Blake Lively allegedly leveraged her friendship with superstar Taylor Swift to get her way behind the scenes of It Ends With Us, according to Justin Baldoni.

The actor, 41, launched his own website dedicated to defending himself against the actress’ Sєxual harᴀssment allegations.

In an attempt to share his side of the story, Baldoni, who is seeking to offer transparency to the public amid his legal battle, shared a website containing his amended complaint and a timeline of relevant events related to the case.

And the website included a timeline which alleged that Lively made a ‘veiled threat’ having to do with singer Taylor if she did not get her way.

According to Baldoni, Lively threatened to withhold approval of the It Ends With Us trailer if she did not get extra time working on a cut of the movie with her own personal editor. 

Baldoni claimed Lively threatened to ‘change her mind’ about reaching out to pal Taylor to secure the use of her hit 2020 track My Tears Ricochet. 

Blake Lively allegedly leveraged her friendship with superstar Taylor Swift to get her way behind the scenes of It Ends With Us, according to Justin Baldoni; pictured February 2024

The actor, 41, launched his own website dedicated to defending himself against the actress’ Sєxual harᴀssment allegations

The track which is from Taylor’s folklore album, was eventually used in the trailer but Baldoni alleged that Lively tried to use her friendship with the hitmaker to make sure her demands were met. 

As evidence, an alleged text exchange with a Sony executive was included and read as followed:

‘Blake is calling Taylor to approve the song. She of course just reached out saying she is asking for time with [REDACTED] her editor. We know it was conditional on signing contract – but asking if you will reconsider – so [REDACTED] can release this trailer and Blake does not change her me re calling Taylor Swift.’

Baldoni noted that they agreed to her demands in order to move forward as planned. The exchange allegedly took place in May 2024.

MailOnline have contacted both Taylor Swift and Blake Lively’s representatives for comment.  

It comes days after DailyMail.com revealed that Taylor has taken a step back from her friendship with Blake after feeling like she was used as an ‘intimidation tactic’ by the actress in the lawsuit she never wanted to be embroiled in.

The singer, 35, was dragged into the explosive legal feud between Lively and Baldoni when he claimed his costar used Swift to intimidate him at a meeting with her husband Ryan Reynolds about edits she had made to a rooftop scene in their film, It Ends with Us. 

In his $400 million lawsuit, filed last month, Baldoni said Swift showed up and made him feel like he ‘needed to comply with Blake’s direction for the script’. 

The website included a timeline which alleged that Lively made a ‘veiled threat’ having to do with singer Taylor if she did not get her way

According to Baldoni, Lively threatened to withhold approval of the It Ends With Us trailer if she did not get extra time working on a cut of the movie with her own personal editor; pictured 2023

Baldoni claimed Lively threatened to ‘change her mind’ about reaching out to pal Taylor to secure the use of her hit 2020 track My Tears Ricochet

The ‘uncool and unnecessary’ description was reportedly the final straw for Swift who had never planned to be at the meeting, but arrived at Lively’s New York penthouse to find it was still ongoing.

‘For the time being she is taking a step back from Blake because she doesn’t want to get tangled in this more than she already has – which is far more than she ever needed to be,’ an insider told DailyMail.com.

‘Her friends also think that Blake’s “I’m Khaleesi, and like her, I happen to have dragons” text to Justin was uncool and unnecessary because she was essentially used as an intimidation tactic. She was referred to as some kind of pet or possession.

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‘Taylor shouldn’t even be involved in this at all. She was only going over to visit Blake and Ryan with the understanding that the meeting would be over.’

A second source said: ‘Taylor has politely backed away from it all. She is conscious of her own image and hates that she was even mentioned.’ 

The decision will no doubt shock fans of the Cruel Summer singer, who has been friends with the former Gossip Girl lead for a decade, with the pair celebrating milestones together and Swift even name dropping Lively’s children in her music.

She appeared to rally around Lively when rumours of rancour between the actress and Baldoni first started bubbling in August.

She was pictured arriving at Swift’s Rhode Island property, taking solace at the $17 million, eight bedroom estate alongside her husband Reynolds, to escape the frenzy. 

The decision to publish the website on Saturday comes after Baldoni amended his $400 million suit accusing Lively of giving The New York Times advance access to her Sєxual harᴀssment complaint.

Baldoni attorney, Bryan Freedman, told DailyMail.com that Baldoni’s amended his lawsuit due ‘to the overwhelming amount of new proof that has come to light.’ 

‘This fresh evidence corroborates what we knew all along, that due to purely egotistical reasons Ms. Lively and her entire team colluded for months to destroy reputations through a complex web of lies, false accusations and the manipulation of illicitly received communications,’ Freedman continued.

He concluded: ‘The ongoing public interest in this case online has ironically shed light on the undeniable facts pertaining to The New York Times and how heavily Ms. Lively and her representatives were not only deeply involved in the attempted take down and smear campaign of Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and their teams but that they themselves initiated it.’

It comes days after DailyMail revealed that Taylor has taken a step back from her friendship with Blake after feeling like she was used as an ‘intimidation tactic’ by the actress in the lawsuit she never wanted to be embroiled in

The decision to publish the site on Saturday comes after the star amended his $400 million suit accusing Lively of giving The New York Times advance access to her Sєxual harᴀssment complaint; Baldoni and Lively pictured on set last year

Earlier this month, in a filing DailyMail.com, obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, it was reported that Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, were doubling down on their efforts to gag Baldoni and his lawyers. 

In a letter to the judge presiding over the case on Monday, the couple’s attorney urgently requested a conference to highlight their ‘growing concerns’ over what they describe as Freedman’s alleged ‘extrajudicial misconduct’.

The filing cites Freedman’s recent media appearances as well as a report of a new website being created by Baldoni’s team to ‘strategically release selected documents and communications’ between the two feuding co-stars.

The report, published by the Daily Mail last week, revealed Baldoni’s lawyers are in the process of building a website on the case that will allow anyone to see numerous snippets of unedited footage from the film, including anything which ‘speaks to’ Lively’s original complaint about the actor.

Freedman has publicly warned: ‘We have all the receipts – and more.’

But the couple’s attorney Michael Gottlieb has claimed the website and Freedman’s public comments are part of a campaign to ‘influence proceedings and the public perception’ of the case with ‘inflammatory content’.

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‘He further has made it clear that his priority is to “torpedo Blake Lively’s career for good” by, among other things, creating a website to release strategically selected documents and communications between Ms. Lively and Mr. Baldoni,’ Gottlieb states in the letter. 

‘The planned website will release what Mr. Freedman self-servingly proclaims will be “full unedited WhatsApp, text and email exchanges between Lively and Baldoni,” although neither the media nor public will have any way of knowing which communications Mr. Freedman has selectively omitted from disclosure, including communications that Mr. Freedman and his clients may have deleted.’

Gottlieb goes on to argue that the website will ‘presumably not include’ communications that Freedman and Baldoni have had with media sources, meaning it will be ‘incomplete, biased, and prejudicial by design’.

He also claims Freedman’s ‘efforts to spin’ Lively’s request for a gag order as an attempt to silence them out of fear, in a bid to ‘impugn’ her character.

A source familiar with case claimed that the website will promote transparency in the case and denied it would contain selective material.

‘There is nothing that will be selective on the website. The aim here is to do the exact opposite of what they did – to not be selective, to not cherry pick, and to not doctor text messages which they did when they gave them to the New York Times,’ the source told DailyMail.com on Monday.

Lively and Baldoni’s feud first emerged in rumors of discord on the set of the domestic abuse drama that heated up during the promotional campaign that accompanied its release last August. 

According to Baldoni, the bitterness between the film’s two stars was so bad he and his family were banished to a cinema basement for the premiere on Lively’s orders.

Baldoni attorney, Bryan Freedman, told DailyMail.com that Baldoni’s amended his lawsuit due ‘to the overwhelming amount of new proof that has come to light’ (pictured in 2024) 

In December, the drama exploded into a legal fight when Lively sued claiming Sєxual harᴀssment.

At the same time, the New York Times released a story based on Lively’s legal filing that accused Baldoni of orchestrating a negative publicity campaign against her and put the harᴀssment claim front and center.

In turn, Baldoni sued the Times for defamation and, last week, launched a lawsuit against Lively and Reynolds that accused her of using their celebrity power to hijack his film and attempt to torpedo his career.

Another twist in the tale came earlier this week, when DailyMail.com obtained raw footage showing the slow dance montage scene during which Lively claimed Baldoni had Sєxually harᴀssed her by nuzzling her neck and declaring: ‘It smells so good’.

In her civil rights complaint filed last month, the actress insisted nobody overheard the comment because the romantic montage was silent and the microphones were switched off.

But DailyMail.com revealed Baldoni’s sound equipment was on – and exclusively obtained an explosive video showing all three takes that smashes Lively’s claims into smithereens.

The tapes show how friendly the two stars were before it all went so wrong. They laugh and joke around – even joshing about the size of Baldoni’s nose and talk about how they spend their time with their spouses.

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They include a complete record of the conversation in question that makes clear the comment about her smelling so good was in response to Lively talking about her spray tan as they film a romantic dance.

Baldoni tells Lively he’s probably getting his beard on her and she responds by saying she’s probably getting spray tan on him.

Then he quips back ‘it smells good’ before both laugh and she tells him the scent actually comes from her body makeup.

And while the montage does show Baldoni nuzzling Lively’s neck as part of the scene in which they play lovers, the conversation between them is all business with the pair spending most of it talking about lighting and their other halves.

The raw footage clip comes complete with audio and was pᴀssed to DailyMail.com by the actor’s production company Wayfarer and Freedman who has previously said Baldoni has ‘nothing to hide’.

Our exclusive footage is among the many recent revelations in a lengthy saga that began with talk of rancor behind the scenes of It Ends With Us.

It exploded into a legal fight just before Christmas when the former Gossip Girl sued Baldoni for Sєxual harᴀssment.

At the same time, the New York Times released a story based on Lively’s legal filing that accused him of orchestrating a negative publicity campaign against her and put the smell claim front and center.

In turn, Baldoni sued the Times for defamation and, last week, launched a $400million lawsuit against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds that accused her of using her celebrity power to hijack his film and attempt to torpedo his career.