Taylor Swift Allegedly Called Justin Baldoni a ‘Bitch’ with a ‘Tiny Violin’ in Text to Blake Lively: Legal Docs

Taylor Swift allegedly referred to Justin Baldoni as a “bitch” in a text message exchange with Blake Lively, according to excerpts quoted in new court filings.

Lively’s lawyers filed a letter to Judge Lewis J. Liman on Tuesday, Jan. 20, responding to Baldoni’s legal team as the case heads toward a trial expected in May. The filing includes quoted portions of alleged messages between Swift, 36, and Lively, 38, discussing Baldoni, 41.

In one excerpt dated early December 2024, Swift allegedly wrote: “I think this bitch knows something is coming because he’s gotten out his tiny violin.” Lively’s attorneys said the “quoted language appears in the cited source,” but argued it does not back up the defense claim that Lively and Swift were “privately” discussing a forthcoming New York Times article about the dispute, which was published Dec. 21, 2024.

The filing also references other alleged messages in which Lively asked Swift to endorse a revised version of a script Lively was proposing “even without having read it,” according to Baldoni’s legal team. Swift allegedly responded, “I’ll do anything for you !!”

Lively’s attorneys disputed the characterization that Swift “agreed to do Lively’s bidding,” “met with Baldoni,” or endorsed the revised draft. “Lively respectfully refers the Court to the cited source for its complete contents and disputes any summary or interpretation inconsistent therewith,” her legal team said in the documents.

Afterward, Lively allegedly texted Swift that she was “so epically heroic today,” adding that she had “recapped every moment” to her husband, Ryan Reynolds.

In another alleged message, Lively wrote: “I kept remembering stuff- You making s— up about me and lenses. And referring to yourself as my doll. This clown falling for all of it. But also resisting it. You are the worlds absolute greatest friend ever.”

Sources have previously suggested Lively’s friendship with Swift has been complicated amid Lively’s legal battle with Baldoni. Lively has accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and retaliation; he denies the allegations.

In alleged texts from Lively to Baldoni that were exhibited in Baldoni’s January 2025 countersuit against Lively and Reynolds — a countersuit that has since been dismissed by the judge — Lively referred to her husband and Swift as her “dragons,” a Game of Thrones reference.

“I happen to have a few dragons. For better or worse, but usually for better,” Lively’s alleged text read. “Because my dragons also protect those I fight for. So really we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine. [Smiley-face emoji] you will too, I can promise you.”

When Baldoni’s lawyers attempted to subpoena Swift in May 2025, a representative for Swift publicly distanced the singer from It Ends With Us.

“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 at the time.

The rep added, “The connection Taylor had to this film was permitting the use of one song, ‘My Tears Ricochet.’ 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.”

Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman told TMZ in June 2025 that Baldoni “wants to be vindicated, and that’s all that he cares about.” He added: “He knows who he is. He knows what he’s done. He knows what he hasn’t done. And he wants the truth to come out, and he wants to do that in the appropriate way.”

“He’s waiting for his day in court, where he can speak out to tell the truth,” Freedman said.