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Blake Lively's unsealed text messages with Taylor Swift and statements from Jenny Slate's depositions about filmmaker and actor Justin Baldoni are among the evidence and documents that have just been unveiled amid the ongoing 'It Ends With Us' legal drama.

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00:00Blake Lively's unsealed text messages with Taylor Swift and statements from Jenny Slate's
00:05deposition about filmmaker and actor Justin Baldoni are among the evidence and documents
00:10that have just been unveiled amid the ongoing It Ends With Us legal drama.
00:14During Slate's deposition held on September 26, 2025 in New York for Lively's ongoing case
00:20against Baldoni, several of the actress's texts were read aloud and she addressed on-set issues
00:26working with Baldoni and Wayfarer producer Jamie Heath. At one point, Slate, who played Alyssa,
00:31Baldoni's on-screen sister, stated that filming the movie, quote,
00:34"...has been a really gross and disturbing shoot, and I'm one of the many who feel this way."
00:39She also claimed that she and Lively both complained directly to the studio.
00:43Slate wrote in one message,
00:44"...Justin is truly a false ally, and I'm unwilling to do anything that promotes the image that he's
00:50crafting as a male feminist. Honestly, I have no words to describe what a fraud he is."
00:55Slate added in another text,
00:57"...I honestly have never encountered anything like this dude. He's the biggest clown and the
01:01most intense narcissist. Lots of lessons learned."
01:05In one message to her former agent in May 2023 during production on the film, Slate wrote,
01:10"...this week was really intense for a few reasons. It's, like, fascinating and also so.
01:15Justin and Jamie are truly unfit. I'm not scared or anything, just repulsed and deeply irritated.
01:20And I know Blake is experiencing that on a much more serious level."
01:24As for Swift, Lively's longtime friend's name has come up repeatedly in the ongoing legal battle.
01:29In newly unveiled messages from 2023, Lively referred to Baldoni as the doofus director of
01:34my movie in a message to Swift, adding that he is a clown who thinks he's a writer now.
01:39In another message, Lively asked Swift to endorse a revised version of the script
01:43she was proposing to Baldoni. Swift allegedly replied,
01:46"...I'll do anything for you." In a later message, Lively allegedly wrote to the singer that
01:50she was, quote, "...so epically heroic today." Lively also wrote to Swift, in part,
01:55"...you are the world's absolute greatest friend ever." In 2024, Swift sent Lively a screenshot of a
02:00People magazine story about Baldoni, saying he was, quote, "...sexually traumatized by an ex-girlfriend."
02:06Swift allegedly wrote, "...I think this... knows something is coming, because he's gotten out his
02:10tiny violin." The New York Times expose about Baldoni and Lively's feud was also set to be published
02:15at the time. Lively wrote back, in part, "...it rings different when he doesn't end the story by
02:20saying, did I always listen when they said no? No, like he did with me. But that must not have tested
02:25well in the focus group." For much more on this story and more of the newly unsealed messages,
02:30go to THR.com. This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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