Taylor Swift’s private messages surface in Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's court case

New court filings in the ongoing legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni include alleged text messages involving Taylor Swift, offering a glimpse into private conversations now being debated in court.

Lively’s attorneys submitted a letter to Judge Lewis J. Liman on Tuesday, Jan. 20, responding to Baldoni’s team as the case moves toward a trial scheduled for May. The filing quotes portions of messages said to be exchanged between Lively, 38, and Swift, 36, in late 2024, as both discussed Baldoni, 41, whom Lively has accused of sexual harassment and retaliation. Baldoni denies the allegations.

According to the filing, Swift allegedly wrote in early December 2024, “I think this bitch knows something is coming because he’s gotten out his tiny violin.” While Lively’s legal team acknowledged that the “quoted language appears in the cited source,” they pushed back against the interpretation offered by Baldoni’s lawyers.

Blake Lively — (Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Sony Pictures)

They argued the message “does not support Defendants’ assertion” that Lively and Swift “privately discussed the forthcoming New York Times article” that later revealed the legal dispute when it was published on Dec. 21, 2024. Other messages included in the court papers concern a revised script draft. Baldoni’s legal team claims Lively asked Swift to endorse changes to the script “even without having read it.”

Swift allegedly responded, “I’ll do anything for you !!” Lively’s attorneys disputed that this meant Swift “agreed to do Lively’s bidding,” “met with Baldoni,” or “endorsed the revised draft.” They added, “Lively respectfully refers the Court to the cited source for its complete contents and disputes any summary or interpretation inconsistent therewith.”

The filing also includes alleged messages Lively sent to Swift after an encounter involving Baldoni. In one, Lively wrote that Swift was “so epically heroic today” and said she had “recapped every moment” to her husband, Ryan Reynolds. She added, “I kept remembering stuff- You making s— up about me and lenses. And referring to yourself as my doll.

This clown is falling for all of it. But also resisting it. You are the world’s absolute greatest friend ever.” Separate messages previously cited in Baldoni’s countersuit, which has since been dismissed, showed Lively referring to Reynolds and Swift as her “dragons,” writing, “I happen to have a few dragons. For better or worse, but usually for better… You will too, I can promise you.”

justin baldoni — (Credit: Araya Doheny/Variety via Getty)

Swift’s team has worked to distance her from the film It Ends With Us. After Baldoni’s lawyers attempted to subpoena her in May 2025, a spokesperson said, “Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie… she did not even see It Ends With Us until weeks after its public release.”

The rep added that the subpoena was designed to use Swift’s name to generate “tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.” Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, has said his client “wants to be vindicated” and is “waiting for his day in court, where he can speak out to tell the truth.”