EXCLUSIVEBlake Lively 'threatened' to leak Taylor Swift's texts unless she sided with her in Baldoni feud

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13:55 EDT 14 May 2025, updated 15:36 EDT 14 May 2025 By RUTH STYLES

Blake Lively allegedly threatened to leak embarrassing private texts from bestie Taylor Swift unless the pop star agreed to publicly back the actress in her feud with co-star Justin Baldoni, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

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The explosive revelation appears in a legal letter filed Wednesday by Baldoni's lawyers, in response to Lively's request to quash their subpoena to the singer.

The court filing alleges that the Gossip Girl alum had tried to pressure Swift, 35, to issue a public statement in support of her and urging her to delete text messages between them during her escalating legal battle with Baldoni, 41.

The latest twist sheds further light on the collapse of Lively and Swift's once-close friendship - which has gone cold amid the actress's high-stakes lawsuit involving the actor.

Since then, both Swift and Lively have been subpoenaed for communications about the case, despite the superstar's attempts to distance herself from the furor.

In the letter to the judge obtained by DailyMail.com, Baldoni's legal team, led by Bryan Freedman, hit back at Lively's 'wrong' claims that the proposed subpoena to Swift 'seeks irrelevant documents'.

According to the letter, Baldoni's attorneys received information that '(i) Ms. Lively requested that Taylor Swift delete their text messages' - which, according to inside sources, may have contained details from over a decade of friendship, relationships, and private confidences.

It also claims Lively's lawyer Michael Gottlieb had contacted Swift's attorney and demanded 'that Ms. Swift release a statement of support for Ms. Lively, intimating that, if Ms. Swift refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature in Ms. Lively's possession would be released'.

In response, Swift's reps purportedly addressed Lively's 'inappropriate and apparently extortionate threats in at least one written communication' sent to Gottlieb, according to Freedman.

'It is those communications that [Baldoni's legal team] seek to obtain by way of subpoena, as they would evidence an attempt to intimidate and coerce a percipient witness in this litigation', the letter states.

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