Taylor Swift has officially been subpoenaed as a witness in Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s ongoing legal feud.
Sources with direct knowledge told TMZ Baldoni’s attorney Bryan Freedman subpoenaed the “Cruel Summer” songstress on Friday to testify in their upcoming trial, which is scheduled for March 2026.
A spokesperson for the pop star blasted the subpoena in a statement, telling the outlet: “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 connection Taylor had to this film was permitting the use of one song, ‘My Tears Ricochet,’” the statement continued.
“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.”
Reps for Swift and Baldoni did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
Baldoni dragged Swift into the legal war in January, when he launched his $400 million countersuit against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds over their “It Ends With Us” drama.
In the legal docs, he alleges Lively weaponized her friendship with Swift as an attempt to take control of their 2024 film’s production.
The “Jane the Virgin” alum claimed, in a complaint obtained by Page Six, that one of Lively’s “famous and, famously close” friends praised one of Lively’s script rewrites regarding the rooftop scene when he was invited to her and Reynolds’ New York City penthouse.
Though he did not name the Grammy winner explicitly, he referenced her in a text about that evening.
“I really love what you did. It really does help a lot,” he wrote of the scene in question. “Makes it so much more fun and interesting. (And I would have felt that way without Ryan or Taylor).”
Lively allegedly described Swift and Reynolds as her “creative barometers” and “dragons” she was “lucky” to have in her corner.
“The message could not have been clearer. Baldoni was not just dealing with Lively,” said Baldoni’s attorney at the time.
“He was also facing Lively’s ‘dragons,’ two of the most influential and wealthy celebrities in the world, who were not afraid to make things very difficult for him.”
In addition to Swift, a source told the Daily Mail last month that the couple’s other pal Hugh Jackman — who co-starred in Reynolds’ “Deadpool & Wolverine” last year — could also find himself pulled into the legal drama.
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