Taylor Swift criticises Lively-Baldoni court summons

Taylor Swift's representatives person told the BBC she is being brought into a ineligible enactment betwixt Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively to make "tabloid clickbait".

The 35-year-old vocalist was summoned to a US tribunal aft it was alleged she encouraged Baldoni to judge publication re-writes by Lively for It Ends With Us, a movie that some starred successful and is the centre of a intersexual harassment case.

Baldoni says helium was invited to Lively's New York location successful 2023 to sermon publication changes, wherever Lively's husband, Ryan Reynolds, and Swift were determination to service arsenic her "dragons".

Representatives for Swift said "she was not progressive successful immoderate casting oregon originative decision" and "never saw an edit oregon made immoderate notes connected the film".

Lively, 37, sued Baldoni, 41, successful December 2024, accusing him of intersexual harassment and a smear campaign. Baldoni is counter-suing Lively and her husband, the histrion Ryan Reynolds, connected claims of civilian extortion, defamation and penetration of privacy.

Lively and Baldoni person been locked successful a quality since the film, which is an adaption of a Colleen Hoover novel, was released past summer.

According to Baldoni, determination were tensions implicit the 2023 re-write of the scene, astatine which helium was amazed to find Reynolds and Swift present.

He alleges Lively wrote successful a substance to him: "If you ever get astir to watching Game of Thrones, you'll admit that I'm Khaleesi, and similar her, I hap to person a fewer dragons. For amended oregon worse, but usually better. Because my dragons besides support those I combat for."

Baldoni says helium responded supportively, writing: "I truly emotion what you did. It truly does assistance a lot. Makes it truthful overmuch much amusive and interesting. (And I would person felt that mode without Ryan and Taylor).

"You truly are a endowment crossed the board. Really excited and grateful to bash this together."

It is besides alleged that Swift was progressive successful the casting of Isabela Ferrer successful the film, who played a younger mentation of Lively's character, Lily Bloom.

Speaking astatine the New York premiere of It Ends With Us, Ferrer said: "She [Taylor Swift] was a adjuvant portion of the audition, which I recovered retired aboriginal erstwhile I got it, and that rocked my world."

But Swift's representatives said the lone engagement she had successful the movie was permitting the usage of her song, My Tears Ricochet, noting that she was among 20 artists featured successful the film.

Swift "never acceptable ft connected the acceptable of this movie, she was not progressive successful immoderate casting oregon originative decisions, she did not people the film, [and] she ne'er saw an edit oregon made immoderate notes connected the film", they said.

They added that Swift did not spot It Ends With Us until "weeks aft its release" arsenic she was "travelling astir the globe" connected circuit astatine the time.

The popstar's spokespeople argued that the subpoena "designed to usage Taylor Swift's sanction to gully nationalist involvement by creating tabloid clickbait alternatively of focusing connected the facts of the case".