'Team Blake assemble': This Ends With Us star, 37, arrives for deposition hearing with husband Ryan Reynolds and EIGHT lawyers - but is there any sign of her 'bestie' Taylor Swift?
The actress, who is 37, gave evidence under oath as she prepares for a legal showdown with one-time co-star Justin Baldoni, who she says sexually harassed her while they were making the film This Ends With Us. She also claims that his PR team then smeared her online.
There was no sign of one-time bestie Taylor Swift and it's thought that the two women have not spoken in months, with Swift appalled at being dragged into the legal mess and angry over being asked to surrender text messages with Blake.
They were very close with the pop star confirmed as godmother to three of her four children, and Swift was referred to in a message to Baldoni as one of her 'dragons'. In the message she said that Swift and her husband Reynolds could help her to steer the creative direction of the movie.
A source close to the deposition says that her older half sister Robyn, and actress, and Deadpool husband Ryan Reynolds were with her when she came into the building.
They were not with her in the room when she gave evidence over the course of a long day.
She wore black jeans, a black waistcoat and a pale blue fluffy cardigan for the examination, by Baldoni's feared lawyer Bryan Freedman.
Witnesses in the building say Blake 'cut a confident figure' as she entered the offices of her lawyers, Wilkie Farr Gallagher in the AXA building on 7th Avenue.
Blake Lively arrived for her deposition in New York yesterday with the full 'Team Blake' – her sister and best friend Robyn, husband Ryan Reynolds and EIGHT lawyers (Blake pictured April 27)
There was no sign of one-time bestie Taylor Swift (pictured in New York) and it's thought that the two women have not spoken in months
Justin Baldoni (pictured) and his business partner Jamie Heath were shut away with Blake and her legal team as she gave an account of events which led to her filing a lawsuit in December last year
Baldoni, his business partner Jamie Heath and others were shut away with Blake and her legal team all day as she gave her own account of events which led up to her filing a lawsuit against Baldoni in December last year.
The mother-of-four had claimed Baldoni, 41, was able to nuzzle her neck and comment on the way she smelled without anyone else on set hearing because their microphones were switched off.
But footage which later emerged seemed to prove the opposite: not only were the microphones on, but the pair had spent most of the scene happily chatting about their respective spouses.
Lively's claims Baldoni orchestrated a negative media campaign against her have also been called into question thanks to her reliance on what his team have described as 'doctored' texts.
The mother-of-four had claimed Baldoni, 41, was able to nuzzle her neck and comment on the way she smelled without anyone else on set hearing because their microphones were switched off 9(pictured)
Documents filed by Baldoni claim that the texts between his publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel, had been edited to remove context and were incomplete.
Earlier this year a New York judge tossed the actress's emotional distress claim after she refused to release her medical records to Baldoni's team.
However last month Lively claimed total 'vindication' after the judge sensationally tossed almost all of Justin Baldoni's $400m countersuit against the actress and her husband Ryan Reynolds.
There will be further depositions before the case comes to trial in March next year.
Lively's lawyers have subpoenaed 107 content creators who have circulated negative stories about her in what they say was a co-ordinated campaign. The creators say that the content arose organically due to Lively's behaviour on the press tour for the film, and behaviour on previous publicity tours which had given her a reputation for 'mean girl' behaviour.
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