Justin Baldoni Lawsuit Alleges Blake Lively Used Taylor Swift as a Threat

Justin Baldoni‘s newest $400 million lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds features many claims, one of which alleges that Lively used her friendship with music icon Taylor Swift to threaten him.

What did Justin Baldoni say about Blake Lively and Taylor Swift?

In the lawsuit (via Variety), Baldoni’s legal team included text messages between himself and Lively while filming It Ends With Us. In the text chain, Baldoni discusses a rooftop scene between the pair, which had been reworked by Lively and Reynolds, as well as an alleged meeting that took place between Baldoni, Lively, Reynolds, and what seems to be Swift, where Lively and her husband, along with the pop star, praised Lively’s version of the scene.

According to Baldoni’s lawyers, the filmmaker “felt obliged to text Lively to say that he had liked her pages and hadn’t needed Reynolds and her megacelebrity friend to pressure him.”

“Also was working on rooftop scene today, I really love what you did. It really does [help] a lot,” Baldoni would go on to say in the text message. “Makes it so much more fun and interesting. (And I would have felt that way without Ryan and Taylor) You really are a talent across the board. Really excited [and] grateful to do this together.”

A text from Lively that is also included in the lawsuit sees the actress refer to Reynolds and a redacted name as “absolute titans as writers and storytellers outside their primary gig” and “they also know I’m not always as good at making sure I’m seen and utilized for fear of threatening egos, or fear of affecting the ease of the process. They don’t give a s— about that. And because of that, everyone listens to them with immense respect and enthusiasm. So I guess I have to stop worrying about people liking me.”

Lively compares herself to Game of Thrones’ Daenerys Targaryen in texts

The text message from Lively ends with her comparing herself to Game of Thrones’ Daenerys Targaryen, saying that like the Khaleesi, she has a pair of “dragons” who will do whatever is necessary to protect her, which Baldoni’s lawyers claim came as a threat to him.

“If you ever get around to watching Game of Thrones, you’ll appreciate that I’m Khaleesi, and like her, I happen to have a few dragons,” wrote Lively in the text. “For better or worse, but usually for better. Because my dragons also protect those I fight for. So really we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine. You will too, I can promise you.”

Baldoni’s lawsuit alleged various claims of extortion, defamation, and breach of contract claims centered around the making of It Ends With Us. Lively’s team has already responded to the lawsuit, calling it nothing more than another page out of the “abuser playbook.”

Baldoni previously filed a lawsuit against Lively just ahead of the new year and alleges that Lively’s public relations team began pushing an “unverified and self-serving narrative” against Baldoni while using “cherry-picked and altered communications stripped of necessary context” to paint him in a bad light. The lawsuit sees Baldoni seeking at least $250 million while claiming fraud and breach of contract as well as libel.

(Source: Variety)

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