Taylor Swift Told Blake Lively Her Texts Felt Like ‘Mass Corporate Email’ Amid Justin Baldoni Drama

Blake Lively’s feud with Justin Baldoni seemingly affected her relationship with Taylor Swift.

On Tuesday, December 20, private text messages between Lively and Swift were unsealed and appeared to confirm a crack in the 38-year-old Gossip Girl alum’s friendship with the 36-year-old pop star, before Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, 41, on December 30, 2024, alleging he sexually harassed her on the set of their film It Ends With Us.

In court documents obtained by Star, Lively texted the 14-time Grammy Award winner on December 4, 2024 and asked, “is everything ok?” before admitting, “I felt like a bad friend lately because I was such a sad sack who only talked about my own s**t for months. You were generous to not only be the key person there for me during all of it, but also to let me off the hook for being so in it.”

The singer-songwriter — who at the time was finishing up her last leg of the Eras Tour in Canada — sent a lengthy reply to Lively explaining in part that, “in recent months, I had been feeling a little bit of a shift in the way you talk to me.”

“Yes there has been a lot of the Justin stuff but I’ve been through things like this before and I know how all consuming it is,” Swift wrote. “It’s more like… and I feel really bad saying anything about this because your texts have been so nice in their intent but your last few…. its felt like I was reading a mass corporate email sent to 200 employees. You said the word ‘we’ like 18 times.”

“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, not like. A plural unit,” Swift continued. “When it’s a group l’m hearing from. I feel distanced from you even more than we are geographically.”

“And I know you feel attacked from all sides for ridiculous reasons so you’re feeling like you have to overly explain things or be overly nice or whatever but It’s me! That’s just caused a little distance,” Swift added. “And you don’t need to apologize. Just come back please.”

Lively responded to Swift’s text the following day, telling her “you’re right,” and she was “digitally paranoid,” confessing, “I’ve been texting like I’m writing. Not like me talking.”

“On top of that, I’m over packaging simple things bc l’ve felt so I deeply misunderstood that I don’t trust my judgement of myself anymore,” the A Simple Favor star wrote in part. “That sounds over the top but it’s true. This f**king guy and what he did to me gave me an identity crisis. Legitimately.”

“The thing that spooked me most in all this though, wasn’t the bad guys being bad guys, it was the good guys, my lifelong friends -allies to women- who quietly dipped,” Lively further wrote. “And so I’m probably being over the top with my friends who stayed because I’ve never felt more alone.”