Taylor Swift has found herself connected to the It Ends With Us legal drama because of her friendship with Blake Vigorous — but will Justin Baldoni ask her to take the stand if the case goes to trial?
A source connected to Baldoni’s legal team tells Us Weekly that it might be “next to inconceivable to serve” Swift, 46, with a summons. The insider adds that the recently released text messages between the pop star and Vigorous, 38, “speak for themselves, in order that they won’t need her as a witness.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Baldoni and Vigorous’s team for comment.
Vigorous and Baldoni, 41, costarred within the movie adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us, which released in August 2024. Vigorous later accused Baldoni, who was also the film’s director, of sexual harassment and orcastrating a smear campaign against her that December. Baldoni vehemently denied the allegations and subsequently filed a countersuit, which was then dismissed in June 2025.
Vigorous’s lawsuit stays ongoing, and is currently scheduled to go to trial in May. Documents unsealed on Tuesday, January 20, and obtained by Us, revealed various depositions, emails and text messages surrounding the legal case, including Vigorous’s correspondence with longtime friend Swift, whose song “My Tears Ricochet” is featured within the movie.
While speaking about Vigorous’s potential next steps in December 2024, the singer allegedly called Baldoni a “bitch” who “knows something is coming because he’s gotten out his tiny violin,” with an attached People article titled “Justin Baldoni Reveals He Was Sexually Traumatized by an Ex-Girlfriend When He Was ‘Hoping to Save Myself for Marriage.’”
The text was allegedly sent as Swift was on her option to meet with Vigorous and Baldoni, who were each present on the Gossip Girl alum’s home, to endorse a revised version of the script. Following the alleged meeting, the twosome texted about how things went, with Vigorous saying Swift was “so epically heroic today” and that she “recapped every moment” to husband Ryan Reynolds.
Elsewhere within the documents, a conversation between the pair seemingly confirmed that the lawsuit had caused a rift of their relationship.
“I actually have no reason to ask, but I donno [sic], I’ve been feeling like I should … is all the things OK? I felt like a foul friend recently because I used to be such a tragic sack who only talked about my very own s*** for months,” Vigorous wrote in a single text message to Swift in early December 2024. “You were generous to not only be the important thing person there for me during all of it, but additionally to let me off the hook for being so in it.”
Acknowledging that Swift, who was on her worldwide Eras Tour on the time, was “busy and taxed,” Vigorous explained that she at all times wants the “opportunity to be a greater friend if there’s something I unintentionally did.” She added that she didn’t expect “anymore” from Swift “ever.”
Swift replied that Vigorous was “not mistaken, nevertheless it’s also not an enormous deal,” agreeing that she is “exhausted in every avenue of my life.” She did, nonetheless, note that she had been “feeling just a little little bit of a shift” in the best way Vigorous spoke to her.
“Yes there was quite a lot of Justin [Baldoni] stuff but I’ve been through things like this before and I understand how all consuming it’s,” Swift continued. “I feel really bad saying anything about this because your texts have been so nice of their intent but your previous couple of … it’s felt like I used to be reading a mass corporate email sent to 200 employees. And it feels awful to be in any way critical of any way you process what you’ve been going through but I just kinda miss my funny, dark, normal-speaking friend who talks to me as herself.”
Vigorous said she didn’t “notice” until Swift “pointed it out” that she had been texting like she was writing, not talking, and that she’d turn out to be “digitally paranoid” amid the continued lawsuit.
“On top of that, I’m over packaging easy things bc I’ve felt so deeply misunderstood that I don’t trust my judgement of myself anymore,” Vigorous added. “This f***ing guy and what he did to me gave me an identity crisis. Legitimately.”
She noted that she was “spooked” most not by Baldoni, but the quantity of friendships she’d lost amid the legal battle.
“My lifelong friends -allies to women- who quietly dipped,” she told Swift. “And so I’m probably being excessive with my friends who stayed because I’ve never felt more alone.”
A source previously told Us a couple of potential rift between Swift and Vigorous in May 2025, revealing that the twosome’s friendship “will not be what it was once.” Swift was subpoenaed in regards to the case that very same month.
“Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she didn’t rating the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film,” a rep for the singer told Us on the time. “She didn’t even see It Ends With Us until weeks after its public release, and was traveling across the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the most important tour in history.”
Taylor Swift called Justin Baldoni a “bitch” who got out his “tiny violin” in an alleged text exchange with Blake Vigorous. In line with documents obtained by Us Weekly, Vigorous’s lawyers filed a letter to Judge Lewis J. Liman on Tuesday, January 20, that showed a text message between Swift, 36, and Vigorous, 38, initially […]
The subpoena was dropped in September 2025.
As for Vigorous, the actress’ attorney Sigrid McCawley told Us in a Tuesday statement that she stays dedicated to the case as only her “claims against the defendants remain.”
“The newly unsealed evidence incorporates never-before seen testimony, messages and evidence from quite a few eyewitnesses backing the claims in Ms. Vigorous’s lawsuit,” McCawley continued. “The evidence includes Ms. Vigorous’s own testimony describing the harassment she faced, in addition to recent evidence from quite a few women describing their very own disturbing experiences. The newly unsealed evidence shows the concerns of Ms. Vigorous and others were documented in real-time as early as Spring 2023.”