Taylor Swift has agreed to be questioned by Justin Baldoni’s authorized workforce concerning the film It Ends With Us and Blake Vigorous, Us Weekly can solely report.
On Thursday, September 11, Baldoni’s workforce filed courtroom docs revealing the pop star will likely be deposed in the course of the week of October 20 to 25. They famous the dates have been decided as a result of Swift’s “preexisting skilled obligations.”
Baldoni’s workforce mentioned Swift, 35, has “agreed to seem” for a deposition however is “unable to take action earlier than October 20.”
Swift is ready to launch her album The Lifetime of a Showgirl on October 3, and can possible be fairly busy selling the document.
Us has reached out to reps for Baldoni, Swift and Vigorous concerning the growth
Baldoni, 41, first subpoenaed Swift in Could as a part of the lawsuit Vigorous, 38, filed towards him relating to alleged occasions on the set of their 2024 movie, It Ends With Us. (Vigorous has accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and hiring a disaster PR workforce to smear her within the press after she complained about his conduct on set. Baldoni, who denied the harassment allegations, claimed Vigorous was the one who smeared him together with her accusations.)
Blake Vigorous and Taylor Swift Robert Kamau/GC Photographs
Swift was first dragged into the state of affairs when she was seemingly named in 2025 courtroom docs filed by Baldoni. He believes that Vigorous leveraged her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and superstar pals (like Swift) to have affect over the movie.
Swift’s rep later spoke out, insisting that Swift’s solely position within the film was permitting the manufacturing to make use of her tune “My Tears Ricochet.”
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“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, 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 most important tour in historical past,” Swift’s rep mentioned.
Taylor Swift and Justin Baldoni FilmMagic; WireImage
The rep added, “The connection Taylor needed to this movie was allowing the usage of one tune, ‘My Tears Ricochet.’ Provided that her involvement was licensing a tune for the movie, which 19 different artists additionally did, this doc subpoena is designed to make use of Taylor Swift’s title to attract public curiosity by creating tabloid clickbait as a substitute of specializing in the information of the case.”
On the time, Vigorous’s rep launched a press release saying they have been “happy” after Baldoni’s workforce dropped the subpoena.
“The [Baldoni] workforce have tried to place Taylor Swift, a lady who has been an inspiration for tens of thousands and thousands throughout the globe, on the middle of this case since day one,” Vigorous’s rep mentioned,
Justin Baldoni Cindy Ord/Getty Photographs
After Baldoni dropped his unique subpoena, it might seem that his and Swift’s authorized groups labored out a personal deal over the deposition.
Swift and Vigorous have been shut pals for years till their relationship turned “strained” in current months.
Blake Vigorous‘s ongoing authorized drama with Justin Baldoni took an sudden flip by pulling in Taylor Swift. After costarring in It Ends With Us collectively, Vigorous sued Baldoni in December 2024 accusing her costar and director of of sexual harassment and orchestrating an alleged smear marketing campaign. In her submitting, Vigorous claimed that Baldoni named Swift […]
A supply instructed Us in Could, “Their friendship will not be what it was.”
Baldoni and Vigorous are headed to trial in March 2026.
