Blake Lively Misses Taylor Swift's 1,000-Guest Wedding as Leaked Texts End 11-Year Friendship
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Updated · Nine · Jul 6
Blake Lively Misses Taylor Swift's 1,000-Guest Wedding as Leaked Texts End 11-Year Friendship
3 articles · Updated · Nine · Jul 6
Summary
July 4's wedding in New York drew about 1,000 guests, but Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds were absent despite being in Lake Placid, only hours away.
Leaked private texts from Lively's legal fight with Justin Baldoni appear to have broken the friendship after Swift was pulled into the case and no longer trusted her former close friend.
May 2025 brought the sharpest rupture when Baldoni's team subpoenaed Swift, arguing Lively had invoked her to gain creative leverage on It Ends With Us; Swift's camp blasted the move before the request was withdrawn.
Texts later showed Lively asking if something was wrong, with Swift replying that her messages felt like a 'mass corporate email' and saying she missed her 'funny, dark, normal-speaking friend.'
The absence capped a relationship that began in 2015 and once made Swift godmother to Lively's four children, with fans also linking a 2025 song title, 'Ruin The Friendship,' to the fallout.