Taylor Swift has agreed to be questioned by Justin Baldoni's authorized group concerning the film It Ends With Us and Blake Energetic, Us Weekly can completely report.
On Thursday, September 11, Baldoni's group filed court docket docs revealing the pop star can be deposed in the course of the week of October 20 to 25. They famous the dates had been decided because of Swift's “preexisting skilled obligations.”
Baldoni's group mentioned Swift, 35, has “agreed to look” for a deposition however is “unable to take action earlier than October 20.”
Swift is about to launch her album The Lifetime of a Showgirl on October 3, and can seemingly be fairly busy selling the document.
Us has reached out to reps for Baldoni, Swift and Energetic concerning the improvement
Baldoni, 41, first subpoenaed Swift in Might as a part of the lawsuit Energetic, 38, filed towards him concerning alleged occasions on the set of their 2024 movie, It Ends With Us. (Energetic has accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and hiring a disaster PR group to smear her within the press after she complained about his conduct on set. Baldoni, who denied the harassment allegations, claimed Energetic was the one who smeared him along with her accusations.)
Blake Energetic and Taylor Swift Robert Kamau/GC Photos
Swift was first dragged into the state of affairs when she was seemingly named in 2025 court docket docs filed by Baldoni. He believes that Energetic leveraged her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and celeb mates (like Swift) to have affect over the movie.
Swift's rep later spoke out, insisting that Swift's solely position within the film was permitting the manufacturing to make use of her music “My Tears Ricochet.”
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“Taylor Swift by no means set foot on the set of this film, she was not concerned in any casting or inventive choices, she didn't rating the movie, she by no means noticed an edit or made any notes on the movie, she didn't even see It Ends With Us till weeks after its public launch, and was touring across the globe throughout 2023 and 2024 headlining the largest tour in historical past,” Swift's rep mentioned.
Taylor Swift and Justin Baldoni FilmMagic; WireImage
The rep added, “The connection Taylor needed to this movie was allowing using one music, ‘My Tears Ricochet.' On condition that her involvement was licensing a music for the movie, which 19 different artists additionally did, this doc subpoena is designed to make use of Taylor Swift's title to attract public curiosity by creating tabloid clickbait as a substitute of specializing in the information of the case.”
On the time, Energetic's rep launched a press release saying they had been “happy” after Baldoni's group dropped the subpoena.
“The [Baldoni] group have tried to place Taylor Swift, a girl who has been an inspiration for tens of thousands and thousands throughout the globe, on the middle of this case since day one,” Energetic's rep mentioned,
Justin Baldoni Cindy Ord/Getty Photos
After Baldoni dropped his unique subpoena, it will seem that his and Swift's authorized groups labored out a personal deal over the deposition.
Swift and Energetic had been shut mates for years till their relationship grew to become “strained” in latest months.
Blake Energetic‘s ongoing authorized drama with Justin Baldoni took an surprising flip by pulling in Taylor Swift. After costarring in It Ends With Us collectively, Energetic sued Baldoni in December 2024 accusing her costar and director of of sexual harassment and orchestrating an alleged smear marketing campaign. In her submitting, Energetic claimed that Baldoni named Swift […]
A supply instructed Us in Might, “Their friendship will not be what it was once.”
Baldoni and Energetic are headed to trial in March 2026.
