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Getty imagesTaylor Swift representatives told the BBC that it was brought to a legal row between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively to create “tabloid clicks”.
The 35 -year -old singer was summoned to an American court after he was alleged that she encouraged Baldoni to accept scripts rewrite by Lively for IT ends with us, a film in which played and is the center of a sexual harassment case.
Baldoni says he was invited to New York House in Lively in 2023 to discuss script changes, where Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, and Swift were there to serve as “dragons”.
Swift representatives said that “it was not involved in any casting or creation decision” and “has never seen any assembly or has taken no note on the film”.
Lively, 37, continued Baldoni, 41, in December 2024, accusing him of sexual harassment and a defamation campaign. Baldoni is alive and her husband, actor Ryan Reynolds, on allegations of civil extortion, defamation and invasion of privacy.
Lively and Baldoni have been locked in a dispute since the film, which is an adaptation of a novel by Colleen Hoover, was released last summer.
According to Baldoni, there were tensions during the rewriting of the scene in 2023, during which he was surprised to find Reynolds and Swift present.
He lightens that Lively wrote to him in a text: “If you ever head to Game of Thrones, you will appreciate that I am Khaleesi, and like her, it turns out that I have a few dragons. For the best or for the worst, but generally better. Because my dragons also protect those for which I fight.”
Baldoni says he replied with support, writing: “I really like what you did. It really helps a lot.
“You are really a talent at all levels. Really excited and grateful to do it together.”
It is also alleged that Swift was involved in the cast of Isabela Ferrer in the film, which played a younger version of the character of Livel, Lily Bloom.
Speaking during the first of this one ends with us, Ferrer said: “She (Taylor Swift) was a useful part of the hearing, which I discovered later when I got it, and that rocked my world.”
But the representatives of Swift said that the only involvement she had in the film allowed the use of her song, My Tears Ricochet, noting that she was one of the 20 artists presented in the film.
Swift “never set foot on the shooting of this film, it was involved in any casting or creation decision, she did not score the film, (and) she has never seen any assembly or notes on the film,” they said.
They added that Swift did not see that it ends with us before “weeks after its exit” because it “traveled around the world” on tour at the time.
The Popstar spokesperson argued that the assignment “designed to use the name Taylor Swift to draw the public interest by creating tabloid clicks instead of focusing on the facts of the case”.
