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Look what you made Taylor Swift do, Justin Baldoni.
On Could 9, we realized that Swift has been subpoenaed as a witness in ongoing — and VERY ugly — authorized battle between Blake Vigorous and Baldoni… which stems from a serious battle on their 2024 film It Ends with Us.
The celebrity has one thing to say about it, too.
“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 largest tour in historical past,” a spokesperson for Swift stated in response to the maneuver.
This rep added:
The connection Taylor needed to this movie was allowing using one music, ‘My Tears Ricochet.’
‘On condition that her involvement was licensing a music 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 an alternative of specializing in the information of the case.”
Swift and Vigorous are superb associates. They’ve attended quite a few Kansas Metropolis Chiefs video games over the previous two seasons.
Vigorous, 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 Vigorous, her husband Ryan Reynolds and their publicity crew.
That is type of the place Swift is available in.
Swift is NOT named as a defendant in Baldoni’s criticism, nor talked about by her full title wherever within the paperwork.
Nevertheless, the Grammy-winning artist is referred to quite a few occasions as verbally supporting one in all Vigorous’s rewrites for It Ends With Us throughout a gathering between Baldoni and Vigorous at her New York residence.
The submitting claims that Baldoni’s takeaway from the alleged interplay was, “Baldoni understood the subtext: he wanted to adjust to Vigorous’s course for the script.”
Swift hasn’t stated a phrase in public about her alleged function on this back-and-forth public relations catastrophe.
Vigorous is reportedly very sorry for getting her combined up in it, although.
In an alleged textual content alternate following his interplay with Vigorous, Swift and Reynolds… Baldoni supposedly informed the actress that her script adjustments have been “a lot extra enjoyable and fascinating” and that he “would have felt that method with out Ryan and Taylor,” including a playful emoji.
Vigorous allegedly responded by evaluating herself to Khaleesi from Sport of Thrones, calling her husband and Swift her “dragons” and later her “Dance Mothers stage stage mothers.”
Vigorous and Baldoni’s dueling lawsuits are scheduled to go to trial in March.
And Swift will not be the ultimate well-known particular person to be dragged into this mess; Hugh Jackman is also served with a subpoena.
“Anybody that had any information of this example might be subpoenaed, regardless of of their celeb standing,” a Folks Journal supply stated on Friday.
