Taylor Swift has discovered herself linked to the It Ends With Us authorized drama due to her friendship with Blake Vigorous — however will Justin Baldoni ask her to take the stand if the case goes to trial?
A supply linked to Baldoni’s authorized crew tells Us Weekly that it might be “subsequent to unimaginable to serve” Swift, 46, with a summons. The insider provides that the just lately launched textual content messages between the pop star and Vigorous, 38, “communicate for themselves, so that they received’t want her as a witness.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Baldoni and Vigorous’s crew for remark.
Vigorous and Baldoni, 41, costarred within the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us, which launched in August 2024. Vigorous later accused Baldoni, who was additionally the movie’s director, of sexual harassment and orcastrating a smear marketing campaign towards her that December. Baldoni vehemently denied the allegations and subsequently filed a countersuit, which was then dismissed in June 2025.
Vigorous’s lawsuit stays ongoing, and is presently scheduled to move to trial in Could. Paperwork unsealed on Tuesday, January 20, and obtained by Us, revealed varied depositions, emails and textual content messages surrounding the authorized case, together with Vigorous’s correspondence with longtime buddy Swift, whose music “My Tears Ricochet” is featured within the film.
Whereas talking about Vigorous’s potential subsequent steps in December 2024, the singer allegedly known as Baldoni a “bitch” who “is aware of one thing is coming as a result of he’s gotten out his tiny violin,” with an hooked up Folks article titled “Justin Baldoni Reveals He Was Sexually Traumatized by an Ex-Girlfriend When He Was ‘Hoping to Save Myself for Marriage.’”
The textual content was allegedly despatched as Swift was on her technique to meet with Vigorous and Baldoni, who had been each current on the Gossip Lady alum’s house, to endorse a revised model of the script. Following the alleged assembly, the twosome texted about how issues went, with Vigorous saying Swift was “so epically heroic at present” and that she “recapped each second” to husband Ryan Reynolds.
Elsewhere within the paperwork, a dialog between the pair seemingly confirmed that the lawsuit had precipitated a rift of their relationship.
“I’ve no purpose to ask, however I donno [sic], I’ve been feeling like I ought to … is every part OK? I felt like a nasty buddy these days as a result of I used to be such a tragic sack who solely talked about my very own s*** for months,” Vigorous wrote in a single textual content message to Swift in early December 2024. “You had been beneficiant to not solely be the important thing particular person there for me throughout all of it, but additionally to let me off the hook for being so in it.”
Acknowledging that Swift, who was on her worldwide Eras Tour on the time, was “busy and taxed,” Vigorous defined that she at all times desires the “alternative to be a greater buddy if there’s one thing I unintentionally did.” She added that she didn’t anticipate “anymore” from Swift “ever.”
Swift replied that Vigorous was “not flawed, however it’s additionally not an enormous deal,” agreeing that she is “exhausted in each avenue of my life.” She did, nonetheless, observe that she had been “feeling a bit little bit of a shift” in the best way Vigorous spoke to her.
“Sure there was quite a lot of Justin [Baldoni] stuff however I’ve been by means of issues like this earlier than and I understand how all consuming it’s,” Swift continued. “I really feel actually unhealthy saying something about this as a result of your texts have been so good of their intent however your previous few … it’s felt like I used to be studying a mass company e mail despatched to 200 workers. And it feels terrible to be in any manner crucial of any manner you course of what you’ve been going by means of however I simply kinda miss my humorous, darkish, normal-speaking buddy who talks to me as herself.”
Vigorous stated she didn’t “discover” till Swift “pointed it out” that she had been texting like she was writing, not speaking, and that she’d grow to be “digitally paranoid” amid the continuing lawsuit.
“On prime of that, I’m over packaging easy issues bc I’ve felt so deeply misunderstood that I don’t belief my judgement of myself anymore,” Vigorous added. “This f***ing man and what he did to me gave me an id disaster. Legitimately.”
She famous that she was “spooked” most not by Baldoni, however the quantity of friendships she’d misplaced amid the authorized battle.
“My lifelong buddies -allies to women- who quietly dipped,” she advised Swift. “And so I’m in all probability being excessive with my buddies who stayed as a result of I’ve by no means felt extra alone.”
A supply beforehand advised Us a few potential rift between Swift and Vigorous in Could 2025, revealing that the twosome’s friendship “isn’t what it was once.” Swift was subpoenaed in regards to the case that very same month.
“Taylor Swift by no means set foot on the set of this film, she was not concerned in any casting or artistic choices, she didn’t rating the movie, she by no means noticed an edit or made any notes on the movie,” a rep for the singer advised Us on the time. “She didn’t even see It Ends With Us till weeks after its public launch, and was touring across the globe throughout 2023 and 2024 headlining the most important tour in historical past.”
Taylor Swift known as Justin Baldoni a “bitch” who received out his “tiny violin” in an alleged textual content change with Blake Vigorous. Based on paperwork obtained by Us Weekly, Vigorous’s legal professionals filed a letter to Choose Lewis J. Liman on Tuesday, January 20, that confirmed a textual content message between Swift, 36, and Vigorous, 38, initially […]
The subpoena was dropped in September 2025.
As for Vigorous, the actress’ lawyer Sigrid McCawley advised Us in a Tuesday assertion that she stays devoted to the case as solely her “claims towards the defendants stay.”
“The newly unsealed proof incorporates never-before seen testimony, messages and proof from quite a few eyewitnesses backing the claims in Ms. Vigorous’s lawsuit,” McCawley continued. “The proof consists of Ms. Vigorous’s personal testimony describing the harassment she confronted, in addition to new proof from quite a few girls describing their very own disturbing experiences. The newly unsealed proof reveals the considerations of Ms. Vigorous and others had been documented in real-time as early as Spring 2023.”
