The Blake Lively legal drama is far from over, and one name has been dragged into the mess: Lively's bestie Taylor Swift.
According to a new update, Lively's lawyer has allegedly threatened to release the pop singer's private texts if she does not publicly support the actress.
Blake Lively vs Taylor Swift Drama Reaches Tipping Point
The Fearless pop star has recently been prompted to provide testimony in regards to the ongoing case between It Ends With Us co-stars Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively.
Despite Swift's close friendship with Blake and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, her lawyers are defending that the Cruel Summer singer should not participate, given that she did not have anything to do with the film and the drama.
However, the case has reached its tipping point when Justin Baldoni's legal team accused the Blake Brown founder's attorney of threatening to release private texts between Lively and Taylor Swift.
According to the document filing, Baldoni's team claimed the attorney "demanded that Ms. Swift release a statement of support to Ms. Lively, intimating that, if Ms. Swift refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature in Ms. Lively's possession would be released," towards Venable, the law firm representing Swift.
Lively's lawyer, Michael Gottlieb of Willkie Farr, denied these allegations by calling them "categorically false."
"We unequivocally deny all of these so-called allegations," he said, "Which are cowardly sourced to supposed anonymous sources, and completely untethered from reality."
Baldoni and his company, Wayfarer Studios' lawyers, claimed in the same filing that an anonymous source "who is highly likely to have reliable information" revealed that the Gossip Girl alum requested Swift to "delete their text messages."
The most that Gottlieb could do was further insist that the Wayfarer parties' lawyers "love nothing more than shooting first without any evidence" and declared, "with no care for the people they are harming in the process."
Following this reveal, Lively's legal team has filed a motion to strike such allegations.
Taylor Swift's Involvement in the Justin Baldoni Case So Far
Taylor Swift has often been seen with the former "It" couple Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively on social media prior to the release of Deadpool and Wolverine, and It Ends With Us, implying that the three have bonded and grown closer as friends.
However, trouble started brewing when Baldoni's lawyers countersued Lively for defamation and extortion in response to Lively suing the former director for sexual harassment and other claims.
In the court's received complaint filing from Baldoni's side, he claimed to have received a text from Lively, who referred to Swift and Reynolds as her "dragons" who "protect" her in all of her battles.
Amid the ongoing case, Swift's lover, Travis Kelce, allegedly unfollowed Reynolds to stay off their radar. Although Lively has reportedly been trying to fix her friendship and make amends with Swift, their friendship appears to be on the losing side.
"Blake knew she and Taylor would come back from this at some point and that their friendship wasn't done for good," an insider told PEOPLE about their plan on moving on from the drama.
They continued, "Taylor was hurt by this situation, so she's relieved they were able to recover from this and put it all behind them because it wasn't something she took lightly."
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