Blake Lively Documents Reveal Ryan Reynolds' Conversation With Justin Baldoni

Blake Lively's deposition just dropped ahead of her It Ends With Us settlement with director/star Justin Baldoni, and it reads like a very Hollywood day at the office: script notes, a dispute over alleged weight talk, Ryan Reynolds popping in, Hugh Jackman doing a quick handshake cameo, and Taylor Swift getting dragged into something she clearly wants nothing to do with.

What Lively says happened in her office

In January, Lively testified about an April 2023 meeting where Baldoni came to her office to talk script revisions. She says she used that moment to bring up something she had heard: that he had a conversation about her weight that she found upsetting. Her take on it was blunt — she told him it felt invasive and not appropriate.

Lively says Reynolds briefly joined the chat because he was working there too. Hugh Jackman also stopped in long enough to shake Baldoni's hand and then headed out with Reynolds. And despite earlier chatter that Taylor Swift saw the exchange, Lively flatly shut that down in her testimony, saying it was only her, Baldoni, and Reynolds in the office during the discussion.

The case, in plain English

• Lively sued Baldoni in December 2024 for sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy, and lost wages. He denied everything.
• Baldoni countersued in January; that countersuit was later dismissed.
• One key allegation from Lively: Baldoni found back-channel ways to criticize her body and weight during production. She says she was humiliated to learn he secretly called her trainer without telling her and implied he wanted her to lose weight in two weeks.
• Baldoni's side pushed back, saying he contacted the trainer because he had to lift Lively in a scene and was trying not to aggravate a long-standing back injury.
• Nearly two years after the legal fight kicked off, the two sides reached a settlement ahead of a trial that had been set for May.

How Taylor Swift got pulled into all this (and kept trying to get out)

Swift keeps getting name-checked despite her minimal involvement with the film. Baldoni's lawyers even floated a text he allegedly sent Lively about the movie 's rooftop scene, praising her work and tossing in a parenthetical about Ryan and Taylor — typos and all — to suggest there was broader creative chatter around that moment.

Swift's team, meanwhile, has been crystal clear: she licensed her song My Tears Ricochet and that was it. No set visits. No casting input. No edit notes. She did not even see the movie until weeks after it opened, largely because she spent 2023 and 2024 circling the globe on a tour you may have heard about once or a thousand times.

Swift "never set foot on the set of" It Ends With Us.

When Baldoni's side tried to subpoena her, her spokesperson called it a name-recognition play designed to stir up clicks instead of focusing on the actual case. A federal judge, Lewis J. Liman, later shut down an attempt to depose Swift because it fell outside the discovery window.

Still, by November 2025, filings showed that Lively's lawyers had Swift and Jackman on a potential witness list for trial. Also on that list: Emily Blunt, Scooter Braun, and Gigi Hadid, flagged as people who might have relevant information about the dispute.

Final thought

This whole thing has that particular brand of behind-the-scenes wonkiness: an office meeting turns into a flashpoint, a random Wolverine walk-through becomes part of the record, and the biggest pop star in the world keeps having to remind everyone she basically just licensed a song.