Taylor Swift's lawyers say she hasn't agreed to deposition in Justin Baldoni's legal battle with ...

The Grammy winner has once again been dragged into the dispute between the &34;It Ends With Us&34; stars. Taylor Swift's lawyers say she hasn't agreed to deposi

The Grammy winner has once again been dragged into the dispute between the "It Ends With Us" stars.

Taylor Swift's lawyers say she hasn't agreed to deposition in Justin Baldoni's legal battle with Blake Lively

The Grammy winner has once again been dragged into the dispute between the "It Ends With Us" stars.

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September 12, 2025 4:36 p.m. ET

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Taylor Swift is being dragged back into the contentious legal battle between *It Ends With Us* costars Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively, despite making it clear that she'd prefer to be excluded from the seemingly never-ending narrative.

In a letter filed in court Friday and reviewed by **, Swift's lawyers insisted the pop star "has no material role" in the lawsuit and said she "did not agree to a deposition," though she would be available to be deposed next month "if forced."

The letter, from Swift's attorneys at Venable LLP, came a day after Baldoni's lawyer Bryan Freedman requested an extension of the discovery cutoff date, saying that Swift had "agreed to appear for deposition" but would be unable to do so until late October due to "preexisting professional obligations."**

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in 'It Ends with Us'.

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Swift's attorney J. Douglas Baldridge seemed to dispute Freedman's framing, writing, "As counsel for the parties know, since the inception of this matter we have consistently maintained that my client has no material role in this action. Further, my client did not agree to a deposition, but if she is forced into a deposition, we advised (after first hearing about the deposition just three days ago) that her schedule would accommodate the time required during the week of October 20 if the parties were able to work out their disputes. We take no role in those disputes."

Lively's lawyers also addressed Freedman's desire to depose Swift, asserting in a letter filed Friday that Baldoni's side hadn't presented evidence to justify the move. Calling it an attempt to "fuel their relentless media strategy," Lively's attorney Michael J. Gottlieb wrote that Freedman and his team hadn't "come close to establishing good cause for their requested relief."

"The Wayfarer Defendants assert that Ms. Swift is not available for a deposition until October 20, 2025, yet are silent about their efforts (if any) to schedule this deposition during the existing discovery period," Gottlieb added. "That is likely because… the Wayfarer Defendants do not appear to have contacted Ms. Swift's counsel regarding a date or location about the deposition until earlier this week."

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Gottlieb went on to slam Baldoni's legal team for a "lack of diligence, and disrespect for Ms. Swift's privacy and schedule."

EW has reached out to representatives for Swift, Lively, and Baldoni for further comment.

Lewis J. Liman, the U.S. district judge overseeing the case, has the final word on bringing Swift into the suit, as well as giving either side more time for depositions. The case is scheduled to go to trial March 9, 2026, almost two years after Lively lodged a complaint against Baldoni with the California Civil Rights Department, accusing him of sexual harassment on the set of *It Ends With Us* (which Baldoni also directed) and coordinating an online smear campaign to damage her reputation.

Lively subsequently filed a lawsuit in New York, and Swift's name was first mentioned in connection with the case when Baldoni filed a $400 million countersuit alleging defamation and extortion, which was thrown out by Judge Liman four months after it was filed.

Taylor Swift and Blake Lively at the Super Bowl in 2024.

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In his complaint, Baldoni claimed that Swift and Lively's husband, the actor Ryan Reynolds, pressured him into accepting one of Lively's rewrites for *It Ends With Us* after he was summoned to Lively and Reynolds' New York apartment.

Baldoni's lawyers subpoenaed Swift in May, prompting a spokesperson for the Grammy-winning musician to blast the maneuver as a scheme to generate "tabloid clickbait."

"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 spokesperson said.

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"The connection Taylor had to this film was permitting the use of one song, 'My Tears Ricochet,'" the spokesperson continued. "Given that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift's name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case."

Shortly after, a rep for Lively told EW that Baldoni's team had withdrawn the subpoena against Swift.

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