Taylor Swift has discovered herself related to the It Ends With Us authorized drama due to her friendship with Blake Energetic — however will Justin Baldoni ask her to take the stand if the case goes to trial?
A supply related to Baldoni’s authorized crew tells Us Weekly that it might be “subsequent to not possible to serve” Swift, 46, with a summons. The insider provides that the just lately launched textual content messages between the pop star and Energetic, 38, “converse for themselves, in order that they gained’t want her as a witness.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Baldoni and Energetic’s crew for remark.
Energetic and Baldoni, 41, costarred within the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us, which launched in August 2024. Energetic later accused Baldoni, who was additionally the movie’s director, of sexual harassment and orcastrating a smear marketing campaign in opposition to her that December. Baldoni vehemently denied the allegations and subsequently filed a countersuit, which was then dismissed in June 2025.
Energetic’s lawsuit stays ongoing, and is at present scheduled to move to trial in Might. Paperwork unsealed on Tuesday, January 20, and obtained by Us, revealed numerous depositions, emails and textual content messages surrounding the authorized case, together with Energetic’s correspondence with longtime good friend Swift, whose track “My Tears Ricochet” is featured within the film.
Whereas talking about Energetic’s potential subsequent steps in December 2024, the singer allegedly referred to as Baldoni a “bitch” who “is aware of one thing is coming as a result of he’s gotten out his tiny violin,” with an connected Folks article titled “Justin Baldoni Reveals He Was Sexually Traumatized by an Ex-Girlfriend When He Was ‘Hoping to Save Myself for Marriage.’”
The textual content was allegedly despatched as Swift was on her technique to meet with Energetic and Baldoni, who had been each current on the Gossip Woman alum’s residence, to endorse a revised model of the script. Following the alleged assembly, the twosome texted about how issues went, with Energetic saying Swift was “so epically heroic at present” and that she “recapped each second” to husband Ryan Reynolds.
Elsewhere within the paperwork, a dialog between the pair seemingly confirmed that the lawsuit had induced a rift of their relationship.
“I’ve no cause to ask, however I donno [sic], I’ve been feeling like I ought to … is every part OK? I felt like a foul good friend recently as a result of I used to be such a tragic sack who solely talked about my very own s*** for months,” Energetic wrote in a single textual content message to Swift in early December 2024. “You had been beneficiant to not solely be the important thing particular person there for me throughout all of it, but additionally to let me off the hook for being so in it.”
Acknowledging that Swift, who was on her worldwide Eras Tour on the time, was “busy and taxed,” Energetic defined that she at all times needs the “alternative to be a greater good friend if there’s one thing I unintentionally did.” She added that she didn’t anticipate “anymore” from Swift “ever.”
Swift replied that Energetic was “not incorrect, nevertheless it’s additionally not a giant deal,” agreeing that she is “exhausted in each avenue of my life.” She did, nevertheless, observe that she had been “feeling just a little little bit of a shift” in the best way Energetic spoke to her.
“Sure there was loads of Justin [Baldoni] stuff however I’ve been via issues like this earlier than and I understand how all consuming it’s,” Swift continued. “I really feel actually unhealthy saying something about this as a result of your texts have been so good of their intent however your previous few … it’s felt like I used to be studying a mass company electronic mail despatched to 200 workers. And it feels terrible to be in any method essential of any method you course of what you’ve been going via however I simply kinda miss my humorous, darkish, normal-speaking good friend who talks to me as herself.”
Energetic mentioned she didn’t “discover” till Swift “pointed it out” that she had been texting like she was writing, not speaking, and that she’d change into “digitally paranoid” amid the continuing lawsuit.
“On high of that, I’m over packaging easy issues bc I’ve felt so deeply misunderstood that I don’t belief my judgement of myself anymore,” Energetic added. “This f***ing man and what he did to me gave me an identification disaster. Legitimately.”
She famous that she was “spooked” most not by Baldoni, however the quantity of friendships she’d misplaced amid the authorized battle.
“My lifelong associates -allies to women- who quietly dipped,” she advised Swift. “And so I’m most likely being excessive with my associates who stayed as a result of I’ve by no means felt extra alone.”
A supply beforehand advised Us a couple of potential rift between Swift and Energetic in Might 2025, revealing that the twosome’s friendship “will not be what it was once.” Swift was subpoenaed concerning the case that very same month.
“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,” a rep for the singer advised Us on the time. “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 largest tour in historical past.”
Taylor Swift referred to as Justin Baldoni a “bitch” who obtained out his “tiny violin” in an alleged textual content trade with Blake Energetic. In response to paperwork obtained by Us Weekly, Energetic’s attorneys filed a letter to Decide Lewis J. Liman on Tuesday, January 20, that confirmed a textual content message between Swift, 36, and Energetic, 38, initially […]
The subpoena was dropped in September 2025.
As for Energetic, the actress’ lawyer Sigrid McCawley advised Us in a Tuesday assertion that she stays devoted to the case as solely her “claims in opposition to the defendants stay.”
“The newly unsealed proof comprises never-before seen testimony, messages and proof from quite a few eyewitnesses backing the claims in Ms. Energetic’s lawsuit,” McCawley continued. “The proof contains Ms. Energetic’s personal testimony describing the harassment she confronted, in addition to new proof from quite a few girls describing their very own disturbing experiences. The newly unsealed proof exhibits the issues of Ms. Energetic and others had been documented in real-time as early as Spring 2023.”
