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Look what you made Taylor Swift do, Justin Baldoni.
On Could 9, we discovered that Swift has been subpoenaed as a witness in ongoing — and VERY ugly — authorized battle between Blake Full of life and Baldoni… which stems from a significant battle on their 2024 film It Ends with Us.
The famous person has one thing to say about it, too.
“Taylor Swift by no means set foot on the set of this film, she was not concerned in any casting or inventive selections, she didn’t rating the movie, she by no means noticed an edit or made any notes on the movie, 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,” a spokesperson for Swift mentioned in response to the maneuver.
This rep added:
The connection Taylor needed to this movie was allowing the usage of one tune, ‘My Tears Ricochet.’
‘Provided that her involvement was licensing a tune for the movie, which 19 different artists additionally did, this doc subpoena is designed to make use of Taylor Swift’s identify to attract public curiosity by creating tabloid clickbait as a substitute of specializing in the info of the case.”
Swift and Full of life are excellent associates. They’ve attended various Kansas Metropolis Chiefs video games over the previous two seasons.
Full of life, in the meantime, sued Baldoni in December, accusing him of sexual harassment, “disturbing” and “unprofessional” conduct on set of the aforementioned movie, together with a retaliatory smear marketing campaign.
Baldoni has denied the allegations and, in January, filed a countersuit alleging defamation and extortion in opposition to Full of life, her husband Ryan Reynolds and their publicity workforce.
That is type of the place Swift is available in.
Swift is NOT named as a defendant in Baldoni’s criticism, nor talked about by her full identify anyplace within the paperwork.
Nevertheless, the Grammy-winning artist is referred to quite a few occasions as verbally supporting considered one of Full of life’s rewrites for It Ends With Us throughout a gathering between Baldoni and Full of life at her New York condo.
The submitting claims that Baldoni’s takeaway from the alleged interplay was, “Baldoni understood the subtext: he wanted to adjust to Full of life’s path for the script.”
Swift hasn’t mentioned a phrase in public about her alleged function on this back-and-forth public relations catastrophe.
Full of life is reportedly very sorry for getting her blended up in it, although.
In an alleged textual content alternate following his interplay with Full of life, Swift and Reynolds… Baldoni supposedly instructed the actress that her script adjustments have been “a lot extra enjoyable and attention-grabbing” and that he “would have felt that manner with out Ryan and Taylor,” including a playful emoji.
Full of life allegedly responded by evaluating herself to Khaleesi from Recreation of Thrones, calling her husband and Swift her “dragons” and later her “Dance Mothers degree stage mothers.”
Full of life and Baldoni’s dueling lawsuits are scheduled to go to trial in March.
And Swift is probably not the ultimate well-known individual to be dragged into this mess; Hugh Jackman may be served with a subpoena.
“Anybody that had any data of this case shall be subpoenaed, regardless of of their superstar standing,” a Folks Journal supply mentioned on Friday.
