Two of Taylor Swift's celebrity pals have been spotted with Charli XCX amid the pop stars' rumored feud. Cara Delevingne, who has been friends with Swift, 35, since 2013, took to Instagram on Wednesday, October 22, to share several photos from the Academy Museum's 5th Annual Gala on October 18. Among the collection was a snap with Ed Sheeran, another longtime friend of the "Cruel Summer" singer, as well as Charli, 33, and actress Rachel Sennott. Swift was not in attendance at the event. The photo comes weeks after Swift released her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. Many fans have theorized that the album's song "Actually Romantic" is a diss track aimed at Charli, believing that the title itself is a reference to Charli's 2024 Brat cut "Everything Is Romantic." "I heard you call me boring Barbie when the coke's got your brain / High-fived my ex and then said you're glad he ghosted me," Swift sings in the first verse. "Wrote me a song saying it makes you sick to see my face / Some people might be offended." Charli XCX Declines to Comment on Taylor Swift's Rumored Diss Track In the chorus, Swift hints that she's unbothered by the other woman's comments about her, singing, "But it's actually sweet / All the time you've spent on me / It's honestly wild / All the effort you've put in / It's actually romantic / I really got to hand it to you / No man has ever loved me like you do." Many fans speculated that the song was a response to Charli's Brat track "Sympathy Is a Knife," in which the British artist sings about feeling insecure around another woman. "Don't wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend's show / Fingers crossed behind my back, I hope they break up quick," Charli sings in one line, referring to her now-husband, The 1975 drummer George Daniel. (Swift dated the band's frontman, Matty Healy, in 2023.) Rogers Kisby/Oscars/Academy Museum Foundation via Getty Images In the chorus, Charli adds, "'Cause I couldn't even be her if I tried / I'm opposite, I'm on the other side / I feel all these feelings I can't control." Charli denied that "Sympathy Is a Knife" was about Swift in an August 2024 interview with New York Magazine. "That song is about me and my feelings and my anxiety and the way my brain creates narratives and stories in my head when I feel insecure and how I don't want to be in those situations physically when I feel self-doubt," she said. "Sometimes I'd look onstage and be like, 'Oh, my God ... I'm never going to play these rooms, ever.' That made me feel jealous. I told Matty that. And George. They were both like, 'Shut up. What are you talking about?'" Did Charli XCX Subtly Respond to Taylor Swift Song Rumors on 'SNL'? Swift also praised Charli in the same interview, telling the outlet, "I've been blown away by Charli's melodic sensibilities since I first heard 'Stay Away' in 2011. Her writing is surreal and inventive, always. She just takes a song to places you wouldn't expect it to go, and she's been doing it consistently for over a decade. I love to see hard work like that pay off." More recently, Charli declined to comment on the rumors that "Actually Romantic" is a diss track about her in an October 14 interview with Vanity Fair. However, she did reflect on her response to New York Magazine regarding "Sympathy Is a Knife." "I think I'm just quite direct and blunt," she said. "I hate this phrase, but what you see is what you get with me. People think it's all some kind of performance, but it's not. I'm not sat here talking to you being the way that I am onstage. But I think there is a correlation in that there's a messiness and a lack of perfection. It's the combination of talking about those things whilst also embracing them and really struggling with them is what makes me whole. And I think that it makes me honest. You can vouch for me, I hope."