Taylor Swift Allegedly Called Justin Baldoni a 'Bitch' with a 'Tiny Violin' in Text to Blake Lively: Legal Docs

Benjamin VanHooseWed, January 21, 2026 at 12:31 AM UTC

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Taylor Swift allegedly called Justin Baldoni a "bitch" in a text message to Blake Lively in December 2024

In another alleged text from April 2023, Lively called Swift "the world's absolute greatest friend ever"

Lively's legal battle with Baldoni is set to go to trial in May 2026

Taylor Swift allegedly called Justin Baldoni a "bitch" in a text message to Blake Lively.

Lively's lawyers filed a letter to Judge Lewis J. Liman on Tuesday, Jan. 20, their response to Baldoni's legal team's motion for summary judgment as the case approaches trial in May.

In the filing, portions of alleged text messages between Swift, 36, and Lively, 38, are quoted, showing how the friends discussed Baldoni, 41.

Swift allegedly wrote, "I think this bitch knows something is coming because he’s gotten out his tiny violin," in early December 2024. While Lively's lawyers don't dispute that the "quoted language appears in the cited source," they say it "does not support Defendants’ assertion" that Lively and Swift "privately discussed the forthcoming New York Times article" that broke the news of the legal battle when it was published Dec. 21, 2024.

In other messages, Lively asked Swift — who was allegedly already on her way to visit her friend while Baldoni was present in Lively's home — to endorse a revised version of the script she was proposing "even without having read it," Baldoni's legal team alleges.

Swift allegedly replied "I'll do anything for you !!" Then afterward, Lively wrote to the singer that she was "so epically heroic today" and that she "recapped every moment" to her husband Ryan Reynolds.

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Justin Baldoni; Blake Lively; Ryan Reynolds; Taylor Swift

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"I kept remembering stuff- You making s--- up about me and lenses. And referring to yourself as my doll. This clown falling for all of it. But also resisting it. You are the worlds absolute greatest friend ever," Lively allegedly wrote to Swift.

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Sources previously told PEOPLE the pair's friendship had become complicated amid Lively's legal battle with Baldoni, whom she accused of sexual harassment and retaliation, allegations he denies.

In Lively's alleged texts to Baldoni exhibited in his January 2025 countersuit against Lively and Reynolds — which has since been dismissed by the judge — the actress referred to her husband and Swift as her "dragons" who defend her, a Game of Thrones reference.

"I happen to have a few dragons. For better or worse, but usually for better," Lively's alleged text read. "Because my dragons also protect those I fight for. So really we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine. [Smiley-face emoji] you will too, I can promise you."

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Blake Lively on March 7, 2025

When Baldoni's lawyers attempted to subpoena Swift in May 2025, her rep spoke out in a statement, distancing the pop star from It Ends With Us.

"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 headlining the biggest tour in history," a spokesperson for Swift said at the time.

The rep added, "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."

Baldoni's lawyer Bryan Freedman told TMZ in June 2025 that Baldoni "wants to be vindicated, and that's all that he cares about." He added at the time: "He knows who he is. He knows what he's done. He knows what he hasn't done. And he wants the truth to come out, and he wants to do that in the appropriate way."

"He's waiting for his day in court, where he can speak out to tell the truth," Freedman added.

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