Overview
- New court documents include private messages in which Taylor Swift disparages Justin Baldoni and discusses strategy with Blake Lively, while earlier texts show Lively asking Swift to praise her script pages to Baldoni.
- Deposition excerpts from actress Isabela Ferrer describe Baldoni calling a teenage intimacy scene “hot” and suggesting she lick cookie dough off a spoon, comments she testified felt inappropriate for the scene’s context.
- Lively’s legal team says the records document contemporaneous harassment concerns that were ignored, while Baldoni and Wayfarer’s attorney argues the messages undercut Lively’s claims and that the evidence does not support them.
- Additional unsealed messages show actress Jenny Slate criticizing her experience on the production, adding to accounts that detail concerns about on‑set conduct.
- A hearing on Baldoni’s motion to dismiss is set for Thursday, Baldoni’s prior countersuits were dismissed in June 2025, a request to depose Swift was rejected last year, and Lively’s federal case is currently slated for a May 18, 2026 jury trial.