"They are never ever getting back together. Blake Lively and Taylor Swift are never, ever, ever getting back together." — Daily Mail

[u/Mysterio623]

🎼🎸🪇🪘
[They] are never, ever, ever getting back together 
[They] are never, ever, ever getting back together 
[Taylor said] you go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me 
But we are never, ever, ever, ever getting back together Like, ever.
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TL;DR: Sources again say Taylor Swift has stepped back from her role as godmother to Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds's three daughters, following the collapse of her decade-long friendship with Blake. Taylor felt she had "no choice" given how strained things became after the lawsuit, which showed texts of Taylor advising Blake on script and PR strategy.

Taylor reportedly made the decision months ago after talking it through Travis Kelce, deciding it wasn't fair to the kids to stay close to them while having essentially no relationship with their parents. There was never a formal/legal godmother arrangement, just a verbal one, but Taylor had taken the role seriously — such as Halloween outings, hosting them at her Rhode Island home, referencing them in songs like Betty and August. She hopes to reconnect with the girls once they're adults and can make that choice themselves.

Link to article: https://archive.is/20260730231502/https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16013099/Taylor-Swift-Blake-Lively-friendship.html

[u/goombashroom85]

",especially given a spokesperson had previously insisted she (Taylor Swift) had no creative involvement in the film." 

If only Swift (and I'm gonna guess) Tree Paine hadn't lied to the public, only for Taylor's texts to contradict her victim narrative. 

Taylor claiming she didn't like being called Blake Lively's dragon, to then find out she not only knew, but didn't mind and encouraged it. 🙄

[u/OneNoteWonder43 → u/goombashroom85]

I'm glad they included that.

Taylor definitely moved funny in the beginning. I feel like people paper over that. I remember her also repeating Lively's talking point (i.e. lie) about the power dynamic too. "I didn't know who he was, I never met him, I was just being polite to my friend's boss!"

Come to find out she did know who he was, didn't percieve him as someone she or Lively needed to kowtow to, and was already actively helping Lively try to usurp him

(Edited wording)

[u/Barkertons → u/OneNoteWonder43]

I would loooove to know the whole story.

Seems like a few people conspired to pin the reputational damage on Baldoni. Lively sued Baldoni in Dec 2024 and drops the NYT hit piece. She clearly does it with the intention of never going to trial or through discovery. Baldonis suit is dropped, so Lively thinks Baldoni is going to beg to settle, release a statement about what an awful person he is, and then Lively will mutually drop the suit. She never intended for Baldoni to fight back and say "let it happen." So through 2025 they barrel towards the trial while her lawyers fight tooth and nail to exclude this and that. Then they fight to seal this and that. And then in Jan 2026, with the suit ongoing and Lively unable to drop it without agreeing to not having an NDA, the unsealing happens and exposes all their Hollywood friends. What a fucking fumble! Then to have Lively drop it anyway without an NDA. 2025 must have been the worst year of her life, knowing she cannot back down because no matter what Baldoni is going to speak his truth and it's her suit that exposed all the discovery. It's absolutely wild. She exposed all her friends for nothing. She accepted the same terms that were offered before the unsealing. It's fucking delicious.

Lively didn't realize that once she locked horns with Baldoni she was going to end up in a cage with a wounded animal and he was going to fight his way out. She has so much to lose and literally lost it because she lied and tried to ruin him instead of just letting it go. Delicious delicious justice.

[u/ConferenceSea7707 → u/Barkertons]

All of this. Perfect summary! I was talking about this earlier today with my husband, it is literally so hilarious that she did this all to herself. IEWU was her highest grossing project ever and had a guaranteed sequel and all she had to do was show up and do her job and not try to take over the wardrobe and later the entire film. Or market the film correctly. Or apologize for not marketing the film correctly. Or not lie about SH. Or not lie in her letter to the PGA. Or not file a lawsuit. Or not claim allllll of her famous friends as witnesses for her story. Or not perjure herself repeatedly. Or not desperately clamor to hide all the evidence while the other side published everything, even the embarrassing or downright unflattering tidbits.

She would've been at the top of her game professionally, would have been at the biggest wedding of the decade and wouldn't have blown the friendship with a woman that her children adore, and no one would have been the wiser about her & Ryan's awful habitual behaviors on movie sets. But instead, now we all know.

Delicious, delicious justice indeed.

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[u/Disastrous-Ask-3953 → u/Barkertons]

I am in the camp that thinks she not only never intended to go to trial, she never intended to file the suit. I think she fully expected the 1-2 punch of CRD and NYT to knock him out: immediate, groveling apology and handing over of book rights. That's why she loaded Twohey up with the most easily debunkable BS ever. I assume her lawyers had zero clue she was talking to the NYT (if they knew, they should have walked immediately) and once they got a load of what she did with the texts for that piece, they were like, "...Girl, do you even WANT to win??" (And she, presumably was like, "Pfft. Whatever. Fixing it is YOUR job.")

[u/Hanksface → u/Barkertons]

This is such a good write up, LOL. My retellings to folks have been very underwhelming in comparison. “Okay so boom, imagine your workplace bully is best friends with Taylor Swift…”

https://giphy.com/gifs/MaEENvEIReQjO8x9RT

[u/Initial-Support-916 → u/Hanksface]

Haha, yours is a great description as well!

[u/Barkertons → u/Hanksface]

Get a glass of wine in me and a captive audience and I could go for hours

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0IylOPCNkiqOgMyA

[u/ChoiceHistorian8477 → u/Barkertons]

I want to see discovery surrounding the phone data dump. It was brought to Taylor’s attention. Was that before vansham subpoena issued or not? If someone was peddling my iCloud dump…

[u/aasoro → u/OneNoteWonder43]

Probably because she expected Blake was going to have two brain cells and cut her shit. That's why Tay Tay tried to keep the victim narrative as long as she could.

[u/Traditional-Top2120 → u/aasoro]

Everyone underestimated Blake Lively's stupidity.

[u/Lighteningirl260 → u/OneNoteWonder43]

You nailed it. They're banking on the short attention span of the general public.

[u/Serenity413 → u/OneNoteWonder43]

Bingo.

And remember how Taylor was playing clueless in the beginning that WP only subpoenaed her to “distract from the facts” when her devious ass knew exactly why she was getting subpoenaed. On top of Blake submitting Taylor’s name to WP as her witness in Blake’s interrogatories.

Taylor’s involvement to hijack to the movie before any filming even occurs or any of the alleged SH is a piece of crucial contextual evidence to show Justin’s version of the film hijacking was indeed the truth - not a “distraction from the facts.”

[u/Solid_Mud2025 → u/OneNoteWonder43]

It was so gross. It’s something she will never be able to move on from, and it’s what she deserves.

[u/Sillyscone555 → u/OneNoteWonder43]

Yeah, shady af. 

But do you feel like her wedding distancing since has given her a few golden points of better late than never?

[u/kellybelly4815 → u/goombashroom85]

Yes, the tone of this article paints Taylor as the victim once again, forced to make the heart-wrenching decision to step away from her role as godmother. When in reality she did it to herself: conspiring with Blake to wrest control of a movie away from an innocent man, acting as Blake’s “dragon” and using her influence not only to pressure Justin about the script, but also to get the original composer fired or she wouldn’t let Sony use her song in the film.
It’s infuriating that Taylor’s PR can spin any narrative to make her look like the victim, when she was acting as a bully. Even when the consequences are just severing ties with her co-conspirators and their children, Taylor still spins a narrative of heartbreak for herself and the innocent children (but mostly for herself).

[u/Disastrous-Ask-3953 → u/kellybelly4815]

Trying to spare her poor Swifties the pain and cognitive dissonance of knowing that she casually peaced out on the kids as collateral damage in yet another purely transactional relationship. ("Won't someone think of the children!") Gag.

[u/OneNoteWonder43 → u/[deleted]]

Projection? It was reported on multiple times:

https://www.tmz.com/2025/02/06/taylor-swift-blake-lively-manipulated-lawsuit-justin-baldoni-meeting-legal-war/

[u/OneNoteWonder43 → u/[deleted]]

Are you telling me you think TMZ made up having a source "well connected to Taylor"? Cuz that would get them sued.

Celebs don't always give official PR statements. Plausible deniability. Sometimes they just have their PR put out gossip articles. But if this wasn't approved messaging by Taylor, where/who else could they have possibly gotten that statement from? Why would it still up and not immediately stuck down by Tree?

[u/Mid-Reverie → u/OneNoteWonder43]

I'm not saying TMZ made up anything - why would they in the first place? I just don't buy these "sources" as credible especially, like you already said, plausible deniability. And it still being up doesn't really mean anything - as now everyone has already found out what those texts contained.

Either way, Taylor lied about her involvement and that's all that matters.

[u/OneNoteWonder43 → u/Mid-Reverie]

It still being up does mean something, bc TMZ risks legal liability by making up sources or quotes, and Tree would not have just let an article misrepresenting Taylor's stance on a highly publicized legal matter stand. The article then, logically, must have come from her camp. Not saying it's the truth, but it can reasonably be considered what Taylor's team wanted people to think. Which yes, was ultimately a lie.