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Blake Lively ‘Forced to Accept’ Her Friendship With Taylor Swift ‘Really Is Over’ After Missing Wedding
Blake Lively is trying everything not to be bitter about being left off the guest list at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce‘s wedding but she still feels consumed by heartache and regret, an insider tells Star.
On Thursday, July 2, TMZ published photos of the Simple Favor star, 38, and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, cheering on their 6-year-old daughter Betty at a horse show in Lake Placid, New York, while the bride and groom, both 36, got ready to exchange vows before their family and friends at Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden.
“Blake did her best to hold her head high through this and act as though it was just any other weekend but it’s been absolutely devastating for her because it’s forced her to accept that this chapter of her life really is over,” says the insider.
The status of their friendship has been a source of public fascination ever since Swift got dragged into Lively and Justin Baldoni‘s It Ends With Us legal battle, with a source telling People in August that the pop star and the actress were no longer speaking.
Still, “there was all this talk that she might get an invite and of course she got her hopes up because she’d give anything to fix this, but obviously that didn’t happen,” the insider notes. “Even if Taylor had invited her, it would have been so awkward because everyone in her world has turned their backs on Blake too.”
Swift’s wedding to Kelce was a star-studded affair attended by everyone including Selena Gomez, Adam Sandler, Gigi Hadid, Paul Rudd, Cara Delevigne, Reese Witherspoon and Emma Stone.
“Seeing Gigi, Cara and all the people she used to be so close to celebrating together without her was a brutal reminder of how much has changed,” says the inside, adding that Reynolds, 49, has been “doing everything he can” to keep Lively’s spirits lifted amid the snub. “But it’s just very, very hard, especially because there’s this underlying fear that this is going to haunt her forever.”
The “So High School” singer “had so many A-list stars at her wedding, it’s hard not to feel like all of Hollywood is Team Taylor,” the insider admits. “It really hammered it home for her just how much of an outsider [Blake] is now.”
