Taylor Swift ‘working to trust' Blake Lively after Justin Baldoni subpoena
NEW YORK — Sources are shedding light on the state of Taylor Swift's fractured decade-long friendship with Blake Lively after the pop star was dragged into the actress' messy legal battle with Justin Baldoni.
Swift was subpoenaed in May to serve as a witness in the case, with Baldoni's legal team saying she potentially had information regarding the behind-the-scenes drama on 'It Ends With Us.'
Despite the subpoena being dropped weeks later, an insider told People that the Grammy winner, 35, is still 'working to trust Blake again' and that it's 'going to take some time.'
Lively filed a lawsuit in late December accusing her 'It Ends With Us' director and co-star of sexual harassment while working on the film and a subsequent smear campaign. Baldoni in January filed a $400 million defamation countersuit against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and publicist Leslie Sloane, also accusing them of civil extortion.
Months later, Baldoni's lawyers subpoenaed Swift, specifically citing her presence at a heated meeting over rewrites to the script and texts that Lively sent in which she allegedly referred to her friend as one of her 'dragons.'
People's source said that Lively and Swift — the godmother to Lively's children — 'haven't been spending as much time together as they did in the past,' prior to the lawsuit, though the longtime besties are trying to get 'on good terms.'
In the days after the subpoena was initially filed, an insider told Us Weekly that Swift and Lively had spoken but the relationship was 'strained.'
The outlet subsequently reported that Swift had 'begun to distance herself' and that mutual friend Gigi Hadid had 'naturally done the same' amid the legal and publicity warfare.
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