In December, Blake Full of life filed a lawsuit towards It Ends With Us director and costar Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment and an internet smear marketing campaign. In January, Baldoni filed a defamation lawsuit towards Full of life. Now, Taylor Swift has been subpoenaed.
Deadline confirmed that the pop celebrity was subpoenaed earlier this week. A spokesperson for Swift instructed Selection:
Taylor Swift by no means set foot on the set of this film, she was not concerned in any casting or artistic choices, she didn’t rating the movie, she by no means noticed an edit or made any notes on the movie, she didn’t even see It Ends With Us till weeks after its public launch, and was touring across the globe throughout 2023 and 2024 headlining the largest tour in historical past.
Baldoni is suing Full of life and her husband Ryan Reynolds for $400 million, alleging that the pair hijacked the movie and sought to destroy his public popularity with false allegations and sexual harassment. Swift was not named within the go well with, however her first title appeared in a textual content message to Full of life, which involved a rooftop scene within the film that Full of life had allegedly reworked within the script. Baldoni’s legal professionals stated that he “felt obliged to textual content Full of life to say that he had favored her pages and hadn’t wanted Reynolds and her megacelebrity buddy to stress him.”
“Additionally was engaged on rooftop scene as we speak, I actually love what you probably did. It actually does [help] lots,” Baldoni wrote within the textual content message. “Makes it a lot extra enjoyable and attention-grabbing. (And I’d have felt that means with out Ryan and Taylor) You actually are a expertise throughout the board. Actually excited [and] grateful to do that collectively.”
Later, Full of life despatched a textual content that referred to Reynolds and one other particular person as “absolute titans as writers and storytellers outdoors of their major gig.” She likened herself to Khaleesi, the dragon-controlling queen on Sport Of Thrones, and advised that she has highly effective forces in her nook. “My dragons additionally shield these I battle for,” she wrote. “So actually all of us profit from these attractive monsters of mine. You’ll too, I can promise you.”
Swift’s spokesperson stated, “Provided that her involvement was licensing a music for the movie, which 19 different artists additionally did, this doc subpoena is designed to make use of Taylor Swift’s title to attract public curiosity by creating tabloid clickbait as an alternative of specializing in the details of the case.”
It Ends With Us star Isabela Ferrer instructed Further that Swift aided her in getting her position within the movie, saying she “discovered later after she obtained it” that Swift was a “useful a part of the method of the audition.”
