Taylor Swift and Blake Lively, friendship in pause?

Every friendship has its difficulties, right? True friends face together beautiful and ugly moments, tall and low, joys and pains, seeing themselves in court and super bowl.

Yes, perhaps the last circumstance is more one thing from Taylor Swift And Blake Lively than from normal people.

The relationship between Swift and Lively has recently jumped to the honors of the news for the current legal dispute between Lively and Justin Baldonico-protagonist and director of It ends with us. Baldoni and Lively have been involved in mutual lawsuits and counterquerses since the end of 2024, and they are sued for millions of dollars for accusations of sexual harassment, retaliation, defamation and extortion (which each part denies and refers to the sender). Swift, whose song My Tears Recochet It is part of the soundtrack of the film, has been mentioned several times in the procedural documents and was sued by Baldoni’s legal team on May 8. Nevertheless…

«Taylor Swift has never set foot on the set of this film, was not involved in any casting or creative decision, did not make the soundtrack of the film, has never seen a assembly or made any note on the film, did not even see It ends with us If not several weeks after his release in the room, and during 2023 and 2024 he was traveling to the world as headliner of the greatest tour of the story », reads a declaration by the Swift representative following the summons in court. “Taylor’s only link with this film was permission to use a song, My Tears Recochet. Since his involvement was only to grant authorization to use a song for the film, which also made another 19 artists, this quote in court simply aims to exploit the name of Taylor Swift to attract the interest of public opinion creating by creating clickbait from tabloid instead of focusing on the facts of the case ».

Baldoni’s legal team, who even suggested selling tickets to attend the hearings in court, said Lively would have threatened to extort money in Swift if the singer had not publicly supported her, an accusation that was however rejected by the competent judge.

Swift and Lively have not been seen together in public for months, and this week People reported, citing an anonymous source, that “Their friendship has stopped.”

“Taylor does not want to get involved in this drama,” continued the source, described as a person close to Swift.

The representatives of Swift and Lively did not respond to the request for Vanity Fair to comment on the current state of their friendship.

The moment seems perfect to retrace the gossip of the past and remember the origins of the friendship between the two: a caption on Instagram of 2015 that promoted a shampoo, which ended very badly. The more things change, the more they remain the same, right?

In a post on Instagram, now canceled, of 10 September 2015, Lively had published a photo in which he appeared with other celebrities (Karlie Kloss, Julianne Moore, Naomi Watts, Jane founded, Amber Heard, Doutzen Kroes, Aishwarya Rai, Liya Kebede, Fan binbing, Eva Longoria And John Legend) which relaxed in elegant clothes and smiled at each other with that affectionate expression that is usually found only in the advertisements of probiotic yogurt intended for women of a certain age. Do you know? The post, apparently, was part of an advertising campaign for the cure of the Riche L’Oreal colored hair. In the meantime, in May of the same year, the single of Bad Blood. As you will remember, in the music video of the song, also published before Lively post, you can see Swift and Socies (Selection Gomez, Hailee Steinfeld, Gigi Hadid, Karlie Kloss, Zendaya and others) dressed and made up as underworld women as well as fashion.

Lively had found the ideal hook for her sponsored post:

«So, apparently they were not shooting a video for the cover of John Legend of Bad Blood»He wrote in the caption. «This time @Lorealparisoffial has split. My #ininationalrosa was exposed. Ok, it’s up to you. Water in the mouth! #Pare alsochejohnlelegendnonstiafacoAndouna Carebadblood is time to launch a petition! ».

Since the internet is the Internet, someone interpreted the caption as an arrow in Swift, with which Lively had no public bond at the time. A few days later, Lively posted another photo, now canceled, which portrayed the members of the husband’s family Ryan Reynolds in the backstage with Swift during a stage of his 1989 World Tour.

“Mmm anyone who thought he was doing shadeevidently does not know that I have a vudù doll “Taylor Swift you please marry me”, he wrote. «Look how beautiful it is here, while he makes my nephew Heather feel a rock star. I love my Canadian family almost as much as I love Taylor Lively. I mean, Swift. Ok, go beene, we can write our surnames with the dash. XO Blake Swift-Lively XSempre ».

At the beginning of December 2015, Lively and Reynolds were not yet married but they frequented in Australia, from where they published various photos together while making friends with a koala (not too different from an exit to the zoo that Swift would have published years later during the Erasa Tour with the boyfriend Travis Kelce while relaxing with the kangaroos).

The rest is history: Swift mentioned Lively’s children in different songs and even inserted a vocal cameo of Lively’s daughter, Jamesin the song Gorgeous. There were parties on July 4th, birthday parties, flowers and many, many, many Photo of the paparazzi. There was a super bowl and then (Ahia!) no one else. What means All this? It is possible to interpret all this as a series of clues for the exit of Reputation (Taylor’s Version)? Of course it is possible, just give Reddit 20 minutes and a cork board.

The good (?) News is that the hearing for Lively and Baldoni is not set before March 2026, so we still have almost a year to face the situation. Who can say how many new albums could release Swift in the meantime?