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- Taylor Swift and Blake Lively are currently not speaking as Swift prepares to release her next album, The Life of a Showgirl, in October, as a source tells PEOPLE
- Their friendship has been under scrutiny since the singer’s name was brought into the It Ends With Us legal battle between Lively and Justin Baldoni
- Swift and Lively have been friends since 2014
Taylor Swift and Blake Lively are currently not in communication.
Their longtime friendship has been under public scrutiny since Swift’s name was brought into Lively’s ongoing legal battle with her It Ends With Us costar and director Justin Baldoni, which began in December 2024.
Now, a source close to the situation tells PEOPLE, “Taylor and Blake aren’t speaking.”
Swift, 35, has come up several times during the actress’ legal war with Baldoni, 41. The superstar’s name was first brought into the mix when Baldoni’s legal team alleged that Swift had pressured him to accept Lively’s rewrites on the movie in a complaint Baldoni filed in January that has since been dismissed.
Later, in May, Baldoni’s legal team dropped the subpoena they’d issued to Swift. Swift’s rep claimed the subpoena was “designed to use Taylor Swift’s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.”
On Aug. 13 Swift announced the upcoming release of her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, which will include a song titled “Ruin the Friendship,” that fans are speculating is about her relationship with Lively, 37.
Swift revealed during her recent appearance on boyfriend Travis Kelce’s podcast that she recorded the album while on the European leg of her Eras Tour before she became embroiled in the It Ends With Us drama.
In April, a source told PEOPLE that Swift “was really hurt” after she was implicated in Lively and Baldoni’s legal case, and in May a source told PEOPLE that her friendship with Lively “has halted.” At that time, another insider said that while the pair were “taking some space,” they were “not no longer friends.”
Two months later, a source told PEOPLE that Lively and Swift were working toward being “on good terms,” though their friendship “isn’t the same as it was before.”
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The pair’s friendship can be documented going back to 2014. Swift, who is godmother to the actress’ daughters she shares with husband Ryan Reynolds, has even featured the couple’s kids in her music. Lively and Reynolds’ daughter James has a voice cameo in Swift’s Reputation track “Gorgeous,” while James, Inez and Betty are all named-dropped in Folklore.
Swift’s upcoming album The Life of a Showgirl releases Oct. 3.
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