Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Taylor Swift and Ben Affleck Michael Buckner/SXSW Conference & Festivals via Getty Images; John Nacion/Variety via Getty Images; Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty Images; Cindy Ord/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Blake Lively's unsealed text messages with Taylor Swift, email to Ben Affleck and statements from Jenny Slate and Isabela Ferrer's depositions about Justin Baldoni have been unveiled amid the ongoing It Ends With Us legal drama. Lively first filed a complaint against her It Ends With Us co-star and director in December 2024 for sexual harassment and an alleged coordinated effort to destroy her reputation. Lively also alleged that Baldoni and company engaged in a "social manipulation" campaign to "destroy" her reputation. Meanwhile, Baldoni's legal team slammed the complaint as "shameful" and one that includes "serious and categorically false accusations." Baldoni responded with his own lawsuit, but that was dismissed in June. Related Stories Music Taylor Swift, Alanis Morissette, Kenny Loggins Join 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame Class Movies 'It Ends With Us' Star Jenny Slate Slams Justin Baldoni in Unsealed Texts: "Most Intense Narcissist" Amid the drama, much speculation arose about the thoughts of those who worked on the film and a possible inclusion of Lively's close friend Swift. On Tuesday, a transcript of Slate's deposition, held on Sept. 26, 2025, in New York, and Ferrer's deposition were unsealed, along with other evidence and documents including unsealed text messages between Lively and Swift about Baldoni. Below, THR compiles the various texts, depositions and emails unsealed earlier this week. A trial for the case is set for May 18. Jenny Slate During her deposition, several of the Slate's texts were read aloud, and she addressed on-set issues working with Baldoni and Wayfarer producer Jamey Heath. (Slate played Allysa, Baldoni's onscreen sister, in It Ends With Us.) She also claimed that she and Lively "both complained directly" to the studio. In one message, Slate stated that filming the movie "has been a really gross and disturbing shoot, and I'm one of many who feel [this] way." "Justin is truly a false ally and I'm unwilling to do anything that promotes the image that he's crafting as a 'male feminist,'" she wrote in one message. "Honestly I have no words to describe what a fraud he is." In another text Slate said of Baldoni, "I honestly have never ever encountered anything like this dude. He's the biggest clown and the most intense narcissist. Lots of lessons learned!" In one message to her former agent in May 2023, during production on the film, Slate wrote, "This week was really intense for a few reasons. It's like fascinating and also so shitty. Justin and Jamey are truly unfit. I'm not scared or anything, just repulsed and deeply irritated, and I know Blake is experiencing that on a much more serious level." "I feel like it's about to get really bad and I'm not sure what Blake's limit is but she's really taken a lot of crap from them, like crazy shit, and I'm not kidding when I tell you that Justin and Jamey me freak me out. Like they tell really weird lies and Justin is astoundingly wrongheaded." She also referenced Baldoni's TED Talk in 2018 about empowering women and redefining masculinity in another message: "I really don't get how he did a TED Talk. He is worse than the bros I've encountered, not because he's predatory but because of his general fragility and misogyny, like not seeming to be aware of any of the obvious no-nos." Taylor Swift Lively's longtime friend Swift's name has come up repeatedly in the ongoing legal battle between Lively and Baldoni given Lively previously identified Swift as a person in her orbit that would have knowledge about discussions regarding working conditions on the set of the film. Baldoni also alleged that Swift, along with Lively's husband Ryan Reynolds, helped Lively pressure him to make script changes to one of the film's scenes. Baldoni's legal team attempted to subpoena Swift in May. At the time a spokesperson for Swift said the subpoena was a bid to "draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case." "I think this bitch knows something is coming because he's gotten out his tiny violin," Swift wrote in a message to Lively while sending a screenshot of a People magazine story about Baldoni. The New York Times exposé about Baldoni and Lively's feud was also set to be published at the time. "It's rings different when he doesn't end the story by saying 'Did I always listen when they said no? No.' like he did with me. But that must not've tested well in the focus group," Lively wrote. "He's being honored at the vital voices for women event on Monday." "Thi