Gossip Girl mocked Taylor Swift in a scene with her now ex BFF Blake Lively, 13 years before the pair’s bitter fallout.
The pop superstar, 35, was dragged into the feud between Lively, 37, and It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni, 41, when a legal letter filed last month by Baldoni’s lawyers alleged that Lively had attempted to ‘coerce’ Swift to issue a public statement in support of her and urged her to delete text messages between them.
In a clip shared to TikTok by one fan from the fourth season in 2011, Lively, who was catapulted to fame in the show as Serena van der Woodsen, unpacked her case when Swift’s country music routes were mocked.
Pal Blair Waldorf, played by Leighton Meester, welcomed her home saying: ‘Welcome back’ before she gazed gown at the mountain of cases and asked: ‘All this for two weeks?’.
Serena replied: ‘I had no idea where my PI mission was gonna take me, I had to be prepared’.
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Gossip Girl mocked Taylor Swift, 35, in a scene with her now ex BFF Blake Lively, 37, (pictured) 13 years before the pair’s bitter fallout
The pop superstar (L) was dragged into the feud between Lively (R) and It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni , 41,
The camera then panned down to a straw cowboy hat, to which Blair quipped: ‘For a night with Taylor Swift?’
Lively starred in the CW show about rich New York teens for its entire run between 2007 and 2012, with the cast also including Penn Badgley, Ed Westwick and Chace Crawford.
It comes following the news that Swift was ‘feeling an immense sense of relief’ after her subpoena in the Lively legal mess was dropped— but that doesn’t mean the former besties are patching things up.
The court filing claimed Lively’s lawyer, Michael Gottlieb, had contacted Swift’s attorney and demanded ‘that Ms. Swift release a statement of support for Ms. Lively, intimating that, if Ms. Swift refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature in Ms. Lively’s possession would be released’.
Lively’s lawyers later filed a motion asking the court to strike the accusations from its docket as ‘baseless, unnecessary, improper and abusive,’ and Lively’s motion to dismiss Baldoni’s letter was granted.
Now, a source told Us Weekly that while Swift isn’t publicly addressing the case, ‘There’s been radio silence between Taylor and Blake since the subpoena was dropped,’ adding that their once-close friendship has ‘stalled.’
DailyMail.com have reached out to reps for Swift and Lively for comment.
According to the source, the ‘legal tension’ between the former besties has created noticeable ‘distance’ in their relationship.
‘They won’t pick up where they left off because of all the emotional residue,’ the insider explained.
In a clip from the fourth season Lively, who was catapulted to fame in the show as Serena van der Woodsen, unpacked her case when Swift’s country music routes were mocked
Lively starred in the CW show about rich New York teens for its entire run between 2007 and 2012, with the cast also including Penn Badgley and Ed Westwick (Cast pictured)
It comes following the news that Swift was ‘feeling an immense sense of relief’ after her subpoena in the Lively legal mess was dropped (seen in 2024 in Las Vegas)
Swift has privately expressed that the past few weeks have been ‘stressful,’ and she now appears ‘happier and lighter’ since the legal pressure eased, the source added.
She’s made it ‘very clear she is feeling an immense sense of relief.’
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‘Taylor has handled it with a lot of grace and is not solely focused on it,’ the insider continued. ‘She’s moved on.’
The Us Weekly report comes comes not long after a source exclusively told DailyMail.com that the singer ‘is done’ with Lively due to feeling like she had been ‘exploited.’
Earlier this month, the singer was officially subpoenaed in Lively’s lawsuit when she was sent a legal notice by Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman as a witness.
Swift’s team slammed the subpoena as they argued that she was not very involved in the drama on set of 2024 film It Ends With Us.
A rep for Taylor gave a blistering response to DailyMail.com which read: ‘Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film…
‘They won’t pick up where they left off because of all the emotional residue,’ the insider explained
Blake and Justin’s ongoing lawsuit began when she sued him for sexual assault late last year in December; Baldoni seen in 2024 in NYC
‘She never saw an edit or made any notes on the film, she did not even see It Ends With Us until weeks after its public release, and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history.’
The rep noted that the only involvement Taylor had in the film was the use of one of her tracks titled My Tears Ricochet which was off of her 2020 album Folklore.
The statement concluded: ‘Given that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift’s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.’
However, Justin’s team soon withdrew the subpoena and a source exclusively told DailyMail.com why his attorney did so by stating: ‘They got exactly what they were seeking.’