Sensational new twist as Taylor Swift will be subpoenaed in Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni legal battle and faces being questioned UNDER OATH, insiders reveal

In an embarrassing new blow for Blake Lively, Taylor Swift will be subpoenaed to be questioned under oath as part of the on-going Lively vs Justin Baldoni lawsuit battle, according to a source close to the legal action. 

The superstar singer, 35, has been friends with Lively for over a decade and was mentioned in legal filings by both sides in the increasingly bitter dispute, sparked during the making of last summer’s box office hit It Ends With Us.

The same source confirms that the first group of potential witnesses which Baldoni’s team want to hear from have been contacted and are due to give evidence on an as yet unscheduled date, with more depositions to come.

Those potential witnesses are understood to include Swift, It Ends With Us co-stars Jenny Slate and Isabela Ferrer, senior staff at the talent agency WME (which represents Lively), and executives at Sony (the film’s distributor), according to sources.

If she is deposed, Swift will be sworn in to answer questions under oath. Her answers will be recorded by a court reporter.

This is certainly an awkward turn of events for Lively. The 37-year-old actress, who made her name in TV series Gossip Girl, treasures her high-profile friendship with Swift and is thought to regret the star being unwillingly dragged into the drama.

Swift is godmother to Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds’s daughters James, 10, Inez, 8 and Betty, 5. Swift’s song Betty includes the names of the three girls and they have been to see the superstar in concert.

Ever since Lively filed her bombshell complaint against her co-star and director Baldoni — alleging sexual harrassment — in December last year, Swift has not been seen with Lively, sparking reports they have fallen out.

Lively notably wasn’t at the Super Bowl last month to support her pal’s tight-end boyfriend Travis Kelce, despite appearing in Swift’s box in 2024.

In Baldoni’s countersuit, filed in January, he included screenshots of alleged text messages from Lively in which she appears to refer to Swift and Reynolds as her ‘dragons’.

One alleged message reads: ‘If you ever get around to watching Game Of Thrones, you’ll appreciate I’m Khaleesi, and, like her, I happen to have a few dragons. For better or worse, but usually for better. Because my dragons also protect those I fight for. So really, we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine. You will too, I can promise you.’

Some sources have claimed that Swift has subsequently been left feeling ‘used’ by her friend.

Lively’s complaint accuses Baldoni of sexual harassment and a hostile work environment on set. 

Her claims include Baldoni entering Lively’s trailer while she was topless and making inappropriate statements regarding sex and porn on set.

Lively also claims Baldoni launched a ‘multi-tiered plan’ with his team to damage her reputation. 

For his part, Baldoni — who denies all allegations against him — is suing Lively and Deadpool actor Reynolds for $400 million in damages on claims of civil extortion, defamation and invasion of privacy following the Gossip Girl star’s original complaint.

Sources now say Lively’s co-stars on It Ends With Us, Jenny Slate and Isabela Ferrer, are also set to be questioned under oath.

Slate gave a statement in support of Lively after the actress began her legal action against Baldoni, calling her ‘a leader, loyal friend and a trusted source of emotional support for me and so many who know and love her.’

Slate said she was offering ‘support as she takes action against those reported to have planned and carried out an attack on her reputation.’

Both Slate and Ferrer — who plays a young version of Lively’s character Lily Bloom in the film — were close allies of Lively during last year’s press tour for the film.

However it’s not clear if they continue to back Lively. 

The actress claimed in her lawsuit that unnamed ‘other women’ on the set of It Ends With Us were also made uncomfortable by Baldoni and his alleged tendency to make unwanted sexual comment.

Baldoni’s legal team is expected to ask whether Blake Lively put her female co-stars under pressure to shun Baldoni, the producer and director of the film. 

Baldoni claims that Lively ‘stole’ the movie from him, erased his ‘A Film By’ credit and removed him from promotional film posters.

He also claims he and his guests were ‘held’ in the basement on the night of the movie’s premiere so that Lively could avoid interacting with him.

And the fall out from this saga is also going to reach the ‘King of Hollywood’, A-list power broker and super-agent Ari Emanuel, the boss of talent agency WME.

He will be asked to answer questions in the same circumstances as Swift about why his agency dropped Baldoni last December, and whether this was at the say-so of their clients Lively and/or her husband Reynolds, our source close to the legal action says.

Baldoni claims in his lawsuit that he believes Reynolds pressured his agent at last year’s Deadpool & Wolverine premiere to drop him from WME. The agency said in a statement in January that this was not true.

The statement ran: ‘In Baldoni’s filing, there is a claim that Reynolds pressured Baldoni’s agent at the Deadpool & Wolverine premiere. This is not true. Baldoni’s former representative was not at the Deadpool & Wolverine premiere nor was there any pressure from Reynolds or Lively at any time to drop Baldoni as a client.’

On February 13, Emanuel said during a Freakonomics Radio Live show in Los Angeles that Lively was his ‘ride or die’, according to the Hollywood Reporter, and added: ‘It is a f***ed up, bad situation with what Bologna… Baldoni… whatever his name is… is doing.’   

Emanuel added that he had fired Baldoni from WME and went on: ‘It’s not really fair. I’ve known Ryan and Blake for over a decade. They’re really incredible people. In Hollywood, they have been incredibly successful. People work with them, they’ve never had any bad mojo out there or treated people badly. They are charitable — we help them with their foundation — they’ve given tons of money away.’

Another powerful executive who can expect to be deposed is Sony’s Ange Giannetti, a top producer, a source close to the legal action says.

In her complaint, Lively claims she called Giannetti to complain that she felt sexually harassed on set by Baldoni and Jamey Heath, CEO of Baldoni’s production company Wayfarer Studios.

Sources at Sony, the film’s distributor, say that the call was actually a complaint over Covid protocols as Lively had contracted the virus at the time.

Lively’s legal team announced at the beginning of March that they are working with crisis PR Nick Shapiro. It’s not clear when he joined the actress’s team but he has worked with Matthew Feldman, chair of law firm representing her, for many years. Both men were senior aides in the Obama administration.

Feldman was chief legal advisor; Shapiro was a national security spokesman during the Covid pandemic.

Earlier this year, Baldoni’s lawyer published a website, The Lawsuit Info, which contained his full 224-page complaint and an additional 168-page data dump, detailing events stretching from Baldoni’s first interaction with Colleen Hoover (the author of the bestselling book It Ends with Us, on which the film is based). 

Baldoni and Lively’s lawsuits are due to come to trial in March 2026.