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Taylor Swift feels she was used by Blake Lively in her war with Justin Baldoni, and she resents Blake calling her one of her "dragons" and leveraging her name.

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00:00We just broke a shocking story.

00:04There is a rift, and I think that is an understatement

00:08of a word, a rift between Taylor Swift and Blake Lively.

00:12Taylor feels like she's been used.

00:15Yeah, used in the middle of Blake Lively's war

00:19with Justin Baldoni.

00:21And there's certain things that we know Blake has said

00:25about Taylor in reference to that battle

00:29that do not sit well with Taylor at all.

00:32The one, the big one, dragons.

00:35So remember that what Taylor had told Justin

00:39was that Blake herself, she said, was Khaleesi,

00:43who was the queen in Game of Thrones,

00:45and Ryan, her husband, and Taylor were her dragons,

00:51her best friend, although I think best friend

00:53is now past tense.

00:55So here's the way the stage gets set.

00:58You remember there was a big meeting

01:01at Blake and Ryan's penthouse in New York City

01:04where they were going over a script change

01:06with Justin Baldoni.

01:08Justin said at the time, remember during all the lawsuits,

01:11he said he felt used, that he didn't know

01:14he was gonna be ambushed with both Ryan there

01:17and Taylor Swift there.

01:18And we're thinking, oh, well, Blake is saying

01:21Taylor was her dragon and she's there,

01:24so she got involved and to protect her.

01:27So we're thinking, wow, Taylor Swift

01:29inserted herself in this.

01:31That didn't happen according to our sources.

01:33No, what happened was more of a happenstance meeting

01:37between Taylor and Justin, and Taylor,

01:40well, I say happenstance, Taylor thinks

01:42it was done intentionally by Blake.

01:45So what happened was there was a two-hour meeting

01:48with Blake, Justin Baldoni, and Ryan Reynolds.

01:53At the end of the meeting, that was the time

01:56Blake told Taylor to come over.

01:59And Taylor had no idea that there was any meeting going on.

02:02No idea at all.

02:03That anybody else was gonna be there.

02:04And she believes, we're told, that Blake set her up

02:08and wanted her to come in when Justin was still there

02:10to show Blake's power.

02:12Right, which is how Justin received it.

02:15He said that in his lawsuit.

02:16Which you would understand.

02:17Right.

02:18So Taylor walks in, had never met Justin before,

02:23and just basically looks at him,

02:25and the only thing she said, we're told,

02:27is, oh, you know, good luck on your movie.

02:30I'm looking forward to seeing It Ends With Us.

02:33And she was saying that merely because she understood

02:35she was meeting her friend's boss.

02:37Right.

02:38Because Justin is the director of the movie.

02:39And it was that simple.

02:40That's all she said, we're told, and then Justin left.

02:44So she never, she never inserted herself

02:49in this dispute between Blake and Justin over the script.

02:53But Blake certainly made it seem that way

02:56with the text to Justin, and I think, honestly,

03:00that text to Justin is saying, look at the power I have.

03:04Right.

03:05I have Taylor Swift.

03:05Exactly, and we're told, too, that Taylor,

03:08because obviously these text messages became public

03:10in the lawsuit that Justin had filed,

03:13and when Taylor saw the actual text

03:17between Justin and Blake, you know,

03:19obviously she saw that Blake referred to her as the dragon,

03:23she's Khaleesi, and we're told that Taylor felt

03:26that's kind of weird to say about her friend.

03:28It's weird to call a friend a dragon.

03:32And, you know, Blake tried to say in her text message

03:35something like, you know, these two are my dragons.

03:37They stand up for me when I can't stand for myself.

03:40They're well-respected in the industry,

03:43and really was playing up, like you said, Harvey,

03:45all the power that both her husband and Taylor Swift had.

03:49And it seems like that didn't sit well with Taylor.

03:53No, no, no, no, we know it didn't sit well.

03:54And it got worse since then.

03:56Because then Taylor started to ask questions, we're told,

04:00and she's found out that Blake, according to our sources,

04:05has been name-dropping Taylor to kind of, you know, flex.

04:09Sort of leveraging Taylor, and specifically,

04:13in one instance, telling an actress

04:15that she had been cast by Taylor,

04:19that, you know, the way it's described to us

04:22is that Blake said to this actress,

04:23oh, Taylor is the one who wants you in this role.

04:26And we're told that Taylor had nothing to do

04:30with casting anybody.

04:31So there's just no question

04:34that this relationship is now fractured.

04:36And remember, Taylor is the godmother

04:39to one of Blake and Ryan's kids.

04:41So this relationship, the two of them were best friends.

04:45I mean, we saw them going out to dinner all the time.

04:48They were joined at the hip for-

04:51They were at the Super Bowl together last year.

04:53That's right, that's right.

04:54Don't expect that this year.

04:55I don't think so.

04:56Though, I will say the godmother part

05:00means that maybe there's a chance that they can

05:03or they will repair it just for the sake of the kid.

05:07But there's no question based on the people

05:09we're talking with, and let me just say,

05:11people we're talking with, no.

05:13That's all I'm gonna say.

05:15And Taylor Swift is unhappy, again,

05:19an understatement that she has been inserted into this.

05:23And by the way-

05:24And kinda used.

05:26Not kinda.

05:26Yeah, that's how she feels.

05:28She feels totally used.

05:30And I think one of the things that made all of this surface,

05:34we did a podcast, we have a new podcast,

05:36me and Mark Garagos, called Two Angry Men.

05:39And it dropped yesterday,

05:41and we interviewed Brian Friedman, Justin's lawyer,

05:45and I was grilling him on whether he was going

05:49to depose Taylor because the way it had been described,

05:51it certainly seemed like Taylor was involved in this.

05:54That's right, that's right.

05:55And he was kinda cagey about it

05:57because she was kinda the ace in the hole.

06:00But now it looks like this whole thing was a sham

06:06that Blake may have kind of built up.

06:09And I do not see that friendship lasting, frankly.

06:14Hi, I'm Elva from Latvia.

06:17I have to say that I'm really not buying it.

06:20Taylor is smart, and her team really is also smart,

06:24so I think she's kind of just staying behind.

06:26She doesn't wanna be in this drama,

06:28but they are close friends, and her music is in the movie.

06:32I feel like she really did put her finger into all of this,

06:35and I think we might see her in the trial deposed.

06:40I will only say to you, based on-

06:43Yeah, I don't think there's gonna be a trial either.

06:45But based on our sources, I think you're wrong.

06:50Especially if that really was the nature of,

06:52if it was just a passing, hey, I can't wait to see your movie,

06:55what is there to depose her about?

06:56There's nothing to depose her about.

06:58And they may end up doing it just to get that on the record

07:02because, honestly, if it's all true,

07:05it makes Blake look really bad

07:06that she's pressuring Justin with Taylor Swift

07:10and had kind of engineered that.

07:12So they might end up calling her just for that reason.

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