Taylor Swift's private text messages with friend Blake Lively have been dragged into the latter's ongoing legal battle with It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni. Shortly after Lively filed a "hostile work environment" complaint against Baldoni with the California Civil Rights Department in December 2024, details emerged about Swift's potential involvement in the controversy. The singer-songwriter notably allowed her 2020 song "My Tears Ricochet" to be used in It Ends With Us, but has repeatedly tried to publicly distance herself from the drama and denied direct involvement with the movie.