US pop star Taylor Swift and actress Blake Lively have made progress in their relationship, a foreign media house reported on Wednesday.
People magazine cited a source as saying that the 35-year-old pop superstar and the 37-year-old actress are working towards being on good terms, but “their friendship isn't the same as it was before."
“Swift and Lively aren’t as close and haven’t been spending as much time together as they did in the past.”
The Grammy winner was dragged into the Gossip Girl alum’s ongoing legal battle with her It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni.
The mag previously reported that Swift and Lively rekindled their friendship in April after the “Fortnight” singer distanced herself from the actress.
According to the insider, “Taylor is working to trust Blake again but it’s going to take some time.”
Their friendship dates back to 2015 after Lively shared a photo from a L'Oréal campaign, which referenced Swift’s “Bad Blood” music video. It caught Swift’s attention, and the pair began spending time together.
In December 2024, Lively filed a complaint against Baldoni, 41, alleging that he sexually harassed her on the set of their film adapted from the Colleen Hoover novel of the same name.
She accused him of trying to “destroy” her reputation with a calculated smear campaign, which was detailed in a New York Times article titled, "'We Can Bury Anyone': Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine."
Later, she filed a formal lawsuit against the Jane the Virgin alum, accusing him of sexual harassment, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy.
However, Baldoni denied all her accusations and filed his own $400 million defamation and extortion lawsuit against Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and their PR team.
In Baldoni’s countersuit, he claimed Swift was present at a meeting that took place at Lively’s New York City penthouse, where he and the actress allegedly met to go over her rewrite of their movie’s rooftop scene.