We’ve told you before that the It Ends With Us legal saga between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni gets messier every week, and lo and behold we’re here to tell you again. It no longer just involves the two co-stars… and their other co-stars, and the It Ends With Us producers, and their PR teams, and Colleen Hoover, and Ryan Reynolds, and even Taylor Swift, apparently Hugh Jackman has been dragged into it now too.

It Ends With Us is the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel, which is a romance tale featuring themes of domestic violence. The film was a box office success following its release in August, but it has been almost entirely overshadowed by the aforementioned legal saga.

According to Sky News Australia, Jackman, who starred opposite Reynolds in Deadpool & Wolverine last summer, will play a ‘crucial’ role in the upcoming trial between Lively and Baldoni. It is likely he will be deposed to testify about Lively’s experiences and Reynolds’ conduct during the making of It Ends With Us. ‘As Ryan’s good friend, who was with Blake and Ryan many times in private during that time, his deposition will likely be crucial,’ an insider told The Daily Mail.

In Lively’s original lawsuit filed against Baldoni in December, she accuses him of sexual harassment and of creating a ‘hostile work environment on set’, as well as of launching a targeted smear campaign against her in the press run of the film. In Baldoni’s counter lawsuit, he accuses Lively and Reynolds of defamation, false light invasion of privacy and extortion amongst other claims. He is seeking at least $400m (£321m) in damages. All parties have denied the allegations.

Given that It Ends With Us and Deadpool & Wolverine were released a few weeks apart last summer, with Reynolds and Jackman joining Lively on the red carpet at the premiere of It Ends With Us, the Australian actor might have been aware of the alleged feud as it was unfolding. While he has not commented on the saga in public, it is possible that Lively’s team will look to Jackman to corroborate some of her experiences behind the scenes.

His involvement might not end there, either. Baldoni has also accused Reynolds of using his ‘Nicepool’ character in Deadpool & Wolverine – a faux feminist with a man bun – to intentionally mock and ‘bully’ him. While Reynolds has not publicly responded to these claims, the Daily Mail’s source says, ‘it’s unlikely Hugh wasn’t aware of this’. Adding that, ‘the timing of the premieres is also no coincidence.’

‘What Ryan Reynolds has seemingly done is use his power and influence on Deadpool to make fun of Justin Baldoni,’ the It Ends With Us actor’s lawyer states. ‘There’s no question [Nicepool] relates to Justin.’ He continued, ‘If your wife is sexually harassed, you don’t make fun of Justin Baldoni. You don’t make fun of the situation – you take it very seriously.’ The Sky report states Jackman could be asked to give a ‘full scope of Ryan’s conduct during the time that It Ends With Us was filmed’.

As previously mentioned, Jackman is not the only A-list star embroiled in this ongoing legal dispute. In his December lawsuit, Baldoni included messages from Lively in which she refers to a ‘mega celebrity friend’, thought to be Swift, as ‘one of her dragons’. ‘For better or worse, but usually for better,’ she allegedly wrote, ‘because my dragons also protect those I fight for. So really we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine. You will too, I can promise you.’

Earlier this month, it was reported that Swift could be subpoenaed to be questioned under oath about her involvement in the case – something she is reportedly reluctant to do. Lively and the ‘Cruel Summer’ singer have been close friends for more than a decade, with Swift acting as God mother to Lively’s three daughters, but the pair have not been seen together since December with rumours surfacing that Swift feels ‘used’ by Lively’s comments.

Lively was noticeably absent from Swift’s Superbowl suite last month, where she took pride of place the year before, to watch Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs against the Philadelphia Eagles. However, she did attend the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary show the following week with Reynolds, where comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler asked him ‘how’s it going?’ and he replied ‘Great! Why? What have you heard?’ in an apparent reference to the scandal.

With multiple conflicting allegations, endless ‘takes’ on social media and a hung jury in the court of public opinion, this is not a legal saga that many would want to be dragged into. If the case does go to trial in March next year, then both Lively and Reynolds and Baldoni will be relying on the support and testimony of their closest allies. Whether that includes Jackman and Swift in the former’s case remains to be seen.