The actress still has a strong support network behind her.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]
Words by Nikki Peach<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2003717970.jpg” alt=”Jennifer Aniston” title_text=”Super Bowl LVIII – San Francisco 49ers v Kansas City Chiefs” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″] Until recently, Blake Lively was rarely seen without her crew\u00a0\u2013 whether that be her husband Ryan Reynolds, his Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em> co-star Hugh Jackman or her posse of A-list best friends including Taylor Swift, Gigi Hadid, Emily Blunt, Karlie Kloss, Florence Welch or Salma Hayek.<\/p>\n Lively\u2019s famous posse is so built into her lore, in fact, that it has come up during her ongoing legal saga with her It Ends With Us<\/em> co-star, Justin Baldoni. In December, Lively filed a lawsuit accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment on set and of launching a calculated smear campaign against her during the press run of the film. Baldoni denies all allegations.<\/p>\n In his $400 million (\u00a3299m) counter lawsuit, he accuses her of defamation, civil extortion and false light invasion of privacy. Lively denies the allegations and says they are lifted from \u2018the abuser\u2019s playbook\u2019. It is this counter lawsuit, however, that her famous friends have been drawn into the drama. Baldoni claims Lively leveraged her \u2018mega-celebrity friend\u2019, widely thought to be Swift, to push her script edits despite not being contractually involved in the creative or production process. Baldoni\u2019s team shared text messages where Lively allegedly compares herself to Khaleesi from Game of Thrones<\/em> and called her famous friends \u2018her dragons\u2019, adding that \u2018we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine\u2019.<\/p>\n After Swift was subpoenaed by Baldoni\u2019s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, her team released a statement saying she was not involved in any creative decisions, \u2018This subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift\u2019s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case,\u2019 it stated. \u2018Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie [\u2026] 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.\u2019<\/p>\n And yet, the legal drama just got uglier. Freedman claimed Swift is \u2018highly likely to have reliable information\u2019 and accused Lively of using \u2018extortionate threats\u2019 to demand a public statement of support from Swift. After Esra Hudson, Lively\u2019s lawyer hit back that these claims were \u2018unequivocally and demonstrably false\u2019, presiding Judge Lewis Liman sided with Lively, saying Freedman\u2019s letters were \u2018improper\u2019, \u2018irrelevant\u2019 and designed to \u2018promote public scandal.\u2019<\/p>\n Despite the court win, in the court of public opinion Lively is still suffering \u2013 as is her bond with Swift, apparently. This was first noticeable at the Super Bowl in February. Despite having pride of place the year before, Lively was absent from Swift\u2019s side as the singer watched her boyfriend Travis Kelce\u2019s team Kansas City Chiefs play Philadelphia Eagles, along with Ice Spice, Ashley Avignone and the Haim sisters \u2013 leading to speculation that there was more to the story. \u2018Their friendship has halted\u2019, a source has since told People<\/em>, because \u2018Taylor wants no part in this drama\u2019.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″] It seems she may have been distanced from Hadid too, who was by Lively\u2019s side last summer on the red carpet for the premiere of Reynolds\u2019 film Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em>. \u2018Gigi has always had a closer friendship with Taylor and stands by her,\u2019 the source continued. \u2018Gigi hasn\u2019t necessarily chosen sides [but] they haven\u2019t been as close in almost a year\u2026 there are no hard feelings\u2019.<\/p>\n So, who\u2019s rallying round Lively now? Her older sisters and fellow actors Robyn and Lori Lively have been spending a lot of time with her in recent months, walking the red carpet of the Another Simple Favour<\/em> premiere in April and recently joining Lively at a photography exhibition in New York. And actor Salma Hayek \u2013 who Lively was spotted out for dinner with recently in New York. Hayek has always spoken highly of Lively, who she has been friends with for more than a decade after meeting on the set of Savages<\/em> in 2012.<\/p>\n I have never met anybody that, at such an early stage in their life, had such a sense of self, so much courage,\u2019 she said when honouring Lively at a VarietyPower of Women luncheon in 2017. \u2018I saw her take on one of the biggest bullies in this industry that everybody feared. She has a great sense of family. She has a great sense of honourability, fantastic values. She has a great sense of fashion, sense of humour. She is the ultimate mother \u2013 even to me.\u2019<\/p>\n Hayek never revealed which \u2018bully\u2019 she was referring to, but evidently, her opinion of Lively hasn\u2019t changed. Lively has also been spotted out with New York-based photographers Anna Palma and Guy Aroch this month, both highly esteemed in the art world. The actress hailed them as \u2018friends I\u2019ve cherished for over half my life\u2019 on social media and clearly counts them as members of her inner circle.<\/p>\n Her crew might be less crammed with A-listers than it once was \u2013 at least until the media circus of the trial, which is scheduled for court next March, is over \u2013 but the sisterhood prevails.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″] Photo: <\/b>Getty<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The actress still has a strong support system around her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"guestgrazia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10016"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10059,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016\/revisions\/10059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}‘This subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift\u2019s name to [create] tabloid clickbait’<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]