Taylor Swift has agreed to be questioned by Justin Baldoni’s legal team about the movie It Ends With Us and Blake Lively, Us Weekly can exclusively report.
On Thursday, September 11, Baldoni’s team filed court docs revealing the pop star will be deposed during the week of October 20 to 25. They noted the dates were determined due to Swift’s “preexisting professional obligations.”
Baldoni’s team said Swift, 35, has “agreed to appear” for a deposition but is “unable to do so before October 20.”
Swift is set to release her album The Life of a Showgirl on October 3, and will likely be quite busy promoting the record.
Us has reached out to reps for Baldoni, Swift and Lively about the development
Baldoni, 41, first subpoenaed Swift in May as part of the lawsuit Lively, 38, filed against him regarding alleged events on the set of their 2024 film, It Ends With Us. (Lively has accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and hiring a crisis PR team to smear her in the press after she complained about his behavior on set. Baldoni, who denied the harassment allegations, claimed Lively was the one who smeared him with her accusations.)
Blake Lively and Taylor Swift Robert Kamau/GC Images
Swift was first dragged into the situation when she was seemingly named in 2025 court docs filed by Baldoni. He believes that Lively leveraged her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and celebrity friends (like Swift) to have influence over the film.
Swift’s rep later spoke out, insisting that Swift’s only role in the movie was allowing the production to use her song “My Tears Ricochet.”
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“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,” Swift’s rep said.
Taylor Swift and Justin Baldoni FilmMagic; WireImage
The rep added, “The connection Taylor had to this film was permitting the use of one song, ‘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 name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.”
At the time, Lively’s rep released a statement saying they were “pleased” after Baldoni’s team dropped the subpoena.
“The [Baldoni] team have tried to put Taylor Swift, a woman who has been an inspiration for tens of millions across the globe, at the center of this case since day one,” Lively’s rep said,
Justin Baldoni Cindy Ord/Getty Images
After Baldoni dropped his original subpoena, it would appear that his and Swift’s legal teams worked out a private deal over the deposition.
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Swift and Lively were close friends for years until their relationship became “strained” in recent months.
Blake Lively‘s ongoing legal drama with Justin Baldoni took an unexpected turn by pulling in Taylor Swift. After costarring in It Ends With Us together, Lively sued Baldoni in December 2024 accusing her costar and director of of sexual harassment and orchestrating an alleged smear campaign. In her filing, Lively claimed that Baldoni named Swift […]
A source told Us in May, “Their friendship is not what it used to be.”
Baldoni and Lively are headed to trial in March 2026.
