"Unequivocally and demonstrably false" - Blake Lively’s lawyers accuse Justin Baldoni’s team of ‘abusing’ legal process

Lawyers for Blake Lively, in a letter to U.S District Court Judge Lewis J. Liman on May 14, accused Justin Baldoni's lawyers of "abusing" the legal process, after Baldoni's team made a claim about Taylor and Lively's friendship.

Justin Baldoni's lawyer, Freedman, in a letter, alleged that Lively pressured Swift to publicly side with her amid her legal battle with Baldoni. Lively's legal team, in a May 14 letter, while reacting to Freedman's claims, said,

"That letter, which was not filed with any evidentiary support of any kind, much less anything under oath, falsely accuses Ms. Lively, and her counsel, of engaging in 'witness tampering and evidence spoilation' based on an undisclosed anonymous source."

He also added,

"It should be unnecessary to respond to anonymously sourced, baseless, allegations recklessly leveled without any supporting evidence. It is worth stating for the record, however, that each of the allegations in the Freedman Letter is unequivocally and demonstrably false."

Lively's legal team also accuses Freedman of "launder scandalous and defamatory" allegations about Lively through the letter.

More about Justin Baldoni's legal team's claims about Taylor Swift's involvement

Justin Baldoni's lawyer, Bryan Freedman, in a letter filed on May 14, alleged that Lively had threatened Taylor Swift of leaking their private texts if the latter did not publicly support her in her legal battle against Baldoni.

Taylor Swift was subpoenaed as a witness in the Lively vs. Baldoni case. As a response, a representative for Taylor, while speaking to the Daily Mail in an article published on May 10, said,

"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."

The representative only mentioned that the only involvement the pop star had in the film was the use of one of her tracks, My Tears Ricochet, from her 2020 album, Folklore.

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Furthermore, the letter also claims that Lively's lawyer, Michael Gottlieb, had contacted the pop star's attorney, demanding that 'Ms. Swift release a statement of support for Ms. Lively, intimating that, if Ms. Swift refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature in Ms. Lively's possession would be released."

Justin Baldoni had earlier mentioned that Swift and Reynolds pressured him into considering Lively's rewrite of a scene. The trial for Lively v. Wayfarer Studios et al is scheduled to go into trial in March 2026.

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