Blake Lively's Team Reacts After Taylor Swift Agrees to Baldoni Deposition

Blake Lively fired back at Justin Baldoni after he revealed Taylor Swift agreed to sit for a deposition as part of their ongoing legal battle, Us Weekly can exclusively report.

In her new filing on Friday, September 12, Lively, 38, claimed Baldoni, 41, and his team have “repeatedly sought to bring [Swift] into this litigation to fuel their relentless media strategy.” She also opposed Baldoni being given extra time to complete discovery and said he waited too long to depose Swift, 35,. (Us reported earlier on Friday that Baldoni’s team worked out dates with a team for Swift, who is not available until late October.)

Lively’s team argued, “In this latest effort, the [Baldoni and his team] assert — though, notably, without evidence — that [Swift] has supposedly ‘agreed’ to sit for a deposition sometime between October 20-25 (some three weeks after the close of fact discovery in this matter).”

The actress’ team claimed Baldoni’s team didn’t even contact Swift’s team about the deposition until earlier this week. Lively’s side said even if they take that claim at face value, Swift’s proposed deposition date would be weeks after the cutoff date for discovery in the case.

“In this respect, [Baldoni and his team’s] lack of diligence, and disrespect for [Swift’s] privacy and schedule, is astounding,” Lively’s attorney argued. ”Discovery has been ongoing for more than six months, and [Swift] is someone whose calendar should be presumed to be packed with professional obligations for months in advance. At any point over the past six months, [Baldoni’s team] could have noticed a deposition, served a subpoena, and negotiated an agreeable time and place for this deposition. But they did not.”

Lively pointed out Baldoni’s lawyers dropped a previously issued subpoena to Swift in May.

“Now, without explanation, long after dates and locations for all other party and third-party witnesses have been negotiated and agreed to and without ever serving, a renewed notice of a subpoena, the Wayfarer Defendants come to this Court and demand the right to take this deposition — and this deposition alone — more than three weeks after the close of fact discovery and ten days after the parties are due to exchange expert reports.”

Lively’s team said Baldoni’s team did not explain their need for Swift’s deposition. Her lawyer noted, “Such a showing would be expected for any deposition occurring after the close of discovery, especially so for a third party, but is even more relevant for this third party, whom [Baldoni’s team] have consistently sought to use to generate a media spectacle in this matter.”

Lively demanded that the request be denied.

As Us previously reported, Swift’s rep spoke out on May 9 about the pop star being issued a subpoena.

“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,” Swift’s rep said.

“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,” the rep added.

The case is scheduled for trial in May 2026.