Their once-close friendship apparently soured after a lawsuit drove a wedge between them.
But now Blake Lively appears to be attempting to repairing things with Taylor Swift.
The actress publicly showed support for the songbird’s newest album, The Life of a Showgirl, ‘liking’ Swift’s latest Instagram post ushering in the record – a small step towards undoing the damage a messy legal ordeal inflicted upon them.
Swift, 35, was dragged into Lively’s legal battle with her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni, and the drama is said to have cost the Sisterhood with the Traveling Pants singer her once-close friendship with the pop star.
Perhaps the pair are on the path towards mending things however, with The Life of a Showgirl appearing to make mention of Lively in the song Cancelled!
Rather than a so-called diss track about her ‘ex-BFF’ which fans expected Swift to release, the songstress instead paid homage to their long-standing friendship in a show of unity.
Blake Lively ‘liked’ a post Taylor Swift dropped following the release of her new album The Life of a Showgirl; pictured 2024
Lively gave this post a digital heart
The like appears to be a small step towards repairing the damage a lawsuit inflicted upon their friendship
The billionaire pop star appeared to offer a tentative olive branch in the chorus, in an attempt to end their reported rift.
She sings: ‘At least you know exactly who your friends are / They’re the ones with matching scars’, seemingly referencing the bond between the two women who have both been singled out, mocked or misunderstood.
Taylor’s lyrics serve an image of strong friendship with Blake, rather than a feud anthem.
The singer, who has been at the centre of scandals and controversies over the years, reveals her thoughts about cancel culture in the new track.
Her lyrics about toxic friends allude to those who have been involved in scandals – most recently Blake – and how she relates to them.
She sings: ‘Good thing I like my friends cancelled / I like ’em cloaked in Gucci and in scandal / Like my whiskey sour / And poison thorny flowers.’
In one part she sings about ‘poison thorny flowers’, which could be a reference to Blake’s florist character, who owns a shop called Lily Bloom’s in her scandal-ridden movie It Ends with Us.
Proving further her song is a nod to BFF Blake, Taylor references ‘whiskey sour’ which could easily be about Blake’s liquor company Betty Booze.
Swift and Lively were once close friends before the singer was dragged into her pal’s messy lawsuit against her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni; pictured 2024
The album contains a song which appears to pay homage to her friendship with Lively, Cancelled!
‘Did you girl-boss too close to the sun?’ the 14-time Grammy winner asked on her new track.
‘Did they catch you having far too much fun? / Come with me, when they see us, they’ll run / Something wicked this way comes.’
Swift, whose hit song ‘My Tears Ricochet’ was featured on the soundtrack of the 2024 film It Ends With Us, was pulled into the rollercoaster saga earlier this year when Baldoni filed a $400million countersuit accusing Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds of defamation.
Explosive text messages from Baldoni’s complaint revealed Lively had referred to the superstar singer and her husband, as ‘my dragons’ in an alleged bid to intimidate him over their ill-fated flick It Ends With Us.
Baldoni also claimed that Swift was present at a pivotal meeting about the movie, held by Lively and Reynolds at their New York penthouse.
For her part, a source close to Swift has said she simply arrived to find the meeting underway and had no involvement.
While many had thought the song would be a diss track against Lively, it ended up being a tentative extending of the olive branch
In January, an insider told Daily Mail: ‘Her friends also think that Blake’s ‘I’m Khaleesi, and like her, I happen to have dragons’ text to Justin was uncool and unnecessary because she was essentially used as an intimidation tactic. She was referred to as some kind of pet or possession.’
Baldoni’s legal team sought to have Swift sit for a deposition, but the songbird will no longer be deposed following a judge’s ruling.
Baldoni’s lawyers also subpoenaed Swift, however that effort was withdrawn.
‘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,’ her spokesperson said in response to the subpoena.
‘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.’
A source has since told the Daily Mail that newly-engaged Swift had been ghosting Lively’s repeat attempts to ‘reach out’ with texts, voicemails and emails.
The case, Blake Lively v. Wayfarer Studios LLC, et al, is scheduled to go to trial in March 2026.
