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Look what you made Taylor Swift do, Justin Baldoni.
On Might 9, we realized that Swift has been subpoenaed as a witness in ongoing — and VERY ugly — authorized battle between Blake Energetic and Baldoni… which stems from a serious battle on their 2024 film It Ends with Us.
The famous person has one thing to say about it, too.
“Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, 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, and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history,” a spokesperson for Swift stated in response to the maneuver.
This rep added:
The connection Taylor needed to this movie was allowing using one track, ‘My Tears Ricochet.’
‘Given that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift’s title to attract public curiosity by creating tabloid clickbait as an alternative of specializing in the info of the case.”
Swift and Energetic are superb mates. They’ve attended a lot of Kansas Metropolis Chiefs video games over the previous two seasons.
Energetic, in the meantime, sued Baldoni in December, accusing him of sexual harassment, “disturbing” and “unprofessional” habits on set of the aforementioned movie, together with a retaliatory smear marketing campaign.
Baldoni has denied the allegations and, in January, filed a countersuit alleging defamation and extortion in opposition to Energetic, her husband Ryan Reynolds and their publicity workforce.
That is type of the place Swift is available in.
Swift is NOT named as a defendant in Baldoni’s grievance, nor talked about by her full title wherever within the paperwork.
Nevertheless, the Grammy-winning artist is referred to quite a few instances as verbally supporting one in all Energetic’s rewrites for It Ends With Us throughout a gathering between Baldoni and Energetic at her New York house.
The submitting claims that Baldoni’s takeaway from the alleged interplay was, “Baldoni understood the subtext: he needed to comply with Lively’s direction for the script.”
Swift hasn’t stated a phrase in public about her alleged position on this back-and-forth public relations catastrophe.
Energetic is reportedly very sorry for getting her blended up in it, although.
In an alleged textual content alternate following his interplay with Energetic, Swift and Reynolds… Baldoni supposedly instructed the actress that her script modifications have been “so much more fun and interesting” and that he “would have felt that way without Ryan and Taylor,” including a playful emoji.
Energetic allegedly responded by evaluating herself to Khaleesi from Sport of Thrones, calling her husband and Swift her “dragons” and later her “Dance Moms level stage moms.”
Energetic and Baldoni’s dueling lawsuits are scheduled to go to trial in March.
And Swift is probably not the ultimate well-known individual to be dragged into this mess; Hugh Jackman may be served with a subpoena.
“Anyone that had any knowledge of this situation will be subpoenaed, no matter of their celebrity status,” a Individuals Journal supply stated on Friday.
