Blake lively once again leaned on her longtime friend taylor swift during her ongoing battle with It ends with us director Justin Baldoni.
The Gossip girl actress claimed she suffered $161 million in damages as a result of a smear campaign during the film’s release.
According to her documents, Lively lost $56.2 million in acting income, $49 million on her beauty brand Blake Brown and $22 million on her beverage line Betty Buzz.
Amid the chaos, fans began speculating that the drama affected the actress’ long-standing friendship with the music icon.
Lively and Swift met in 2015 and quickly became inseparable, attending Taylor’s 1989 tour of Australia and her Fourth of July parties.
Over the years, they celebrated holidays together and Swift even became godmother to Blake and Ryan Reynolds’ four children.
However, their friendship then deepened A simple favor actress directed Taylor’s music video for I bet you’re thinking about mewhich later earned a CMA nomination.
Furthermore, they were both often spotted together at NFL games and even attended the 2024 Super Bowl.
Now things seemed tense after the actress’ lawsuit against her co-star named The Lover hitmaker in court documents.
Meanwhile, the singer’s team denied any involvement in that matter and said she only had her song My Tears ricochet appear in the film.
When the pop queen released her new album The life of a showgirlFans speculated that one song, Canceled, alluded to their rumors.
In the song, Taylor Swift sang about “friends wrapped in Gucci and in scandal,” which many thought was aimed at Blake Lively.
