Taylor Swift has been navigating a trying time after her private text messages with Blake Lively were released amid the actress’ ongoing legal battle.
“It’s honestly been really hard for Taylor,” one source exclusively tells Us. “Having her texts out there made her feel exposed and kind of violated, like, something private suddenly wasn’t hers anymore. That doesn’t sit well with her.”
News broke earlier this month that a judge unsealed a handful of texts from Lively, 38, and her It Ends With Us director, Justin Baldoni to their respective inner circles. Lively had sued Baldoni, 41, in late 2024 for sexual harassment and trying to destroy her reputation, which he vehemently denied.
In one of the released documents viewed by Us Weekly, Lively seemingly texted Swift, 36, in April 2023 about her alleged issues with Baldoni.
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“Can you do me a huge favor. I need help with him,” Lively asked Swift. “Can you tell him you are excited for the movie. That you read the book but what you’re freaking out over is the [script] pages I sent you. What a magnetic scene that is. Or whatever descriptives you’re comfortable [with].”
Swift apparently replied that she would “do anything” for Lively.
In another text exchange, Lively praised Swift after the pair allegedly got into a tense showdown with Baldoni at Lively’s apartment.
“You were so epically heroic today,” Lively wrote. “I recapped every moment to Ryan. I kept remembering stuff — You making s*** up about me and lenses. 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.”
Swift seemingly responded, “I WON THE LOTTERY. You are the COOLEST PERSON IN THE WORLD and you like me!!”
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In other sections of the court documents, Swift and Lively discussed the lawsuit and Baldoni’s perceived reaction.
“I think this bitch knows something is coming because he’s gotten out his tiny violin,” Swift allegedly wrote about Baldoni in a December 2024 message, sending a People article with the headline “Justin Baldoni Reveals He Was Sexually Traumatized By an Ex-Girlfriend When He Was ‘Hoping to Save Myself for Marriage.”
According to the insider, Swift “wasn’t trying to get involved” in the legal battle but just wanted to be a supportive friend. (Us previously broke the news in May 2025 that Swift’s friendship with Lively had strained amid the lawsuit.)
“She wasn’t trying to get involved or make anything bigger, she was just supporting Blake as a friend, in what she thought was a private moment,” the source says. “Now, it’s turned into this whole thing that she didn’t ask for.”
A second insider, meanwhile, adds that Swift is “obviously not happy” that her messages were released and she was dragged into the drama.
“Even though she was sending Blake messages and went to the apartment, she wasn’t involved in creating a master plan to take anyone down,” the second source tells Us. “She was being supportive of her friend and that is it. Just as any friend would.”
Us Weekly reached out to Swift’s rep for comment but did not hear back.
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Swift and Lively had been close friends since 2016, with the Gossip Girl alum even naming the “Fate of Ophelia” singer as the godmother of her children. (Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds share four kids.)
Baldoni, meanwhile, claimed in court documents of his own that Lively used her friendship with Swift to help gain alleged control over 2024’s It Ends With Us, which a rep for the pop star publicly refuted.
“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,” Swift’s spokesperson told Us in a May 2025 statement. “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 statement continued, “The connection Taylor had to this film was permitting the use of one song, ‘My Tears Ricochet.’ 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.”
