters, Sklenar complained in August 2024 about the cast receiving blowback on social media over reports of tension on the set.
“None of us deserve all the hate at all. Especially you,” he wrote to Lively. “Pissing me off so much. Just have to block it out but every time I go on Insta I read something.”
Lively replied, “Like [I’m] in an immense amount of pain. I’m sorry it’s being aimed at all of us. You included.”
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A selection of Baldoni’s private messages were also released. As part of a group chat, he asked friends — including The Office’s Rainn Wilson — for “prayers for protection and strength/calm” ahead of a “big meeting” with Lively at the height of their on-set feud.
“First time we have seen each other in person since her safety allegations,” he confirmed, with Wilson replying, “Sitting now for some prayers.”
Sometime later, he reached out to a religious support group following a difficult few days for himself and producer Jamey Heath on the set of It Ends With Us.
“Hey fellas- I know it’s been a while since I texted this group but alas – Jamey and I are back in New Jersey trying to finish the film and prayers are appreciated,” he wrote. “Just wanted to give you a little update. These first few days have been torturous and up there with the worst of all of them. But I preface the below with the fact that I am actually okay. Jamey is more than OK. We are getting through it.”
The filmmaker confirmed he’d received a legal letter from “the studio” citing “how unsafe I and the workplace were” for an unnamed female cast member presumed to be Lively.
“The Actor … won’t return to work unless we meet 17 conditions and send her the unfinished directors cut of [the] movie,” Baldoni alleged. “Also that she has been considering leaving the film and not returning to work because she has legal right to do so- we have responded and met the conditions and after she sees the film she will decide.”
He added, “Pray for her soul. For light to fill it. I’m staying as positive as I can. [I] know I have protection!! This is where being a Bahai matters. Can I send love, not be a victim or curse her, and still somehow show up and direct and act with kindness in my heart? All that’s left for three weeks is our intense work together.”
As problems continued to mount, Baldoni wrote to his PR people that he felt “betrayed” by It Ends With Us author Colleen Hoover over their disagreements about the movie.
When a PR person suggested opening up a “dialogue” with Hoover, Baldoni shot back, “I’m sorry I don’t have the capacity just right now in this moment to be the bigger person and to do that. You have to remember that it was her betrayal that landed me in the hospital. It’s been devastating to me.”
Team Lively’s January 2026 evidence drop included text messages and emails that she exchanged with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck throughout the editing of It Ends With Us as well.
How Was Jameela Jamil Involved in Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s Feud?
One of the bigger surprises in Team Lively’s January 2026 evidentiary exhibit was the way actress Jameela Jamil factored into the It Ends With Us drama. Private text messages between Jamil and Baldoni’s publicist Jennifer Abel included some harsh words about Lively.
Us Weekly obtained an August 2024 text exchange between Jamil and Abel where they discussed Lively’s alleged behavior on the set of It Ends With Us.
“I want to officially incorporate nightmare c*** and demon c*** into my vocabulary; UNBELIEVABLE; She’s doing this to herself,” Abel wrote about Lively, with Jamil quipping: “She’s a suicide bomber at this point.”
Jamil later dismissed Lively’s public gesture of sharing a link to domestic violence resources via social media for being “so cold.”
“I’m thinking about having Justin share it, along with a wink emoji,” Abel revealed, with Jamil replying: “Ahahaha no keep him away from her; keep him silence [sic]; Keep him in Sweden.”
Jamil later accused Lively of putting on a “bizarre villain” act. An insider subsequently told Us that it was “disappointing that instead of listening to women when they speak out, other women call them names and discredit them in defense of a fake male feminist.”
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Amid the controversy over her messages, Jamil defended herself and insisted her comments about Lively had no impact on her commitment to feminism.
“Guys, feminism means fighting for the political, social and economic equity of women, for women,” Jamil said via her Instagram Story in January 2026. “Just gender equity. It does not mean you have to like every single woman. It doesn’t mean you have to be friends with every single woman.”
Jamil argued that feminists can “actually beef with other women” provided that they are still “fighting for their human right to the same things that men have.”
“That’s all feminism is. It is a moral and political stance. It is not a sleepover where we braid each other’s pubes OK?” she said. “So if you are fighting for women’s rights but you don’t get along with every single woman, it doesn’t make you a bad feminist. You’re still a feminist.”
Jamil went on, “Keep fighting for those rights and thank you for fighting for those rights.”
How Is Stassi Schroeder Involved in Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Feud?
The Vanderpump Rules alum spoke out in defense of Taylor Swift for calling Justin Baldoni “a bitch” in a December 2024 text message to Blake Lively.
“Everyone acting like calling a grown man — privately, in a text message with their best friend — a ‘little bitch’ is like the most egregious, nefarious, evil thing someone can do, are you joking?” Stassi Schroeder asked via TikTok on January 22, 2026. “‘A little bitch?’ That’s like the bare minimum. That’s nothing. That’s nothing at all.”
Schroeder pointed out that Swift was well within her rights to mock Baldoni given “all the terrible things” that Lively told her about her experience making It Ends With Us.
“In fact, I like [Taylor] more. I like her more now after reading that she said he’s a little bitch with a tiny violin,” Schroeder chuckled. “That’s child’s play. … I could see it on Sesame Street.”
Schroeder joked that “everyone else’s friend chats” should be released to see how they stack up to Lively and Swift’s banter.
“It’s just so lame,” she declared.
How Is Whitney Cummings Involved in Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s Feud?
Comedian Whitney Cummings poked fun at Taylor Swift via X on January 22, 2026, by admitting that “every girl knows what it’s like” to go “too hard in the paint for a girlfriend because you love her and you’re ride or die.”
“[She] forgot to ask, before we go to war against this man who harmed you, is this true? Is any of this correct?” the comic joked.
Cumming argued that there’s a lot of “the toxic lengths that women go in relationships with men” but there isn’t enough discussion of “toxic girl friendships.”
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