Justin Baldoni\u2019s case against her is thrown out, and sleuth fans believe Lively is extending Swift an olive branch.<\/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=”{}”]
Words by Charley Ross<\/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-1710522882.jpg” alt=”Taylor Swift Blake Lively” title_text=”Celebrity Sightings In New York City – September 30, 2023″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Eagle-eyed Hollywood critics and fans of Taylor Swift and Blake Lively are split over whether the superstar duo\u2019s friendship is on the rocks or potentially in recovery.<\/p>\n Sleuth fans of Swift have suggested that she has wiped evidence of her friendship with Lively from her Instagram, due to a rumoured feud stemming from Swift\u2019s reluctant involvement in Lively\u2019s sexual harassment case against Baldoni from their time working together on movie adaptation of Colleen Hoover\u2019s novel, It Ends With Us.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Lively also accused Baldoni of engaging in a 2024 smear campaign against her, while Baldoni sued The New York Times<\/em> for running a report on Lively\u2019s lawsuit, as well as a defamation and extortion civil lawsuit against Lively. Both lawsuits were dismissed by a federal judge this week.<\/p>\n Back in January, Taylor was named in a range of legal documents, which included screenshots of alleged texts from Blake describing herself as ‘Khaleesi’ (a character from TV series Game of Thrones) and Swift as one of her ‘dragons.’ \u2018My dragons also protect those I fight for,\u2019 Lively wrote. \u2018So really we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine. You will too, I can promise you.\u2019<\/p>\n However, others have argued that Swift wiped all of her Instagram posts and social media headers back in 2017, as part of a promotional campaign for the release of her sixth studio album\u00a0Reputation. So any lack of pics with herself and Lively on Instagram is likely to be due to that promo move, instead of any alleged feuding.\u00a0<\/p>\n Posts in question include a \u2018happy birthday\u2019 grid post to Lively accompanied by an image of both Swift and Lively petting a koala. Swift had posted: ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY\u00a0BLAKE! You’re a wonderful friend, to humans and koalas alike. I absolutely love you \ud83d\ude18\ud83d\ude18\ud83d\ude18.’<\/p>\n Another missing post sees Swift and Lively enjoying themselves at a theme park in Australia, before Swift\u2019s performance in Adelaide, with the caption: ‘Yesterday was such an amazing day off– roller coasters, kangaroos and LOLs with @blakelively’.<\/p>\n Lively remains on Swift\u2019s grid in group pictures with her husband Ryan Reynolds and the singer\u2019s producer Jack Antonoff.<\/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” global_colors_info=”{}”] Other speculation has suggested that Lively\u2019s latest legal move is an attempt to smooth things over with Swift, as she subpoenaed Scooter Braun as part of the case earlier this week. Braun is a friend of Baldoni\u2019s, but also had a very public fall out with Swift when he bought the rights to her first six studio albums while he was head of her record label Big Machine Records. She responded by re-recording five of the six albums and labelling each of them \u2018(Taylor\u2019s Version)\u2019. Swift then recently bought back the rights to her first six albums, six years later.<\/p>\n Therefore, fans have interpreted the latest legal move as an attempt to extend an olive branch to Swift, due to her existing Bad Blood with Braun. Lively’s countersuit win, meanwhile, has been criticised by Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman as a ‘false victory tour.’<\/p>\n He added in an interview with\u00a0TMZ\u00a0that while he and Baldoni\u2019s team ‘weren’t pleased that the judge dismissed the defamation claim,’ it wasn’t ‘what the case is about.’<\/p>\n ‘We got started because Blake Lively filed a CRD complaint and then walked over and filed a lawsuit,’ he said, ‘which accused some very good people of a smear campaign and accused a terrific young man of sexual harassment – both of the which were completely untrue.’<\/p>\n ‘And that’s where the case got started’ and ‘where the case stands today.’<\/p>\n ‘What we wanted our win is to show there was no smear campaign, and there’s no sexual harassment,’ Freedman explained. ‘And she hasn’t proved a thing – as a matter of fact, it’s just the opposite.’<\/p>\n ‘Look at the facts, look at what’s been shown, look at the receipts, look at the video,’ he said.<\/p>\n ‘The truth is, you know, going to be shown through depositions, which is what’s going to be next, I’ve noticed her deposition – it’s set in June – we’re going to see if she’s going to appear at that deposition or not,’ Freedman said. ‘And we’re gonna proceed forward with the case, and we’re gonna show that there was no sexual harassment, and we’re gonna show that there was no smear campaign.’<\/p>\n Shortly after Baldoni\u2019s case was dismissed, Lively released a statement on Instagram.<\/p>\n \u2018Last week, I stood proudly alongside 19 organisations united in defending women\u2019s rights to speak up for their safety,’ she said. \u2018Like so many others, I\u2019ve felt the pain of a retaliatory lawsuit, including the manufactured shame that tries to break us.<\/p>\n ‘While the suit against me was defeated, so many don\u2019t have the resources to fight back.’<\/p>\n She described feeling ‘more resolved than ever to continue to stand for every woman\u2019s right to have a voice in protecting themselves, including their safety, their integrity, their dignity and their story.<\/p>\n ‘With love and gratitude for the many who stood by me, many of you I know,’ Lively wrote. ‘Many of you I don\u2019t. But I will never stop appreciating or advocating for you.’<\/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=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”] Photo: <\/b>IMAGO<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" They’re unpicking every clue…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":9784,"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-10967","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\/10967","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=10967"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10978,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967\/revisions\/10978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}‘We all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine.’<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]