New court filings have revealed private text messages between Taylor Swift and Blake Lively that disparage actor and director Justin Baldoni, shedding new light on an ongoing legal dispute surrounding the film It Ends With Us, as reported by Page Six.

According to court documents obtained by Page Six, Lively referred to Baldoni, her co-star and director on the film, as the “doofus director of my movie” in text messages sent to Swift.

The filings were submitted as part of Baldoni’s countersuit against Lively, which was filed earlier this year.

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The documents allege that in April 2023, Lively asked Swift to endorse her revisions to the It Ends With Us script without reading them.

Baldoni’s attorneys claim Swift agreed, citing a message in which Swift allegedly wrote, “I’ll do anything for you!!”

After a meeting at Lively’s apartment with Baldoni, where Swift endorsed the revised script, Lively allegedly sent Swift a message praising her involvement.

“You were so epically heroic today. I recapped every moment to Ryan [Reynolds]. I kept remembering stuff. You making s–t up about me and lenses. And referring to yourself as my doll. This clown falling for all of it. But also resisting it. You are the worlds absolute greatest friend ever,” Lively wrote, according to the filing.

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Additional messages included in the court records show Swift and Lively discussing the use of Swift’s music in the film’s marketing. In messages dated April 26, 2024, Swift questioned Baldoni’s decision to include her song in the trailer.

“If Justin was strategic he would be like no Taylor swift in the trailer because that gives you more power over the film, that’s your ally not his,” Swift wrote, according to the documents.

Lively responded, “You are so right…He should’ve run from your music…How stupid. This was his only shot at having the appearance of an upper hand.”

The filings also include a December 2024 exchange between the two women ahead of a New York Times article that alleged Baldoni orchestrated a smear campaign against Lively.

“I think this bitch knows something is coming because he’s gotten out his tiny violin,” Swift allegedly texted Lively.

In her response included in the filings, Lively denied that she and Swift discussed the New York Times article in advance. She also disputed claims that she asked Swift to support script revisions without reading them.

“And I sent Taylor the script on her way to my apartment because Justin was still there, and I asked her to read them,” Lively stated. “I told her she didn’t have to, I didn’t want her to feel pressured to do that, but I hoped that she would.”

Baldoni’s attorneys further allege that Lively disparaged Baldoni to other Hollywood figures, including Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, telling them she “rewrote the script” and “directed every actor.”

One filing states she described Baldoni to Affleck as a “chaotic clown.”

The legal dispute intensified in January 2025 when Baldoni, a former host of the Man Enough podcast, filed a countersuit against Lively.

His attorneys cited text messages in which Baldoni said he felt “pressured” by Lively’s husband Ryan Reynolds and Swift, whom Lively reportedly called her protective “dragons.”

“The message could not have been clearer,” Baldoni’s lawyer wrote in the filing. “Baldoni was not just dealing with Lively.

He was also facing Lively’s ‘dragons,’ two of the most influential and wealthy celebrities in the world, who were not afraid to make things very difficult for him.”

In June 2025, Swift’s representatives sought to distance her from the film and the legal dispute.

“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,” a representative told Page Six, adding that Swift was touring globally throughout 2023 and 2024.

Representatives for Lively, Swift, and Baldoni did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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